Duality
"From being one god I became three gods, and I came into being in the earth" - The Book of Knowing The Evolutions of Ra And of Overthrowing Apep
Sw
Sy
Pull
Summer And Fall
Noon To 11:59pm
Potential
Empowered Thru Position
Feeling-Based
Emotional
Curvy And Soft
Passive And Decreasing
Sooner To Mature
Power: Value
Femininity
Magnetism
Subjectivity
Color: Clear/Black
Alkaline
Fat
The Spirit: Matter & Energy
The All
Macroscopic: Sees Life From Outside In
Big Picture First Details Last
Order: Power Centralization
Wab: Transparent, Non-Obstructive To Light
Informed but unknowing
Subconscious
Push
Winter And Spring
Midnight To 11:59 am
Kinetic
Empowered Thru Movement
Logic-Based
Mental
Straight And Sharp
Active And Increasing
Longer To Mature
Power: Direction
Masculinity
Electricity
Objectivity
Color: White
Acidic
Muscle
The Self: Consciousness & Will
The One
Microscopic: Sees Life From Inside Out
Details First Big Picture Last
Chaos: Power Localization
Kem: Opaque, Light Absorbing/Obstructing
Knows but uninformed
Conscious
The union of Heaven (Nwt) and Earth
(Geb), as in the Taoist tradition.
The concept of the first polarization of Ankh, Sw and Sy, is somewhat different than most other traditions. For example, in the Tao tradition of China, masculine energy, yang, is white and feminine energy, yin, is black. Similarly, in most other cultures, they tell of a heavenly Father paired with a Mother Earth. In other cultures, wisdom is usually personified as feminine. The concept of Sw and Sy is flipped, with the masculine aspect, Sw, being "black" and the feminine aspect, Sy, being "white". Similarly, the feminine, Sy, is the more heavenly counterpart, with the masculine, Sw, being the more earthly counterpart. In Ankh culture, wisdom is personified as masculine. This flipping of some of the feminine and masculine attributes and associations is cartoonishly depicted in the television show, Legend of Korra, with the spirits Raava and Vaatu.
Blackness & Darkness (Shadow)
Blackness: The absorption of light; e.g. - melanin
Darkness: The absence of light; i.e. - shadow
Once Ankh divides once there is now two beings and
the potential for three: the shwt being the third.
As Ankh manifests, it takes a more transparent
form (Sy) or it takes a more opaque form (Sw).
Once you have forms that absorb and/or
obstruct qw (light), then you now have the right
conditions for Shwt (shadow) to form. the area in
which qw is absent is, by definition, shwt (shadow).
Shadow is the non-manifested aspect of all
beings. For example, if your spirit is not aligned
with lying then lying lies (no pun intended)
within your shwt, as lying is an aspect of Ankh
that you do not wish to manifest. So shwt is an
inherently good thing as it is the reservoir of all
of the aspects of Ankh that one does not
manifest. The Shwt is our friend. it protects us as it shows us where we are not to go, like Mufasa explained to Simba.
Where Shwt becomes a problem is if a person chooses to forsake their Qw (soul/purpose); i.e.- to become what goes against their spirit. Back to the lying example, if you were to begin lying, knowing that it does not align with your spirit, then the shwt starts to replace one's qw. This is the source of the saying "you've become a shadow of your former self". If one begins the process of becoming a shadow being then one will experience complimentary life experiences that reflect one's transformation.
For example, if one was a great warrior as a qw (shining being) then as one becomes a shwt (shadow being) one might start to lose the battles that one would have won before. Therefore, all enemies outside of oneself are only empowered to defeat oneself from one trading one's power, one's qw, for shwt. If one then resorts to taking more out of their shwt, like resorting to cruelty and barbarism, in order to continue to "win" battles then one will accelerate one's transition into shwthood.
As a shwt, one will be far less powerful than one was as a qw, and
will arrest, if not regress, one's spiritual development, becoming
more and more spiritually immature. And just like the physically
immature, children, one will give up one's interdependent nature as
a qw, for the dependent nature as a shwt. This is where the idea of
the vampire came from, a being who can not live when the light of
the sun is out and cannot exist without the blood (essence) of
another being.
If one continues one's existence as a shwt, instead of reorienting one's life back to that consistent of a qw (shining being), then upon death one will not pass the Weighing Of The Heart (explained on The Stars page) and will have to eventually reincarnate in order to try to live the life of a qw all over again. The shwt is a neccessary reminder to have integrity, balance (Mayat) and purpose (qw) as the basis of one's life.
