The Ancient Egyptians viewed the Nile as a metaphor for the human body.  They knew the path enlightenment takes begins at the base of the spine, and like a river, flows upwards to the brain.  They constructed temples along the Nile that simulated this journey of enlightenment.  As the Nile flows from South to North, initiates started their journey in the South and journeyed through the subsequent temples, culminating in the Great Pyramid, which represented the Holy of Holies (also called the “inner sanctum” and is the most sacred place within the temple). At each temple the initiate experienced the various initiations which tempered, refined, and opened the life-force channels. In order to progress to the next temple, the initiates proved that they were ready to meet, unify, and alchemically transmute the opposing forces of love and fear, light and dark, spirit and matter, life and death. Each temple enacted a particular aspect of the archetypal journey of Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, and Hathor. These mysteries involved Light Conception, crucifixion, and resurrection. There has been much misunderstanding about the nature of crucifixion and resurrection, however, these are the foundational initiations of empowerment that anyone who chooses union in God/Source experiences. An INITIATION is that inner-directed experience that takes you over the threshold of irreversible change.  This is illustrated in the transformational initiatory process demonstrated by the butterfly that emerges into a new life resurrected from its crucified caterpillar life.   The 5 Aspects of Initiation: 1. A marked attitudinal change that brings a committed willingness to align limited consciousness with a higher will and purpose. 2. Physical changes in which toxins are cleared and dormant DNA codes, endocrine glands, brain and neurological functions are activated.  All of which result in enhanced health and increased potential for demonstrating paranormal abilities. 3. Emotional clearing and greater emotional maturity and stability. 4. Changes in self-perception in which there is a greater sense of divinity, sovereignty, interconnectedness, heightened creativity, and/or superconscious abilities such as telepathy and clairvoyance. 5. More identification with the spacious unified quantum realms instead of only perceiving and reactively dramatizing the limited transitory idea of being a separate mind located in a separate body. A person’s well-being and actual state of health is enhanced when his/her mind, emotions and body are in harmonious relationship with one another - a coherent energy field. When discordant, limiting, time-space perception shifts into quantum holistic awareness, spacious embracing love and appreciation there is healing or reestablished order, balance and wholeness. Another way to look at this is to see crucifixion, resurrection and ascension as those processes that return incoherence to coherency. The initiates’ consciousness was opened to the subtle energies of the mythic, archetypal realms, and they were tested according to the practices of the priesthoods in those days. Great beings of the Brother–Sisterhood of Light facilitated the rites of initiatory passage on the inner planes. The initiations that prepared Yeshua or any initiate, past and present, have very little to do, if anything, with religion. They have everything to do with changing one’s fear-based perceptions and behaviors. An initiate who has once perceived a limited, self-centred identity awakens to having compassion towards all life as an expression of the Divine Self. The path of enlightenment requires an ethical and expanded relationship with self, others, polarities, time, and space. The goal of all this work in the temples was to attain enlightenment, as the archetypal High God Horus demonstrated, when he attained his highest spiritual body called the Sahu. The halo depicted around a saint’s head or the hooded cobra at an Egyptian deity’s forehead symbolizes the attainment of the Sahu, and the precursory light anointing called the Uraeus. Activating the Sahu and Uraeus also signifies that the initiate has been anointed within the brain centers by a very high vibration that permanently changes neurophysiology and consciousness, thereby allowing the experience of conscious immortality. Those souls who have attained this mastery are called a Christ, Buddha or ascended master, whose destiny it is to function openly or secretly as a planetary server. (from the book, Anna: Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong)