Thursday evening, May 5, 2011, my husband and I went to the movies. I had non idea what movies we were going to see, I was just happy to get out and go somewhere. The first movie was called "The Adjustment Bureau" which started at 9:40pm. I am going to provide a review on this blog because I am now beginning to see more things through a lens filter of "Seshat". I find I notice more correlations with these ancient teachings as I learn more about its history.
Overall my impression of the movie was that it was a great love story. Its not often you find a man that intent on having a women, and a man of stature who one would think could have any women at his beckon call. One of the key characters who aided in the seeking of the truth and the correction of the plans that were in error happened to be an African-American male. Which I thought may have been strategic after noticing there were hardly any other people of color in the movie at all. It is my view that whoever wrote this has some knowledge of ancient Egyptian teachings, but I do not consider it to be a true representation of the teaching, just influenced by. I noticed that the man did not admit to being an angel or disclose the name of who was in charge.
So why does this movie remind me of Seshat and this blog? It is full of similarities. In true transfiguration style, they are able to use a vortex to enter doors that lead to other areas which allows them to travel faster.
The door in this scene leads to "Lady Liberty" whose relationship to Seshat I posted previously. This scene at Lady Liberty also marks an important turning point in the movie. It is at this moment that Elise chooses him and also the one door that leads to the "House of Records" is at this location. The movie deals with fate, which Seshat is often seen as etching the time of the politicians of Egypt. Their plans and longevity in office were determined and recorded by her. How long they would rule was indicated by notches placed on the palm leaf stalk. The divine measurer of time. She kept a recording of the
lives and deeds of men on the sacred persea (ished) tree at
Heliopolis, "City of the Sun". In this scene of the Adjustment Bureau the filter shifts from the color blue to green. The characters are on grass, by the ocean, and the sun begins to shine. The main character, Matt Damon, was a politician who was to win 4 more elections and was to go very far politically, but the plans were rewritten because it was thought that the women he loved would keep him from going far politically and he would keep her from achievement in her art. Their love was only good in small doses. At the end of this part of the movie when the error made in 2005 is corrected and the story is rewritten in the book, they are able to love each other, the rain stop and the sun comes out and shines over the city of New York. Light concurs darkness. But sometimes you must go through the rain to reach truth.
The Adjustment Bureau is about fate, destiny, and free will. One
website explains Seshat relationship to fate
In Egyptian thought the concept of fate (shaï) is always imagined in connection with writing, and hence Seshat is a Goddess of fate as well, which in Egyptian theology paradigmatically involves reckoning the lifespan. The divine command is written down, not as a mere record, but to render it concrete, and the writing of it is inseparable from its enforcement.
This concept of fate was tipified in the movie at the turning point scene at the statue of liberty when they entered the door to the hall of records where they sought to change what was written. In the book of life.
The book that came from the hall of records looked very much architectural in nature. The plans, measures, and blueprints were very Seshatish to me. The plans were written by "a man....or a women" but were mysteriously changed in 2005. The number 7 came up a few times in the movie. 7 is the symbol of Seshat. She was also called the "Mistress of the House of Books". As I have been thinking about the relationship between Seshat and Thoth and El one thing rings true is that the later associations are male. No too much mention of the women. At the end of the movie the person who presided over this book that wrote the story of these people's lives the sex is not clearly stated. It is left to wonder. But it is clearly hinted that it may not be what you think. He says, "a man" takes a pause, then says",...or a women". I was about to jump out my seat. The main point to the movie was that we have the power to change what is written. However, in the end, it was just noted that in 2005 someone made an error that had to be corrected, so what was written
originally actually did occur.
The next movie we watched was Thor, which started at 12:01 am. I am sure someone can comment as to why. I was sure I had seen Thor recently while researching Thoth and Seshat among the Europeans. So I did a quick search on my cell phone for Thor and Thoth and sure enough there was a connection between the two. I began to feel like my evening was planned, or I had better provide more content on my blog so here goes. There is not much I have to say about Thor, other then going into the research behind the Greek gods and their relationships with early Egypt. In the movie Thor there was the concept of transmutation, traversing through wormholes, timelessness, and fate. They did touch on magic and science. Which for me in the study of Seshat is important because there is a lot of writing that talks about magic as it pertains to medicine and such. However, when I go back and read much of it such as in Medea when she describes it to Creon, it is not magic, but science the ignorant do not understand. It is their way of explaining what they see and do not comprehend. In the movie Thor is found an astrophysicist.
Sealed with a Kiss seemed an important theme to both movies. I do not know if this has any relationship with Seshat but thought it noteworthy because it probably does and I just don't know it yet. Yesterday my daughter brough home a book from school called "Sealed with a Kiss" about a seal, the animal. I imagine the Kiss in the movies has to do with Kundalini concepts and the gateways dealing with sexual chemistry and birth.
