A search in secret Egypt

1935·31.9 MB·English

by  Brunton, Paul, 1898-

A Search in Secret Egypt
The works of Dr Brunton
In chronological order
A SEARCH IN SECRET INDIA
THE SECRET PATH
A SEARCH IN SECRET EGYPT
A MESSAGE FROM ARUNACHALA
A HERMIT IN THE HIMALAYAS
THE QUEST OF THE OVERSELF
THE INNER REALITY
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN CULTURE
THE HIDDEN TEACHING BEYOND YOGA
THE WISDOM OF THE OVERSELF
THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS OF MAN
PAUL BRUNTON
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Dedication to
His Highness Prince Ismail Daoud
Three men drove out of Cairo one beautiful spring night and chatted for an
hour near the Great Pyramid. One of them was Your Highness, another was
the Ambassador of a certain Oriental Power, while the third was the Scribe
of these notes of travel and thought. Your Highness made the remark that it
would be difficult to find in present-day Egypt any traces of the unusual spiritu¬
ality or strange Magic which lure me from land to land in their quest. On
several other occasions you repeated the same opinion.
Despite that, I persisted with my search and found a few things which I
deemed likely to interest the people of the West. If I offer them to your Highnes s
also, it is because I venture to hope that you will glean from them a further
glimpse of the faith that holds me, and perhaps understand a little better why
I hold it. And I offer the dedication of this record, too, as an insignificant
token of my pleasure in that personal regard which subsists, irrespective
of intellectual differences, between us.
Finally, let these pages stand as a tribute to Egypt, the country whose
modern face you know so well and whose ancient fames attract me so much.
If I may be permitted to revise the old Roman phrase, I should add: “He
who has once drunk Nile water, must ever be a friend to those who dwell on
that mighty river's banks."

Contents
I. A Night with the Sphinx ii
II. The Desert Guardian 22
III. The Pyramid 36
IV. A Night inside the Great Pyramid 57
V. With a Magician of Cairo 79
VI. Wonder-working by Hypnotism 97
VII. An Interview with Egypt’s Most Famed Fakir 115
VIII. In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful 127
IX. An Interview with the Spiritual Head of the Muhammedans 142
X. In the Peace of Old Abydos 157
XI. The Innermost Rite of Egyptian Temples 168
XII. The Ancient Mysteries 182
XIII. In the Temple of Dcnderah 195
XIV. Karnak Days 210
XV. Karnak Nights 225
XVI. With Egypt’s Most Famed Snake-charmer 238
XVII. I Become a Snake-charming Dervish
251
XVIII. I Meet an Adept 264
XIX. The Tombs: an Adept’s Solemn Message
277
Epilogue 285