Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.
“In this conception we have at once the explanation of the dogma regarding the sacrifice of self to self. For the KA or Ego can only grow and become potent through ardent and patient perseverance and struggle.” [via]
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Consider also:
- “It is clothed by a body or astral body, both before and after conception, possessed that power of radiation which formed the sphere of attraction round the human mother, which was sealed by the great Vulture-Mother-Force at the time of conception, and was withdrawn instantly to form the sphere or aura of the future human being—this is called the KHAIBT, or radiating aura.”
- “Of course in thousands of cases the celestial body was restricted; the fatal moment of conception loaded the terrestrial being (composed of the SAHU, HATI, and AB within the KAB or material body) with chains of destiny too strong for him to break through.”
- “And the KA or Ego had to return to the HAMMEMIT in the Place of Spirits and await the time when it might again have a chance of regenerating matter Astral and Material, and become of the number of these ‘Shining Ones,’ who are set like Jewels in the Diadem of the LORD OF SPIRIT AND LIFE, MADE ONE.”
- “At the moment of birth the ‘Ego’ joins the body, and there are extant many pictures (dating from the period of the highest Egyptian civilization) which show the birth of great princes; in these the double forms of the Celestially and Terrestrially generated bodies are recognizable.”
- “In the same way the AB (will) or Red Vessel of the Heart is represented in the Book of the Dead as containing an egg, and a concave germ: when this concave germ is developed by cultivation the real life and full development of the Ego could begin: this is to say the KA could progress in its celestial evolution, just as the body could progress in its terrestrial evolution.”