KMT Ontology and Cosmogenesis

Ontology and Cosmogenesis

1. From the moment it exists, That Which Is causes being to come into existence

2. Through its own power, its own energy and movement, that That Which Is comes into existence; it engenders itself, from itself

3. It is the Absolute, that which exists by itself, from the beginning, before Creation

4. That Which Is causes the other modes of existence to come into being through love and through its own will, being alone by its own power. Being is absolute, it is also love and will

5. Being is in addition, and above all, reason. Being designs projects in its heart; in complete, lucid consciousness

6. Reason encompasses the entire design, then the creative plan presents itself before the Creative one, in front of it, completely visible, with no confusion. Creation is a clear concept, neat, distinct, unambiguous to the Creator, who is absolute love, will and reason, an active energy, the very essence of efficiency, master of the whole

7. Through Creation, the existence of What Is gets multiplied, becomes a fecundating process, is diversified

8. Creation is an enterprise of beginnings, and, in a sense, proof of the existence of what is to demonstrate one's existence means to cause to come into being other modes of existence; it means to create, to produce

9. In African Kmt, the heart was the seat of intelligence, reason, and intellectual perception-what is conceived in the heart is uttered by the mouth

10. In the beginning there was reason, followed later by the word-the Demiurge first conceives what is to be and then causes the palpable existence by pronouncing the actual name of that which is invoked into existence through the power of the word, the efficacy of creative utterance

11. Nwn was imagined as what existed before the ordered, organized universe came into existence after the emergence of Ra (consciousness), on its own, in Nwn as ‘being in a state of becoming

12. Nwn, the basis and reason for all subsequent becoming. It is the same time the matrial cause, the formal cause, the effective cause ad the final cause of everything, of the gods and of their creatures. It is the undifferentiated absolute, with no describable or knowable form.

13. Yet Nwn is the ground of Ra's being, and existence comes into beging from the manifested existence of Ra

14. Nwn is the principle at the root os all principles, the foundation of all foundation; Nwn itself derives from no foundation

15. Some commentators have misconstrued all significant African Kmt texts as religious documents; African KMTologists have a duty to combat this generalized tendency. Evidence indicates it is the result of prejudiced assumptions, no less dangerous for being implicit

16. The reality is that ancient Kemites reflected on being, life, death, etc.

17. The African Kmt scarab, a highly typical symbol, occurs and recurs whenever the issue is the creation of Being and all that exists: Kheper, to be, to exist; kheper-djes-ef, he who came into existence by himself; kheperu, modes of existence of Being; kheperi, Being or What Is.

18. The vision is of creation as a continuous process, sustained to the end of time. The implication is of a universe in perpetual transformation, incessantly changing. It is of a universe always active, perennially creative. Within it, however, all elements, all beings and all things, begin necessarily from earlier, unique forms. Here we have a conception of the universe as a continuous process of creation, the cosmos as one immense, uninterrupted creative gesture.