Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music [Paperback]

Moustafa Gadalla (Author)

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Publication Date: August 10, 2000

Egypt's Masonic symphony in art and architecture. Read about: How the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy; Sacred geometry as applied in all aspects of ancient Egyptian works; The underlying metaphysical patterns of physical forms in nature, hieroglyphs etc; Kepler's revival of Egyptian knowledge, and his joy in discovering it; Geometrical and musical patterns, as reflected in ancient Egyptian building design; The enharmonic scale of ancient Egypt; Seshat, patron of enumeration and building.

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Moustafa Gadalla

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Tehuti Research Foundation; 1st edition (August 10, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965250989
• ISBN-13: 978-0965250986
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Moustafa Gadalla is an Egyptian American independent Egyptologist, who was born in cairo, Egypt in 1944. he holds a bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.

From his early childhood,Gadalla pursued his Ancient Egyptian roots with passion, through continuous study and research. Since 1990,he has dedicated and concentrated all his time to researching and writing.

Gadalla is the author of thirteen internationally acclaimed books about the various aspects of the Ancient Egyptian history and civilization and its impact worldwide. His books are alos found in seven other living languages.

Gadalla is the chairman of the Tehuti research foundation -- an international, US based, non-profit organization dedidacted to Ancient Egyptian studies.
Gadalla is also the founder and Dean of the on-line Egyptian Mystical Universisty for public education of the Egyptian deep knowledge and wisdom.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute guide to practical and cosmic harmony, March 21, 2002

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Jason C. Just (Timaru, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music (Paperback)

Egyptian Harmony is penultimate guide to harmony and universal geometry of nature and life, Moustafa's seventh book is a challenge to the reader requiring closer consideration than some of his earlier books. However, `The Visual Music' is by no means beyond the realm of the novice and only the domain of the academic, rather Moustafa has thoroughly explored, researched, measured and compared a science that is universal and presented it for the aficionado of Egyptian knowledge that directly applies to every culture, being and facet of life. Harmony is presented throughout the book with reference to geometry and mathematics fundamental to our building blocks of life and of place and shown with reference through the eyes of the Ancient Egyptians who were the first culture to employ and recognize the subtle geometry of the universe. Divided into thirteen knots, taken from the Egyptian cord that presents twelve equal divisions (just as it is with stringed instruments) the book itself is organized in harmony relating to harmony. Moustafa takes off where Johannes Kepler could only boast and does so without academic or personal gain using reference and intrinsic sense of the individual to offer a book of learning. Number has meaning, and beyond the occult trappings of so-called Pythagorean number mysticism Moustafa elucidates an understanding and breadth of related meaning behind number including its allegorical representations within Egyptian art and architecture. This book is a must for any who are frustrated by the sacred sciences of harmony distilled and diluted from the original source - the Ancient Egyptians.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology, March 10, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music (Paperback)

Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music presents the sacred geometry of ancient Egypt and its extensive applications in various aspects of that age old culture. Author and independent Egyptologist Moustafa Gadalla reveals that the ancient Egyptians had an incredible and comprehensive knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, music, and number mysticism. This is manifested in the ancient texts, temples, tombs, and artwork. Readers will discover how in Egyptian philosophy and religion the Word (sound) that created the World (forms) was likewise transformed to visual music by the Egyptians into hieroglyphs, art, and architecture. Egyptian Harmony is the result of painstaking, original, iconoclastic, thought-provoking research and highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology, antiquarian metaphysics, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Egyptian culture, artifacts and archaeology.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sacred Geometry made clear, August 16, 2000

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This review is from: Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music (Paperback)

It is becoming more and more obvious - all the laws of nature and creation were known to the ancient Egyptians, and it is manifested in their monuments, texts, traditions, language, art, etc. Gadalla uses purely Egyptian examples to explain sacred geometry and number mysticism, in his usual reader-friendly fashion. Everything falls into place so naturally and simply and so POWERFULLY. It is awesome to see that these monuments, etc are actually constructed in such a manner that they generate and resonate cosmic energies.