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DREAM MYSTERIES OF AUSET12 - 18 April 2025
New Hermopolis, Minya, Egypt
newhermopolis.org
Auset is the ancient Egyptian name for the goddess Isis. Auset means throne in the ancient Egyptian language and she represents the primordial seat of kingship in ancient Kemet. She is creatrix of a sacred landscape. Upon her lap all pharaohs are nourished, they become divine.
Auset is Queen of Heaven, Giver of Life and Great of Magic. She has a special relationship with the medu netjer (god's words)/what the Hellenes called the hieroglyphs (sacred carvings) and her speech, her words, have magical powers. Her spoken words are a cure, they are dreamspells and enchantments. Alongside magical images of her son Horus subduing the wild beasts, Auset's Words of Power are carved into the Horus cippus - a type of stelae that was used in the treatment of patients in ancient sanctuaries of healing.
In the Greco-Egyptian pantheon Auset/Isis and Serapis became associated with miraculous dream cures and they were syncretized with Asklepios and Hygieia at the holistic healing sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidavros. It is believed the Mysteries of Isis in the Greco-Roman period were inspired by the Mysteries of Eleusis and that the rites were performed in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Epidavros. The rites for both these Mysteries were designed to improve the soul, and divine dreams were a well-attested way to have contact with the goddesses and gods - it was through such direct theurgic experiences that the soul's 'perfection' was achieved.
This retreat will focus on Auset's as a goddess of rebirth, regeneration, possessor of the Words of Power, magical healer, and as a goddess who appears in dream epiphanies. We will recreate the Mysteries of Auset and call her to our dreams.
A unique dream retreat in Egypt at the Hermetic oasis of the visionary Egyptian philosopher, Egyptology researcher and psychiatrist Mervat Nasser - New Hermopolis.
We will also be joined on the retreat by sound alchemist Maria Christofi.
Mervat Nasser (MD, MPhil, FRCPsych) purchased a section of desert about 20 years ago and has since turned it into a flourishing oasis filled with plants, birds, trees and wisdom seekers. She has reintroduced many threatened native species including the sycamore fig sacred to Hathor, and she's planted an olive grove and developed a biodynamic farm and kitchen.
New Hermopolis sits just back from the banks of the Nile - opposite Akhetaten - city of Akhenaten. New Hermopolis is actually within the boundary of the ancient footprint of the city of Hermopolis - the city where Thoth and the Ogdoad created the world and where writing and the word were born!
Each room at New Hermopolis is a perfect dream chamber, constructed from high quality limestone quarried from the same source as the casing stones used for the great pyramid on the Giza plateau. Mervat has built a swimming pond and a pond for blue water lilies which now thrive encircled by the eternal script - ‘as above, so below’.
DREAM MYSTERIES OF AUSET
12th - 17th April 2025 (6 nights, 7 days)
themysteries.org
newhermopolis.org
All-inclusive
All transportation in Egypt, all accommodation, all vegetarian food, all museum and archaeological site entrance fees.
Accommodation
One night in a first class hotel Cairo
Five nights in New Hermopolis Retreat Centre, Minya
Cost
£1450 Single occupancy
£1850 Double occupancy
Please email [email protected] to discuss more than 2 sharing a suite.
Any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch. Happy to arrange a Zoom call or chat over the phone.
Come and sleep with the gods and goddesses of Egypt!
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