A comment from a friend of mine which I have permission to share.......
I was listening to Kerry's latest video when my mind did a little wandering. I thought about the idea of the hypocephalus being a lamp, or producing a flame under or near the initiate's head. I also thought of previous comments I've read about the hypocephalus being the Eye of Re. With these things in mind, I turned to The Tower of Alchemy by David Goddard:
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Because the Stone is also the opened third eye, we are taught: "if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light"(Matthew 6:22). Tibetan sacred art depicts tantric deities as having an open third eye upon the forehead. Again, The Eye of YHVH is upon them who hold Him in awe." And, in Isaiah 53:8, "Thy watchman shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion." It is the eye, the Mercury center, which is the Adytum, the holy of holies, in the temple of the human body. In Tibetan sacred art, the Buddha is shown with a gold, conical jewel rising from the protuberance on his head. The protuberance indicates the fully-developed "thousand-petalled lotus" (the Mercury center) and the gold jewel is the Philosopher' s Stone; "Om, the Jewel in the Lotus, Hum." The tilak or mark upon his forehead (and on other divinities and Sages) also
indicates the presence of the confected Stone within the skull. It is the prismatic nature of the Stone produces the radiant halo about the heads of the Enlightened Ones. . . . (This next part could tie in with Steve Graham's post on D&C 88)Although the symbol for the alchemical Quintessence is assigned to the triangle(triangles associated with the pentagram--bcn) corresponding to the head, it is not to indicate that the First Matter is in any way restricted to the head region, but to show that the Quintessence is perceived through the spiritualized faculty of sight. In Buddhism the awoken Third Eye is called the "Eye of non-dual Wisdom" because the Sage who looks with this Eye can actually see that all beings live in, and are composed of, the One Radiant Energy and are therefore interdependent. All Creatures and things are seen to be appearances or forms of the One Thing and seem to be separate--like waves appear to have fleeting separateness
from the ocean--but in fact are indissolubly rooted in the Priumordial Nature of the Absolute.(p. 96-97)
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Eyes, light around the head, temples associated with the hypocephalus( Eye of Re). All sorts of lights go on in my wild head as I ponder these things! At least in my mind things are making all kinds of connections!
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