The Ba

The Ba

Every Spiritual order has a system for developing the human body. The Yogi have Yoga and The Egyptians had Sesh, Sesenti, Khentu, Usert and Sebek -Kha. The Ancient Egyptians sages taught all initiates about their nine bodies, Khat, The Physical Body; Ren, The Sound Body, Eb, The Heart Body; Ka, The Desire Body; Ba, The Soul Body; Khibit, The Astral Body and Khu, The Universal Spirit God.
The Ba – The ‘Ba is in some regards the closest to the contemporary Western religious notion of a soul, but it also was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of ‘personality’. (In this sense, inanimate objects could also have a ‘Ba’, a unique character, and indeed Old Kingdom Pyramids often were called the ‘Ba’ of their owner). Like a Soul, the ‘Ba’ is a part of a person that the Egyptians believed would live after the body died, and it is sometimes depicted as a human-headed bird flying out of the tomb to join with the ‘Ka’ in the afterlife.

23rd January 2009