Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistance for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Religion: Esoteric and Mystical Traditions of the New World. He is coauthor with Tamra Lucid of The Magic of the Orphic Hymns: A New Translation for the Modern Mystic.

Here he describes both the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhment and a contemporary movement involving large numbers of people who feel the presence of this figure in their dreams and in their lives.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:19 The festival of drunkenness

00:06:44 Who was Sekhmet?

00:23:38 Early stages of Sekhmet’s modern revival

00:32:49 The influence of Robert Masters

00:47:05 Other contemporary proponents of Sekhmet

00:54:08 Living statues

00:59:49 Deeper meanings and considerations

01:10:08 Goddess, archetype, or egregore?

01:18:25 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Swedish.

(Recorded on June 26, 2024)

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Published on July 19, 2024