I would like to hope that the memories of past lives that we have, thanks to the people who told about them, will become in the near future the basis for scientific research, when they will be made public not as individual phenomena, but also as a general phenomenon, testifying to the objective laws of Being, reflected in the subjective experience of each person.
Unlike European civilization, in the East, knowledge of reincarnation is generally accepted. Therefore, the evidence of reincarnations belonging to people born in European culture is so valuable for us - Europeans. The Life Readings by Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), the great clairvoyant healer, whom Americans lovingly called the "sleeping prophet", became such phenomena at the beginning of the 20th century. By plunging himself into a trance, Casey could accurately tell the cause of his patient's illness and the methods of its treatment. But over time, people began to turn to him, who intuitively felt that the problems of their current life lie in previous incarnations. Despite the fact that Casey himself, being a Christian, did not believe in the doctrine of rebirth, he never refused to help people. What was his astonishment when his very first own "reading" on this topic fully confirmed that a person is born on earth not one, but many times; what exists fair law retribution, Karma, associated with the accumulated experience of a person in previous incarnations, and this same experience forms his tasks for future lives. Casey's doubts were completely dispelled when several hundred such testimonies accumulated, and among them - about his own past lives, which made it possible to answer many questions that personally worried Casey.
Omm Seti during prayer at the Temple of Seti two years before his death. Abydos. Egypt. January 2, 1979 Photo courtesy of Hanni El Zeini
In Casey's "readings" (dedicated to past lives different people) is often referred to the legendary era of Atlantis, now considered by many to be a fiction of Plato, as Homer's Troy once was. But, despite the skeptical ridicule of representatives of the scientific world, the diligent German "amateur" archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822 - 1890) did find Troy, following a very simple hypothesis. He suggested that Homer's Iliad, which describes Troy, e literary fiction, and the description real historical events.
In his "readings" Casey, like Homer, gives detailed description not only the Atlantean Epoch and the Atlantean races, but also subsequent post-Atlantic cultures: in the Yucatan, in South and North America, in Egypt - and in other parts of the globe, which Helena Petrovna Blavatsky also wrote about in her fundamental works, a hundred years earlier ( 1831 - 1891) [“Isis Unveiled” Vol. 1; "The Secret Doctrine" T. 1-3].
Fortunately, today, confirmed by many archaeological finds(, p. 80), Casey’s “readings”, as well as the works of H.P. Blavatsky and H.I. - as Blavatsky calls it (, p. 326), cannot be omitted, but vice versa - should be discussed. And this is important because knowledge of reincarnation allows not only to receive confirmations regarding the past of mankind, but also lost European culture,they reveal the meaning of spiritual evolution for European civilization and the human spirit in general.
Undoubtedly, among the sea of numerous pseudo-esoteric literature appearing in our time, it is difficult to find real evidence of the existence of rebirths (apart from the "readings" of Cayce). Therefore, we want to talk about one of these testimonies, which belongs to the Englishwoman Dorothy Louise Eady (1904 - 1981), known in the West and in Egypt as Omm Seti, which means "Mother of the Set" in Arabic.
Dorothy at age 14. 1920 England. Photo from the archive of M. Tracy
Her story began in England, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the suburbs of London, in the city of Blackhet, where Dorothy's family had their own house. She lived there with her parents. Dorothy Louise Eady was the only child in the family. She was born on January 16, 1904. Her mother, Caroline Mary Frost Eady (1879 - 1945), was an Englishwoman. Father, Reuben Eady (1879 - 1935), half Irish. In his youth, he worked as a magician, but by the time his daughter was born, he had already become a tailor. Later, when Dorothy finished school, big interest her father's interest in show business and his natural entrepreneurial talent led him to build one of the first and largest cinemas in England.
Once upon a time, disaster struck in the Edie family. Their little daughter suddenly fell down the stairs leading to the second floor of the house. Arriving doctor with deep regret stated the death of the girl. The dejected father had to go with a doctor to obtain a death certificate and a nurse to wash his daughter's body. But, upon returning, both the doctor and the father were amazed to find that the girl was alive and well, and all covered with chocolate, sitting on the bed, carelessly playing.
It happened in 1907 when Dorothy Louise Eady (Omm Seti) was only three years old, but despite her young age, her shock was so deep that it brought back memories of a past life. As subsequently confirmed by many archaeological evidence, these memories were associated with her life in ancient Egypt, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom era (1550 - 1186 BC), when she was a young priestess of the goddess Isis in the temple of Abydos and was personally acquainted with the father of Ramesses the Great - King Seti I, who ruled Egypt in the period 1294 - 1279 BC. e.
Memories of a past life began to come to young Dorothy, first in recurring dreams with the same plot: beautiful building with columns, next to which was a garden, and in its depths - a rectangular lotus lake. At the same time, the girl had a feeling of deep longing for an unknown “home”: “Often the parents to whom Dorothy told about her dream found their daughter either in the room or in the kitchen, crying for no reason. “Why are you crying all the time?” - worried mother. But little Dorothy always answered, "I want to go home." “Silly, you're already at home - this is your home” - not understanding, tried to convince Dorothy Miss Eady. But Dorothy continued to cry, begging to let her go home. A few months later, the parents decided to ask, “Dorothy, where is your home?” But Dorothy, unfortunately, answered only: “I don’t know, but I want to go there” ”(, p. 12).
The most unusual biography of the "keeper of Egyptology" in the history of science: The mysterious reincarnation of Omm Seti - a woman who proved that she lived in ancient Egypt.
Once Dorothy Idy, also known as Omm Seti, said that in a past life, when her name was Bentreshit, the ancient Egyptian temple of Seti was surrounded by a beautiful garden, which scientists at that time did not yet know about.
But one day, archaeologists discovered the incredible - the same garden, or rather, stumps and stone channels for irrigation, but this was more than enough. And not just somewhere in Abydos, but in the very place that Dorothy pointed to ...
Do you believe in reincarnation? Millions of people around the globe firmly believe that it exists. Interestingly, the world is full of cases where people remember exactly their past life. Often young children tell stories about who they were in their previous incarnation. Many parents perceive this as just another manifestation of a child's fantasy. But it is not so. Some stories are incredibly believable, and our article today presents one of them.
Dorothy Eady's story is one of the most compelling stories about reincarnation. This is the story of a woman who, thousands of years ago, in her past life, was a priestess and mistress of the pharaoh.
Dorothy was born in 1904 in a suburb of London. Aged three years the girl had an accident: she fell from a high ladder and hit her head hard. The doctor, who was called by the parents, could not console them with anything. In his opinion, it was impossible to save the child. An hour later, the doctor brought a nurse and brought a form of death certificate. But a miracle happened: the little girl came to her senses and after a while was running around the house as if nothing had happened.
After the incident, the child seemed to have been replaced: she began to dream of Ancient Egypt. The girl began to ask her parents to take her home to Egypt, thousands of miles from London. She had strange visions. Entering a trance state for half an hour and swaying from side to side with eyes closed, the girl did not notice anything around. She was convinced that she remembered her past life and that there, in another time, she lived across the sea in the land of the pharaohs. Moreover, Dorothy constantly recounted startling details of her life as an Egyptian priestess. The woman's name was Bentreshit. She lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti.
One day, the girl saw old images of the ancient temple of Seti. Looking at them, Dorothy declared that she had already been there and that this place was her home. She still could not understand where the garden that surrounded the temple from all sides had gone. And I was convinced that thousands of years ago there were many trees.
Parents almost went crazy because of such a radical change in the behavior of their daughter. And finally, we decided to take a four-year-old child to the British Museum. After that, it only got worse. Upon entering the Egyptian hall, the child became even stranger. She began to run around the statues, kissing the feet of giant marble statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Finally, the girl found a glass sarcophagus with a mummy and settled right on it, refusing to go any further. The parents tried to take the child away from this place, but she suddenly screamed in a strange, changed voice: “Leave me, this is my people!”. The parents must have been horrified.
At the age of fifteen, Dorothy began to study the history of Egypt. And then, in a dream, Pharaoh Seti I began to come to her. According to the woman’s recollections, one night she woke up from the feeling that something heavy was pressing on her chest. She opened her eyes and met Pharaoh's gaze. He has not forgotten her even after three thousand years. “I was amazed and at the same time unspeakably delighted,” she later wrote. - It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-cherished desire. And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem.”
These lucid dream encounters made her memories of her past life even more vivid. Centuries-old memory gradually returned to her. The dreams were supplemented by the knowledge gained from books, and, in the end, Dorothy decided to renounce Christianity and instead accept the old polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt.
Dorothy had an incredible knack for learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. She spent a lot of time in british museum, hitting their teachers. And to all their questions about this, she answered that she had not begun to learn a new language, but only gradually remembered everything that she had forgotten a long time ago.
In 1932, together with her husband, an Egyptian student Imam Abdel Magid, whom she met in England, Dorothy moved to live in Egypt. When she first set foot on this earth, the first thing she did was kneel down and kiss the soil under her feet, saying that at last she was at home. She came to stay forever.
Soon the young woman gave birth to a son, whom, of course, she named Seti. That is why her own middle name became Omm Seti, which means "mother of the Set" in Egyptian.
For many years, Dorothy tried hard to remember her past life, bit by bit putting together a thousand-year-old puzzle - the fate of Bentreshit. The spirit of Gor-Ra helped her decipher all the secrets. From him, the woman learned that the Egyptian Bentreshit was brought up from the age of three in the temple of Seti in Abydos. Near the temple, her father left her - a soldier who could not take care of the child. The girl's mother, a fruit vendor, died early.
During her life in the temple of Abydos, she became a priestess and "sacred virgin", taking a vow of celibacy. There, the 14-year-old girl first met the living incarnation of God - Pharaoh Seti I, who at that time was 53 years old. They fell in love with each other. Becoming the mistress of the pharaoh, Bentreshit became pregnant.
Unfortunately, at happy love very often there is a tragic ending. Shortly after she found out about her pregnancy, the high priest of the temple told Bentreshit that the unborn child was a great crime against the goddess Isis, and that the child would cause her wrath, and the pharaoh would have a lot of trouble from this.
I found two versions of what happened next on the net. According to the first, beside herself with grief and despair, the pregnant Bentreshit committed suicide. The second says that the young woman gave birth to a son to the pharaoh, but the happiness of the lovers was short-lived. Seti I died while hunting for crocodiles. And after that, the priests took out all their anger on the innocent victim: little son they killed the pharaoh, considering him the culprit of all troubles, and the woman was thrown into the dungeon, where she died of illness ...
Let's go back to our time. In 1956, Dorothy managed to fulfill her dream. After parting with her husband, she moved to Abydos and began to help archaeologists in their research. She really wanted not so much to test her knowledge as to make sure that the stories she told were not mere fiction. After all, if Dorothy lived on this earth thousands of years ago, then she certainly must have remembered some important details.
One day, Dorothy went to the temple of Seti to the chief inspector of the department of antiquities, who, knowing about the history of Omm Seti, decided to test her knowledge and make sure that her words were true or false. He really wanted to prove that the woman was lying. In complete darkness, Dorothy was led to a certain wall painting in the temple. The boss asked her to describe the painting according to her memories. Her response startled everyone present.
Remarkably, the temple paintings and symbols, which Dorothy spoke with such confidence, were not known. That is, she could not read about them anywhere. Information about them was not published even in Egypt itself. Dorothy not only answered all the questions correctly, but also told the head of the department many interesting things that the researchers managed to discover only later - precisely thanks to her stories.
Dorothy's story became even more famous when she began to help during the excavations and research of ancient Egyptian monuments. The woman was translating the most complex works art - texts that turned out to be too tough even for venerable archaeologists and linguists. Her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language greatly helped the scientists who excavated at Abydos.
When it came to ancient Egyptian history, many researchers were very attentive to the stories of Omm Seti. One of them is a world-renowned scientist, British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. The researcher did not openly admit this, probably for fear of being booed by the scientific community. However, a number of written sources contain circumstantial evidence that the scientist listened to Dorothy's words.
Strange as it may sound, when Nicholas Reeves began to search for the lost burial place of Queen Nefertiti, he also took into account her visions. According to Idi, the tomb of the queen is located in the Valley of the Kings:
“Once I asked His Majesty where this grave was, and he said to me: “Why do you need to know this?” I replied that I wanted the place to be dug up. And he said, “No, you don't have to. We don't want anything else to be known about this family." But he told me the approximate location. She rests in the Valley of the Kings, not far from the tomb of Tutankhamen. But in such a place that no one can guess that this is the grave of the queen. Apparently, that’s the only reason she’s still intact” (laughs).
Bentreshit remembered the son of Seti I, the future pharaoh Ramses. Every time Dorothy came to the temple, she heard his steps, a restless boy, running through the corridors.
Every morning Dorothy went to the temple to pray. On the birthdays of Isis and Osiris, she led the ceremonies of eating, when beer, wine and bread were brought to the temple - just like thousands of years ago.
“Magic in ancient Egypt was elevated to the rank of science,” she wrote. - It was real magic. And she worked."
It should not be thought that Dorothy's entire contribution was in constant reminiscences and the work of a tour guide. She is the author and co-author of many publications on the history of Ancient Egypt. Contemporaries noted her professional and business qualities. The activity of the OMM Network was highly appreciated by the British and Egyptian authorities. In particular, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and the president of her beloved country presented the Order of Merit to Egypt. She was respected by everyone - from scientists to tourists and local residents. “The guardian angel of Egyptology” was the name given to Dorothy Eady.
Dorothy died on April 21, 1981. She was buried near the temple of Seti in Abydos. In addition to scientific work, Omm Seti left behind diaries that she kept from school until the end of her life. Some of them have not been published so far ... Only a colleague and close friend Dorothy, Dr. Hanni-el-Zayni, to whom Mrs. Magid bequeathed her notes.
HISTORY OF OMM NETWORK
When Mr. and Mrs. Eady took their four-year-old daughter on a tour of the British Museum one day in 1908, they could not imagine what the consequences would be. What terrified them most was the prospect of traveling across museum halls with a tired and naughty child. At first, little Dorothy behaved in this way, but only until they came to the Egyptian exhibition, where she suddenly went into action, showing the most amazing behavior. She started running around like crazy and kissing the feet of the statues, and then settled down near the mummy in the glass box and refused to move. Her parents moved to another room and returned half an hour later to find her in exactly the same position. Mrs. Eady bent down to take the child in her arms, but Dorothy literally stuck to the glass and screamed in a hoarse, unrecognizable voice: "Leave me here, this is my people." Dorothy's strange behavior began a year ago, when she had an incident that she could not forget:
“When I was three years old, I fell down a high ladder and lost consciousness. They called the doctor; he examined me carefully and declared that I was dead. About an hour later he came back with my death certificate and a nurse to “carry out the body”, but to his amazement, the “body” was alive, healthy and playing as if nothing had happened!”
After falling down the stairs, Dorothy began to have a recurring dream about big building with columns and a garden with trees, fruits and flowers. In addition, she developed depression: she often sobbed uncontrollably for no apparent reason and explained to her parents that she wanted to go home. When the girl was told that she was at home, she denied it, but could not say where her real home was. It was only during a fateful visit to the British Museum that the first signs of her lifelong conviction that she belonged to the Egyptian civilization dawned.
Dorothy's obsession was confirmed a few months after an incident at the museum, when her father brought home a volume of a children's encyclopedia. There were several photographs and drawings from the life of Ancient Egypt, which completely fascinated her. Dorothy was especially interested in photographing the famous Rosetta Stone (the trilingual text that first deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs) and stared at it with a magnifying glass for hours. To her mother's amazement and horror, she announced that she knew the language, but had simply forgotten it.
When Dorothy was seven years old, a recurring dream about a large pillared building acquired for her new meaning. The impetus for this was a photograph in a magazine with the caption "Temple of Seti I at Abydos." This photo completely fascinated the girl. “This is my house, this is where I lived,” she cried joyfully, turning to her father. But the joy was immediately replaced by deep sadness: “But why is everything broken here? And where is the garden? Her father told her not to talk nonsense: Dorothy could not see this building, which was very far away and was built thousands of years ago. Besides, there are no gardens in the desert.
Forty-five years later, Dorothy Eady, an employee of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, went to work in Abydos and settled in a small house near the temple of Seti. As far as she knew, she was "at home" and remained in her beloved Abydos from 1956 until her death in April 1981. By that time, she had become known throughout the world under the name Omm Seti, which meant "mother of the Seti." That was the name of her son, who was half Egyptian. As for the garden she saw in her dream, the archaeologists eventually found it exactly where she spoke, on the south side of the temple.
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Undoubtedly, Dorothy Eady is one of the most unusual women of the 20th century. No, she did not fly into space, she was not a Hollywood star, she did not get into politics, she did not receive the Nobel Prize.
Dorothy became famous in a completely different field. At the beginning of the last century, in a conservative and inert Great Britain, she was not afraid to declare that she was ... a new earthly incarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess.
The activity of the OMM Network was highly appreciated by the world community. In 1960, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and five years later, its president himself new homeland presented her with the Order of Merit for Egypt. Omm Seti died in 1981 and, as she had dreamed all her life, was buried in Abydos near the temple of Seti.
This strange story began in 1907. Three-year-old Dorothy fell down a high ladder and lost consciousness. They called the doctor. He carefully examined the child and declared: the girl is hopeless. About an hour later, the doctor came back with a death certificate and a nurse to "carry out the body." But, to his surprise, the "body" was alive, healthy and ran as if nothing had happened!
True, since then, something was wrong with the girl. She regularly dreamed of an Egyptian temple and herself in it. And later, visions began to overcome Dorothy in reality. At such moments, she closed her eyes and began to sway from side to side, and after half an hour she came out of a trance state. Parents tried their best to bring their daughter to life, but nothing helped.
The situation worsened after Mr and Mrs Eady took their four-year-old daughter to the British Museum. Most of all, parents were worried about whether the child would be able to withstand the many hours of hiking.
through museum halls. At first, the girl was really capricious and cried, but as soon as she found herself in the Egyptian halls, there was no trace of her former fatigue and bad mood.
She began to run around the statues, kiss the feet of the marble giants, and to top it all, she settled down near the glass sarcophagus in which the mummy was located, and flatly refused to go further. When Mrs. Eady wanted to drag the girl from her place, she suddenly shouted to the whole hall in a completely alien - adult - voice: “Leave me here, these are my people!”
NATIVE HOME
With age, the girl's obsession intensified. One day her father gave her a volume of a children's encyclopedia. There were several photographs and drawings from the life of Ancient Egypt. Dorothy stared at these pages for days on end. But most of all she was interested in photographs of the Rosetta Stone - a granite slab with three identical texts engraved on it, which gave the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian writing. The girl looked at it for hours with a magnifying glass and finally declared that she knew this language, she simply forgot it. Further more.
Once Dorothy found in one of the magazines a photograph with the inscription: "Temple of Seti I in Abydos." To the surprise and horror of her parents, she said that she had once lived in this temple, and a beautiful garden was noisy around it. Her father tried to object to her: this building was built a thousand years ago, besides, there are no gardens in the desert. But the daughter firmly stood her ground: the temple is her native home, it was he who constantly appeared to her in her dreams.
Temple of the Set at Abydos
Since then, the girl has become a regular in the Egyptian rooms in the British Museum. There she met Ernest Wallis, head of the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquity, author of numerous books on Egyptology. Under the guidance of a scientist, Eady began to study hieroglyphs and the history of Ancient Egypt. Then the girl entered the history department of Oxford University. However, she attended meetings of people interested in reincarnation. There, she was finally able to openly express her belief that she had once lived in ancient Egypt.
MODERN AND ANCIENT
At the age of twenty-seven, Dorothy took a job in a socio-political magazine and began to write articles in support of the independence of Egypt. Around the same time, she met the Egyptian Imam Abdel Magid. And after two years of courtship, she accepted his proposal. In 1933, the girl packed her things and sailed away to the country of her dreams.
A year later, the couple had a son, who, at the insistence of his mother and against the will of his father, was named Seti - in honor of the pharaoh who ruled the country about 1300 BC. But common child did not seal the relationship of the young. “My husband was ultra-modern,” Dorothy once remarked, not without sarcasm, “and I was ultra-ancient.”
The Imam wanted to settle in the center of Cairo, Dorothy - on the outskirts in order to see the pyramids. The Imam was interested in the life of modern Egypt, Dorothy was interested in its glorious past. The husband was annoyed by his wife's night vigils, during which she wrote something in her diary. And for Dorothy, this was very important: she claimed that in the light of the moon a voice whispered to her in Egyptian. These nightly sessions of automatic writing continued for about a year. Dorothy then gathered the messages together and deciphered them.
LOVE PHAROAH
In the revelations that Idi revealed, it was said that in her past life she came from poor family and was called Bentreshut. As a girl, she was sent to a temple in Kom el-Sultan, north of the Temple of Seti, which was then just beginning to be built, to be raised as a priestess.
At the age of twelve, the high priest asked her if she wanted to return to the world and get married or stay in the temple. Bentreshut chose the latter and took a vow of virginity. Then she underwent special training that allowed her to participate in temple rituals.
Once, during a divine service, Pharaoh Seti I noticed a beautiful young priestess in the temple and fell in love with her. A few days later, despite the ban, he called her into his bedroom. Over time, a boy was born to the pharaoh and Bentreshut, whom Seti fell in love with very much.
The idyll lasted for several years, until Seti I died while hunting for crocodiles. It was then that the priests took out all their anger on Bentreshut. They killed their son, and she herself was thrown into a dungeon, where she died of illness.
ABIDOS
Meanwhile, Edie's marriage fell apart completely. After three years of married life, the Imam received a post in the Iranian Ministry of Education, and Dorothy moved with her son to the pyramids of Giza. Having settled down as a draftsman in the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, she became the first woman to be employed in this institution.
Another twenty years passed before the eccentric Eady realized her cherished dream. “I had only one goal in life,” she repeated, “to go to Abydos, live in Abydos and be buried in Abydos. However, something beyond my strength stopped me from visiting Abydos. When she finally went there for a short visit in 1952, she immediately went to the Temple of Seti, where she spent the whole night in prayer.
Then she persuaded the authorities for a long time to find her a job in Abydos. Her requests were heeded very reluctantly: then Abydos was a tiny village with houses made of mud bricks without running water and electricity, where no one knew a word of English. Officials, not without reason, considered this place unsuitable for a single woman, especially a foreigner.
LIFE DREAM
In 1956, the management finally gave her the go-ahead and gave her a job in Abydos: sketching temple bas-reliefs for two dollars a day.
By that time, Dorothy's son had moved in with his father, and she was free to go wherever she wanted. Without delay, Dorothy packed her suitcase and set off for Abydos. There she settled in a modest house, acquired a household - goats, chickens, a donkey - and became friends with the peasants. Soon the outlander became a local attraction, and tourists poured into the small village. Omm Seti - as Dorothy began to call herself from now on - knew more about Ancient Egypt than any local guide.
And when, during archaeological excavations, she discovered at the temple of Seti the remains of the very garden that had appeared to her in her dreams all her life, her fame spread far beyond Egypt. In addition, Omm Seti claimed that somewhere under the temple there is a library with many ancient texts. If it is ever discovered, it will become a real sensation - the same as the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Lyubov SHAROVA
Once Dorothy Idy, also known as Omm Seti, said that in a past life, when her name was Bentreshit, the ancient Egyptian temple of Seti was surrounded by a beautiful garden, which scientists at that time did not yet know about.
But one day, archaeologists discovered the incredible - the same garden, or rather, stumps and stone channels for irrigation, but this was more than enough. And not just somewhere in Abydos, but in the very place that Dorothy pointed to ...
Do you believe in reincarnation? Millions of people around the globe firmly believe that it exists. Interestingly, the world is full of cases where people remember exactly their past life. Often young children tell stories about who they were in their previous incarnation. Many parents perceive this as just another manifestation of a child's fantasy. But it is not so. Some stories are incredibly believable, and our article today presents one of them.
Dorothy Eady's story is one of the most compelling stories about reincarnation. This is the story of a woman who, thousands of years ago, in her past life, was a priestess and mistress of the pharaoh.
Dorothy was born in 1904 in a suburb of London. At the age of three, the girl had an accident: she fell from a high ladder and hit her head hard. The doctor, who was called by the parents, could not console them with anything. In his opinion, it was impossible to save the child. An hour later, the doctor brought a nurse and brought a form of death certificate. But a miracle happened: the little girl came to her senses and after a while was running around the house as if nothing had happened.
After the incident, the child seemed to have been replaced: she began to dream of Ancient Egypt. The girl began to ask her parents to take her home to Egypt, thousands of miles from London. She had strange visions. Entering a state of trance for half an hour and swaying from side to side with her eyes closed, the girl did not notice anything around. She was convinced that she remembered her past life and that there, in another time, she lived across the sea in the land of the pharaohs. Moreover, Dorothy constantly recounted startling details of her life as an Egyptian priestess. The woman's name was Bentreshit. She lived and served at the court of Pharaoh Seti.
One day, the girl saw old images of the ancient temple of Seti. Looking at them, Dorothy declared that she had already been there and that this place was her home. She still could not understand where the garden that surrounded the temple from all sides had gone. And I was convinced that thousands of years ago there were many trees.
Parents almost went crazy because of such a radical change in the behavior of their daughter. And finally, we decided to take a four-year-old child to the British Museum. After that, it only got worse. Upon entering the Egyptian hall, the child became even stranger. She began to run around the statues, kissing the feet of giant marble statues of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. Finally, the girl found a glass sarcophagus with a mummy and settled right on it, refusing to go any further. The parents tried to take the child away from this place, but she suddenly screamed in a strange, changed voice: “Leave me, this is my people!” The parents must have been horrified.
At the age of fifteen, Dorothy began to study the history of Egypt. And then, in a dream, Pharaoh Seti I began to come to her. According to the woman’s recollections, one night she woke up from the feeling that something heavy was pressing on her chest. She opened her eyes and met Pharaoh's gaze. He has not forgotten her even after three thousand years. “I was amazed and at the same time unspeakably delighted,” she later wrote. - It was a feeling of fulfillment of a long-cherished desire. And then he tore my nightgown from collar to hem.”
These lucid dream encounters made her memories of her past life even more vivid. Centuries-old memory gradually returned to her. The dreams were supplemented by the knowledge gained from books, and, in the end, Dorothy decided to renounce Christianity and instead accept the old polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt.
Dorothy had an incredible knack for learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. She spent a lot of time in the British Museum, impressing her teachers. And to all their questions about this, she answered that she had not begun to learn a new language, but only gradually remembered everything that she had forgotten a long time ago.
In 1932, together with her husband, an Egyptian student Imam Abdel Magid, whom she met in England, Dorothy moved to live in Egypt. When she first set foot on this earth, the first thing she did was kneel down and kiss the soil under her feet, saying that at last she was at home. She came to stay forever.
Soon the young woman gave birth to a son, whom, of course, she named Seti. That is why her own middle name became Omm Seti, which means "mother of the Set" in Egyptian.
For many years, Dorothy tried very hard to remember her past life, bit by bit assembling a thousand-year-old puzzle - the fate of Bentreshit. The spirit of Gor-Ra helped her decipher all the secrets. From him, the woman learned that the Egyptian Bentreshit was brought up from the age of three in the temple of Seti in Abydos. Near the temple, her father left her - a soldier who could not take care of the child. The girl's mother, a fruit vendor, died early.
During her life in the temple of Abydos, she became a priestess and "sacred virgin", taking a vow of celibacy. There, the 14-year-old girl first met the living incarnation of God - Pharaoh Seti I, who at that time was 53 years old. They fell in love with each other. Becoming the mistress of the pharaoh, Bentreshit became pregnant.
Unfortunately, happy love very often has a tragic ending. Shortly after she found out about her pregnancy, the high priest of the temple told Bentreshit that the unborn child was a great crime against the goddess Isis, and that the child would cause her wrath, and the pharaoh would have a lot of trouble from this.
I found two versions of what happened next on the net. According to the first, beside herself with grief and despair, the pregnant Bentreshit committed suicide. The second says that the young woman gave birth to a son to the pharaoh, but the happiness of the lovers was short-lived. Seti I died while hunting for crocodiles. And after that, the priests took out all their anger on the innocent victim: they killed the little son of the pharaoh, considering him the culprit of all troubles, and the woman was thrown into the dungeon, where she died of illness ...
Let's go back to our time. In 1956, Dorothy managed to fulfill her dream. After parting with her husband, she moved to Abydos and began to help archaeologists in their research. She really wanted not so much to test her knowledge as to make sure that the stories she told were not mere fiction. After all, if Dorothy lived on this earth thousands of years ago, then she certainly must have remembered some important details.
One day, Dorothy went to the temple of Seti to the chief inspector of the department of antiquities, who, knowing about the history of Omm Seti, decided to test her knowledge and make sure that her words were true or false. He really wanted to prove that the woman was lying. In complete darkness, Dorothy was led to a certain wall painting in the temple. The boss asked her to describe the painting according to her memories. Her response startled everyone present.
Remarkably, the temple paintings and symbols, which Dorothy spoke with such confidence, were not known. That is, she could not read about them anywhere. Information about them was not published even in Egypt itself. Dorothy not only correctly answered all the questions, but also told the head of the department many interesting things that the researchers managed to discover only later - precisely thanks to her stories.
Dorothy's story became even more famous when she began to help during the excavations and research of ancient Egyptian monuments. The woman translated the most complex works of art - texts that turned out to be too tough even for venerable archaeologists and linguists. Her knowledge of the ancient Egyptian language greatly helped the scientists who excavated at Abydos.
When it came to ancient Egyptian history, many researchers were very attentive to the stories of Omm Seti. One of them is a world-renowned scientist, British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. The researcher did not openly admit this, probably for fear of being booed by the scientific community. However, a number of written sources contain circumstantial evidence that the scientist listened to Dorothy's words.
Strange as it may sound, when Nicholas Reeves began to search for the lost burial place of Queen Nefertiti, he also took into account her visions. According to Idi, the tomb of the queen is located in the Valley of the Kings:
“Once I asked His Majesty where this grave was, and he said to me: “Why do you need to know this?” I replied that I wanted the place to be dug up. And he said, “No, you don't have to. We don't want anything else to be known about this family." But he told me the approximate location. She rests in the Valley of the Kings, not far from the tomb of Tutankhamen. But in such a place that no one can guess that this is the grave of the queen. Apparently, that’s the only reason she’s still intact” (laughs).
Bentreshit remembered the son of Seti I, the future pharaoh Ramses. Every time Dorothy came to the temple, she heard his steps - a restless boy running through the corridors.
Every morning Dorothy went to the temple to pray. On the birthdays of Isis and Osiris, she led the ceremonies of eating, when beer, wine and bread were brought to the temple - just like thousands of years ago.
“Magic in ancient Egypt was elevated to the rank of science,” she wrote. - It was real magic. And she worked."
It should not be thought that Dorothy's entire contribution was in constant reminiscences and the work of a tour guide. She is the author and co-author of many publications on the history of Ancient Egypt. Contemporaries noted her professional and business qualities. The activity of the OMM Network was highly appreciated by the British and Egyptian authorities. In particular, the British Archaeological Society awarded her a pension, and the president of her beloved country presented the Order of Merit to Egypt. She was respected by everyone - from scientists to tourists and local residents. "Guardian angel of Egyptology" - so called Dorothy Eady.
Dorothy died on April 21, 1981. She was buried near the temple of Seti in Abydos. In addition to scientific work, Omm Seti left behind diaries that she kept from school until the end of her life. Some of them have not been published so far ... Only Dorothy's colleague and close friend, Dr. Hanni-el-Zaini, to whom Mrs. Magid bequeathed her notes, knows what the pages, yellowed from time, still hide.