Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music

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Summary: Another Amazing Book by Gadalla
Review: Being a lover of music and an Engineer made this book very quickly become one of my favorites. Learning about the ancient egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportions and sacred geometry was very interesting to me and I'm sure anyone with a love, or at least even an intrest in either or both. In his reader friendly style, Gadalla shows, once again, the vast expertise of the ancient egyptians, in a logical and easy to understand manner. This book is a definite MUST READ.

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Summary: An absolute guide to practical and cosmic harmony
Review: Egyptian Harmony is penultimate guide to harmony and universal geometry of nature and life, Moustafa's seventh book is a challenge to the reader requiring closer consideration than some of his earlier books. However, 'The Visual Music' is by no means beyond the realm of the novice and only the domain of the academic, rather Moustafa has thoroughly explored, researched, measured and compared a science that is universal and presented it for the aficionado of Egyptian knowledge that directly applies to every culture, being and facet of life. Harmony is presented throughout the book with reference to geometry and mathematics fundamental to our building blocks of life and of place and shown with reference through the eyes of the Ancient Egyptians who were the first culture to employ and recognize the subtle geometry of the universe. Divided into thirteen knots, taken from the Egyptian cord that presents twelve equal divisions (just as it is with stringed instruments) the book itself is organized in harmony relating to harmony. Moustafa takes off where Johannes Kepler could only boast and does so without academic or personal gain using reference and intrinsic sense of the individual to offer a book of learning. Number has meaning, and beyond the occult trappings of so-called Pythagorean number mysticism Moustafa elucidates an understanding and breadth of related meaning behind number including its allegorical representations within Egyptian art and architecture. This book is a must for any who are frustrated by the sacred sciences of harmony distilled and diluted from the original source - the Ancient Egyptians.

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Summary: Highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology
Review: Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music presents the sacred geometry of ancient Egypt and its extensive applications in various aspects of that age old culture. Author and independent Egyptologist Moustafa Gadalla reveals that the ancient Egyptians had an incredible and comprehensive knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, music, and number mysticism. This is manifested in the ancient texts, temples, tombs, and artwork. Readers will discover how in Egyptian philosophy and religion the Word (sound) that created the World (forms) was likewise transformed to visual music by the Egyptians into hieroglyphs, art, and architecture. Egyptian Harmony is the result of painstaking, original, iconoclastic, thought-provoking research and highly recommended reading for students of Egyptology, antiquarian metaphysics, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in Egyptian culture, artifacts and archaeology.

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Summary: Interesting reading, but not life-changing
Review: I purchased a number of books by Moustafa Gadalla including this one. While I enjoyed reading them, I don't think that the assertions he makes qualify as proof. Yes, it is interesting that pyramids have a proportion equal to pi, but that could be simply because the architects used a circular cubit to roll out the dimensions; it does not mean that the egyptians knew the precise numerical value. Similarly the fact that the Greeks and the Egyptians both used the "Golden Ratio" does not mean that the Greeks stole the concept from the Egyptians as Mr. Gadalla asserts.
As a scientist, Mr. Gadalla should know that the only absolute in science is data you can measure and results you can verify. Everything else is just theory that fits the data. But just because a theory fits the data does not mean that the theory is truth; it just means we have yet to find any conflicting data.
To me, this book contains some intriguiing theories that appear to fit the historical data, but I would not presume to take this book as truth.

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Summary: Sacred Geometry made clear
Review: It is becoming more and more obvious - all the laws of nature and creation were known to the ancient Egyptians, and it is manifested in their monuments, texts, traditions, language, art, etc. Gadalla uses purely Egyptian examples to explain sacred geometry and number mysticism, in his usual reader-friendly fashion. Everything falls into place so naturally and simply and so POWERFULLY. It is awesome to see that these monuments, etc are actually constructed in such a manner that they generate and resonate cosmic energies.