Margaret A Murray In Egypt - An Egyptologist and Spiritual Woman

The 'Egyptian temples' by Margaret Murray, was a book I was very happy to find in a charity shop recently, brilliant places for all sorts of wonders!, reading her book activated my interest in the woman herself, and I discovered what a really interesting woman she was :

Margaret Alice Murray (July 13, 1863 – November 13, 1963). Margaret led an amazing life fo over 100 years, she was a prominent British anthropologist and Egyptologist, she was the first female Egyptologist to be employed at the University of Manchester on behalf of the Museum. In 1908, she unwrapped “The Two Brothers”, mummies from a Middle Kingdom non-royal burial excavated by Flinders Petrie, he is shown in this photograph with her below.

In the late 1890's Margaret worked with Flinders Petrie and his wife at The Osirion at Abydos, a place another fellow spiritual woman was later drawn to, Omm Seti who was also an Egyptologist that believed in reincarnation.

Margaret became ill whilst working on excavations in Egypt and in 1915 she returned to recover her health in England near her home in Glastonbury, which then inspired her interest in Wicca and witch craft, that she also wrote many books about.

In 1931 she published a book on Egyptian archeology, The Splendor That Was Egypt.

Margaret remained very active well into her old age writing many books and following her interest in witchcraft and wicca, and in her one-hundredth year published her own autobiography entitled: My First Hundred Years. In the book she records her belief in reincarnation, her faith in the human soul, and the soul’s survival after bodily death, which were also the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, who were the the first to teach that the human soul is immortal.

In the Egyptian Book of the Dead a sentence states, "I am the Benu, the soul of Ra, and the guide of the gods in the Tuat (underworld). Their divine souls come forth upon the earth to do the will of their kas, let therefore the soul of Osiris
Ani come forth to do the will of his ka. ... The ka-name relates to the vital essence of an individual.

Approaching Egypt from a spiritual level as I do with meditation, helps people to 'remember' pieces of past lives, for the soul lives on along with many memories and lessons to learn.