Peterson On Egypt

 

Today, 4/6/25, I listened too and copied out, with light editing, a Logos University clip by Jordan Peterson on Egypt. It was entitled the Ancient Story of Egypt/Here it is:

 

Jordan (J after this): “The Egyptians have a story. It’s a story upon which their whole culture was funded. That’s the state is corrupted. That’s Osiris. The state became corrupted and became willfully blind as it aged. And then it was overthrown, that is, Osiris by Seth, who’s the precursor of Satan, and then ruled.

 

So now the tyrant rules. And then Isis, who is the queen of the underworld, she is nature, she makes herself known again, chaos. With enough disintegration at the sociological level, then chaos makes itself manifest again.

 

This is one of the most ancient stories of mankind.

 

My response: This old, perhaps universal story is quite symbolic. The Egyptian culture or society or cosmos, as exemplified in the god/ruler Osiris, becomes corrupt by willful blindness. Goodness is degraded and weak now, so Seth/Satan leads a victorious revolution to overthrow the state or culture.

 

Seth is still somewhat good and civilized, of limited malevolence, but, as disintegration spreads and deepens, then chaos or Isis or nature, queen of the underworld, overthrows Seth and pure chaos reigns, until Osiris or his replacement rises to lead a counterrevolution.

 

There is a lot of universal clash of and then blending of opposites forces as culture and cosmos are reinstalled.