Heka

This god represented “magick” in ancient Egypt.

Heka was depicted in royal dress wearing the bull’s tail of kingship with two serpents crossing his chest. Heka’s first syllable “he” was the power (8) that made creation possible and every act of magick was simply a continuation of this. To direct this force came the “ka” of truth (11). As the first and last numbers, their sum (19) was known as the Alpha and Omega. While this artistic rendering was a linear reference, here we are reminded of the location of the High Heart. This is considered to be the gate to higher consciousness—a life of service, prosperity and joy.

The Magickal Hexagon above (with 19 cells) is reflected in The Seed of Life below. Here we are reminded that 19 is a reference to the potential of this source motif:

Heka was not only a god, but also the personification of magick—the idea as well as the practice. Words were the most important aspect of this reality. Here we could bring forth the realities we desired through spell casting. This spelling allowed us to create any results we wanted. By working with the underlying principles, we could use sentences to influence the cosmos—your word as your wand.

Heka magic is many things, but, above all,
It has a close association with speech
And the power of the word.
— O. Goelet (1994)

In the most fundamental cosmological sense, Heka precedes the Egyptian pantheon. According to the Coffin Texts Spell 261, Heka explicitly states:

To me belonged the universe before you gods came into being.
You have come afterwards because I am Heka.

Rather than being a traditional deity born into a generational lineage (like Osiris or Horus), Heka is defined as the uncreated, primordial force that existed “before duality had yet come into being.” When the creator god Atum-Ra emerged from the non-dual waters of Nun onto the first land (Benben), he used Heka as the underlying mechanism to speak creation into manifestation. Without Heka, the intent (Sia) and the spoken word (Hu) could not condense into physical form.

So Heka is the primary generative energy itself—the unmanifest power that allows all subsequent gods, geometry and physical matter to exist. In hieroglyphics, it is written with twisted flax (power/braid) and the raised arms of the Ka (vital force), symbolising the raw vitality that animates creation.

Positioning Heka as the first principle aligns the High Heart with the original creative power that precedes all manifest form.