The simple answer is to The Riddle of The Sphinx is 'man.' Yet the answer is perhaps misleading and is certainly basic and inspires little. The hidden unsaid riddle is, 'what is beyond the walking on three symbology?' And what is the unsaid esoteric and inspiring answer? The unsaid answer is not the aged man who needs the assistance of walking stick. The contrasting answer revealing potentiation and inspiration rather than degeneration is the master.
" The true inspiring answer is the human who has reached mastery standing with a scepter, a staff, a measuring stick, a planting stick, a pole. The unsaid answer is man as a sacred geometer, as spiritual master, akin to Thoth who grasps his measuring stick, symbolizing mastery of the world for the pole symbolizes the world itself, generation and creation, and the measuring/comprehension thereof.
What is commonly known as The Pyramid Text, and The Egyptian Book of The Dead reveals a similar strain of the great riddle facing all of us, the riddle of life and death. The Egyptian Book of The Dead is actually a misnomer of a name and, like the typical supposed answer to The Riddle of The Sphinx, leads one to an uninspiring misnomer, a dead end. The Egyptian Book of The Dead is actually more accurately titled The Book of Coming Forth by Day.
The idea behind coming forth by day as opposed to coming forth by night further reveals the intended subtle lesson of The Riddle of The Sphinx. The opposite of coming forth by day is coming forth by night. Those with deadened and dull awareness come forth by night, those who have pursued mastery come forth by day. The man comes forth by night, the master comes forth by day.
The master. The result of the pursuit of becoming masterful, as Thoth, and as the many other adepts who held the staff symbolically is the unsaid esoteric answer to The Riddle of The Sphinx. In the past many adepts who gained insight and mastery may have been given the title of Hermes Trismegistus, just as the Greek counterpart of Thoth. The master becoming timeless and immeasurable rather than man becoming aged and confined is the unsaid esoteric answer.
Man becoming the sacred geometer to master measure rather than man denigrating to be measured is the answer. The warning that death is coming is not the only inference, the pursuit of mastery beyond original potential is the refined answer, the unsaid fourth aspect.
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