Luxor Temple has a soul that is lit by the Luminous Ka's of the Pharaohs

 As we passed the side of Luxor Temple one evening, I was inspired by its vision of radiance and light, its pale golden columns of the Festival Hall of Amenhotep 111  glowed against the early evening deep blue  sky, the floodlights seemed to increase the size of the columns almost helping them to touch the heavens, 

and then  I remembered an evening walk I had taken through the Temple with Hamde, who had worked in the temple for seventeen years, he told me of the ancient beliefs that the stones of the temple had a soul, and that when darkness falls the light of the stars illuminates them again, and they are  filled with the luminous Ka’s of the Pharaohs, then like Nut the god of the sky who comes to meet her husband Geb the god of the earth each evening, the stars came down to earth to fill the ancient containers in the temple with incense and myrrh. The columns had a stream of light reflected through them, and Hamdes beautiful story seemed so real, I looked at the Columns and I felt the magic of the temple and I was so grateful to be alive and experience my emotions that had become so entwined with this ancient culture.

Ancient Egyptian concept of life after death

The ancient Egyptians believed that the mummified body was the home to where the soul or spirit would return to after death, so it was important to preserve a man’s likeness and his body, or his spirit would be lost if his body was destroyed. The body was believed to be made up of various elements, the ba was a spiritual aspect of the human being which survived or came into being at death, and which was imbued with the fullness of a person's individuality, it was represented as a small bird that could fly away from the body and return again. The Ka is was the intellectual  double and vital force   that transcends the death of the physical body it was  the creative and sustaining power of life and a symbol of intellectual and spiritual power.

When in Luxor you can visit the Mummification museum to help understand the process of mummification and see the mummified body of Ma-Saharti