The Rebis figure symbolizes the end of the Great Work (alchemical magnus opus) that we have to do on ourselves. The symbology itself is ancient and represents the end result of the search to “know ourselves” and seek the light at the center. Purification of matter and thought, and the reconciliation of spirit and matter.
Within it one can see the reconciliation of the duality into a whole; male and female, sun and moon, square and compass, the right hand and the left hand. The symbols of the united being are contained within an ancient symbol of the universal, world or cosmic egg.
The understanding that we were divine and eternal right now, was the universal “religion” of antiquity. This was long before the time when portions of the ancient mysteries were seeded to what we know today as the various “religions” or mysteries.
“In this way you will reach the fullness, the unity… How is that done? By union with each other and union within oneself…let perfect unity take the place of primitive dissociation and “division”…
in other words, let the “outside” become as the “inside”, the “upper” like the “lower”, the male like the female; let the first become last and the last first: in short, let there be reunion of opposites…”
―Jesus Christ, Gnostic Texts
Grand Temple of Horus Behdety 