God-Transformation-Revival at the Solar-Festival-Sky in the rising Dawn of the immortal Children of Light..
Wisdom-Tales of Light:
“The earliest home of the gods that we can discern is the sky.”
“The heavenly Horus was a star as well as the sun, and perhaps also the moon. It seems as if he was that celestial body which appeared conspicuous either at day or at night.”
“I am the fiery Eye of Horus, which went forth terrible, Lady of slaughter, greatly awesome...I am indeed she who shoots.”
“I have extinguished the fire, I have calmed the soul of her who burns, I have quietened her who is in the midst of her rage...(even she) the fiery one who severed the tresses of the gods.”
“So, ascend to the sky amongst the stars in the sky, and those before you shall hide and those after you shall be afraid of you, because of this your identity of Horus of the Duat...of the one who strikes them, of the one who spews them out, and wipes them out, and you will strike them, spew them out, and wipe them out at the lake, at the Great Green. You shall come to stand at the fore of the Imperishable Stars and sit on your metal throne from which the dead are far away.”
In the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 3000-2600 BCE), Horus is explicitly identified as a star. An annal from the First Dynasty reign of King Aha bears the name “Festival of the Horus-Star-of-the-Gods.”11 Early royal domain names likewise contain reference to the Horus-star.
“The Horus names of several First Dynasty kings expressed the aggressive authority of Horus, perhaps reflecting the coercive power of kingship at this stage of Egyptian statehood. Names like ‘Horus the fighter’ (Aha), ‘Horus the strong’ (Djer) or ‘arm-raising Horus’s (Qaa) call to mind the warlike iconography of the earliest royal monuments from the period of state formation.”
“Make the sky clear and shine on them as a god; may you be enduring at the head of the sky as Horus of the Netherworld.”
“O warrior, splendid one...Mighty of arms, broad of chest, perfect one without rival among all the gods, Who grasps the pitiless deluge-weapon, who massacres the enemy, Lion clad in splendor, at the flaring-up of whose fierce brilliance, The gods of the inhabited world took to secret places...”
“Raise yourself, King...being a spirit at the head of the spirits...that you may have a soul thereby, that you may be effective thereby, that you may be powerful thereby...O King, you are a spirit and your survivor is a spirit.”
Although an aura of mystery surrounds the religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians this much is certain: they were obsessed with the stars. The leading gods were identified with prominent stars; their most impressive and enduring monuments—the pyramids—were decorated with stars and patterned after a celestial prototype; and their single-minded goal, upon dying, was to return to a celestial Hereafter where they hoped to be reunited with the sun god and the Imperishable Stars. In the face of such incontrovertible facts it seems self-evident that Egyptian religion is fated to remain elusive until we gain greater insight into that culture’s central beliefs regarding the stars and cosmos.
The great gods confront us already at the dawn of history. The Egyptian Horus is a case in point, his preeminence in ancient Egyptian religion being everywhere apparent. The pharaoh himself was considered to be the earthly incarnation of the god, a belief-system reflected in the so-called Horus names borne by early rulers from the first dynasty on.
A survey of the relevant scholarship on the matter reveals that Horus has typically been identified with the sun. That said, leading Egyptologists have advanced arguments that the god is to be identified with the planet Venus; with the star Sirius; and with the amorphous sky itself.
To judge by the evidence of these names, Horus was originally conceived as a stellar power—indeed, as a most prominent star “at the front of the sky.” That said, the names in question are not sufficiently informative to pinpoint exactly which particular celestial body represented Horus during this period.
Here, as elsewhere in the Pyramid Texts, Horus is identified with the “Morning Star.” In this guise Horus is described as the “son” of the sun god and thus he would appear to represent a distinct celestial body altogether—presumably a particularly prominent planet or star.
As a warrior-star, the star “at the front of the sky,” Lord of the Netherworld, and raging one—not to mention his intimate association with the mountain of sunrise—Horus shares a specific and multifaceted pattern of characteristics with the Sumerian Nergal. These analogous epithets and mythological attributes, in turn, suggest that the two gods share a fundamental affinity and likely trace to a common celestial prototype. Indeed, it is our contention that there is a perfectly logical explanation for the structural parallelisms common to the cults of Horus and Nergal: Both gods originated as personifications of the planet Mars.
Horus = masculine seed of Osiris
Isis = female receptacle of Osiris’s seed
So great, so profound is the Beauty of Isis the Divine that even in death did the Phallus of Osirus attend to her call. She mounted him and danced the bitter sweet dance of mourning until the Great God did come forth into Her. Then she gathered up His Body, box and the boy Anubis and fled back to Khem, the roof the the Feasting Hall of the King of Lebanon collapsing behind them.
It was at the very moment that Osirus did come forth in to Isis the Divine that Ra-Hoor, the Elder Horus was 'thrown form his Horse' and died. It was He that now dwelt within the Womb of Isis.
When Set heard that Isis was to attempt to revive Osirus he set our to hunt her and destroy the body of Osirus. The tale of their adventures is for another day but when Isis fled she had to leave behind the infant Horus. She bundled him is swaddling clothes and lay him in a basket in the bull rushes in the Nile
where the crocodiles would not find him.
A Great Lotus grew up around the basket and sheltered the child from all climate and manner of disturbance. He sat therein suckling upon his finger. He was Hoor-Paar-Khraat, the Babe in the Lotus. Om Mani Padhme Hum.
A soft hand lay itself upon his shoulder. He did not start. It soothed his shoulders and troubled brow.
Without thought, with his eyes barely open he let it guide him to lay upon the warm earth. Soft warm
and fragrant flesh relaxed his own as it undressed him. He was caressed and aroused and passion awoke
in him. But not the passion of war and destruction, of vengeance and of killing. A passion as yet
unknown to Horus. Gentle hands brought life to his Phallus and a warm and wanting Vulva welcomed it.
The joy and pleasure he felt was only exceeded by the realization that upon him lay Isis his Mother.
One morning he awoke alone but unafraid. Upon his chest lay a Golden Ankh with thirty-one gems thereon. He remained in the Desert for thirty-one days, one for each of the Colored Gems. He pondered what he would do. He had an Idea.
Horus walked boldly in to the camp of Set unarmed. He had never before been able to find where Set stayed when they were not at battle, but now for some reason it was perfectly obvious. Surprised his sentries did not warm him, Set leapt for his Spear. He dove at his long time assailant meaning to put and end to his turmoil. Horus simply stepped aside the thrust and Set fell stumbling upon
his spear shattering its shaft. Set swung with his sword and Horus ducked agily and the sword shattered against a stone pillar. Set in his frustration threw his shield at horus but again Horus was not there and the shield buried itself into the earth. Set desperately grabbed a drinking cup and threw it at Horus. Horus simply caught it and filled it from a hanging wine sack and offered it back to Set. Set fell down laughing.
"There was a time," Horus said, "when we nursed at the same breast, that we shared the same womb, that we were children together. Now, I remember oh my twin-brother. Let us drink and be at peace oh thou Set the Definer, oh thou Manifester Unto the Light."
"Hail thou Ra-Hoor-Khuit, Illuminated One, now you are ready to be King! I drink to you."
One of the most important myths from ancient Egypt tells of the Eye of Horus becoming enraged and threatening the world with destruction. Described as a time of terrifying tumult and chaos, the period associated with the Eye’s destructive rampage was commonly mythologized as a warring onslaught on the part of Hathor or her alter ego Sakhmet.
“Thoth has fetched the Sacred Eye, having pacified the Eye after Re had sent it away. It was very angry, but Thoth pacified it from anger after it had been far away.”
As stated here in no uncertain terms, it is the “encircling” of Horus by the fire-spewing uraeus-goddess—addressed as Ikhet the Serpent—which provides the star-god with his Eye and thereby equips him with an invincible source of protection. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that, through this act of encircling or “conjunction,” the mother goddess “invests” Horus as the King of the Gods.
Far from being a reference to one and the same celestial body, Horus’s relationship to the Eye can only be understood as an interaction between two entirely different stars. On this matter the evidence is unequivocal: The Eye of Horus is to be identified with the mother goddess herself and, as such, it represents a wholly different celestial body from that associated with the masculine Horus (Mars). In Egypt, as around the globe, only one star fits the bill as the celestial prototype for the mother goddess—namely, Venus. In this conclusion we would agree with Rolf Krauss who, in a number of studies of the Egyptian astral references, argued that the Eye of Horus is to be identified with the planet Venus.
“I [Horus] will put flame in my eye, and it will encompass you and set storm among the doers of (evil) deeds, and its fiery outburst among these primeval ones. I will smite away the arms of Shu which support the sky."
The child born to Isis was named Horus, the hawk-god. When he became an adult, Horus decided to make a case before the court of gods that he, not Set, was the rightful king of Egypt. A long period of argument followed, and Set challenged Horus to a contest. The winner would become king. Set, however, did not play fair. After several matches in which Set cheated and was the victor, Horus’ mother, Isis, decided to help her son and set a trap for Set. She snared him, but Set begged for his life, and Isis let him go. When he found out that she had let his enemy live, Horus became angry with his mother, and rages against her, earning him the contempt of the other gods. They decided that there would be one more match, and Set would get to choose what it would be. Set decided that the final round of the contest would be a boat race. However, in order to make the contest a challenge, Set decided that he and Horus should race boats made of stone. Horus was tricky and built a boat made of wood, covered with limestone plaster, which looked like stone. As the gods assembled for the race, Set cut the top off of a mountain to serve as his boat and set it in the water. His boat sank right away, and all the other gods laughed at him. Angry, Set transformed himself into a hippopotamus and attacked Horus’ boat. Horus fought off Set, but the other gods stopped him before he could kill Set. The other gods decided that the match was a tie. Many of the gods were sympathetic to Horus, but remembered his anger toward his mother for being lenient to Set, and were unwilling to support him completely. The gods who formed the court decided to write a letter to Osiris and ask for his advice. Osiris responded with a definite answer: his son is the rightful king, and should be placed upon the throne. No one, said Osiris, should take the throne of Egypt through an act of murder, as Set had done. Set had killed Osiris, but Horus did not killed anyone, and was the better candidate. The sun and the stars, who were Osiris’ allies, descended into the underworld, leaving the world in darkness. Finally, the gods agreed that Horus should claim his birthright as king of Egypt.
The Aeon of Horus, also referred to as the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child, is characterised by the breaking down of old social orders endemic to the Aeon of Osiris before it, of the freedom and liberation of the human species from, in part, the Judeo-Christian paradigm (hence, perhaps, the popular presentation of Aleister Crowley as a satanist), Matriarchy and Patriarchy. The Aeon of Maat is the Aeon of Truth, Justice and Balance, where it is posited the human species reaches a gestalt consciousness, specifically referred to as a double-consciousness, where the species is unified into one mind, while maintaining a sense of individuality. Central to the latter Aeon is the deity N'aton, who is presented as an androgenous being created by the collective consciousness of the human species.
Though there is a consideration of a future utopian time, the Aeon of Maat, and a paradigm involving a future, andfunctionally better, consciousness that the human mind can reach, there is also the concern of manifesting that time in the here and now, acknowledging the cyclic nature of everything with the concept of the Aeons, and the existence of all as here within the moment. But the practitioner also seems concerned with altering his consciousness, implicitly implying that there is something 'wrong' with it, that it needs refined and that truth is only reached through a certain set of behaviours and efforts on the part of the practitioner - this aligns it with a division into a Gnostic world-view.
The gnostic world-view being concerned with the idea that consciousness and the world as it is, is somehow at fault, and needs to be improved or changed in accordance with another set of beliefs and behaviours which the gnostic then must adopt in order to change and improve the world and consciousness, the acquisition of correct knowledge and a new way of perceiving things the world. The spirituality of the magician, and perhaps then the wider band of occult practice and belief, seems concerned with this specifically teleological process on some level, as designated by the definition used in the beginning of this paper - positioning occultism as a personal teleological matrix of practice and belief - encouraging a the creation of the term Neo-Gnosticism to describe these particular practices and world-views.
Parallels in the tales of Horus and Jesus:
Conception: By a virgin.
Father: Only begotten son of the God Osiris. Only begotten son of Yehovah (in theform of the Holy Spirit).
Mother: Meri. Miriam (a.k.a. Mary).
Foster father: Seb, (Jo-Seph).
Foster father's ancestry: Of royal descent.
Birth location: In a cave or stable.
Annunciation: By an angel to his mother
Birth heralded by: The star Sirius, the morning star. An unidentified "star in the East."
Birth date: Ancient Egyptians paraded a manger and Celebrated on DEC-25. The date was child representing Horus through the streets chosen to occur on the same date as the at the time of the winter solstice (typically birth of Mithra, Dionysus and the Sol DEC-21). Invictus (unconquerable Sun), etc.
Birth announcement: By angels.
Birth witnesses: Shepherds.
Later witnesses to birth: Three solar deities. Three wise men.
Death threat during infancy: Herut tried to have Horus murdered. Herod tried to have Jesus murdered.
Handling the threat: The God That tells Horus' mother "Come, and take the young child and his thou goddess Isis, hide thyself with thy child." An angel tells Jesus' father to: "Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt."
Rite of passage ritual: Horus came of age with a special ritual, when his eye was restored. Taken by parents to the temple for what is today called a bar mitzvah ritual.
Age at the ritual: 12
Break in life history: No data between ages of 12 & 30.
Baptism location: In the river Eridanus. In the river Jordan.
Age at baptism: 30.
Baptized by: Anup the Baptiser. John the Baptist.
Subsequent fate of the baptiser: Beheaded.
Temptation: Taken from the desert of Amenta up a high mountain by his arch-rival Sut. Sut (a.k.a. Set) was a precursor for the Hebrew Satan. Taken from the desert in Palestine up a high mountain by his arch-rival Satan.
Close followers: Twelve disciples.
Activities: Walked on water, cast out demons, healed the sick, restored sight to the blind. He "stilled the sea by his power."
Raising of the dead: Horus raised Osirus, his dead father, from the grave. Jesus raised Lazarus from the grave.
Location where the resurrection miracle occurred: Anu, an Egyptian city where the rites of the death, burial and resurrection of Horus were enacted annually. Hebrews added their prefix for house ('beth") to "Anu" to produce "Beth-Anu" or the "House of Anu.
Transfigured: On a mountain.
Method of death: Crucifixion.
Accompanied by: Two thieves.
Burial: In a tomb.
Fate after death: Descended into Hell; resurrected after three days or about 30 to 38 hours.
Resurrection announced by: A woman.
Future: Reign for 1,000 years in the Millennium.
Main role: Savior of humanity.
Status: God-man.
Title: KRST/Christ, the anointed one.
Other names: The good shepherd, the lamb of God, the bread of life, the son of man, the Word, the fisher, the winnower.
Zodiac sign: Associated with Pisces, the fish.
Main symbols: Fish, beetle, the vine, shepherd's crook.
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