Grigori
Aiwass said:1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
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Aiwass said:1. Abrahadabra; the reward of Ra Hoor Khut.
Grigori said:You can see where I'm going with this right? Into lots of irritating questions
I must here say that I find myself in the greatest difficulty, again and again, in the comprehension of this chapter. It might be said roughly that at the end of the first five years of Silence (An 0-IV) I understood Chapter I; at the end of the second five years (an X-XIV) I understood Chapter II, ---
Oh yes he does! Atu XVI The Tower [Or: War].Grigori said:I don't think Ra-Hoor-Khuit gets his own card in the Thoth deck.
Because the different spellings indicate different aspects of the god.Grigori said:So I figured a good place to start, is with "who is Ra Hoor Khut". How come he can't spell his name the same way twice?
See above. But also I think it's directing our attention to a specific manifestion of Horus. Today modern Egyptology calls that manifestation, Ra-Harakhte.Grigori said:Why is it "Ra Hoor Khut" here in Chapter 3 and not simply Horus, surely Horus should have his own chapter of the BoL, it is his Aeon after all!
Harakhte, whose name meant 'Horus of the Horizon', and who was also called 'Horus of the Two Horizons', was the form which Horus took when his early characteristics as a god of light were emphasised. He was identified with Ra as he made his daily journey from the eastern to the western horizon, and especially with his Khepri and Atum aspects. The roles of the two gods became inextricably mixed, and under their combined authority Ra-Harakhte held sway over all Egypt. He was represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man wearing the solar disk and triple crown or the uraeus and atef crown.
Egyptian Mythology by Veronica Ions, p.69
If there's any talking to be done than the active, manifesting aspect takes charge. Hoor-par-kraat saysGrigori said:Maybe more pertinent, if Ra-Hoor-Khut is the active aspect of Heru-ra-ha, a double god, how come his other passive half Hoor-par-kraat doesn't get a look in?
Ra-Hoor is a composite. One, not two.Grigori said:And while we're talking about double gods, how come a double god's half is himself a double god (part Ra and part Horus). Does that make Horus 1/4 of Heru-ra-ha?
In Liber V vel Reguli the magician sets up an annihilatory current with a widdershins circumabulation. Then he/she draws averse pentagrams in the four quarters. These pentagrams were used to illustrate the 5's in the Thoth Tarot. (5 - Geburah, Mars.) As Crowley tells us in the Book of Thoth, the 5 cards are not evil, they merely represent motion coming to the aid of matter. A rigid, fixed, and static situation is broken up causing "storm and stress".If it were possible for you to actually perform Liber V vel Reguli while standing on your head, then (from your upside-down point of view) the zodiac would run counterclockwise, and the pentagrams would be upright.
The Magick of Aleister Crowley, p.93
Aeon418 said:... If you are in line with the Will, and hence the Universe, then you are also in line with the flipped orientation of Reguli (up-side down). This makes Reguli an energizing deosil-Solar invocation. (Solar R.H.K. Mr Nice. )
It is?ravenest said:And this this is the reward ... the 'word' ?