I'm not aware of any Egyptian material that matches what we find in the Babylonian exoricisms, the Jewish prayers or the LBRP. However, what you are describing are descriptions of Nut - her spine is the Milky Way, her arms and legs are the four pillars that uphold the sky, and the Gods that traverse the sky are born from her womb each morning.
There are also the four Sons of Horus, who occupy the cardinal directions (not the cross-quarters as we see in the G.D.). They are invoked in the Book of the Dead, but not in the same fashion we see the Babylonian Gods or Hebrew Archangels invoked.
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--- On Mon, 8/23/10, Morgan Leigh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Morgan Leigh <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Golden Dawn origins?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 5:58 AM
> There is an Egyptian version of this
> configuration of ritual formula
> too. I can't remember the exact source off the top of my
> head, maybe
> Mogg will pop up and tell us, but it refers to an imagined
> female body
> facing east with her spine aligned with the milky way and
> describes the
> positions of her limbs in relation to the compass points.
> IIRC there is
> also a domestic ritual with guardians of the compass
> points.
>
> Regards,
>
> Morgan Leigh
> PhD Candidate
> School of Sociology and Social Work
> University of Tasmania
>
> On 19/08/2010 6:26 AM, Khem Caigan wrote:
> > Ted Hand doth schreibble :
> >>
> >> It seems as if Khem has handled your specific
> question.
> >
> > Not completely, by any means ;)
> >
> > Here's another relevant bit from Trachtenberg:
> >
> > ' Already in the pages of the Talmud we read that
> > "the demons keep away from everyone who recites the
> > Shema before retiring."
> >
> > There grew up an increasingly elaborate scheme of
> > prayer around this nocturnal recitation of the Shema
> > (Kriat Shema she'al ha-Mita), to reinforce its
> > protective powers, and coupled with straightforward
> > pleas for deliverance from "the terrors that threaten
> > by night" were potent Biblical verses and Psalms,
> magic
> > names, appeals to the angels, three- and seven-fold
> > repetitions, prayers with obscure mystical
> connotations,
> > &tc.
> >
> > There was no attempt to disguise the purpose of this
> > prayer service; it was frankly admitted time and
> again
> > that "it exists only because of the demons."
> >
> > This night-prayer offers an interesting illustration
> > of the tenacity of magical and superstitious forms.
> >
> > One of its constituents invokes the protection of the
> > angels: "at my right Michael, at my left Gabriel,
> > before me Uriel, behind me Raphael."
> >
> > This is nothing more than a Jewish version of the
> > ancient Babylonian incantation, "Shamash before me,
> > behind me Sin, Nergal at my right, Ninib at my left,"
> > or, "May the good Shedu go at my right, the good
> > Lamasu at my left," &tc. '
> >
> > ~ from :
> >
> > *Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk
> Religion*
> > by Joshua Trachtenberg, page 156.
> > (Preview @GoogleBooks )
> > http://tinyurl.com/29anp9e
> >
> > Cors in Manu Domine,
> >
> >
> > ~ Khem Caigan
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > "Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
> > Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
> > Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
> > Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
> >
> > *Of the Division of Chaos*
> > -Dr. Simon Forman
>
> --
>
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