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On 25/03/2011 11:57, Christopher Josiffe wrote: Liber Resh is a mystery - I'm not sure I would blame even Wallis Budge for the mistakes in Crowley's iconography - i'm pretty certain that any Egyptologist of the time would know that kephra is dawn sun, ra midday and atum setting? You will find lots of hymns to the sun in Budge's rendering but nothing, AFAIK, quite so wrong ? The Wallis Budge's translation of BOTD is usually considered a fairly hopeless jumble and shouldn't really be recommended imo? senebty Mogg Morgan > Hello all, > > This has probably been covered before, but... > > I'm currently reading some Wallis-Budge - his translations of some > Egyptian sacred texts - and am struck by how similar they sound to the > words of Liber Resh, perhaps it's just the KJV-style 'thee's and thou's, > but is it known whether his work was an influence on the Golden Dawn, in > terms of their constructing their 'liturgies' (such as Liber Resh..)? > > Thanks! > > Christopher > >