Mark Rance
thanks - very informative -
hadn't actually realised that the mistaken identity had occured in the
classical world -
i think there must be quite a lot of instances where the Greek
"appropriation" of Egyptian wisdom resulted in this
kind of shift in meaning. Perhaps then some of Crowley's reframing of
Egyptian mythology is rooted in his own "classical" bias/interests??
Thinking of for example the god forms in Liber Resh - which dont appear
to follow any Egyptian cosmology??
Mogg
PS was treated to a good example of classical bias at the rather
excellent colours of chaos conference -
where one of the final speakers
advanced the idea that all magick was Greek in origin.
wrote:
> Yes this gesture has a hieroglyphic meaning of child or to become, perhaps
> in relation to the rising from the lotus. The link following from the
> wikipedia article on harpocrates clears this up, it also provides an
> interesting visual narrative on the evolution of Hor pa Khered.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpocrates.
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> The contendings of Set and Horus may bear some relation to this as well,
> especially the semen exchange incidents between the two, where the young
> Horus tricks his Uncle at his own game as Set tries to dominate the young
> boy and humiliate him through an act of rape.
>
> Some more research turns some interesting facts up about Crowleys Uncle, Tom
> Bond bishop, he was an organiser for the Children's Special Service Mission
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Special_Service_Mission. Any
> amount of research on child sex offenders will reveal that they are known to
> become involved with organisations like the church or education in order to
> get close to children to abuse them. Thou it still remains as speculative.
>
> I would really of liked to have heard what Crowley revealed to Regardie, i
> also begin to wonder at just how much of Crowleys rearranging of cosmologies
> reflect his own life experiences.
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