Awakening Higher Consciousness by Lloyd M. Dickie
Author:Lloyd M. Dickie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Esoteric
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2015-04-03T04:00:00+00:00
Symbols of Family Relationships
Osiris is referred to as the son of Ra, in the sense that the Ra who descends from his daily existence in the sky into the Duat at night is the father of the “sun” of this unmanifested world. Ra is also the father of Nut, the neter of the sky in which he appears by day, and who by union with the earth neter, Geb, gave birth to the family of gods: Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Seth. Thus in his lineage Osiris is also the grandson of Ra. At the same time, Nut, the daughter of Ra and mother of Osiris, is called the Mother of All the Gods and is often called the Mother of Ra. Nut is thus both daughter and mother of one and the same god!
Correspondingly, consider the many faces or aspects of Horus (also known as Heru), who in the Ennead lineage seems clearly to be the son of Osiris and Isis. Horus is also known as Ra-Herakti, god of the morning sun. He is one of the chief forms of the sun as it is at midday, when he has the name Ra-Heru-khuti. Horus observes his own conception between the “dead” but resurrected Osiris and Isis in the famous carving on the walls of the Temple of Osiris at Abydos (see figure 5.1 below). In this instance, Isis appears as a falcon, a form that is often assumed by Horus in his relations with the sun and with Seth.
Isis had hidden the inert body of Osiris that she had recovered in the mythical Byblos and re-enlivened for Horus’s conception. She was then constrained by her great love to collect and “re-member” Osiris, prior to his reappearance as the ruler of the Duat. It is through this act that we see the Duat as the land of the “Everlasting.” This dark and mysterious world is contrasted with the world of the “day,” where the pharaoh reigns, as one of ordinary time, hence recognizable as a relatively ephemeral world. The Egyptians referred to this ephemeral world as “Eternity,” quite different from the night, which is “Everlasting.”6
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