The Forbidden Universe: The Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God by Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince

Author:Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince [Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Gnostic Dementia, Fringe Science, Science History, Occult History, Amazon.com, Retail, History
ISBN: 9781849018814
Amazon: B004Q3QN9E
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2011-03-23T15:00:00+00:00

This is by no means the end of the process, however, as the system is repeated on a lesser octave, beginning with the child of Isis and Osiris, the falcon-god Horus, who occupies a transitional space between the Great Ennead and the Lesser Ennead, the nine gods of this world (which includes Thoth). Horus’ relationship with the material universe is the same as Atum’s with all creation, making him therefore the god of the material world (besides being ‘a son of God and savior of humankind’),34 the equivalent of Plato’s Demiurge and the Hermetic second god, while (like his father Osiris, who died and rose again), also bearing some comparison with Jesus.

As we have seen, according to Heliopolitan beliefs, the material universe that we perceive through our senses is only part – the outer edge, as it were – of an unimaginably vaster creation, much of which is hidden from us. Again, there is an obvious parallel with Plato’s later concept of spiritual and physical worlds, which is why the last heirs of Heliopolis, the Neoplatonists, found his philosophy so suitable for their purposes.

In his book, Luckert makes a detailed comparison of the Heliopolitan theology in the Pyramid Texts and the principles of the Neoplatonists, particularly Plotinus, and finds the two are identical. Given the overwhelming evidence that Plotinus derived his teachings from secretly-taught Egyptian traditions, there seems to be no other explanation than that the Heliopolitan system was transmitted down the ages until it reached Ammonius Saccas and other Egyptian sages.

Given the close relationship between the inaccurately named Neoplatonism and Hermeticism, the Heliopolitan system must therefore also underpin the latter. And an examination of the basic ideas of Hermeticism bear this theory out. The language may be different, but the fundamental principles are the same.

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