“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

Carl Jung

       “In the mythology    that is, in the primitive mode of rendering the phenomena of external nature   Osiris as light giver in the moon, was torn into fourteen pieces during the latter half of the lunation by the evil Sut, the opposing power of darkness.  He was put together again and reconstituted by his son, beloved Horus, the young solar god.” (Book 4, pg 187 Massey)  This myth, as we are now learning was metaphor and was one of the more renowned renditions, if not the most important dramatized in hieroglyphs. A key component of their culture, acted out upon the faces of stone and in scrolls.  Alive with secret knowledge, the basis of which was shared all throughout Kemet/Egypt. However, they can never be decoded unless we perceive that they are based on nothing other than nature; chiefly, the movements of heavenly bodies!

       Ra, also reckoned as the Holy Spirit in the original trinity, was the premier and only known “father in heaven” or in another thought, “generator of ever living souls” for two perfect and sobering reasons: no sun=no light=no life.  When the sun sets or especially when it loses its potency in the winter months, it was merely personified as Osiris being assailed by the powers of darkness, or Sut.  Sut is the personification of darkness or the inability to see, which is adequate to explain what ignorance is.  Osiris represents compromised light=life and so becomes a personal image of death or change. 

       But here we should point out that to us, shrouded in an age of haze and apprehension, death has morphed into such a final and ominous appearance.  In Egypt however, death can be equated with change or more specifically birth. “Birth in the Tuat, Amenti or heaven, hence means death on another plane, and vice versa. Birth and death, endless transformation, universal reincarnation, proclaim themselves on every page of the Book of the Dead. (Egyptian Immortality: The Wisdom World) “I am Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; and I have the power to be born a second time. I am the hidden Soul who createth the gods and who giveth celestial meals unto the denizens of the Tuat, Amentet, and heaven. I am the Lord of those who are raised up from the dead... Make thou thy roads glad for me, and make broad for me my paths, when I set forth from earth for life in the celestial region...”(Chapter/Rit 64 of the Book of the Dead).  In nature, this principle is alive and is perpetually animated in the forms of tadpoles that become frogs and caterpillars transforming into butterflies.  Or closer to home, death=absence to the womb is birth=acquisition of this life.  We leave the former state=death, so that we can experience another state of life=birth.  The seasons that change, one leading to another on an endless string of death and renewal also shows this same pattern, right? 

       Horus himself was said to come forth in the newness of life, hawk headed.  As such he was the personification of this element in inherent in nature.  Not to be worshiped.   One represented the essence of finality by change=Osiris and one represented that new product or resurrection in nature=Horus.  The essence of life “died in Osiris to live again in Horus”.  Therefore he proclaims, “I am the soul of Osiris and I rest in him.”(Rit. 127)  Or the more legendary claim, “I am the resurrection and life”, (at Philae; Lundy, fig 183) is historically first uttered by Hours, via mythology!  

       “In that way, a foundation was laid in natural fact according to the science of the mythology.”  (pg. 187, book 4 Massey)  So with this first station of the combination to our vault secure in hand, we can now turn the dial, hearing the dialogue still somewhat unfamiliar, become slightly translated to us for the first time in centuries.  Let us now read further into the myths…

       Osiris, a light giver in the moon, torn into fourteen pieces, can interpreted clearly as Sut=darkness hiding=dismantling the moon= the later two weeks of illumination.  Isis conceives immaculately, then swells to full term=full moon.  Isis with child then gives birth in the form of the new, crescent moon=the young child.  Horus himself becomes the virile adult=the consecutive full moon at the ripe age of 30 days.  He dies= disappearance of the moon for 3 days=conquering darkness=death in the nether world, Amenta.  Horus breaks free=reappearance of the new moon, reconstituting his father at last=the consecutive full moon.  Isis than is an “eternal virgin” who was conceived of Horus by the Holy Spirit=light from the sun=Ra.  The Kemetu/Egyptians were fully aware of the lunar glow being supplied by the sun.  All three are indeed eternal; the mother, an “eternal virgin”, her “ever coming one” and the father avenged of the works of Set=Sut=Sat/an (also Sat/urn) by the power of his son’s resurrection.  Perfectly so because of them recycling since the dawn of our universe!  Mythology was the mode of expression of this natural, celestial event.

       But can you guess exactly why they chose the heavens as a basis for the myths?   I actually wondered about the significance of them honoring the heavens for awhile.  It then dawned on me after reading Plato (The Allegory of the Cave, The Republic and Timæus) as he gave an impression of the heavens existing in a fixed state.  In fact most of the ancient races were persuaded by that which does not experience change as readily as the earth does.  Though our perspective changes in relation to it, the heavens do not. Therefore, it is the shinning, literal example higher perfection.