Horus vs Set, the gator hunt

[alice wellintown]

Speaking of addresses, I'm reminded of something Fowler's handy book
says on an address that seems a connection to Horus and the Rose.

GR.V.269.33 Blavatskian wing of Psi Section...White Lotus Day
Pilgrimage to 19 Avenue Road, St. John's Wood


Fowler says the address may also be that of the British
Founder of the Golden Dawn. ?

 S.L. Mathers. Samual Liddel Mathers was born in 1854 at
what is now 108 De Beauvoir Road, London. Mathers made the
first English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth's,
"Kabbalah Denudata." Mathers dedicated his entire life to
the Western Mystery Tradition and to the magical way of
life. He was the Chief of the Second Order of the Golden
Dawn, and he was the author of many of the Golden Dawn
teachings and documents. Mathers and his wife did much work
on the Tarot. He also brought the Egyptian pantheon into the
Golden Dawn.

 Theosophy's three principle aims: to promote the unity of
mankind; to promote the comparative study of religion,
Philosophy and science; and to explore human psychic
faculties. They adopted the Hindu White lotus, a symbol of
the Trimurti, or threefold godhead, to represent their
unified aims. To the society, the Lotus also symbolized the
unity of world religions: in Hinduism it is the Padma,
birthplace of the gods, and in Buddhism it is the Buddha's
throne, just as in Egyptian religions the lotus was Horus's
seat, it  came to Christianity as the multifoliate rose.


2010/8/20 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>:
> Another Horus link here from Graves's White Goddess:
>
> The Jackal's Address to Isis
>
> Brant Anup's children this:
> to howl with you, Queen Isis,
> Over the scattered limbs of wronged Osiris.
> What harder fate than to be woman?
> She makes and she unmakes her man.
> In Jackal-land it is no secret
> Who tempted red-haired, ass-eared Set
> To such bloody extreme; who most
> Must therefore mourn and fret
> To pacify the unquiet ghost.
> And when Horus your son
> Avenges this divulsion
> Sceptre in fist, sandal on feet,
> We shall return across the sana
> From loyal Jackal-land
> To gorge five nights and days on ass's meat.
>
>                     -White Goddess,317
>
> I know I can be a little slow in the uptake, but as I read this, it
> seemed pretty clear to me that Stencil is Horus (staying in B-S the
> younger's apt, he imagines B-S the elder wearing a Harmakis-head) as
> much as he is anything else, following the goddess' lead to reassemble
> his father and thus, maybe, avenge (or integrate) him in some way.
>
> Graves's commentary on the beheading myth in Celtic/English lore here goes on:
>
> "A Canaanite version of the same story appears in iconotropic form in
> the patently unhistorical Book of Judith, composed in Maccabean times.
> The Jews seem always to have based their religious anecdotes on an
> existing legend, or icon, never to have written fiction in the modern
> sense.... The Queen ties her royal husband's hair to the bedpost to
> immobilize him, and beheads him with a sword...; an attendant brings
> it to the lover whom she has chosen to be the new king...; after
> mourning to appease the ghost of the old king, the Corn-Tammuz, who
> has died at the barley-harvest..., she purifies herself in running
> water and dresses as a bride...." Etc.
>
> This links notably with Jung's alchemical studies that discuss a
> variety of ways in which the old king is slain and the queen unites
> with the new king. Or, to quote Ian Anderson, "How do you feel when
> the old man's gone / do you want to be him?" Other commentaries in
> this reading have already covered similar ground, and likely tie in to
> all this handily.
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> The first visit in V to Egypt focuses on a rivalry for the affection of
>> Victoria Wren in which Hugh Bongo Shaftsbury appears as Horus the
>> hawk-headed god of Lower Egypt. Horus is the God of Protection, of the Sky,
>> Of War( don't worry about those predators, those drones, those mercenaries,
>> those bankers; they are only here for your protection. Horus is identified
>> with the pharoah and civilization and exists in opposition to Set . Set
>> (also spelled Seth, Sheth, Sutekh, Setan or Seteh) is an ancient god, who
>> was originally the god of the desert, storms, darkness, and chaos. In
>> Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Σήθ (Seth).(Wik) This is also the
>> name of Adam and Eve's 3rd named son, who is identified with  a gnostic
>> tradition which has animal human deities.
>>
>> Set is identified with upper Egypt and Horus with lower Egypt but it seems
>> like a battle between empire and the wilder hunter-gatherers and pastoral
>> tribes. In one story Horus is badly beaten and appears dead and is revived
>> by the god of writing; papyrus was abundant in Lower Egypt.  In a directly
>> relevant Horus myth,  Horus fights with and conquers a crocodile who
>> represents an aspect of Set.
>>
>>  Pynchon appears to this reader to be overlapping images of this age old
>> battle all through his writing history. Already in V there is a density to
>> this theme that shows colonialism, conquest and missionary conversion as
>> much as an inner force as an outward one. It also shows the difficulty of
>> controlling a myth. The rats see the socialist tendencies of the gospels,
>> Fairing's doings show the inherent problems of devouring your "flock",   The
>> rats argue, the alligator turns to face whoever it is:  horus,  Benny, the
>> marines, Ceasar,  the gestapo, the Israel commandoes, the hired killer.
>> Profane tells the gator he is sorry.
>>
>>  "  "I'm sorry," he told the alligator. He was always saying he was sorry.
>> It was a schlemihl's stock line. He raised the repeater to his shoulder,
>> flicked off the safety. "Sorry," he said again. Father Fairing talked to
>> rats. Profane talked to alligators. He fired. The alligator jerked, did a
>> backflip, thrashed briefly, was still. Blood began to seep out amoeba-like
>> to form shifting patterns with the weak glow of the water. Abruptly, the
>> flashlight went out.  "
>>
>> What is primarily  sacrificed in heroism is the feminine. Boot camp includes
>> every permutation of degrading mothers and other "pussies". In these 2
>> chapters Benny's compliance is contrasted with Rachel's challenge to
>> Schoenmaker.
>>
>> Esther says no, meaning yes, Veronica wants to become a nun.  I myself
>> aspire to be a peasant with my own land, growing my own food, who is willing
>> to have his head lopped of for the pleasure of saying fuck you to the
>> emperor. Obama, George, Bill, Mr Goldman, if one of your ears is out there,
>> I just want to say fuck you, fuck your drones, fuck your golf game , and
>> fuck your fucking dog too.
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> "liber enim librum aperit."
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