Like an Egyptian The choice of the name ‘Orion’ for the latest Nasa spaceflight to test a capsule for travel to Mars seems to reflect a continued bizarre obsession within the agency for the three ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses: Osiris, Isis and Horus (‘Mission Mars and the final frontier’, December 11). Publicly, this only shows up in its choice of repeating blatant choices of simple mission patch designs, but on examination we can see most launches over the past 50 years have ‘coincided’ with unusual stellar alignments, usually involving one or more of the stars, Sirius, Regulus and Al Nitak (in the belt of Orion). According to most Egyptian mythologists, the star constellation of Orion was the celestial representation of the central figure of Egyptian gods, the god of the underworld and of ‘resurrection’, revered as Osiris. The star Sirius was regarded as the living embodiment of his wife and sister, Isis, the goddess of life and nurture, and Regulus, the blue-white star at the start at the heart of the Leo constellation, represented their son, Horus, who avenged his father’s murder, and became the first ‘man god’, from whom all human pharaohs were said to be descended. Horus, like the Apollo in Greek mythology, was the Egyptian ‘god of the sun’ and, curiously, also ruled over Mars. The ancient Egyptians in fact used the same name for both Mars and Horus, to mean ‘Horus the red’. Jack Conrad follows the standard Nasa line that Mars is ‘dead’, with no atmosphere, flora, fauna or running water, and presumably there is little point for the latest imperialist scramble for new lands and territories. Yet for billions of years and until very recently in astronomical terms, Mars, together with our Earth and Venus, occupied a comfortable place in what is known as the habitable zone of our solar system and was warm, wet and hospitable, with all the necessary conditions for life as on Earth, until some cataclysmic event or series of events 1.35 million years ago, probably involving the destruction of a whole existing planet, resulting in today’s asteroid belt and stripping away most of Mars’ atmosphere, wrecked its magnetic field, and left half the planet crated and unable to support any advanced forms of life. I think the stakes are immensely greater than Jack believes. The very powerful religious and cosmological ideas set out in ancient Egyptian funerary and rebirth texts and the so-called ‘hermetic’ writings - which have subsequently been adopted by Freemasonry and also informed the occult roots of Nazism - express the idea of the drawing down to Earth of cosmic powers as an essential step in humankind’s quest for the knowledge of the divine and immortality of the soul. Egypt was seen as “an image of heaven. Or, more precisely, in Egypt all powers which work and rule in heaven have been transferred to earth below”. Ancient Egyptians believed in something called Zep Tipi, a ‘first time’, when the ‘gods’ established their earthly kingdom, a golden era of absolute perfection, “before rage, clamour, strife or uproar had come about. No death, disease or disaster occurred in this blissful epoch known as the time of Osiris or the time of Horus.” The ultimate aim of the ancient Egyptian rituals was to equip the initiate, the ‘Horus-King’, to make the necessary journey ‘back’ in time to Zep Tipi, and into a new cosmic kingdom of Osiris, when sky and ground could be reunited in perfect harmony. (There is a possible parallel in Marxism, which sees the role of the working class and the revolutionary party as ultimately to bring about a new golden age, a world of full communism, going back to the ideals and perfections of primitive communism before society divided into classes, and bringing these into modern times). So what are such rituals and apparent ‘mumbo jumbo’ doing at the heart of Nasa, a supposedly scientific endeavour aimed at increasing knowledge for the benefit of all humankind? Are they really just paying homage to some mostly forgotten Egyptian deities - a bit of ritualistic but harmless fun? Or do some people in Nasa genuinely believe they are attempting to establish a connection - or may already have one - with powerful forces which to us, like to the ancient Egyptians, appear to have powers and abilities beyond our current comprehension? What are Nasa really looking for on Mars and do they already know much of what is there to be found from their reading of the ancient Egyptian texts? Our own all but forgotten pasts amid the reddish sands? Andrew Northall Kettering weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1039/letters/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 13:23:49 +0000
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