Osiris
(Eg.). The greatest God of Egypt, the Son of Seb (Saturn), celestial fire, and of Neith, primordial matter and infinite space. This shows him as the self-existent and self-created god, the first manifesting deity (our third Logos) identical with Ahura Mazda and other ‘First Causes’. For as Ahura Mazda is one with, or the synthesis of, the Amshaspends, so Osiris, the collective unit, when differentiated and personified, becomes Typhon, his brother, Isis and Nephtys his sisters, Horus his son and his other aspects.
He was born at Mount Sinai, the Nyssa of the O.T. (See Exodus xvii.15), and buried at Abydos, after being killed by Typhon at the early age of twenty-eight, according to the allegory. According to Euripides he is the same as Zeus and Dionysos or Dio-Nysos ‘the god of Nysa’, for Osiris is said by him to have been brought up in Nysa, in Arabia ‘the Happy’. Query: how much did the latter tradition influence, or have anything in common with, the statement in the Bible, that ‘Moses built an altar and called the name ‘Jehovah Nissi’ or Kabbalistically—‘Dio-Iao-Nyssi’? (See Isis Unveiled Vol. II, p 165). The four chief aspects of Osiris were—Osiris-Phtah (Light), the spiritual aspect; Osiris-Horus (Mind), the intellectual manasic aspect; Osiris-Lunus, the ‘Lunar’ or psychic, astral aspect, Osiris-Typhon, Daimonic, or physical, material, therefore passional turbulent aspect. In these four aspects he symbolizes the dual Ego—the divine and the human, the cosmic-spiritual and the terrestrial ...
As to his human development he is, as the author of the Egyptian Belief has it … “One of the Saviours or Deliverers of Humanity … As such he is born in the world. He came as a benefactor, to relieve man of trouble … In his efforts to do good he encounters evil … and he is temporarily overcome. He is killed … Osiris is buried. His tomb was the object of pilgrimage for thousands of years. But he did not rest in his grave. At the end of three days, or forty, he rose again and ascended to Heaven. This is the story of his Humanity.” (Egypt. Belief) And Mariette Bey, speaking of the Sixth Dynasty, tells us that “the name of Osiris … commences to be more used. The formula of Justified is met with”: and adds that “it proves that this name (of the Justified or Makheru) was not given to the dead only.” But it also proves that the legend of Christ was found ready in almost all its details thousands of years before the Christian era, and that the Church fathers had no greater difficulty than to simply apply it to a new personage. (TG)
Sometimes the scattered members of Osiris will have to be gathered. Will not Isis collect them? (AUM, 598)
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