sopdet
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:35 am
The goddess Sopdet was the personification of the "dog star", known to the Greeks as Seirios (Sirius). Sopdet was the most important star to the Ancient Egyptians, and was known as a decon. Together with her husband Sah (Orion), and her son Soped, Sopdet formed part of a divine triad which paralleled that of Osiris, Isis and Horus.
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The Dog Star in Magical Traditions
http://www.room23.de/room23_view_detail.php?ID=1164
"To find in the BLAZING STAR of five points an allusion to Divine Providence is
also fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the Star that is said to have
guided the Magi is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. Originally, it
represented SIRIUS, or the Dog Star."
- General Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
Sirius, the dog star, stands for the spirit of wisdom in the Zoroastrian
tradition.
"Temple believes the Contact (which he tends to portray as physical, involving
actual space-ships) occurred in Sumeria around 4500 B.C. The knowledge thus
gained, he argues was passed on via various secret societies of initiates in
the Near East, Egypt, Greece and so on, at least until the time of the 5th
century (A.D.) neo-Platonist Proclus. Thereafter, Temple loses track of it, and
suggests that it petered out, although he mentions that off-shoots of it
appeared in 'such bizarre and fascinating figures as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio
Ficino, John Dee and even Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Leicester - not to
mention the troubadours of Provence, Dante in Italy, and the massacred tens of
thousands of Albigensians in France, the Knights Templar and an infinite rage
of hopeless causes over two and a half millennia...'"
"Kenneth Grant, one of Crowley 's closest associates in the Ordo Templi
Orientis, repeatedly links Crowley with Sirius and seems to be hinting that the
'Holy Guardian Angel' contacted by Crowleyan mind-expansion techniques is a
denizen of Sirius. J.G. Bennett, one of the closest of George Gurdjieff 's
associates, also tells us of coded references to Sirius in Gurdjieff's
writings. Sufi historian Indries Shah traces the name of the Illuminati back to
a verse in the Koran which mentions a shining star, and Crowley's alternative
name for the Illuminati was the Order of the Silver Star (Argentum Astrum)."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
"The Order of the Silver Star is thus the Order of the Eye of Set, 'the Sun
behind the Sun.' ...The Silver Star is Sirius."
- Kenneth Grant, Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
"George Hunt Willamson, a flying saucer Contactee, claims to have spoken to
natives of Sirius who use a language containing some to the same words as the
'Enochian' or 'angelic' language used by such magicians as Dr. John Dee and
Crowley. Williamson also tells us a secret order on Earth has been in contact
with Sirius for thousands of years and that the emblem of that order is the eye
of Horus."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
"Many reliable psychics and mystics firmly subscribe to the idea of a special
gene, or personalized 'time capsule', programmed with the knowledge of the 'old
ones' who came from the Sirius system centuries ago; this gene has been passed
down from generation to generation to the present day. From this Sirian genetic
strain a new school of magic has emerged."
- Murray Hope, Practical Egyptian Magic
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The Dog Star in Magical Traditions
http://www.room23.de/room23_view_detail.php?ID=1164
"To find in the BLAZING STAR of five points an allusion to Divine Providence is
also fanciful; and to make it commemorative of the Star that is said to have
guided the Magi is to give it a meaning comparatively modern. Originally, it
represented SIRIUS, or the Dog Star."
- General Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
Sirius, the dog star, stands for the spirit of wisdom in the Zoroastrian
tradition.
"Temple believes the Contact (which he tends to portray as physical, involving
actual space-ships) occurred in Sumeria around 4500 B.C. The knowledge thus
gained, he argues was passed on via various secret societies of initiates in
the Near East, Egypt, Greece and so on, at least until the time of the 5th
century (A.D.) neo-Platonist Proclus. Thereafter, Temple loses track of it, and
suggests that it petered out, although he mentions that off-shoots of it
appeared in 'such bizarre and fascinating figures as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio
Ficino, John Dee and even Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Leicester - not to
mention the troubadours of Provence, Dante in Italy, and the massacred tens of
thousands of Albigensians in France, the Knights Templar and an infinite rage
of hopeless causes over two and a half millennia...'"
"Kenneth Grant, one of Crowley 's closest associates in the Ordo Templi
Orientis, repeatedly links Crowley with Sirius and seems to be hinting that the
'Holy Guardian Angel' contacted by Crowleyan mind-expansion techniques is a
denizen of Sirius. J.G. Bennett, one of the closest of George Gurdjieff 's
associates, also tells us of coded references to Sirius in Gurdjieff's
writings. Sufi historian Indries Shah traces the name of the Illuminati back to
a verse in the Koran which mentions a shining star, and Crowley's alternative
name for the Illuminati was the Order of the Silver Star (Argentum Astrum)."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
"The Order of the Silver Star is thus the Order of the Eye of Set, 'the Sun
behind the Sun.' ...The Silver Star is Sirius."
- Kenneth Grant, Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
"George Hunt Willamson, a flying saucer Contactee, claims to have spoken to
natives of Sirius who use a language containing some to the same words as the
'Enochian' or 'angelic' language used by such magicians as Dr. John Dee and
Crowley. Williamson also tells us a secret order on Earth has been in contact
with Sirius for thousands of years and that the emblem of that order is the eye
of Horus."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
"Many reliable psychics and mystics firmly subscribe to the idea of a special
gene, or personalized 'time capsule', programmed with the knowledge of the 'old
ones' who came from the Sirius system centuries ago; this gene has been passed
down from generation to generation to the present day. From this Sirian genetic
strain a new school of magic has emerged."
- Murray Hope, Practical Egyptian Magic
