ravenest
Aeon makes a good point, Thelema IS NOT Ancient Egyptian religion ... and I seriously doubt that anyone now knows what Egyptian religion was (although we may have close modern interpretations of serious scholars and people that tried to live it ; Om Seti or Rosemary Clarke - who is still around).
These metaphors were used at a time when knowledge of Ancient Egyptian religion and magic were quiet in vouge with post victorian yuppie society and their knowledge was much more limited ... research was primative and understanding patchy. AC was not trying to depict the reality of Egyptians but using some of their ideas to demonstrate his different reality. It would be pointless to change things in thelema as we make new discoveries about the ancient Egyptians ... unless they more acuratly described the original Thelemic idea.
If you just cant feel the energy of Nu from Ch 1 (as an individual new revelation / manifestation (?) ) ... well, then I guess you just cant relate to it and comparing it to Egyptology wont help you get it.
Not in any Egyptian tradition I know of is Nuit a primary deity as in BoL. This is new and different and although the idea has been around for a while (I call it posative life-affirmation gnosticicsm) it has taken on differnt clothes.
These metaphors were used at a time when knowledge of Ancient Egyptian religion and magic were quiet in vouge with post victorian yuppie society and their knowledge was much more limited ... research was primative and understanding patchy. AC was not trying to depict the reality of Egyptians but using some of their ideas to demonstrate his different reality. It would be pointless to change things in thelema as we make new discoveries about the ancient Egyptians ... unless they more acuratly described the original Thelemic idea.
If you just cant feel the energy of Nu from Ch 1 (as an individual new revelation / manifestation (?) ) ... well, then I guess you just cant relate to it and comparing it to Egyptology wont help you get it.
Not in any Egyptian tradition I know of is Nuit a primary deity as in BoL. This is new and different and although the idea has been around for a while (I call it posative life-affirmation gnosticicsm) it has taken on differnt clothes.