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This is a question that has puzzled me for some time. I couldn't find an appropriate thread for it so I thought I would start a new one.
The best information I could find on how Crowley arrived at his conception of Ra-Hoor-Khuit can be found in his Old and New Commentaries AL 3.1.
He identifies Ra (correctly) as Ra, and Hoor (incorrectly) as Horus the Warrior. The Hor of "Ra-Hoor-Khuit" is Horus of the Horizon (Hor-Akhty). Actually, the sun disk that Crowley calls "Hadit" is Horus the Warrior (Hor-Behdety).
He seems to have had the most difficulty with Khuit. The process he goes through to arrive at his conception is fairly complicated, but in the end he concludes (incorrectly) that Khuit is a form of Amon, a Theban war god. Consequently he sees Ra-Hoor-Khuit as primarily a god of war.
Ra-Hoor-Khuit is probably the closest thing we will find in Crowley's writings to a personal God. On the Stele we see Ankh-f-n-Khonsu (Crowley by proxy) offering up a sacrifice to him. In his New Comment, he says that the insertion of iota (i,y,yod) to "Khut," transmutes the name to "Godhead." In Across the Gulf, Crowley says: "So I, in this year V of the Equinox of the Gods (1908) wherein Horus took the place of Osiris, will by the light of this my magical memory seek to understand fully the formula of Horus -- Ra Hoor Khuit -- my god, that ruleth the world under Nuit and Hadit." -Across the Gulf, Ch.9
The best information I could find on how Crowley arrived at his conception of Ra-Hoor-Khuit can be found in his Old and New Commentaries AL 3.1.
He identifies Ra (correctly) as Ra, and Hoor (incorrectly) as Horus the Warrior. The Hor of "Ra-Hoor-Khuit" is Horus of the Horizon (Hor-Akhty). Actually, the sun disk that Crowley calls "Hadit" is Horus the Warrior (Hor-Behdety).
He seems to have had the most difficulty with Khuit. The process he goes through to arrive at his conception is fairly complicated, but in the end he concludes (incorrectly) that Khuit is a form of Amon, a Theban war god. Consequently he sees Ra-Hoor-Khuit as primarily a god of war.
Ra-Hoor-Khuit is probably the closest thing we will find in Crowley's writings to a personal God. On the Stele we see Ankh-f-n-Khonsu (Crowley by proxy) offering up a sacrifice to him. In his New Comment, he says that the insertion of iota (i,y,yod) to "Khut," transmutes the name to "Godhead." In Across the Gulf, Crowley says: "So I, in this year V of the Equinox of the Gods (1908) wherein Horus took the place of Osiris, will by the light of this my magical memory seek to understand fully the formula of Horus -- Ra Hoor Khuit -- my god, that ruleth the world under Nuit and Hadit." -Across the Gulf, Ch.9