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Sun Worship.
The sun-god IAO was the Tri-une form, and in the Herz collection is seen represented
as Amon and Ra or Phre seated, and between them “standing erect the sacred
Asp.” This is cut on a Heart-shaped piece of basalt; Ra, as usual, is hawk-headed,
and called the B-aiet or Bai-et or Ait or Aith, the soul and the heart, as the seat of the
Passions. 1 On the other side is engraved:
“ One Bait, one Athor, one their power, Achori,
Hail father of the world, hail tri-formed God!”
Athor, of course, is Maya, Mary, or Doorga, the “conceptive” or “active virtue” the
Kun, Kuin, or Venus of Phenicia and Egypt. Isis, thinks Mr King, is best represented
in the Sanskrit lsa, Domina, or Mistress; the Mater-Domina, and modern
Madonna; Serapis by Sri-pa; whilst he thinks the source of Jahveh, hwhy, I h u h of the
Iudeans, the I a b e of the Samaritans, the IAW of Greeks, and Jove of Latins, came from
the Egyptians who got it “from the Hindoo . . . . title O’M or AUM—itself, like lAW,
the triliteral 2 of early Christians, in which the w is written so rudely as to look like u.”
There was as little difference, in sex as in name, between the Sun and the Moon in
the ancient faiths of Hindoos and Egyptians; the latter calling the moon Aah, Ooh,
Oh, Joh, or Ioh, closely identify it with Toth, but not so in reality, as Toth in this
case carries on his Ibis-head the lunar crescent. Plutarch, possibly owing to his
ignorance of phallic lore, has misled many on these subjects; for it requires personal
observance and knowledge of metaphorical language and symbols to understand the
difference between the God and the Ark; the God of the Ark and the God—the Testimony;
for the Man and his Consort, or the Queen and her Consort, are very closely
wrapped up in the language of Sivaik priests and worshippers.
The early Christians had a wonderful charm called the ABLANATHABLA, 3
changed by Latins into Abracadabra, and signifying “THOU ART OUR FATHER,” clearly
meaning, first Mahadeva, then Mithras, then Serapis, and lastly the Spiritual God
of more enlightened days. Physicians recommended it as an amulet against all diseases,
but it must be in the form of an inverted CONE. Gordian III wore it by order of his
physician Serenus Samonicus, who prescribed it written out thus, so that A should be
the beginning and the end; and A is Toth or Lingam. It reads two ways.
“ Thou must on paper write the spell divine,
Abracadabra called, in many a line;
Each under each in even order place,
But the last letter in each line efface:
As by degree its elements grow few,
Still take away, but fix the residue,
Till at the last one letter stands alone,
And the whole dwindles to a tapering Cone.
Tie this about the neck with flaxen string;
Mighty the good ’twill to the patient bring.
Its wondrous potency shall guard his head—
And drive disease and death far from his bed.” 4
ABLANAQABLA
ABLANAQABL
ABLANAQAB
ABLANAQA
ABLANAQ
ABLANA
ALBAN
ABLA
ABA
AB
A
1 2 3
King’s Gnostics, p. 83. Ibid., pp. 72, 84, notes. [More usually found as ABLANATHANALBA
(ΑΒΛΑΝΑΘΑΝΑΛΒΑ) thus reading the same both ways; see King’s Gnostics (edn. 1887) p. 246. — T.S.]
4
King’s Gnostics, p. 105 [p. 317, edn. 1887.]
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