"Horus in the Horizon"

Part 2: Horus in the Neutral Point . . . Ending All Duality

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These two crucial points in the cycle, which in essence, are the same 'neutral point' or 'zero-point', and known technically as the ‘transliminal phase’, is the real meaning behind the epithet ‘Horus in the Horizon’ – or ‘Horus of the Two Horizons’.

  The term ‘horizon’ here relates to the neutral 'twilight zone' moment’ which exists between the opposites in the cycle – the brief moment 'where' and 'when' day crosses into night with the setting sun in the west, and 'where' and 'when' night crosses into day again with the rising sun in the east.

  Again as we have seen, it also applies to the annual cycle – i.e., 'where' and 'when' winter crosses over into summer on the day of the Spring Equinox and 'where' and 'when' summer crosses over into the winter half on the day of the Autumn Equinox. See also Cycle Diagrams.

The equinoctial line that is strung across the Giza plateau between the equinoctial points on the eastern and western horizons and on which the Sphinx sits, is the ‘neutral, null line’ at Giza that divides the two phases of summer and winter, and winter and summer.

  On the summer solstice (mid-summer,) the sun rises on the eastern horizon at just over 26 degrees north of this line. And during the winter solstice (mid-winter,) the sun rises on the eastern horizon at just over 26 degrees south of this line.

  We can see then why "Horus the KRST", like "Jesus the Christ", actually represents that ‘neutral node’ or ‘zero point’, and so like Jesus, Horus is the alpha-omega 'where' and 'when' the opposites are united and fused together and 'where' and 'when' this illusion of opposites is cancelled out allowing a ‘third force’ or ‘third state’ of consciousness to manifest, which represents the ‘well spring’ of creative intelligence itself. This 'third force' is Horus - the child of the first two forces Osiris (positive) and Isis (negative).

My conclusion then is that the equinoctial line on which the Sphinx sits and gazes east towards the rising sun on every Spring and Autumn Equinox, represents that fine borderline between opposites, as well as the two points in every cycle, which in the waking-sleeping cycle is the hypnagogic and hypnopompic states. The two horizons – i.e., eastern and western horizons represent the hypnopompic and hypnagogic states respectively. It is my undersatanding that this is what was really meant by Ra-Horakhte, ‘Horus of the Two Horizons’ – the shaman in the hypnagogic-hypnopompic trance state.  

  It seems that this was important in regard to what the ancients - and perhaps an advanced civilisation or culture - once understood about the human mind, the two sides of the brain and the underlying processes in consciousness.

  These processes were understood in association with the information and knowledge gathered both via, and in regard to, the shamanic trance state and the enlightenment experience by which one comes face-to-face with the ‘god within’.

  This idea that the horizon is associated with shamanic trance and the hypnagogic state is supported by the fact that the American Indians in South America, while taking the psychedelic Ayahuasca brew, say that "the horizon opens like a door" - and we know that this is really an internal experience.

  So, although complex and quite confusing, the Sphinx is Horus – who is the son and reincarnation of Osiris – and who in turn is also an incarnation on earth of that divine ‘intelligence’, direct from the ‘Source of Creation’ itself – i.e., the godhead Atum.

  This greater intelligence is only allowed to shine through like the sun (Ra) when the illusion of opposites has been neutralised within onself, and this concept is also personified in the composite image of the Sphinx which sits on the neutral, equinoctial line at Giza. It’s easy to see the Father, (Osiris) the Son (Horus) and the Holy Ghost (Re-Atum) in this Triad, and the confusion is really due to the different interpretations given to these gods throughout history – all of which could be equally correct.

  It’s also easy to see how at one time and at another level, the Sphinx was seen as the composite of both Horus ‘the Son of God’, and Atum-Ra ‘the source-centre’ (inner sun) – illustrating how both man and god (the external and the internal; the macrocosm and the microcosm) are connected in the enlightenment experience.

Horus represents the reborn initiate on earth, who through enlightenment, also experiences his own rebirth by becoming the god that he really is. However, in truth all three gods, Atum-Ra, Osiris and Horus, are syncretised and represented in the Sphinx which guards the three Pyramids (the ‘gateway’ to the Underworld or heaven) as it looks towards the rising sun in the east.

  Its possible that his mother, and former sister and wife, the goddess Isis (represented by the three Marys in the Jesus story of the Gospels), is also represented in the Sphinx as depicted in the later Hellenised versions of the Sphinx which appeared in Egypt and around the Mediterranean, as she is the feminine principle associated with the virgin and represented by the constellation of Virgo.

In the Precessional Cycle, the beginning and end point is on the cusp where and when the 2,150-year Age of Virgo crosses over into the 2,150-year Age of Leo, which is why the head is sometimes depicted in the female image of Isis and the body is the lion associated with Leo the Sun – being Osiris or Horus the sun god and ‘Lion King’.

  The beginning of the precessional cycle as marked by the cusp-point between Virgo and Leo is also very much associated with the ‘First Time’ of the ancient Egyptians – known as Tep Zepi – the ‘Time of Osiris’, as it was perhaps around this time in the cycle ‘where’ and ‘when’ the earth's axis first tilted from its upright position, as was once believed according to the evidence I have recently discovered. And so like the days of the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, this phase in time – i.e., the cusp – is celebrated as a return to the Golden Age of the gods – the virgin giving birth to the sun-god who is reborn again.

It is my theory that if the axis had become inclined from an upright position, leaving its alignment with the ecliptic point in the heavens - believed to have been the abode of the father god of creation, Atum-Ra - then it tilted first towards the head of the constellation of Draco “the Dragon” or “Serpent” – and especially the star Eltanin associated with the god Set. 

  Again this appears to have happened during the Age of Leo and perhaps many precessional cycles ago. This would explain the lion-headed serpent Chnoubis or the lion-headed human god Zurvan, who has the serpent wrapped around him – like the serpent Draco that was said to have been wrapped around the earth’s polar axis.

  This symbol is associated with the Kundalini enlightenment experience – one having become the "inner sun" as symbolised by Leo the lion.

  This experience is one of 'rebirth', but it could also relate to the 'rebirth of humanity' after this catastrophe, which resulted in the axis first being tilted from its vertical position. This is the struggle to conquer the serpent 'without' and 'within' to survive and reflects the Kundalini experience associated with the struggle between life and death - again also representing the two halves of the cycle.

  This also explains the story of Set who murders Osiris of the Djed column - which represents not only his backbone but also the earth's axis. These are concepts I address in my book Axis, and so I only touch on them here to emphasise this point in the cycles.

In truth, the Sphinx is a composite creature that represents all these gods and goddesses. But again, it should be noted that these deities actually personify certain phases associated with the hidden processes in human consciousness by which one experiences enlightenment and reaches back to the source or godhead, represented by this ‘First Time’ – the ‘Golden Age’ of the gods. These processes are also linked to one’s own life-death-rebirth cycles and therefore one’s own immortality, which is why the ancients wanted to take full advantage of what they had come to understand, and all this knowledge is encoded at Giza, as I discovered.

  These concepts can be recognised in the hieroglyphs of the Stela placed before the Sphinx itself, as it also describes the Sphinx as a lion’s body and states that the embodiment was “a great magical power that existed in this place from the beginning of all time.” [2]

We are reminded here of the Corpus Hermeticum and its central doctrine associated with one’s own realisation of ‘the human being as a “little God” who could effect changes in nature by means of “natural magic”.’ [3] This ‘magic’ which is shamanic in origin, is related to these processes in consciousness and is related to an advanced ‘system of knowledge’ developed over time that indeed works through magickal correspondences based on the cycles of what is in heaven, on the earth and within man’s consciousness.

Conclusion:

“Horus of the Two Horizons” is associated with the hypnagogic-hypnopompic Trance State – the two neutral points in the cycle.

  “Horus IN the Horizon” is associated with the enlightenment experience, where both horizons – and both opposites – collapse into the centre and become one point, but also one vast horizon – infinity, eternity – the Eternal Now.

  The Eternal Now (zero-point) is symbolised by the apex of the pyramid. See here: