Isis Osiris Horus
The New Aeon of Horus
"The New Aeon proclaims Man as Immortal God, eternally active to do His Will. All's Joy, all's Beauty; this Will we celebrate."
- Aleister Crowley, Liber AL 11:35
Concerning the Aeon of Horus, Crowley wrote:
... the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, but goeth radiant ever upon His Way. Even so goeth the Sun: for as it is now known that night is but the shadow of the Earth, so Death is but the shadow of the Body, that veileth his Light from its bearer.
The Word of its Law is Thelema (will), which is complemented by Agape (love), and its formula is Abrahadabra.
“Just as the sun travels through the signs of the zodiac, so to does human consciousness evolve through different aeons. We are now within the third aeon in our recorded history. There were others before that, and will be others after that, but I am no expert on this history. In our current cycle, the first recorded aeon is referred to as the aeon of Isis. This is when humanity’s primary worship was directed towards goddess figures, as evidenced by the existence of artifacts like the Venus of Willendorf. Scholars who know far more than I have estimated that this period of development hit its peak somewhere around 2500 B.C. The next aeon would be the aeon of Osiris. This is when humanity’s focus turned from the feminine aspect of divinity and more towards the masculine aspect. All of the stories of gods who die and resurrect belong to this period - everyone from Osiris to Christ. Now we have begun the journey into what some in the magick community call the aeon of Horus. If the first aeon represented the divine mother, and the next aeon the divine father, then this current aeon is the aeon of the child - a combination of the previous two. Certain prophecies refer to this aeon as being represented by twins. Those twins are science and magick.”
- Damien Echols
Every so often, magick transforms its appearance and trailers itself for a new era of human consciousness. When this happens, it’s a kind of revolution. It challenges and shakes up the way people view the topic we now call spirituality. In magickal prophecy each time period is referred to as an “aeon.” In our recorded history there have been two aeons, although there were previous ones, as they make up a cycle - just like the zodiac. The first cycle within our recorded history was what magickal prophecy calls “the age of Isis.” This is when humanity viewed the source of creation as a great, primal mother figure. This is where the image of the Venus of Willendorf figures come from. The second age recorded in the scraps of prophecy I am familiar with is the aeon of Osiris. This is the age when humanity’s consciousness began to shift and view the source as a masculine, divine father figure. This age culminated in the birth of the figure we now call the Christ. The world is now moving into the new aeon - the aeon of Horus. In this aeon, elements of the previous two will be combined to produce a new energy. Something that is made up of the previous two, but will be more than the sum of their parts. Each aeon begins with a kind of spiritual revolution. A shakeup in how we see the source from which we came, and how to reconnect to it. Revolutions always start at the bottom, where people are hungry for something new. The upper levels of society,established magickal traditions, and religions do not seek change - they feel safe and comfortable, and have no desire to change that. Revolution beginning at the bottom....this is why Jesus gained such a reputation for hanging around unsavory characters. Prostitutes, madmen, and worst of all - tax collectors. Those were the hungry.”
- Damien Echols
”In magick, the old aeon relied upon what is now known as “the formula of the dying god” to pass on it’s teachings. These lessons were wrapped in stories, symbolism, and iconography of various gods and semi divine figures who died and were resurrected. It was the aeon of self sacrifice. The new aeon formula is that of the crowned and conquering child. It is the aeon of self-realization, independent of dying and resurrecting gods. When mankind discovers the quickest way to awakening and achieving Union with divinity is through following the path of our individual Will, which is based on your true nature. Magick and meditation are the tools used to remove the accumulated societal programming in order to discover what our true Will is.”
- Damien Echols
The New Aeon
In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. When he awakens he can’t remember this dream.....he only remembers that it terrified him. So he calls his magicians before him.....men he had rounded up in early childhood and sent to be trained by the “Chaldeans” - the priests of south-eastern Mesopotamia. The magi. The Bible calls Daniel the “master of magicians.” Nebuchadnezzar tells these magi that not only do they have to interpret his dream.....they have to tell him what the dream was first. Daniel is able to do this because God sent him the exact same dream as Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel tells the king....”You dreamed of a statue. This statue had a golden head.....chest and arms of silver.....thighs of bronze.....calves of iron....and feet of iron and clay. You are the golden head of this statue. God has given you this kingdom. You are the purest, most valuable and sought after part of this statue. The Golden head is Babylon.” When we look at this on one level, it’s predicting future kingdoms. If the golden head is Babylon, then the silver chest and arms would be Persia....the next kingdom that rose to world power. Then next came the Greek empire....Alexander the Great conquered Persia. That is the bronze thighs. Next came the Roman Empire....the iron calves, spreading out and conquering the known world. Lastly we have the feet, made of iron and clay. This is where we are now. All the separate toes are all the European countries, America, etc. This is the most diluted and weakest part of the statue. On another level it’s not about world empires at all. It’s about the current of magick. How with each passing Empire it has become more and more diluted, watered down, and less of less value. We are not even in the age of Iron anymore. We are clay and iron mixed. Clay and iron represents how the modern magickal traditions, etc still have some workable techniques (iron) but they no longer know the information that accompanied them. This cycle begins again with every aeon. Most of the lodges, orders, etc that exist now rely upon the formula of the old aeon - the age of Pisces. It’s why their rituals rely so heavily upon Christian and Judaic formulas. We are now entering the aeon of Aquarius, when we receive a new dispensation. A new way of understanding and interacting with divinity that is more suited to our current state of consciousness. We are not here to endlessly perpetuate the formula of the old aeon. That’s the whole story of the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf when Moses finds them. They were trying to go back to the formula of Taurus, even though they were entering Aries. We are here to christen the new aeon. To help deliver a new dispensation. This is what Crowley tried to tell the members of the Golden Dawn, but they couldn’t understand it. They couldn’t see what he was telling them. They weren’t far enough along to be able to see it yet.
- Damien Echols
Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, …
“There is a presence that guides the evolution of humanity. It leads us towards the eventual Union with itself, in which we will know it first hand. Through direct experience. I have experienced messengers who have pointed me closer and closer to this presence. The Greek word for messenger is where we derived the word “Angel.” Technically, any messenger that acts as an intermediary between us and this guiding presence falls into the category of angel. The messenger may not take the exact form which society and religion tells us it must. It may not appear to us as a blond haired, blue eyed human surrounded by white light. When I had this experience, I perceived this messenger in the form of an ancient Sumerian god that was known as Enlil - a title which means “Lord of Heaven.” The Sumerians said “he” shined so brightly that not even the other celestial beings could look upon him. The main message this intelligence conveyed to me is that every 2,000 to 2,500 years, the way the world worships god changes. This is dictated by the stars. The zodiac. Christianity was the form which dominated Pisces. When Christ fed the multitudes, he did it with two fish. Two fish are the sign of Pisces. Judaism dominated Aries. Polytheism dominated Taurus. This is the reason Moses got so pissed in the Old Testament when he mane down from the mountain and saw everyone worshipping a golden calf. The golden calf represents the sun in Taurus - meaning they were attempting to return to the previous, older way of worship. In the new age....the age of Aquarius...we enter a time of information. That information is about the zodiac itself. People will learn about the ordinances of the heavens, the meaning behind religion and how it relates to the stars. This is what the entire book of Revelation is about.” - Damien Echols
“Judaism was a moon based system, and Moses was little more than a new name for the ancient Sumerian god of the moon, Sin. This is why he received the new law on Mt. Sinai - the temple of the moon. Christianity took the world on to the next phase of its journey, and replaced the lunar religion with a solar one. We end up with the sun/sun of god. Jesus and the twelve disciples are the sun and the twelve constellations of the zodiac. As we receive each new dispensation we evolve up the Middle Pillar. Each stage of our development raises us to the next sphere. We began in the aeon of Taurus - ancient Mesopotamia and then into Egypt - with polytheism. This was the sphere of Malkuth at the very bottom of the tree. Next came the aeon of Aries -Judaism, and all its ties to the moon and the ancient moon god Sin. This was when we entered the sphere of Yesod. Next came the aeon of Pisces and the rise of Christianity. We changed from a lunar based formula to a solar based formula...which is why Christ corresponds to Tiphareth. With the age of Aquarius we leave behind Tiphareth and move up to Da’ath. This will be a very Saturnian time - of judgement. Da’ath is usually given the attributes of the sphere closest to it, which is Binah....the sphere of judgement and Karma. This is one of the reasons Enlil is attributed to this sphere....he is a god of judgement and wrath.”
- Damien Echols
Isis, Osiris, Horus
Isis Osiris Horus
“In essence, the book's message is simple. It announces the beginning of a New Aeon in which the spiritual formulae of previous aeons will be amended to better harmonize with humanity's expanded consciousness. The third verse of the first chapter announces that “Every man and every woman is a star”; it describes quite succinctly the fundamental shift in our self-identity that characterizes this new period in human evolution. No longer must we view ourselves as cold, dark satellites helplessly orbiting the “sun” of the family, tribe, race, religion, or nation on whom we depend for light and the fixed trajectory of our lives. The individual is now to be recognized as the primary and preeminent unit of society. It is now possible for humanity to awaken to the liberating fact that each of us is a star, as unique and self-radiant as our celestial counterparts. Instead of desperately trying to determine the will of God and then clumsily attempting to cooperate with it, each of us must now come to realize that our will, if properly understood and executed, is already in harmony with the divine will. In other words, in this age, the holy quest is to discover one's own way rather than trying to guess what a God wants for you and hope from moment to moment that you are guessing correctly.” - Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Lon Milo Duquette
“Crowley tells us that it does indeed represent the destruction of the world by fire, an event that took place on March 20, 1904, in an apartment in Cairo, when Horus, the God of force and fire, took his father's throne at the Equinox of the Gods—an event that signaled the end of the spiritual world of the dying god Osiris, and the birth of the Aeon of Horus. Crowley taught that, within our racial memory, there have been three aeons. For literary convenience, he labeled them after the three principal gods of Egypt: the Goddess Isis; her husband/brother, Osiris; and their son, Horus. We have just entered the Aeon of Horus, which supplanted the Aeon of Osiris, which supplanted the Aeon of Isis.” • Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Lon Milo Duquette
“In the Aeon of Isis we identified with the earth. Life came miraculously from earth and woman. Al magical pantheons were aspects of the Goddess. Death was a mystery whose depths were impossible to plumb. In the Aeon of Osiris we identi fied with the dying/resurrected sun. Al magical pantheons were aspects of God the Father. Death could be magically overcome by obedience to formulae, rites and doctrine. In the Aeon of Horus we identify with the self-radiant, ever-living sun. Al magical pantheons have become aspects of ourselves. We, like the sun, do not die. Death, like night, is an illusion. Life is now seen as a process of continual growth and humanity is developing a consciousness of the continuity of existence that will eventually dissolve the sting of death”
- Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Lon Milo Duquette