Thelemic pantheon and myth
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AAHAHAHAHA... sell-out... {vbg}
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OK, I'm going to delete my story description above. I see no reason to subject it (or me) to your repeated insults, demeaning, and general bullshit.
Perhaps you didn't realize that this was serious artistic work product. You're welcome to dislike it, but you are not welcome to fuck with it. Especially don't fuck with it by dismantling the essential elements and replacing them with your own naive or dishonest ideas about things. You're welcome to create your own art, but not to stand around pissing on mine.
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Hi Jim, you're right and I apologize (tried sending you a pm). I should focus on manifesting my own ideas and work rather than commenting on other people's works. I hope this incident doesn't hinder future discussion.
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Hi Edward,
I'm reading Psychology and Alchemy right now and have Aion and Collective Archetypes of the Unconscious sitting in wait! I think jung does a superb job laying out a solid framework of working with the contents of the unconscious. My focus lately has been on the alchemical process and I re-read Liber L. with these concepts in mind. I even found a thelemite who wrote a paper on this subject: bit.ly/uUngJD
I think assuming the role of creator and manifesting new myths based on the tri-partite of alchemy serve as a great way to affect people and awaken them to the dormant archetypes.
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93 Jim,
I hate that I missed this. Your work is a great inspiration. Is there any way you might post it again?
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Jay
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I appear not to have kept a copy.
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I found it. I notice that when I first posted it, I didn't mention that the three installments follow the pattern of IAO.
Just over a decade ago, I roughed out a treatment for a three-part mini-series on the Egyptian myth cycle. The gist of it was this:
Part I - The love story of Osiris and Isis. Main characters include his younger brother Set and her twin sister Nepthys. Tell it like an Edenic, wonderful, majestic, classic love story, with the back story being the parallel romance of Set and Nepthys, and planting just the bare seeds of trouble as we learn Set has jealous suspicions that Nepthys is being unfaithful to him with Osiris. Climax with the wedding and the enormous feel-good promise of their lives ahead.
Part II - Open as Isis and Osiris have their first child, Horus. Continue the family-themed romance. Segment where Osiris is comforting Nepthys over some conflict with ambiguity about how far it goes. Set and Nepthys patch it up and, nine months later, their son Anubis is born. Horus and Anubis are boy-hood chums. In Act II, Set's jealousy rages, he becomes certain Osiris is Anubis' father, ultimating in his killing his brother, discovering in too-late dramatic fashion that no such infidelity ever occurred. Begin a tight character arc for Set, new struggles as he tries to redeem himself by stepping into Osiris' ruling place, but the late-teen Horus is the rightful heir and they begin a short conflict that ends in an Act III confrontation where Horus, originally backed by his peace-minded friend Anubis, ends up confronting and killing Set. Anubis turns against Horus at the horror.
Part III - Years pass. A one-eyed aging Horus rules the kingdom, his hawk-banners flying everywhere. Anubis has matured through a character arc of over-compensating little brother through ambivalencies about Horus through being almost a toady with building resentment. Setting this stage, Act I is Anubis overthrowing Horus and wounding him fiercely. In Act II, Anubis moves east and is named Jesus, and from that platform builds and expands his empire, eventually absorbing the Roman Empire. He presides over 2,000 years of mixed times, exulted as the hope of humanity but with constant shadow elements of depravity and inhumanity that he is unwilling to see as his true legacy. In Act III, Horus, recovered and renewed, reappearing from long exile, challenges Anubis in a classic battle that overthrows the wicked and flawed regime and establishes his New Kingdom to rule over a world wherein new virtues are established and humanity is primed to truly progress spiritually.
PS - Nobody ever wanted to give the money to make this
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Jim,
93! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for re-posting this. Your kindness is appreciated.
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J
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Great story, Jim!