<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Isis?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Is the Goddess Isis honored in Thelema? Are there any Thelemic rituals to her, or any Thelemic holy texts that mention her?</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/topic/13949/isis</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:22:45 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thelema.org/forum/topic/13949.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:28:20 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Isis? on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:04:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Yes, that's always been my view.</p>
<p dir="auto">Some people cringe at my occasional reference to a Thelemite practicing Christianity but, truth is, I know such folks.</p>
<p dir="auto">I really think it goes back to the line I quoted in another thread (on polytheism/monotheism) the other day: "Should therefore the candidate hear the name of any God, let him not rashly assume that it refers to any known God, save only the God known to himself."</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/87425</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/87425</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Eshelman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:04:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Isis? on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:19:03 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">My understanding is that one can be a Thelemite and also practice other traditions. For example, one can be a Thelemite and also be a Buddhist, and/or an Egyptian reconstructionist, and/or a Gnostic Christian. So if you want to worship Isis, go ahead.</p>
<p dir="auto">93 93/93</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/87417</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/87417</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AliceKnewIt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:19:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Isis? on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:35:08 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I've never been able to find a <em>real</em> difference between monotheism and polytheism.</p>
<p dir="auto">Monotheistic systems tend to express their Monad in highly diverse expressions - which I've never been able to distinguish from "multiple gods."</p>
<p dir="auto">And every polytheistic system I know ultimately recognizes a singular, transcendant idea above the diversity.</p>
<p dir="auto">Our core scripture lists multiple distinctive god-names. At the same time, Nuit, the goddess who is the whole of space, is understood to be the whole of everything - any other idea is an aspect of her infinite diversity.</p>
<p dir="auto"><em>Comme si, comme ca.</em></p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/87412</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/87412</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Eshelman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:35:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Isis? on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:44:18 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">@Jim Eshelman said</p>
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PS - But if you were wondering if she is <em>distinctively</em> honored in Thelema, I'd have to answer no - because pretty much all deities are accepted as "just another way to find the One.""</p>
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<p dir="auto">Now it sounds like you are really monotheists.</p>
]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/87411</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/87411</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Selene]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:44:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Isis? on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:34:50 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/forum/user/selene" aria-label="Profile: Selene">@<bdi>Selene</bdi></a> said</p>
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<p dir="auto">"Is the Goddess Isis honored in Thelema? Are there any Thelemic rituals to her, or any Thelemic holy texts that mention her?"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Honored in many ways, yes.</p>
<p dir="auto">There are some private rituals that Crowley wrote with focus on her. She's one of three primary presences in the A.'.A'. First Order initiation ritual.</p>
<p dir="auto">She's implicitly mentioned in <em>Liber Legis</em> 1:22: "Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing &amp; any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt." Note the capitaliation in the second sentence, which often is taken as one level of decipherment of the first sentence.</p>
<p dir="auto">Her form and energy are the astral formulation of one important officer in Temple of Thelema rituals.</p>
<p dir="auto">Though this isn't exactly a comment on her place in Thelema <em>per se,</em> it's worth noting that the Los Angeles lodge of Aspirants to Light is called Isis Lodge.</p>
<p dir="auto">PS - But if you were wondering if she is <em>distinctively</em> honored in Thelema, I'd have to answer no - because pretty much all deities are accepted as "just another way to find the One."</p>
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