I.N.R.I.
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In the LRH I.N.R.I is expanded as Virgo, Scorpio, Sol, and IAO which makes perfect sense to me. Virgo applied to Isis works and so does Scorpio to Apophis but from what I've studied Osiris has very little to do with the sun.
What is the connection?
All I can think is that the sun rises and sets and Osiris is slain and risen but I don't usually identify Sol with rising and setting, more on a level of projection as compared to a receptive Luna.
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@Jackdaw said
"In the LRH I.N.R.I is expanded as Virgo, Scorpio, Sol, and IAO which makes perfect sense to me. Virgo applied to Isis works and so does Scorpio to Apophis but from what I've studied Osiris has very little to do with the sun.
What is the connection?"
In the Osirian universe (Osiris Aeon framework) he is entirely the Sun - the whole "Dying God Formula" of Asar and Isa (Osiris and Jesus) is the cycle of the Sun.
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That makes sense; more of the Thelemic symbolism and less of the Egyptian view of the diety.
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as i understand it Osiris is like anthropomorphised Orgone itself and the nodal points of Orgone are stars i.e. Suns
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Isis and Osiris are the most solidified couple in all of the Egyptian mythologies. The others seem to switch around like Hathor, the wife of Horus, is later known as the partner of Ra just like Horus the elder is associated with Ra etc. It gets confusing absolutely with gods being aspects of other gods but not Asar and Isa (they too are one) probably because they are twins AND lovers. I think when we're dealing with only 2 deities, one male and one female, it can be assumed automatically that "he is ever a sun and she a moon.." since they are the most influential objects for us to identify with celestially...
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93,
Insofar as Osiris was dismembered and reborn in Horus (and Dionysus was dismembered and reborn) and insofar as the Sun 'dies' each night... and each winter solstice... and is born again each dawn/vernal equinox... they are all related symbols.
INRI has nearly infinite meanings. There are many latin translations - exoteric & esoteric - that are interesting...
I see INRI as fundamentally the same as IAO... IAO is Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis like Mother-Father-Son or Creation-Destruction-Union etc etc etc
IAO131
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@Jackdaw said
"All I can think is that the sun rises and sets and Osiris is slain and risen but I don't usually identify Sol with rising and setting,"
This part is important, I think. Getting past the primary symbology of the Sun "dying" each night is supposed to be a hallmark of "New Aeon" thinking. See Frater Achad's essay Stepping out of the Old Aeon and into the New.
@Asraiya said
"It gets confusing absolutely with gods being aspects of other gods but not Asar and Isa (they too are one) probably because they are twins AND lovers."
Although I agree mostly with Asraiya's idea (that Osiris and Isis seem to be some of the most "concrete" of the Egyptian gods; possibly because of their later survival into Hellenistic times), I can't let "Isa" go by as an assumed name of Isis. In Crowley's New Comment, Isa is interpreted as Jesus. This is the common Muslim name for Jesus (see, for example, here), and I think there was at least one popular book on the Essenes in the late 19th century that used Isa in the title as a name for Jesus.
During the times when people transliterate Osiris as "Asar," the usual corresponding version for Isis usually seems to be "Asi."
Sorry to be nitpicky...
Steve
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@Asraiya said
"I think when we're dealing with only 2 deities, one male and one female, it can be assumed automatically that "he is ever a sun and she a moon.." since they are the most influential objects for us to identify with celestially..."
I would agree there, although I've read of their attributions being switched, however; aren't we dealing with three in IAO?
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Of course we're dealing with a role switch just not IAO anymore but YHVH!