Images of the Gods in Liber Resh vel Helios
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@Jim Eshelman said
"I repeat to my standard recommendation: Get one or two great full-color coffee table books on Egyptian gods, and find a picture that speaks to you. These are not standardized at all, and everybody should find their own."
I agree Jim. I love to look at art books.
Even better, if you are lucky enough to live near a museum with a collection of Egyptian art, or have the means to travel to Egypt, this will be more powerful than looking at reproductions in a book.
In the USA, there are major collections of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Oriental Institute in Chicago, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California, and others
In Canada, there is the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Of course in Europe there are many collections, the British Museum, the Louvre, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, many others.
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Does anyone have any opinions on the alternative Liber Resh by Tyger Brightfield? I found it in some OTO publication, just wondering your thoughts. They call it a 'feline Resh', it uses Bast, Sekhmet and Ra. Here's the text quoted:
"Dawn
Welcome, O Bast, thou Left Eye of Ra
Flexing thy claws to awake from the night
Welcome, O Sekhmet, thou Right eye of Ra
Yawning and stretching to bring in the light
We greet thee, Bright Ones, from the abodes of night.
Noon
Bright Eye of Ra, burning above
Bast stares down relentlessly
Fierce Eye of Ra, destroyer of shadows
Sekhmet watches patiently
We greet thee, Burning Ones, from the abodes of morning.
Sunset
Magnificent Bast, Left Eye of Ra
Purring into softening light
Majestic Sekhmet, Right Eye of Ra
Relaxing into golden motion
We greet thee, Beautiful Ones, from the abodes of day.
Midnight
The Left Eye of Ra is closed.
Bast hunts.
The Right Eye of Ra is closed.
Sekhmet prowls.
We greet thee, Fierce Ones, from the abodes of evening" -
No opinion per se, except that it isn't Liber Resh
It's a solar adoration - but it's a misnomer to call it Resh. (Nothing against alternative solar adorations: See my Liber Shemesh in my new book Pearls of Wisdom.
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It reminded me of an anamorphic tribal oath I liked.......( I was not ever into that anamorphic scene but a friend was, so I am guilty by association, the only thing I found of value in it was this oath)
"I am darkness and light,
the shadow hunter
and king of the sun,
my claws hold the earth,
my tongue tastes the sky.
i am steadfast and strong,
compassionate and caring.
i am tiger,
and my words are pure." -
"No opinion per se, except that it isn't Liber Resh "
Hahaha, oh, gosh.
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93!
I searched through the thread and ITC issues and could not find a direct answer to this. When "performing" Resh and giving the "sign of your grade," are you visualizing the God form in your exact body position? So, instead of seeing the God in it's characteristic stance, you would instead see it in your grade sign?
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Yes.
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And I always thought that when I physically stand in the Sign of Grade (with eyes closed), I should imagine the God in it's characteristic posture.
If I'm wrong then what happens with the God-form when I change my physical posture? When should I release it? -
@Quaestor Lucis said
"And I always thought that when I physically stand in the Sign of Grade (with eyes closed), I should imagine the God in it's characteristic posture.
If I'm wrong then what happens with the God-form when I change my physical posture? When should I release it?"When assuming a god-form, you should experience it as your body. Its position should be your physical position unless you are withdrawing from it. When you change position, it also changes position.
It's like your robe. Your robe doesn't keep its arms at its side when you raise yours, right? - But, even more so, it's your body, and you should entirely experience it as being your body, so far as possible.
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I understood, thank you
God-form assumed throughout the whole ritual? And the God-form is the only thing that I need to visualize in Liber Resh, right?
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@Quaestor Lucis said
"God-form assumed throughout the whole ritual? And the God-form is the only thing that I need to visualize in Liber Resh, right?"
No, because you're doing something entirely different when you go to the adoration.
"Need to visualize" is a complicated phrase. I prefer not to publically talk about anything that's not explicitly in the text of Liber Resh to alluded to by it, especially when there are things one can discover in the doing, or which change over time, or which are individual (three different categories <g>).
Simple answer, though, is, "Yes, that's all that Resh mentions, right?"
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93!
I have problem with assumption of the Khephra god-form (Yea, man with the beetle head is really "CREEEEEEEPY", but it is not the case
) I can't understand, how speaks this god? I mean, from what hole?)Mr. Eshelman, сould you tell, how do you assume this god-form?
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Usually as a full beetle. Beetles have mouths.
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If you've seen any Grateful Dead shirts with the winged beetle, Kephra, you will notice two little "grabbers" or pincers on the mouth.
Yes, I always have to make this type of reference, or half-morons won't turn into non-morons who go through enlightening websites.
What's really cool is during mid-day, you can take the god-form of a Cow. Chao. Kaos. Anyways, cows go "mu", and of course mu is the all-encompassing word meaning nothing or silence. Stand on your back, (or front) porch, and loudly proclaim "Mu!" Do this five times over seventy-three times for good luck, and ignore anyone who approaches you.
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I have been a member since 2010, but come on very little I think that this is
A very nice understanding
@Frater Sabaechi said
"As humans evolve I think we will stop seperating ourselves from the Cosmos. We are each fractals of the whole, we are the Gods, Aliens and Demons of our past."
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@Quaestor Lucis said
"93!
I have problem with assumption of the Khephra god-form (Yea, man with the beetle head is really "CREEEEEEEPY", but it is not the case
) I can't understand, how speaks this god? I mean, from what hole?)Mr. Eshelman, сould you tell, how do you assume this god-form?"
The Picture is a picture.... Assumption is assumption. How you speak is irrelevant. Sometimes I think that my head is the head of the beetle and other times I try to see myself as others would see me as Khephra (the picture). Either way it does not matter as long as it comes from your mouth.
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I really appreciate the pictures AliceKnewIt
Sorry I have not been on a long time.