<?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[&"Hua is God&"]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">As long as I'm embarrassing myself today, I'll toss this tidbit out for what it's worth. Maybe this has been screamingly obvious to everyone else, but it only struck me recently: in some varieties of British English, presumably including Crowley's, Hua (Arabic for "he" and used as a title of God) and Hoor would be pronounced the same.</p>
<p dir="auto">"Hua is God," it spelt to me;<br />
"There is none other God than He."<br />
(From Konx Om Pax)</p>
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<p dir="auto">@Steven Cranmer said</p>
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<p dir="auto">"I'm not sure why a name so clearly pointing to Horus would be assigned to this very Thoth/Hermes type of task in the Golden Dawn, though."<br />
Nor I, but I notice that all the business and bureaucracy of the Book of the Law is in the 3rd chapter -- instructions for printing and publishing the book, admonition to be businesslike, etc. For all the blood and swords and macho bluster, the god of chapter 3 seems almost pedantically Mercurial. My favorite example is vv 48-9: "Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place. I am in a secret fourfold word ..." He promises that he's done with words, then goes right on talking about words! I note, perhaps irrelevantly, that Mercury and Mars were conjoined at the midheaven during the dictation of the book.</p>
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]]></description><link>https://thelema.org/forum/post/73267</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thelema.org/forum/post/73267</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[gmugmble]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:08:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to &"Hua is God&" on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:55:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/forum/user/gmugmble" aria-label="Profile: gmugmble">@<bdi>gmugmble</bdi></a> said</p>
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<p dir="auto">"in some varieties of British English, presumably including Crowley's, Hua (Arabic for "he" and used as a title of God) and Hoor would be pronounced the same."</p>
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<p dir="auto">Sounds a bit Bostonian to me...  <img src="https://thelema.org/forum/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f604.png?v=420f53c26f9" class="not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji--smile" style="height:23px;width:auto;vertical-align:middle" title=":smile:" alt="😄" /></p>
<p dir="auto">Seriously, though, this is an interesting parallel.  In the Golden Dawn, there were two angelic beings with similar names that were invoked by the Adeptus Minor in different circumstances:</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>HUA</strong>, the Great Avenging Angel, was imagined to be present when the new Adpetus Minor took the Obligation... ready to strike if the Oaths were broken.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>HRU</strong> was the "Great Angel set over the operations of the Secret Wisdom," i.e., the Golden Dawn's lengthy Tarot divination procedure called the "opening of the key."  I'm not sure why a name so clearly pointing to Horus would be assigned to this very Thoth/Hermes type of task in the Golden Dawn, though.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've seen lots of Internet confusion between these two names. But maybe there are deeper links between them. All the sea-tossing, fire and brimstone, in that poem in <em>Konx om Pax,</em> can certainly relate to the Golden Dawn's Avenging Angel, but maybe also to the Ra-HRU-Khuit of Chapter III of Liber AL, as well!</p>
<p dir="auto">Steve</p>
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