Stèle of Revealing

The Stèle of Revealing refers to an ancient Egyptian funerary artifact of Ankh-af-na-khonsu or Ankh-ef-en-KhonsAbd el Hamid Zayed, "Painted Wooden Stelae in the Cairo Museum," Revue d'égytologie 20 (1968), pp. 149-152, and plate 7. which played a role in the creations of the system known as Thelema.

Origins

The stele comes from Thebes, around the time of Dynasty XXVI.

In Thelema

According to Aleister Crowley, his wife Rose had already reported a revelation from the god Horus, through his messenger AiwassEquinox 7:4-the events leading up to writing of the book. The couple went to the Boulaq museum in Cairo, Egypt to see if she could recognize Horus on Monday, March 21. Rose did recognize an image of the god, on a painted stèle bearing the catalogue number 666.

This image shows the three main deities of Thelema: Nuit, Hadit (or Horus as the solar disk), and Ra-Hoor-Khuit (or Horus merged with Ra).

Inscriptions

The inscriptions on the front side of the object refer to the ancient Egyptian version of these deities, who egyptologist Zayed calls Nut, Behdty and Ra-Horakhty. Some of the text comes from chapter 91 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The back of the stela contains eleven lines of text from chapters 30 and 2, the latter of which "was to allow the astral form of the deceased to revisit the earth at will."

Translations

Crowley states that he dined with Brugsch Bey of the Boulak Museum to discuss the Stele in his charge, to arrage for its abstruction and his French assistant curator is said to have translated the hieroglyphs on the Stele.Equinox of the Gods section 7:4-The people

References

External links

Boulaq Museum

Thelema