Osiris

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Osiris, considered by Egyptologists to be a god of the Earth, actually represented the Earth itself. He was the Earth. This is why we read that his ordeal involved a conflict with Set, the god of wastelands, and why we read of his dismemberment. Why this particular kind of death? Beaumont saw it as a device commemorating the tearing to pieces of the Earth by forces unleashed by comet Phaeton. The story of the god or hero torn apart, with his body parts scattered over all parts of the land, served as a retelling of actual terrestrial events. The resurrection of the hero involved the methodical piecing together of the body parts. This trope represents the parts of the Earth emerging again from receding waters and retracting or melting ice sheets.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1

Osiris came from the west according to myth. He was born from the sea. He appeared as a local god in the city of Ded in the Nile Delta. Isis was sometimes called the goddess of the west.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah (quoted by Michael Tsarion)

The "underworld" that Osiris and the gods frequented was not, as we have been told, merely a mythical realm, but a physical region. It was the ancestral lands of the North-West that had been ruined by a natural disaster. It was the land of the setting sun, of darkness and death, into which the sun (Osiris) retired or returned at day's end. The enemy of Osiris and Horus was the serpentine Typhon. (This is where we get the word Typhoon.) Typhon represented the destructive force of nature. Osiris traveled westward every night to sacrificially enter into combat with Typhon. His victory over the serpent of destruction ensured that another cataclysm would not reoccur to destroy the world. To symbolize the victory of Osiris, and the return of order, the Egyptians took a pillar or obelisk (known as the Tat or Djed) and ritually raised it from a horizontal to a vertical position.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1

He [Osiris] symbolized the sun after setting. Horus represented the sun after its daily or annual rise in the east.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1

Egypt's savior Osiris was worshipped in bull form as Apis-Osiris, the Moon-bull of Egypt, annually slain in atonement for the sins of the realm. In the ceremony of his rebirth, he appeared as the Golden Calf, Horus, bom of Isis whose image was a golden cow. The same Golden Calf was adored by the Israelites under Aaron (Exodus 32:4).

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets

[...] we have already seen a similar paradox in the story of Osiris, most of which takes place in the spirit world. When Osiris is nailed in the coffin that fits him like skin, it is his skin. He is only dead to Isis when he is alive on the material plane.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld (the material sphere) [...]

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible

The early Christian Church, through the process of councils and synods, determined that there was no difference between the proper person of God and the proper person of Christ - they later added the Holy Ghost. This agree entirely with the statement of the Egyptian mythology that Osiris was his own father and his own son. Osiris was born in Horus that he might be his own avenger. As lord of Amentet, Osiris was also the Holy Spirit, the judge of the quick and the dead.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible

The myth of Osiris, therefore, has many layers of meaning, but it is above all a myth about consciousness.

It informs us that we must all die - but in order to be reborn. The key point in this story is that Osiris is reborn not into ordinary life but into a higher state of consciousness. 'I shall not decay,' he proclaims in the Book of the Dead, 'I shall not rot, I shall not putrefy, I shall not turn into worms, I shall have my being, I shall live, I shall live.' Again we come across a phrasing, an idea of being born again that may seem strangely familiar to Christians. Osiris is here discovering that he has what Christians call 'eternal life'.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

It is also as well to remind ourselves again that although we may view many of the great figures of myths, both gods and human, as having an anatomy like our own, this is only how they appear in the eye of imagination.

The world looked very different to the physical eyes that were evolving at this time. This was still the world recorded in the Metamorphoses of the initiate-poet Ovid, when the anatomical forms of humans and animals were not fixed as they are now, a world of giants, hybrids and monsters. The most anatomically advanced humans were evolving the two eyes we have today, but the Lantern of Osiris still protruded from the middle of the forehead, where the bone of the skull had not yet hardened.

Gradually, though, matter became denser. And the important point to bear in mind here is that, despite the fact that matter was precipitated from mind, it was alien to mind. To the extent that matter hardened, it became a greater barrier to the free flow of the cosmic mind. What gradually happened, then, was that as matter hardened to something approaching the solid objects we know today, two parallel dimensions evolved, the spirit world and the material world, the former viewed by the Lantern of Osiris and the latter by the two eyes.

The story of Osiris/Dionysius is the next and perhaps the most decisive stage in the process, when parts of the great cosmic mind, the universal consciousness, became parcelled off and absorbed into individual bodies. The bony roof of the skull hardened, closing over the Lantern of Osiris, so filtering out the great cosmic mind above.

According to the ancient wisdom, so long as there had been no barrier to the spirits, gods and angels ranged up above them, there had been no possibility of humans enjoying the individual free thought or will that distinguishes human consciousness. If we were not cut off from the spirit worlds and from the great cosmic mind, if our bodily make-up did not filter it out, our minds would be completely dazzled and overwhelmed.

Humans would now have some space for themselves in which to think.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

[...] Osiris came to be worshipped in Egypt as the god of crops and summer fertility. The longed-for yearly appearance in the east of Orion and his consort Isis, known to us as Sirius.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

Finally, Isis fashioned a penis out of gold and attached it. She was not able to bring him wholly back to life, but she revived Osiris sexually so that she was able to hover, touching him gently and delicately as she enveloped his penis in the form of a bird until he ejaculated. In this way she impregnated herself on him, and in the same way Horus, the new Master of the Universe, was conceived.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

Osiris was a great hunter, a 'Beast Master' - remembered as Orion the Hunter in Greek mythology and Herne the Hunter in Norse mythology - and a great warrior. [...] in antiquity Osiris, the last god-king to rule the earth, was equated with Dionysus, the last of the Olympic gods.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

Some said Osiris had been sleeping with beautiful dark-skinned Nepthys, wife of Seth and sister of his own wife, Isis.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World

The oldest mystery is the story of Osiris, son of Saturn, brother and husband of Isis, father of Horus, and brother to Typhon. Typhon kills Osiris and Isis retrieves the body in dissevered parts and Osiris is proclaimed arisen from the dead. Zoroaster brought this mystery to Persia, Cadmus brought it to Greece, Orpheus brought it to Thrace, and Melampus brought it to Athens.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah

Osiris was the Eldest son of Saturn, a famous world god, from whom we get the word Saturday.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah

Horus and Osiris were the white men of the El line. As Horus brought in the horse, so Osiris brought in the bull, Apis. There was the cult of Osir and there was the cult of Apis; and later they were joined into the cult of Osir-apis or Serapis from whence sprang the word Seraphim the name of the Angels that guarded the gates of Nineva...

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah

The first god, before whom there was nothing of any consequence in Egypt, was Osiris. Osiris came from the Nile Delta, or in other words the Sea. His name means "Lord." And today the word "Sir" as addressed in letters means the same thing. Osiris was white as was all early Pharaohs. Typhon, his brother was red haired.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah

At length Isis discovered that the chest had floated to the coast of Byblos. There it had lodged in the branches of a tree, which in a short time miraculously grew up around the box. This so amazed the king of that country that he ordered the tree to be cut down and a pillar made from its trunk to support the roof of his palace. Isis, visiting Byblos, recovered the body of her husband [Osiris], but it was again stolen by Typhon, who cut it into fourteen parts, which he scattered all over the earth. Isis, in despair, began gathering up the severed remains of her husband, but found only thirteen pieces. The fourteenth part (the phallus) she reproduced in gold, for the original had fallen into the river Nile and had been swallowed by a fish.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages

Plutarch further asserts that the Greeks recognized in Osiris the same person whom they revered under the names of Dionysos and Bacchus.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages

In all probability, Osiris represents the third, or material, aspect of solar activity, which by its beneficent influences vitalizes and enlivens the flora and fauna of the earth. Osiris is not the sun, but the sun is symbolic of the vital principle of Nature, which the ancients knew as Osiris. His symbol, therefore, was an opened eye, in honor of the Great Eye of the universe, the sun. Opposed to the active, radiant principle of impregnating fire, hear, and motion was the passive, receptive principle of Nature.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages