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Eschatological
The beetle
= The sun as
transformer
The serpent
= Renewal
= Eternal life
The ibis
= Messenger
= Word or logos
The jackal
= Guide in death
The heifer
=The moon
=Virgin mother
The hawk
Fish,calf,or
lamb
= Youthful solar
god reborn
=The messiah
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of the things that were laid upon the altar is the night
of the great sacrifice, with Osiris as the victim. The
things laid on the altar for the evening meal
represented the body and blood of the Lord.These, as
the bread and wine, or flesh and beer, were trans
elemented or transubstantiated by the descent of Ra
the holy spirit, which quickened and transformed the
mummy Osiris into the risen sahu, the unleavened
bread into the leavened, the water into wine. Osiris,
the sacrifice, was the giver of himself as the food
which never perishes. (Rit., ch. 89).
The Christian liturgies are reckoned to be the most
pure sources of eucharistical doctrine. And liturgy
appears to have been the groundwork of the Egyptian
ritual. It is said by one of the priests (Rit., ch. I ), I am
he who reciteth the liturgies of the soul who is lord of
Tattu that is, of Osiris who establishes a soul for
ever in conjunction with Ra the holy spirit in the
mysteries of Amenta. In one character Osiris was
eaten as the Bull of Eternity, who gave his flesh and
blood as sustenance for humanity, and who was the
divine providence as the provider of food. The eating
of the mother was also continued in the eucharist,
Osiris being of both sexes. This was typically fulfilled
in one way by converting the bull into an ox. The
duality was also imaged in the bread and beer or wine,
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years, naked, and with its body painted red all over, as
was the Horuscalf upon the tablets. A curious
instance of salvation by the blood of Isis is given in the
Ritual. In a vignette to ch. 93, the saving and
protecting power of the red tetbuckle, which is an
image of the blood of Isis, is shown. A pair of human
hands are outstretched from this amulet to grasp the
arms of the Manes and prevent him from going
toward the east, as that way lies the tank of flame, or
hell in modern phrase. In the Gospel account of the
incarnation the word was made flesh, but the blood
basis of the doctrine has been omitted. Salvation
through the blood of Isis was imaged by the red tet
amulet that was put on by her when she had
conceived her blood child. This salvation was effected
when the child was brought into existence. According
to the Ritual, the salvation of the Manes is in living
on hereafter. He pleads that he may live and be saved
after death ( ch. 41 ), and he wore the tetbuckle in
his coffin as the sign of his salvation by the blood of
Isis.
Further, how did a purificatory power come to be
associated with blood so that one of the horrible
dogmas of later theology could be expressed in lines
like these :
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given life with her blood, and now the father, who
was blended with the mother in Atum, is portrayed as
creator of mankind by the shedding of his own blood.
In the cult of Ptah at Memphis and Atum at On
there was a strenuous endeavour made to set creative
source as male above the female. Hence it was said of
the symbolic beetles that there was no female race
among them (HorApollo, B. I., 10). In cutting the
member, Atum showed that he was the creator by the
blood shed in a voluntary sacrifice. Male source is
recognized, but according to what had preceded as the
mother element, blood still remained a typical essence
of creative life. And this is apparently illustrated by
the rite of circumcision. The custom pertains, world
over, to the swearingin of the youths when they join
the ranks of the fathers or begetters and follow the
example of Atum as the father Ra, who was
previously Horus the son. Atum, like Ptah, was also
the typical sacrifice in the earth of eternity, who gave
his life as sun god and as the master of food that
sprang up for the Manes in Amenta. Osiris follows. In
him the human mother who first gave herself to be
eaten, and the great mother Isis, who was the saviour
by blood, were combined with god the father in a
more complete and perfect sacrifice as mother and
father of the race in one. Lastly, the son as Horus or as
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