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Performing the rituals in Israel Regardie’s The Golden Dawn or other Ceremonial Magick texts will require that the practitioner know how to give a number of signs, but there is often no reference as to where to find them. These signs were typically given to initiates during initiations. The following are Aleister Crowley’s Signs of the Grades for the A.’.A.’., which are based on the signs from the Golden Dawn initiatory system (more precisely, the Stella Matutina, a Golden Dawn-inspired order that Regardie was a member of in London).
The rose can also emblematically represent secrecy, and we see the phrase "sub rosa" which is Latin for "under the rose" used to denote secrecy or confidentiality. When assembled, if it was to be understood that anything said in the meeting was to never be repeated elsewhere, the Romans would hang roses from, or paint them on, the ceiling above the table - "sub rosa". The use of the rose as a symbol for secrecy goes back to ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, where the rose was also a symbol for the god Horus (son of Isis). Although Horus was the sky god, represented by a man with a falcon for a head, he was sometimes represented as a child. In Egyptian artwork, the child was often represented by a naked child with his finger on his mouth as if sucking on it, to denote youth, but the Greeks misunderstood this gesture to mean "secrecy". The Greek's translated the name of Horus to which they now have the Harpocrates, the god of silence. It was adapted in Greek lore that Aphrodite gave her son, Eros (or Cupid), a rose. He in turn gave this rose to Harpocrates, god of silence, as a bribe to make sure that the indiscretions of the gods and goddesses were kept "under wraps", concealed. Harpocrates was often represented as a chubby infant with a finger to his mouth.
originally posted by: Nechash
a reply to: AlephBet
Sometimes I feel like I'm a fusion of two animals that do not belong together. What have you found of Anubis? I have had many dreams of him and his jackals snapping at my heels while I smack at them with staves to scatter them into dust. Are these enemies of the light? What do they represent?
originally posted by: Nechash
a reply to: AlephBet
Sometimes I feel like I'm a fusion of two animals that do not belong together. What have you found of Anubis? I have had many dreams of him and his jackals snapping at my heels while I smack at them with staves to scatter them into dust. Are these enemies of the light? What do they represent?
originally posted by: HUMBLEONE
originally posted by: Nechash
a reply to: AlephBet
Sometimes I feel like I'm a fusion of two animals that do not belong together. What have you found of Anubis? I have had many dreams of him and his jackals snapping at my heels while I smack at them with staves to scatter them into dust. Are these enemies of the light? What do they represent?
VERY, VERY NICE!!!