Revelling in the Orphic Mysteries this morning…
I'll be busy today, but thought I'd drop some prose, and some thought-provoking links in here…
> Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. The foundations of the pyramid were hewn in the living rock ere sunset; did the king weep at dawn that the crown of the pyramid was yet unquarried in the distant land?
> There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and prayed him for poison. And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal Uræus serpent, answered him and said:
> I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I saw not any creature upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheritance of my father, and of my father’s father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it may be that the mercy of the Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld.
> Then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. Yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died.
> But an Ibis that meditated upon the bank of Nile the beautiful god listened and heard. And he laid aside his Ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying Peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the Exalted One.
> And behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an Uræus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever.
https://frater273.com/2018/11/23/book-of-the-heart-girt-with-a-serpent/
As for the Orphic Mysteries…
Perhaps I will drop a couple other choice links…
https://knotmagick101.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/the-orphic-mysteries/
It's a good read, even though the approach is a bit too New Agey for me. But I like the parallels with ABRAXAS, the association with Christianity, and the importance of eggs in the Feast of Hekate.
This next link is a fantastic read.
I know, people don't like reading anymore — not even classic stories like this — but that won't stop me from linking to it…
https://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/creation/#Orphic)
And, while I am at it, here's another good read. (I'll drop the PDF later)…
https://www.academia.edu/3158348/The_Greek_Magical_Papyri_in_Translation_including_the_Demotic_Spells
I mean, not everyone has an account with academia.edu
Not on my computer right now, so later….
ENJOY THIS DAY!
Give some love to all the Fathers you know today…
