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Only seven heroes harrowed hell to return from this paradise
called Caer Sidi. 911 These are all sun-heroes: Daedalus with the assistance
of the Moon Goddess, Theseus who killed the Minotaur, Hercules,
Orpheus and 3 others. The last three will be among the heroes Amathon,
Arthur and Gwydion in Britain; Harpocrates, Kay, Owain and Cuchulain
in Ireland.
Ariadne transported the sacrificed Oak-king to her spiral castle in
the Corona Borealis. This was just dipping over the northern horizon at
the time of the summer solstice. 912 In this castle, the Oak-king, like the
blind Samson in Delilah’s prison mill, adds his weight to turn the Mill of
the Universe. As Samson’s sacrificial Goddess, Delilah shaved the rays
of the sun, his hair and his strength, before calling the Philistines, as the
ages old Triple Goddess did before tearing to pieces the sacrificial king. 913
The dancing Great and Little She-Bears showed the ongoing turn
of the Mill around the polar axis. 914 Nowadays, the relentless precession
of the earth has disturbed this pattern.
The Egyptians used labyrinths in their mortuary temples. That of
the sixth Pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty, Amenemhe III, Sesôstris I greatgreat
grandson, was known to classical writers such as Herodotus as the
Labyrinth and mysteriously described as Egypt’s greatest wonder of
all. 915 In the Egyptian context, St George is Horus.
In the second degree of the Greater Mysteries, mentioned earlier,
Horus searches the hall with several masters bearing torches to find the
cavern where Typhon, a hundred headed dragon, belches flames. Horus
decapitates Typhon and casts the corpse back into the fiery cavern. In
silence, Horus exhibits the dragon's heads. The candidate received the
meaning of the drama and the word, Chymia. This united Mystery
philosophy with alchemy and foreshadowed the importance of alchemy in
the rituals to come.
This fifth degree of seven also reminds us of the Egyptians’
anguish when ruled by the Hyksos king Apophis, who fashioned himself
as Typhon. Chapter 6 introduced this subject, which we will return to in
Chapter 18.
In the next chapter, we look at the colors of emerald green and
lilac before again turning to the Red Cross of St George in the intriguing
context of Roses and Rosicrucians. We shall also see the striking
similarity between the symbolism in this degree and Mesopotamian myths
outlined Chapter 18 and then look more closely at the ultimate aims of
alchemy.
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