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THE TREE OF LIFE
will. Zeus is his Greek equivalent, and they both are assigned to
Chesed.
The translation of the fifth Sephirah Gevurak as " Might " together
with its astrological correspondence of Mars, most appropriately
sums up the characteristic of Horus. He is the Egyptian God of
Might who has many forms, the most important of which are two-
Hoor-paar-Kraat and Heru-Khuti.
As the former, the Greek
Harpocrates, he is represented wearing a lock of hair, the symbol of
radiant youth, on the right side of his head ; sometimes, too, he
wears the triple crown with plumes and disks upon his head as
headdress, and occasionally the disk with plumes alone. In most
cases he is pictured with his forefinger raised to his lips, in the
sign of silence. As Heru-Khuti, " Horus of the two horizons," he
is usually represented as a hawk, wearing a solar disk encircled with
a Urzus serpent, or with the triple or ateph crown. With the Sun-
God he was closely connected, and represented the solar disk in its
daily course across the skies from sunrise to sunset. But it is as
Horus, the offspring of Isis and Osiris, that he connects with Gevurah ;
in his aspect of the avenger of the murder and violation of his father.
Figured as a hawk, he was able from the heights of heaven to see his
father's enemies, whom he chased, so runs the legend, in the form
of a great winged disk. With such wrath and vigour did he attack
these enemies that they all lost their senses, and could neither see
with their eyes nor hear with their ears. The statements concerning
Horus made in the British Museum brochure are so interesting in
this connection that they are given as follows :
" When Horus arrived at years of maturity he set out to find
Set and to wage war against his father's murderer. At length they
met and a fierce fight ensued, and though Set was defeated before
he was finally hurled to the ground, he succeeded in tearing out the
right eye of Horus and keeping it. Even after this fight Set was
able to persecute Isis, and Horus was powerless to prevent it until
Thoth made Set give him the right eye of Horus which he had
carried off. Thoth then brought the eye to Horus, and replaced it in
his face, and restored sight to it by spitting upon it. Horus then
sought out the body of Osiris in order to raise it up to life, and when
he found it he untied the bandages so that Osiris might move his
limbs, and rise up. Under the direction of Thoth, Horus recited a
series of formulz as he presented offerings to Osiris. . . . He
embraced Osiris and so transferred to him his ka., i.e. his own living