JESSENIC VIEW ON GNOSIS (THIRTEEN POINTS OF ...

Jessenic View on Gnosis
sponsor and respect the priestly class, then the later being in charge of turning Egyptian
esoteric religion to the most beautiful and ritualistic of all from the Antiquity.
That religion has had to produce a collection of writings which had composed the
several versions of the complex funeral ritual for its members and believers. That collection
is, since the coming of Egyptology in the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th centuries,
known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
In such collection of rites named Egyptian Book of the Dead, the figure of god Osiris,
slaughtered by his own brother Seth who envies him for the throne of Egypt, and mourned by
gorgeous Isis, his wife, who provides him a complex ritual for crossing the world of the dead
to resurrection, is crucial.
The dead person is lead to believe he/she is going to descend to the grave and
therefrom to enter the tenebrous night of the realm of the dead, replete of dangers and
demoniac creatures who wants to make him/her eat filths, lose the movements of the legs, or
lose the head, or even make him/her lose the speech for uttering magic words to cast the
devils out or to open for him/her the access gates to the kingdom of life and light.
If the dead person does not defeat such obstacles or demons, then the same is in
danger of remaining stuck to the world of the death and being severally damaged.
In order to overcome each danger or threat against the one’s crossing, the dead person
mentions the one’s achievements by participating in the secrets of the great Mysteries of
Osiris, Thoth, or Isis, or even mentions the appropriate actions the priest, in charge of
preparing the funeral rituals before the one’s grave or rigging it with statuettes, cakes, rare
seeds, god-animals-shaped jewels, undertakes for perpetuating or making effective as
offerings to the gods, as instruments for sacred magic and so forth.
A great number of chapters from Egyptian Book of the Dead was entitled ‘On How
Exiting to the Light’, where Osiris, as a man-god and king, had been murdered by drowning
and mutilation; however, embalmed by his wife Isis and Neftis, it had been given him a series
of magical amulets, protecting the one from the evil extant in afterlife, a dark or nocturne
place full of dangers, and, as an effect of magic forces risen by a series of rites celebrated by
both priestesses, has defeated the tomb night, breaking to the place of plenary Light and
endowed with eternal life.
The enigmatic preparations, complex rituals and magic ceremonials Isis and Neftis
have prepared for the resurrection of man-god Osiris had been constituting a kind of
initiatory, and they were taught only in the formally Mystery Cults.
The greatest Mystery Cult of Egypt was called Mystery Cult of Isis and Osiris. In
such, priests and the Pharaoh were prepared to understand, accomplish and perform
everything Isis and Neftis have done, resulting Osiris’ resurrection, so that they could perform
the very same ceremonials and set of preparations, now for themselves, now for other dead
people who paid to be guided through afterlife world.
In Ancient Greece, there also have been Mystery Cult responsible for leading the dead
through the tomb night, and one of the most antique was the Mystery Cult of Bacchus, god of
wine and dance.
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