Faces of the Goddess Magazine SGC 21

the Black-Goddess polarized by Nephthys,
her sister, where the latter was originally
Mistress of Heaven and the Underworld, but
the roles were later developed and where
Isis appears as the Queen of Heaven but She
also has an important role to fulfill features
in the Netherworld narratives - where Isis
is the skillful avoider of the magick nets of
Apophis.²⁰ By the second century A.D., the
Roman writer Apuleius would glorify Isis as
the “mother of stars, the parent of seasons,
and the mistress of All of the world.”
Yet although Isis would mean different things
to different cultures in late antiquity, Her
roots are clearly found in the outpouring of
the Nile as it provides and sustains the world –
hence the title the K.K. reflects Her role as the
teacher and eyewitness of the earth – ‘the eyepupil
of the kosmos’ Kore Kosmou. Isis is that
initiate teacher as the Pupil of the Eye and
Holy Serpent-Goddess. She comes forth from
the Eye-Pupil or in Egyptian terms directly
from the Eye of Atum and where She Herself
is that Divine ‘Eye’. Isis knows the secret
mysteries of the darkness (hidden esoterica)
that is of the Kosmos (both above and below)
but She also knows how it should be ordered
and so includes the balance and order of Ma’at
as opposed to isfet (xaos). Isis can then chose
either to reveal or conceal the mysteries of the
divine kosmogony and theogony, along with
the efflux of the soul’s katabasis-embodiment
and return journey through the anabasis.
For at K.K., 44ff., we discover a central clue to
the title and meaning of the text, and where
Isis Herself identifies the ‘pupil of the eye’
with the ‘soul’, and where she will compare
the physical body (Khat) and organ of sight
as being ‘swathed in wrappings’ and where
it is the eye-pupil that enlightens corporeal
objects, whilst the soul also having ‘envelopes’
but these are incorporeal.
At K.K.45, Isis describes these as ‘airs’, and
whereas if the ‘airs’ are light, thin and clear
then the mind (Akh) through the soul (Ba)
can ‘perceive more intelligently’ (noetically).
Therefore it is through illumination and the
principle of seeing that the body is conjoined
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to the soul and ultimately to the mind. This
is achieved through the analogy and function
of the eye-pupil and which is not unlike the
activity of mind through the soul and from
where the neophyte can begin to understand
the mysteries.
Dr.R.A.Plimer (April 2021,The Courtyard Bembridge, IOW)
Originally from Edinburgh, Bob now lives
on the I.O.W and writes for Black Lodge
Publishing. He is a widely respected researcher
and magical practitioner both at home and
abroad. Has a YouTube Channel (BLP) with
many free esoteric lectures. He holds monthly
esoteric meetings and lectures of The Phoenix
Club at the Courtyard.
His published works include:
Four volumes based on the Greek Hermetica
Three Works on alchemy: The Mutus Liber;
Spagyrics (The Philosopher’s Net ‘Dew work’);
and Mineral Alchemy based on Edward
Kelley’s Theatrum Astronomiae Terrestris)
The Night of Pan (an occult work based on
Crowley’s Book of Lies and his Frieda Harris’
interpretation for the 22 major Atu of the
Thoth Tarot)
Two Egyptian hieroglyphic based works - The
Flesh of Re and his Chamber of Darkness.
He has almost completed the final volume of
the trilogy, based on a practical methodology
of ancient Egyptian Skrying of at-keki
(the chamber of darkness) and the Duatic
(Netherworld) realm of the shetit (beyond).
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