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windword
reply to post by UnBreakable
Thanks. If you take the esoteric theme of Christianity, it's really quite beautiful. In my opinion, and I kinda hate to admit it, but Christianity is a necessary evil that codifies the retelling an ancient mystery/truth and preserves it for future generations.
We all are the fruit of Isis. We are Horus. We are the Christ.
The face and form of Isis were covered by a veil of scarlet cloth, symbolic of ignorance and emotionalism standing between man and Truth. Isis lifts her veil and discovers herself to the true and wise investigator who unselfishly and humbly seeks to understand the mysteries which surround him in the universe
windword
reply to post by adjensen
Wait a minute! You're equating a bird hovering over Osiris' body, taking his essence in "seed" with a woman having sex? Talk about a reach!
Since the "Holy Spirit" is depicted as a bird, and since it is said that the "Holy Spirit" impregnated Mary, then Mary is just as guilty of having sex as Isis was in bird form.
By your logic, neither Isis nor Mary were virgins.
You're equating a bird hovering over Osiris' body, taking his essence in "seed" with a woman having sex? Talk about a reach!
Isis, in the form of a bird, copulates with the deceased Osiris. At either side are Horus, although he is as yet unborn, and Isis in human form. (Source)
Since the "Holy Spirit" is depicted as a bird
At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. (Matthew 3:16 NIV)
I'm not "equating" anything -- I'm just passing on the picture. The caption for that picture, which seems to have been taken from a book, is:
Isis, in the form of a bird, copulates with the deceased Osiris. At either side are Horus, although he is as yet unborn, and Isis in human form. (Source)
If you've a complaint about that, take it up with the author, who appears to be one Dimitri Meeks.
Actually, the Holy Spirit was not a bird, but appeared "like a dove" at Jesus' baptism.
adjensen
If you've a complaint about that, take it up with the author, who appears to be one Dimitri Meeks.
adjensen
Your "source" is D.M. Murdoch, who is not accepted as a credible source, even by people who generally agree with her.
One man's modern version of a pictorial description can't change the tradition of Isis being the "Great Virgin" who no man hath unveiled.
I think you're really grasping at straws now.
i think I have answered the question relating to why "lifting the veil" means more than just the simple "plowing of the soil". It also has to do with "parting the clouds" as well.
The constellation of Virgo is representative of many identities, all related to maidens, purity and fertility