To be reborn into the Solar world [THREAD]
Syrianus, the famous master of Proclus and Hermeias, conceived the rites of the sacrifice, offered by the Homeric Achilles at the funeral pyre of Patroklos, as an imitation of the soulβs immortalization, performed by the theurgists.
Syrianus, the famous master of Proclus and Hermeias, conceived the rites of the sacrifice, offered by the Homeric Achilles at the funeral pyre of Patroklos, as an imitation of the soulβs immortalization, performed by the theurgists.
![To be reborn into the Solar world [THREAD]
Syrianus, the famous master of Proclus and Hermeias, con...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfCRCvCXEAAUxfm.png)
This analogy cannot be regarded as entirely fabulous, because the funeral of Patroklos in Iliad are strikingly close to the royal funerary rituals that are recorded in official Hittite documents.
The Vedic god Agni as the supreme model and guide of rebirth himself is a psychopomp, by virtue of cremation of the dead. In his aspect of terrestrial fire, he provides the dead hero with a direct link to Agni as celestial fire: the divine Sun.
In various parts of the ancient world, the initiatory or real death was conceived as the ritualized contest for immortality in bliss, as a prize to be won by those who had wished to live in accordance with virtue & to be reborn into the solar world of Agni, Ra, or Apollo-Helias.
The statue-like body of Osiris is awakened by the solar rays issuing from the falcon head of Horus. And Horus himself is reborn through Osiris, thus becoming a shining spirit, or akh.
Such texts as the Egyptian Book of Coming Forth into the Day (pert em hru), known as the Book of the Dead, should not be regarded simply as funerary texts. There is a firm correspondence between the temple rituals, performed by and for living, and the night journey of the Sun.
The temple rituals served the purpose of achieving rebirth and bringing the soul back to its solar origins.
However, they were performed for the benefit of the world as a whole (for the Beloved Land, ta-meri, which is mundi totius templum and imago caeli) and regarded as the actual return (or ascent) to the First Time (tep sepi) ...
... the realm of metaphysical realities conceived in terms of certain symbolic images that are comparable to the realm of the Platonic Ideas, understood as the beautiful, intelligent and everlasting gods, and their hieroglyphs (medu neter).
The same task, albeit on the level of individualized and rationalized discursive thought, is performed by philosophy and, especially, by various branches of Platonism.
According to D. Frame, in ancient times the worship of the Sun normally ends by rationalizing itself and becoming the secret possession of the initiates and philosophers.
Therefore there is a close relationship between solar theologies and the eliteβbe they kings, magicians, initiates, heroes, or philosophers.
The philosophers represent the last link in the chain of those elect, who completed the secularization of the solar hierophanies by turning them into ideas.
The Chaldean Oracles simply re-mythologized these philosophical ideas by turning them back into the living mythical beings of the pious hieratic imagination: the Iynges, Connectors (sunocheis), Teletarchs, angels, and daemons.
Loading suggestions...