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Mystery Babylon #3: Osiris and Isis, Part 1
Catalog title: Mystery Babylon #3
Bill Cooper, aka Milton William Cooper, aka William Cooper
Catalog date: 1993-02-16
Tape: 32
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[00:04:23.830 to 00:04:24.170] Fable.

[00:04:24.520 to 00:04:52.140] of Isis and Osiris, as it has descended to us in the account given by Plutarch, has not been greatly amplified by any modern research. The Egyptian fragments, which have been translated in recent years, offer no complete account of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Osiris, nor has any new key been found to unlock this great drama, which may well be termed

[00:04:52.650 to 00:04:59.880] The Passion Play of Egypt. It is not our intention to perpetuate Plutarch's account

[00:04:59.940 to 00:05:29.190] merely for its outward appearance, but rather from the same motive that inspired Senecius, Platonic philosopher and Christian bishop, to compile his account of the same fabulous history. Senecius, in his treatise on Providence, and you hear that word a lot in the secret societies, and especially in Freemasonry, thus introduces the Osirian myth. Quote, This fable is Egyptian.

[00:05:29.820 to 00:06:01.280] The Egyptians transcend in wisdom. Perhaps, therefore, this also being a fable obscurely signifies something more than a fable, because it is Egyptian. If, however, it is not a fable, but a sacred discourse, it will deserve in a still greater degree to be told and committed to writing. In presenting a summary of Plutarch's account,

[00:06:02.850 to 00:06:32.180] I am omitting nothing which could in any way be regarded as relevant. I am taking the liberty, however, of somewhat expanding the fable by incorporating therein some small fragments derived from other Greek writers and occasionally a few words bearing upon the account from fragments of Egyptian religious literature. The story, then, is in substance as follows.

[00:06:34.210 to 00:07:04.690] The goddess Nut, whom Plutarch identifies with Rhea, was the daughter of Shu and Tefnut. She is the wife of Seb, also known as Saturn, and the mother of Ra, or Helios, also known as the Sun. Now, if we are to trust Plutarch, she afterwards becomes the wife of Ra, or the Sun. Nut is unfaithful to Ra, who, discovering that she is with child by Seb,

[00:07:05.130 to 00:07:34.110] pronounces a curse upon her that she should not be delivered of her progeny in any month or year. Thoth, which is Hermes or Mercury, who is also in love with Nut, comes to her assistance with a stratagem. He plays at tables with the moon goddess, Selene, and wins from her the 70th part of each of her illuminations.

[00:07:34.720 to 00:08:02.280] And joining these parts together, he forms of them five days, which he adds to the calendar. Previous to that time, the Egyptian year consisted of 360 days, the exact number of degrees in a circle. Now these five days being not part of any month or year, Ra was outwitted. You see, because upon these days, Nut brought forth her five children at different times in different places.

[00:08:03.710 to 00:08:33.920] Upon the first of these days, she brought forth Osiris, and the place of his birth, according to Deodorus, was Mount Nyssa in Arabia, the happy. Mount Nyssa is now Mount Sinai, folks. At the moment of the birth of Osiris, a voice sounded throughout the world, saying, quote, The Lord of all the earth is born, unquote. On the second day, Nut gave birth to Arorus, the elder Horus.

[00:08:34.400 to 00:08:58.180] On the third day, Typhon or Set. On the fourth day, Isis. And on the fifth and last day, Nephthys. The Egyptians, therefore, regard the five days which they term the Epact or super-added as the birthdays of the gods, especially venerating the fourth of them upon which the benevolent goddess Isis came into being.

[00:08:59.270 to 00:09:22.010] Plutarch further on announces that the five children of Nut were not all of the same father, thus contradicting his earlier statement. For he says that Osiris and the elder Horus were the children of Ra, that Isis was the daughter of Thoth, and only Typhon and Nephthys were actually the offspring of Seb.

[00:09:23.740 to 00:09:52.280] There is another, an even more recondite legend, regarding the elder Horus, which denies him the fathership of Ra, declaring him to be the offspring of Osiris and Isis, while they were still in the womb of Nut. Now these accounts we shall consider later. Osiris was given to Pamelaus to be educated, and having come to the years of majority, became the king of Egypt.

[00:09:53.860 to 00:09:59.520] In this high capacity, Osiris applied himself to the civilizing of his

[00:09:59.500 to 00:10:26.230] nation turning the Egyptians from their previously indigent and barbarous course of life to a happy and community existence he taught them agriculture compiled for them a body of laws for the regulation of conduct instructed them in the reverencing and worship of the gods thus establishing Egypt

[00:10:26.940 to 00:10:56.690] in all the essentials of truth, according to the legend. And having brought his own nation to prosperity and enlightenment, Osiris traveled over the rest of the world, converting peoples to his disciplines, not by force, but the persuasion of reason. Osiris was accompanied on this journey by a procession of nymphs and other super-physical beings who filled the air with music and song.

[00:10:58.360 to 00:11:26.700] In the meantime, Typhon, brother or half-brother of Osiris, had ambition to usurp the throne, but the vigilant Isis, sister-wife of Osiris, was too watchful. Typhon, however, having persuaded 72 other persons to join him in his conspiracy, with the aid of a certain queen in Ethiopia named Esau, perfected a plot against Osiris.

[00:11:27.680 to 00:11:56.420] He fashioned a chest exactly to the measurement of the body of Osiris, which chest he caused to be brought into the banquet hall, where the princes of Egypt were feasting their king's return. Typhon, simulating jest, promised this elaborately ornamented box to the one whose body, upon trial, most nearly fitted it. Now each of the princes, in turn, lay down in the box.

[00:11:57.050 to 00:12:24.050] but each was too short or too tall, until last of all, Osiris himself lay down in it. Immediately, the seventy-two conspirators rushed to the box, clamped the cover upon it, fastened it with nails, and poured melted lead over all the cracks and crevices. After this, they carried the chest to the bank of the Nile and cast it into the river where it joins the sea.

[00:12:25.250 to 00:12:56.190] Now this evil deed was executed upon the 17th day of the Egyptian month of Athir, when the sun was in Scorpio. According to some, it was in the 28th year of the reign of Osiris, and to others in the 28th year of his life. Now try to remember these numbers. If you can't, jot them down. But these numbers will crop up again and again and again. Scorpio crops up. 17 crops up.

[00:12:56.770 to 00:13:28.070] 28 crops up, and many other numbers. And they all have significance in the mystery religion of Babylon, the secret societies, and to the guardians of the secrets of the ages. As soon as Isis received word of this crime, she cut off one of the locks of her hair and put on the mourning apparel of widowhood, for which reason the spot where she did this was afterwards called Coptos.

[00:13:28.870 to 00:13:56.980] That's Coptos, or the city of mourning. After donning the widow's weeds, Isis set forth in search of her husband's body and wondered about all Europe. Europe. Wondered about all Egypt, asking all with whom she came in contact. You see, I may be back here in the United States, but a lot of my thoughts, folks, are still in Europe. Finally, some children to admit at play.

[00:13:57.920 to 00:14:26.860] told Isis that they had seen the accomplices of Typhon carrying the chest to the Nile. For that reason, Egyptians regard the words of children as oracular and pay great attention to them. While Isis was searching for her husband's body, she learned that Nephthys, her sister, had by magic insinuated herself into the presence of Osiris before his death and in the guise of Isis had conceived a son from him.

[00:14:28.580 to 00:14:59.840] Now Isis sought out the child, which Nephthys has deserted for fear of Typhon's anger, and adopting it, attached it to her person as a constant guard and attendant. This was Anubis, the dog-headed god, who appears in the Book of the Dead and in many of the Egyptian hieroglyphics. After some time, Isis learned that the chest had been carried by the sea to the coast of Byblos. Now

[00:15:00.210 to 00:15:03.310] is also the name for book or Bible.

[00:15:07.840 to 00:15:08.420] Now,

[00:15:12.720 to 00:15:18.720] remember this tamarisk and remember that it is a tree.

[00:15:28.160 to 00:15:56.560] He made a pillar to support the roof of his palace. Now by magic, Isis discovered this, and traveling immediately to Byblos, attached herself to the suite of the queen as a nurse to her children. At night, when all the palace was asleep, Isis transformed herself into a swallow, and fluttered around the column, bemoaning her fate in strange, sad notes.

[00:15:57.860 to 00:16:26.060] In due time, Isis revealed her divine nature and asked that the pillar be cut down. Taking therefrom the chest, she departed with it into a desert place where she performed certain magical rites by which the body of Osiris was temporarily animated. And by this animation she received from Osiris a son who is called the Younger Horse, the child who was conceived of the dead.

[00:16:27.910 to 00:16:58.040] Now there is some confusion in the account at this point. Plutarch says that Isis left the body of Osiris temporarily to visit her son Horus just mentioned, but the context of the fable would rather call for her departure to a secluded place where the child could be born without the knowledge of Typhon, who certainly would have destroyed him. Isis hid the chest in a remote and unfrequented place, but Typhon, hunting one night by the light of the moon,

[00:16:58.880 to 00:17:26.800] chanced upon it. Knowing its contents, and realizing Isis to be proficient in magic, he resolved to thwart her purposes, and tearing the body into fourteen parts, he scattered them over Egypt. Now remember, fourteen parts. Folks, don't forget that. From the inscriptions on the Metternich's

[00:17:28.230 to 00:17:59.760] It seems that Set must have imprisoned Isis and her son Horus. The goddess is made to say, quote, I am Isis, and I came forth from the house wherein my brother Set had placed me, unquote. Thoth, the prince of law, again came to her assistance and aided Isis to escape from the house. Was it really a prison, or was it really the house of Set? Thoth, also at this time,

[00:18:00.200 to 00:18:16.010] prophesied that Horus would sit upon the throne of his father and rule the double empire of Egypt. Upon the advice of Thoth, Isis hides the child in a papyrus swamp, thus saving him from the wrath of Seth.

[00:18:18.680 to 00:18:33.190] Isis returning, having left her son at Butos, and fashioning a magical boat out of papyrus, traversed the whole of the empire. As she met with the scattered parts of her husband, she buried each one separately.

[00:18:33.950 to 00:19:05.220] first, however, encasing it in a magical mummy composed of wax, incense, and grain seed. She finally recovered all of the parts of Osiris except the phallus, or the penis, which had been thrown into the river and devoured by three fishes. This organ Isis reproduced in gold. Remember this also. Remember the three fishes, for they represent ignorance, superstition, and fear. They also represent the church, the state, and the mob.

[00:19:07.170 to 00:19:35.800] And remember that Isis reproduced this member, this organ, in gold, and having performed all of the ceremonies necessary to ensure the life of Osiris in the underworld, she returned to her son Horus, and by the theurgic arts of which she was mistress, saved him from death, from the stings of scorpions. Horus, having grown to man's estate,

[00:19:36.520 to 00:19:59.740] and having received from his mother the tradition of his father's murder, longed to avenge the evil deed. Osiris appeared to his son in a vision, instructing him in the means by which he could overcome the hosts of Typhon. And we are led to infer that Horus gathered about him an army which, meeting the hosts of Typhon,

[00:19:59.850 to 00:20:30.270] battled with them for many days, achieving victory. Typhon, according to the legend, was taken prisoner and turned over to the custody of Isis. Now Isis, being his sister, could not bring herself to put him to death, but set him at liberty, which so incensed Horus that he laid hands upon his mother and removed from her head the insignia of royalty. Thereupon Thoth gave her a new helmet.

[00:20:30.980 to 00:21:02.870] made in the shape of an ox's head. Typhon next accused Horus of illegitimacy, but Thoth proves his royal descent. Typhon again goes into battle against Horus. In fact, two battles are mentioned, in both of which Typhon is worsted, and Horus regains the kingdom of his father and is regarded, to at least a certain degree, as the actual reincarnation of Osiris.

[00:21:04.000 to 00:21:08.360] so here you had a death and a resurrection after

[00:21:10.960 to 00:21:32.260] its resurrection in the underworld the shade of osiris visits isis and in consequence thereof she gives birth to another son as it were by a holy ghost for she knew no living man this child is called harpocrates and plutarch says of him that he

[00:21:33.410 to 00:22:01.740] came into the world before his time and lame in his lower limbs, unquote. Arpocrates is usually depicted as a nude figure, his head adorned with a single curling lock of hair on the right side, this being, with the Egyptians, a symbol of youth or adolescence. He is sometimes depicted with an elaborate plumed headdress or wearing the double crown of the northern and southern empires.

[00:22:02.720 to 00:22:27.400] His finger is placed to his lips, which Plutarch interprets as a gesture symbolic of his childish and helpless state. The Greeks and Romans, however, considered this gesture to be a symbol for silence or secrecy. And from this has arisen the custom of placing the finger to the lips as a motion for quietness and secrecy, and we do it today.

[00:22:29.760 to 00:23:01.600] Statues of the god Harpocrates were placed at the entrances to temples and sacred retreats where the dramas of the mysteries were performed as a sign that silence and secrecy should be observed in the holy places and that all initiates were bound by vows of discretion. Harpocrates is also sometimes shown standing and at other times he is depicted seated on the blossom of a lotus, just like Buddha.

[00:23:02.460 to 00:23:33.220] Although he is usually figured with childish immaturity of body, the imperfection of his lower limbs, as described by Plutarch, is not apparent in any of the Egyptian drawings. It therefore seems that the statements concerning this deformity should be more carefully examined. Samuel Squire, whose translation of Plutarch's Isis and Osiris, made in 1744, is still the most often quoted by Egyptologists.

[00:23:34.040 to 00:24:06.370] Well, he states definitely, quote, lame in his lower limbs. G.R.S. Mead translated the same essay much later and gives a slightly different rendering of Plutarch's words. Mr. Mead says, quote, weak in his limbs from below upwards, unquote. This difference in wording, though slight, may have an unexpected significance. You see, there's some general information contained in Sinitius' Treaty on Providence that should be included.

[00:24:07.230 to 00:24:36.290] in this Osirian epic. Senecius is of the opinion that Osiris should be regarded as an historical king, whose father, transcending in wisdom, instructed his benevolent son in all the secrets of the divine science of government. Senecius is moved to this conclusion by a desire to keep all speculation within the sphere of the reasonable. The Platonist bishop

[00:24:37.060 to 00:25:00.100] seems to have derived much of his account from origins foreign to Plutarch's treatise, or possibly he interpreted differently the restrictions imposed by his vows. Seditious, a prudent and conscientious author, wary of myths and fables, and exhibiting a truly platonic conservativeness in his handling

[00:25:00.100 to 00:25:25.330] of subject matter, yet Senecius was beyond question a deeply religious philosopher and an initiate of pagan mysteries prior to his conversion to the Christian faith, and therefore may have hidden the true meaning of the fable. Thomas Taylor is of the mind that the treatise on providence was written while Senecius was still a votary of pagan mysteries. If so,

[00:25:25.900 to 00:25:55.310] The writing is unbiased and trustworthy and presents a fair picture of the mystical traditions of the Egyptians interpreted in terms of platonic metaphysics, but only the exoteric would be allowed to be seen by the profane. Senecius inserts into his narrative a considerable description of the various characters of Osiris, which he sharply contrasts with the vice-ridden nature of Typhon.

[00:25:56.670 to 00:26:21.780] He also explains in detail the process of election by which Osiris came to the throne of Egypt. The electional ceremony as described by Senecius is evidently itself a fragment from some secret ritual relating to the installation of a hierophant of the mysteries. Next, Osiris receives from his father

[00:26:22.560 to 00:26:44.610] an elaborate dissertation in the platonic temper concerning the relative power of good and evil, in which he is fully warned against the machinations of Typhon. Possibly the most important sentence in Senecius' treatise occurs during this dissertation. The father of Osiris is made to say to his son,

[00:27:03.490 to 00:27:04.890] Unquote.

[00:27:06.590 to 00:27:34.460] Now these words unquestionably have an arcane meaning and are incorporated into the narrative that the true significance of the whole Osirian cycle might not be entirely obscured. And I can tell you that the meaning, folks, is that the eyes above are the exoteric meant for the outer world, for the profane, and the eyes below are the esoteric meant for the initiate, the adept, the priest of the mystery schools only.

[00:27:38.140 to 00:28:06.050] Senecius does not describe the death of Osiris, but merely reports his vanishment and final restoration to the throne. In the latter part of the story, there is also introduced a certain philosopher who is a stranger in Egypt. This philosopher predicts the fall of Typhon and is an eyewitness to the re-crowning of Osiris. Senecius says of this philosopher, quote,

[00:28:06.970 to 00:28:28.640] He likewise then learned some particulars about Osiris which would shortly happen, and others which would take place at some greater distance of time, vis-a-vis when the boy Horus would choose as his associate in battle a wolf instead of a lion. But who the wolf is, is a sacred narration.

[00:28:29.600 to 00:28:59.640] which it is not holy to divulge even in the form of a fable, unquote. For the lion, we know, has always been of the tribe of Judah, which is the amazing tradition of the good king Osiris, the first victim, the first mummy, and the first resurrection. He dies and is born again in three forms. First, as god of the underworld, where he rules the justified dead. Second,

[00:29:00.210 to 00:29:25.330] as the younger Horus in whose form he battles for his own honor, and third as Harpocrates, the silent child. The latter two forms are regarded as incarnations or embodiments of his very self, yet he exists independent of them as the judge of shades and the lord of the resurrection. Now we know that

[00:29:26.410 to 00:29:52.490] Osiris was also known as the sun, and Horus was known as the child, or the young Osiris, the young Horus, the baby Horus. So, after the sun set in the west, when it rose the next morning, it rose as the young Horus, and as it went across the sky, it became Osiris, and then the elder.

[00:29:53.540 to 00:30:00.350] But in the legends, it's differently at different times, Osiris or Horus. Horus

[00:29:59.760 to 00:30:27.540] Horus the Younger, Horus at his peak strength at noon, and Horus the Elder. It is also Osiris. So you see that these figures intermingle in the legend, but it all has meaning, and it will all be clear to you at a later time. Now, just because you don't understand some of this, you may be a little lost. Don't worry, it will come together. Don't, don't miss one single word.

[00:30:28.230 to 00:30:41.760] of this series of episodes of The Hour of the Time. If you do, I can guarantee you will regret it for the rest of your life. We're going to stop right now, folks. We have to take a break. I will be back right after this very short pause. All

[00:32:27.970 to 00:32:34.370] writers attempting an interpretation of the Osirian cycle have recourse to Plutarch.

[00:32:35.800 to 00:33:05.590] It has seemingly never occurred to Egyptologists that this eminent priest of Delphi might have purposely confused or distorted the fable, or, if not that, might certainly have misdirected the attention of the reader from relevant to irrelevant explanations. Two factors must certainly be taken into consideration when reading Plutarch. First, he was an initiated priest of the mysteries.

[00:33:06.780 to 00:33:37.380] Of this there can be no doubt. For he himself says, quote, For the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the brotherhood, unquote. In those days it was known as the brotherhood of the snake, and those who possessed the knowledge of the secrets of the ages wore the symbol of the snake on their headdress. And in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, you can see the members of the mystery religion of Babylon in the hieroglyphics.

[00:33:38.690 to 00:33:42.630] as they wore the snake on the front of their forehead. It

[00:33:45.680 to 00:34:11.910] should be evident to everybody that as an initiate, Plutarch would not have unveiled the secret meaning of the Osirian myth, and I found that to be absolutely true. No man of his pre-flestation or philosophic mind who so greatly venerated the gods as to attach himself to their service would have been guilty of the impiety of profaning their mysteries.

[00:34:13.030 to 00:34:41.730] and he would not have violated his oath of secrecy. Furthermore, had his treatise actually exposed any of the secrets of the rites, he would most probably have perished miserably, or at least been publicly disgraced. These evils not descending upon him, we must suppose that his book was regarded as harmless, and for our purpose, therefore, at least not directly informative.

[00:34:46.020 to 00:35:00.050] The second factor which gravitates against the likelihood of Plutarch's interpretations being correct is the condition of Egyptian metaphysics in the first century after Christ. If, as Budge maintains, the Egyptians

[00:35:00.060 to 00:35:28.780] themselves were unaware of the meaning of the word Osiris long prior to the Christian era, and to what decay had the old rites fallen even prior to the Ptolemaic period. Now, if Pluto based his accounts upon popular traditions, they were most certainly inaccurate, and it is not impossible that even the priests themselves were for the most part ignorant of the origins.

[00:35:29.950 to 00:35:31.590] of their doctrine. It

[00:35:35.410 to 00:36:05.980] should not be inferred, folks, from the general literature available concerning this Osirian cycle and the mysteries, that all of the priests were themselves initiates of a high order. Only a small part of them ever actually received the greater secrets of their order. For the rest, rite and ritual suffered. And it's the same today.

[00:36:13.000 to 00:36:13.640] Democritus,

[00:36:14.240 to 00:36:45.570] spent a great part of his life in Egypt. And from the priests of that nation, he secured the foundation for his celebrated doctrine of atoms. That's right, folks, atoms, A-T-O-M-S. A doctrine which has survived as a scientific fact to this day. From all these different philosophers who visited Egypt, we shall secure a better estimation of the profundity of Egyptian learning than from even the Egyptian writings themselves.

[00:36:47.660 to 00:37:10.970] Plato went to Egypt and was initiated into the mysteries and the great pyramid, where he lay for three days and three nights in the sarcophagus, during which he was imparted knowledge which he was to guard, protect. He describes his initiation in his writings. I suggest that you read it.

[00:37:13.520 to 00:37:20.120] If we can assume the pragmatic viewpoint that the substance of matter is to be determined from its consequences,

[00:37:21.090 to 00:37:51.550] then we must indeed highly reverence the wisdom of the Egyptians. For it seems that first among the consequences of that wisdom is civilization itself, that cannot be doubted. Civilization is no fable, nor is it a progeny of myths, but that which is real and substantial. It bears witness to a profound and superior wisdom, which must have existed over a great period of time, and have been communicated to at least a privileged few.

[00:37:52.670 to 00:38:23.000] since the very beginning of man's cultural impulse. Now we can also take the example of Pythagoras, the great philosopher, while a youth, if we make credit. Iamblichus associated himself with Thales of Miletus, from whom he gained a considerable knowledge of the mysteries. Thales, being at that time of great age and infirm body, apologized for his incomplete understanding of the sacred doctrines,

[00:38:23.640 to 00:38:51.460] and urged Pythagoras to visit Egypt, the motherland of wisdom as it was called in those days. Iamblichus wrote that Thales confessed that his own reputation for wisdom was derived from the instruction of these priests, but that he was neither naturally nor by exercise endued with those excellent prerogatives which were so visibly displayed in the person of Pythagoras.

[00:38:52.830 to 00:39:20.110] Thales therefore gladly announced to Pythagoras, from all these circumstances, that he would become the wisest and most divine of all men if he associated with these Egyptian priests. Iamblichus then describes the journey which Pythagoras made to Egypt, how in route he was initiated into the mysteries of several nations, and at last arriving at his destination was received by the Egyptian priests with respect and affection.

[00:39:22.530 to 00:39:39.230] He associated with the Egyptian philosophers for some time, and after demonstrating by his sincerity and consecration that he was worthy to associate with the initiated, he was at last admitted into the secrets of their orders. Quote,

[00:39:50.710 to 00:39:59.990] astronomizing and geometrizing and was initiated, not in a superficial or casual manner, in all the mysteries of

[00:40:00.090 to 00:40:31.460] the gods. Pythagoras must be acknowledged among the first of those divine men to whom the race is indebted for the principles of science, art, and philosophy. And are we to presume that so noble an intellect could have spent twenty-two years pursuing fabulous shadows in Egyptian crypts? If, as some have asserted, Osiris signified merely the Nile,

[00:40:32.320 to 00:40:46.100] and isis the black earth rendered fertile by its inundation could such a fable have so greatly stimulated the admiration of pythagoras that he would have spent a score of years in the assimilation of the idea i don't think so

[00:40:47.750 to 00:41:14.450] Or again, would he have spent this great length of time, the very best years of his life, in memorizing the myth-encrusted history of an ancient king who at some remote period had reigned in Egypt and whose memory seemed sufficient to inspire a vast civilization for some 6,000 years? By the way, that's the exact number of years in the calendar of the mystery school and of the Freemasons. Or

[00:41:17.120 to 00:41:19.740] would he approach the matter from another of these explanations?

[00:41:22.720 to 00:41:37.150] Would Pythagoras have pounded himself for a score of years against the walls of Memphis and find himself fully rewarded by being informed with bated breath by some archive magus that Isis is the dog star? I think not.

[00:41:39.780 to 00:41:54.880] It's not impossible that in the course of its long and illustrious history, folks, Egypt devised many opinions relative to her sacred myths, but no such explanation has involved Egypt alone.

[00:41:55.590 to 00:42:27.370] Her histories, her heroes, or her agricultural problems could have caused illustrious men from all parts of the world to have visited her in quest of essential wisdom, the central core of which is the myth of Osiris, Isis, and Horus, known as the Osirian Cycle. The Nile did nothing to the Greeks, who cared little whether it rose or fell. The sneezing you hear in the background is my...

[00:42:27.810 to 00:42:59.270] Dog Sugar Bear, who always accompanies me into the studio to do these programs. Not Egypt, but the Umbos of Delphi was the center of their universe in Greece. And local fables derived from Egypt's 42 gnomes could never have won for the double empire its illustrious reputation as patron of all learning, human and divine. So we must look deeper.

[00:43:00.610 to 00:43:30.780] And look deeper we did, folks, and what we found is amazing. For we found that Osiris and Isis and Horus were not ever meant to be, nor were they ever real people or real gods or spacemen who came from some other world. Not at all. As we have found in our research, and as I have found in my over 20 some odd years of research into the mystery schools,

[00:43:32.190 to 00:44:01.670] They are like all the other symbols of the mystery religion. For the public, for the profane, they are the exoteric, and you may make of them what you wish. The adepts, the initiates, the priests, they don't care what interpretation you give the exoteric meaning. And the esoteric is so entirely different from what you may suspect that the answer will surprise you. You

[00:44:04.530 to 00:44:06.730] see, we cannot be deceived by the obvious.

[00:44:07.390 to 00:44:31.650] And you can never be deceived by the obvious, or even consider the obvious when looking at any of the mystery religions or the secret doctrine. And we cannot allow ourselves to be misdirected by the evident subterfuges, the deceptions of these ancient priests, who so carefully concealed their arcana from the uninitiated world, that we, at this late time, may even doubt its existence.

[00:44:32.580 to 00:45:00.020] Yet, now, today, it is thriving to the point that it controls all levels of our society, military, and government. The ignorant, the sheeple, even among the Egyptians, might derive their inspiration from the processionals and rituals of the state religion, but that's just for the sheeple. For those great philosophers who came from

[00:45:00.020 to 00:45:30.270] afar were in search of the highest form of human knowledge, the ancient arts, the secrets of the ages, and could not be satisfied by such outer show. Had these fables been but hollow and unsubstantial forms, Egypt would have been the ridicule of the wise who would speedily have exposed her sham and reduced her vain pretense to a humble state. But this did not occur.

[00:45:32.000 to 00:46:05.030] You see, the initiates of her mysteries returning to their own countries not only felt themselves more than repaid for their hazardous journeys and long vigils, but furthermore, they became founders of distinguished systems of thinking, disseminators of useful knowledge, and in all cases bore witness to a broad and deep learning, and they always took with them a plan. A plan.

[00:46:07.140 to 00:46:25.880] for the unfoldment of a world utopian government, which plan still exists today and is still being carried out in secret as the completion of the great work.

[00:46:28.510 to 00:46:42.550] Theodorus describes two famous columns erected near Nysa in Arabia, one to Isis and the other to Osiris. Now remember, Osiris and Isis never lived, they were not real people, and they were never gods.

[00:46:43.230 to 00:47:02.910] They are symbols for something much deeper. So when you listen to the interpretation of the inscriptions in the columns, remember that the column to Isis bears this inscription, quote, I am Isis, queen of this country. I was instructed by Mercury.

[00:47:25.030 to 00:47:34.610] Rejoice, O Egypt, rejoice, land that gave me birth. The column to Osiris bore these words.

[00:47:35.260 to 00:47:57.640] Quote, I am Osiris the king who led my armies into all parts of the world to the most thickly inhabited countries of India, the north, the Danube, and the ocean. I am the eldest son of Saturn. I was born of a brilliant and magnificent egg, and my substance is of the same nature as that which composes light.

[00:47:58.230 to 00:48:28.730] There is no place in the universe where I have not appeared to bestow my benefits and make known my discoveries, unquote. And the rest of the inscription, of course, was destroyed. Now, while the inscription on the pillar or the obelisk in honor of Isis may be veiled, the inscription on the obelisk dedicated to Osiris is certainly not.

[00:48:30.110 to 00:48:52.150] He was born of a brilliant and magnificent egg, and its substance is of the same nature of that which composes light. There is no place in the universe where I have not appeared. Osiris, of course, was the sun. In examining Plutarch's treatise, the introductory remarks appear of special significance.

[00:48:53.730 to 00:49:18.970] Yet, folks, these remarks are wholly ignored by Egyptologists who are content to combine themselves entirely to the fable which constitutes the larger part of the writing. If Plutarch, by any word or symbol, reveals even a small part of the sacred mystery, it is to be found in the following words, quote, For Isis, according to the Greek interpretation of the word, signifies knowledge.

[00:49:20.100 to 00:49:48.320] as does the name of her professed adversary, Typhon, signify insolence and pride. A name therefore extremely well adapted to one who, full of ignorance and error, tears in pieces and conceals that holy doctrine, which the goddess collects, compiles, and delivers to those who aspire after the most perfect participation of the divine nature. Now, if you have a keen intellect,

[00:49:49.670 to 00:49:59.840] you can all decipher everything else that I'm going to tell you on this program and probably the next one in that short paragraph. And I'll let you

[00:49:59.840 to 00:50:01.500] ponder that as I continue.

[00:50:04.250 to 00:50:30.360] Osiris, the black god of the Nile, must be regarded as the personification of an order of learning. For Plutarch identifies him beyond question with the holy doctrine or the mystery tradition. Now remember I told you Osiris is the symbol of the sun? But the sun was the symbol of the power of the all-encompassing god of the universe.

[00:50:31.590 to 00:51:04.450] And later you're going to learn that the light or the sun represents something even deeper. It represents, dear listeners, primordial knowing, the gift of intellect. And where people can read these myths and think that these people really worship the sun or some god somewhere, they are mistaken. For the true object of their worship is the intellect.

[00:51:07.360 to 00:51:14.410] And through the use of that intellect, they believe that man will become God. As

[00:51:18.550 to 00:51:36.080] Thoth personifies the whole sphere of knowledge, and it was through his assistance that Osiris came into being. So Osiris embodies the secret and sacred wisdom reserved for those who were proficient in the ancient rites.

[00:51:37.810 to 00:51:55.790] unquestionably Osiris was later confused with other members of that vast pantheon of divinities which developed in the decadent period of Egyptian religious culture but to the elect the initiate the adept the priest he represented to the end primordial knowing

[00:51:57.250 to 00:52:27.310] That utter realization of truth, undefiled by inflection, unlimited by any mortal procedure, uncircumscribed by the limitation of thinking. You see, he signified not only that divine at-one-ment with the absolute, which is the end of all illumination, but by his life, death, and resurrection revealed the means by which mortal consciousness could achieve that end. Remember, at-one-ment.

[00:52:30.820 to 00:53:00.470] Thus Osiris becomes a dual symbol. Being in the first place the esoteric wisdom. Esoteric, folks, means hidden. So he represented in the first place the esoteric wisdom itself. And in the second place, the composite order of initiates through whom that tradition was perpetuated. And now we begin to strip the veil from the mysteries.

[00:53:02.590 to 00:53:35.220] The personality of Osiris thus typifies the institution erected by the ancients to perpetuate the deathless truths of the soul. The living head was crowned with the plumes of wisdom and power. The hands bore the scepters of the three worlds, but the body was bound with the mummy wrappings of the dead. Here we find spirit, the living head, bound incongruously to matter, the mummified body.

[00:53:36.380 to 00:53:54.810] The soul was imprisoned in the narrow bonds of flesh. One thing, through my research, is certain. Osiris represented the secret doctrine prior to that time when the omnific word, or the lost word of Freemasonry, was lost.

[00:53:58.490 to 00:54:10.120] Osiris is the first of the five children of Nut. And here you begin to part some more veils behind which the mystery resides.

[00:54:12.740 to 00:54:13.660] He therefore...

[00:54:14.330 to 00:54:35.700] corresponds with the first of the five divine kings of China and the five exoterically known Diana Buddhas of Lamaism. The five children of Nut are the five continents which have appeared upon the earth and the five races which have populated these continents. Osiris is the primitive revelation of the first race.

[00:54:36.380 to 00:54:51.860] But as Isis was born upon the fourth day, we find this tradition coming into Egypt through the Atlantean mystery school of which Isis is the symbol. And you will find at the base of all of these things, Atlantis.

[00:54:54.710 to 00:54:59.810] Francis Bacon wrote about Atlantis. Hitler

[00:55:00.040 to 00:55:33.320] believed in Atlantis. In this country, the Freemasons established the city of Atlanta as the new Atlantis. And all of this will come together for you. It took me many, many, many years of study deep into the night and trying to discuss this with other people who had no idea what I was talking about. So most of it was put together in loneliness and late at night.

[00:55:34.270 to 00:55:56.780] Then when I established my organization known as the Citizens Agency for Joint Intelligence, many others begin to help and furnish bits and pieces of information. And we have succeeded, folks, in infiltrating the lodge. We have members in the lodge who feed us information constantly.

[00:55:59.420 to 00:56:03.160] Members who we taught how.

[00:56:04.070 to 00:56:25.450] to take an oath so that the oath of Freemasonry would not be binding upon them. You have to play sometimes by the rules of the enemy in order to beat the enemy, and we are beating the enemy now. From the reign of Osiris, we glean the following philosophical history.

[00:56:27.550 to 00:56:49.410] They believed that there was a time, the golden age, when truth and wisdom ruled the earth, and this aristocracy of wisdom was a benevolent despotism, and that's what they want to reestablish. Benevolent to who? That's the question. In which men were led to a nobler state of being by the firm, kindly hand of the enlightened sage.

[00:56:50.970 to 00:57:21.350] This was the divine dynasty of the mythological priest kings who were qualified to govern humanity by virtue, not only temporal, but by divine attributes. Through his priests, Osiris, representative of the hidden tradition, ruled the entire world by virtue of the perfection resident in that tradition. Don't miss tomorrow night, folks. You have not even begun your journey. Good night, and God bless each and every one of you.

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