Lamb of God: Horus, Christ, and the Labarum

The development of the Sun-god archetype in Early Christianity was shaped by the preceding language and symbolism of Egyptian and Greco-Roman religions. When Constantine first beheld the vision of the labarum, the prevailing patterns of syncretism had already provided a shape and direction for the form that the early Christian Sun-god would take. It was …

Love Under Will: An Introduction to Thelema and Its Antecedents

When Aleister Crowley coined the term “the aim of religion, the method of science,” he was advancing the tradition of humanism for the reunion of science and religion into what Eliphas Levi called the catholic or universal religion of humanity. The aim of scientific illuminism is the advancement of uniting these seeming opposites into a …

In Between the Spaces

Echoes, Digital Art. The last few months I have been doing research on Egyptian mythology, alchemy, archetypes, alphabets, and the zodiac. My research has also taken me through the scriptures of Psalms and the prophecies of Ezekiel. Reading through parts of Ezekiel it didn't take long before I felt like Ezekiel was talking more about …

Lamb of God: Horus, Christ and the Labarum

image credit: http://www.jesuswalk.com/christiansymbols/images/monogram-of-christ384x389vatican.jpg Lamb of God is an examination of the influence of Greco-Roman and Egyptian religion, myth and symbolism. This essay gives special attention to the syncretism invoked in the Early Christian archetype of the Sun-god as conqueror, protector and healer-savior. This essay was originally published in The Far Shining One: A Devotional to …