The Prince of the earth

 

 Ra-Harakhty

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"Horus of the Horizon"

 

Creative god in Heliopolis, the incarnation of the sun at its zenith under the name of Re'-Harakhty

Principal place of worship: Heliopolis (lower Egypt) Representation: a man with the head of a falcon or a falcon crowned with a solar disc

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His name means "Horus of the Horizon" and he represents one of the diurnal forms of the sun god in Heliopolis, In this very ancient tradition, Re' takes on personalities and representations that change during his trip through the sky. In the morning, he is Khepri, the rising sun; he is depicted as a beetle. At its zenith, he becomes Re'·Harakhty, and takes the image of a falcon by assuming the personalities of the sun Re', and of the falcon of the horizon, Harakhty, In the evening he becomes Atum, the setting sun, represented as an old man. Harakhty, there, is the symbol of the sun in all its glory,that shines upon the organized world: "the one that reigns beyond time and space." That is why very often the texts indifferently use the names of Re'. Harakhty, Harakhty or Re' to designate this supreme deity, who is generally called "the Universal Master" in the myths and in the legends,

 

His symbolic representation reminds us of his two main qualities. He is shown as a man with the head of a hawk, or sometimes simply as a hawk crowned with a great solar disc. The falcon symbolizes his celestial features; the disc his solar personality.

 

In the temple of Horus in Edfu, the inner walls recall the tales of the battles Horus led against the enemies of Re'. The text stipulates the exact name of the protagonists: they are Horus Behedety, particularly venerated in Upper Egypt, in Edfu, as solar and royal god, and Re'·Harakhty, the victorious sun. Of course, this legend could have been interpreted the same way if the scribe had just mentioned simply Horus and Re'. But if these details appear it is because they are really important: we are in Edfu, where Horus Behedety is worshipped and he is a particular form of Horus. Therefore, it is natural that local myths should show divine personalities that have a direct relationship with the local cult.

 

We are "in the year 363 of his Majesty, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Re'-Harakhty." The king of gods is in Nubia to contemplate his creation. But during this short routine visit, he learns that there is a conspiracy against him. Of course, amongst the plotters are the henchmen of Apophis, the cosmic enemy who never ceases to attack the solar vessel to impede the correct progress of the universe. Re'.Harakhty immediately has his son Horus Behedety called for, and asks him to get rid of his enemies. The first battle is a great victory for Horus Behedety. But the conspirators retreat and move to Egypt. Horus Behedety persecutes them all the way up to the Delta of the Nile, winning battle after battle. But the war never ceases, because each time the enemies reappear under other forms: they take the forms of Seth or Apophis, and turn into hippopotami or crocodiles. In the end, Horus Behedety manages to push them back all the way to the Red Sea, beyond the borders of Egypt. He even makes them find refuge in foreign and hostile Asian countries. Thoth and Re'-Harakhty congratulate him vigorously, and everyone goes back to his own home:

Re'-Harakhty goes back to Nubia and Horus Behedety reinstates ills temple in Edfu.

 

It seems obvious that the elaboration of this myth by the clergy of Horus Behedety in Edfu is an answer to a religious necessity. In these few words, the god of the town is given a direct filiation to the king of gods: in this legend, Horus Behedety is the son of Re'· Harakhty. Besides, he is given the leading part in the fight between the cosmic enemies and in the keeping of the order of the universe.

Ra-Harakhty, Raat

• The god and goddess of the Rising Sun personify the dawning of Divine Consciousness

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This is RA-HARAKHTY or HARMACHIS, who with your energy gift has now become the UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE of TRANS-MUTATION. The name of this god means, "the form of Ra who is Horus on his Horizon," the rising Sun of the dawn. His primary form is that of Horus the Falcon, or the Higher Self, having the Solar disk of Divine Consciousness touching the top of his head—like the halo of the Christian mystics, the hair-knot of Buddha and the fiery aura of the Magi.

In one Dynastic Egyptian story, I, Thoth-Djehutis, as the Creative Word and the Master of Initiation, called forth the "divine fluid" from Horus which "then came out from his forehead" or Third Eye, and "formed a golden disk" on top. This is symbolic of the rising of the Kundalini up the Susumna or etheric spinal cord, bursting forth and opening the Sacred Eye of Horus and Ra, called the Wadjet Eye.

In many portrayals of Ra-Harakhty, the Sun disk of Divine Consciousness is also encircled by a serpent, with its head poised just over the forehead. This serpent was called the Uraeus by the Greeks, and by the Egyptians the Wadjet cobra, the same name as the Sacred Eye. It is the Fohat, the Serpent Power made manifest, the release of which through the Third Eye and Crown Chakras brought the Initiate into fuller contact with his or her own Divine Self.

Daily, according to mythic tradition, Ra-Harakhty would make his first appearance between two sycamore trees of turquoise. The color turquoise, as well as lapis-lazuli, were taken by the Egyptian Masters to represent the higher frequencies of the old Seven Color Spectrum —blue, indigo and violet. The two turquoise trees symbolize the Ida and Pingala, the secondary avenues of the Kundalini which encircle the etheric Susumna spine.

In terms of spiritual geography, the Nile symbolizes the Susumna, while the Ida and Pingala were the two strings of oases and wadis on either side of the river, which besides the central valley were Egypt's only other indigenous sources of trees.

The god began his journey across the sky upon his Solar Boat called Metat, meaning "to be strong." It was by this vehicle that Ra, as the fuller manifestation of Divine Consciousness, called himself into Being, from the primordial waters of Nun, and became the Creator and the Creative Thought of All Things.

At dawn the god is Ra-Harakhty. At noon he becomes Ra Supreme or Khephra. And late in the day toward dusk he is transformed into Atum-Ra, the matured Sun who is the symbol of the Seventh level of Initiation.

During the night Ra must travel through the Duat or Underworld of the Collective Unconsciousness to defeat the ultimate form of Set as Apophis, the monster serpent, and reappears at dawn as Ra-Harakhty the Renewed.

What this grand repeating Cycle of events represents is that the Initiate, on the Sixth level, no longer must go before Osiris or travel through the Inner Hall of Truth, having met and cleared all tests and challenges, passing all self-evaluation and judgment.

The Initiate now enters into another, higher Cycle. In his or her out-of-body experiences, the Initiate becomes one of the Amkihui, the "blessed" or advanced souls who is admitted for passage aboard the Solar Boat of Ra. They travel, with the Divine Self as Guide, into higher dimensions of Being. Yet they also prepare for the Final Test, of defeating the very last obstacles to total freedom and entering into Transcendence of the Spirit, which are the last lingering limitations on all levels. Ra-Harakhty, as the dawning Sun, symbolizes the very first experience of this higher Cycle, beginning with the Sixth level of Initiation.

There are a number of symbols and ceremonies that further expressed this new order in the learning process. An important symbol is the Shen or Shen-Ren, a circle tied to a straight bar at its base, representing the Sun tied to the physical horizon at dawn.

The Shen has the appearance of an Ankh with its bottom stem broken off, signifying that the Basic Nature has been fully integrated, and the Highest Nature is revealing its full potential.

The Shen thus represents Masterhood, as well as the promise of Eternal Existence with the Divine.

When set upon its side and elongated, the Shen became the Cartouche, having the meaning, "that which the Sun encircles and protects." Within the Cartouche is found the Ren or the sacred names of the Pharaoh, or any Initiate who attained to the Sixth level.

Another symbol associated with Ra-Harakhty is the Achet, the image of the rising Sun appearing between two hills. Worn as an amulet, it gave the wearer the strength and power of Ra, assuring him or her eventual union with the Sun itself.

Perhaps the most often seen symbol was the Ur-Wadjti, the winged Solar disk, sometimes accompanied by two Uraei on either side of it—the yin and yang aspects of the Kundalini, which rise up the Ida and Pingala. The outstretched wings signify that the Sun's power is here portrayed in its full active form.

The Ur-Wadjti appears above most doorways in the Temples, revealing to the Initiate who passed through and gazed up at it that every portal was but one more step closer toward manifesting the Divine Self within themselves.

In many of the centers of Initiation along the Nile, a special ceremony took place once a year called the "Meeting of the Rising Sun." Through an understanding of Ra-Harakhty and his energies of Divine Self Realization, the Initiates began the process of integrating and synthesizing all of their inner aspects into One expression of Being. Thus they began to achieve All Self, the perfect integration.

The rising Sun ceremony was usually followed by a special secret water baptism of the Initiates, altering their Ren or auric vibrational identity to the new level.

It is most interesting that, according to Christian Coptic tradition, when the Child Yeshua and his parents fled into Egypt they eventually stayed in what is now Matariyah. It is today a suburb of modern Cairo, but two millennia ago was part of Heliopolis, center for the Seventh level of Initiation and the Temple of Atum-Ra, the Final Expression of the Divine Self, now become the All Self. Here it is recorded that Mary washed the garments of the Child in "the fountain of the Sun," the Sacred Lake or Pool of the Temple, wherein Ra himself bathed each morning when he rose as Ra-Harakhty at dawn.

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