From thelema93-l-owner@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Wed Apr 24 04:08:47 1996 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA20041 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:08:46 -0700 Received: from bitsy.hollyfeld.org ([198.70.189.30]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA21882 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:08:44 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA17655 for thelema93-l-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:01:34 -0400 Received: from noralf.uib.no (noralf.uib.no [129.177.30.12]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA17651 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:01:25 -0400 Received: from alfred.uib.no by noralf.uib.no with SMTP (PP); Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:58:02 +0200 Received: from hefas.uib.no by alfred.uib.no with SMTP id MAA01422 (8.6.12/ for uib.no); Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:59:38 +0200 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960424105945.0069fbe4@alfred.uib.no> X-Sender: hefas@alfred.uib.no (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:59:45 +0200 To: thelema93-l@bitsy.hollyfeld.org From: ata Subject: Re: Stele of Revealing. Sender: owner-thelema93-l@HOLLYFELD.ORG Precedence: bulk reply-to: thelema93-l@bitsy.hollyfeld.org Status: RO 93 The stela is described fairly detailed in "The Holy Books of Thelema", from where the following has been "lifted": The stela is a funerary monument of Ankh-f-n-khonsu, a Theban priest of Month (or mentu) who flourished circa 725 B.C.E., in Egypt's 25th Dynasty. The Egyptologist Abd el Hamid Zayed gave the stela its first publication in the archaeological literture in 1968: "The back of the stela is occupied by eleven horizontal lines of inscription, the first part of which is a version of The Book of the Dead, chap. 30. This chapter is usually engraved upon a large scarab. It is very unusual to find it inscribed upon a stela. The second half of the inscription is part of The Book of the Dead, ch. 2, and, in the Theban recension, it was entitled: 'The chapter of coming forth by day and living after death'. Its object was to allow the astral form of the deceased to revisit the eart at will." certain other observations by Zayed are of interest. he notes that painted wooden stelae are uncommen, since they were usually carved in stone. This stela is doubly unusual in that the reverse side, usually undecorated, is also painted. Concerning painted wooden stelae in general, he remarks that "it is noteworthy that they all seem to originate from Thebes and its neighborhood, and that their owners are mostly persons attached to the cults of Month and Amon." He also notes that "a very interesting point about these stelae is the evidence they afford for the religious views of the period. Most noteworthy is the identification of the forms of Ra-Horakhty {Ra-Hoor-Khuit] with Soker-osiris." The curator of the Boulaq Museum arranged for a French translation of the Egyptian text of the stela in the weeks preceding the writing of Liber legis. Crowley translated this into English, in verse form. The French translation is given in Appendix A in "The Holy Books", as well as the translation known as The Gardiner-Gunn translation that was commissioned by Crowley from two prominent Egyptologists, and a new analytical translation prepared in 1982. 93 93/93 fr. Evmaios Sine spes, sine timor.