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The original Priesthood of Set in ancient Egypt survived
for twenty-five recorded dynasties (ca. 3200-700 BCE).
It was one of the two central priesthoods in predynastic times,
the other being that of HarWer (Horus the Elder).
Unification of Egypt under both philosophical systems
resulted in the nation's being known as the
Two Kingdoms and in its Pharaohs wearing the famous
Double Crown of Horus and Set.
( Which is now the crown of the pope,
YEP ! they stole that, too ! S. )
riginally a circumpolar/stellar deity portrayed
as a cyclical counterpart
to the Solar Horus,
Set was later recast as an evil principle
by the cults of Osiris and Isis.
During the XIX and XX Dynasties S
et returned
as the Pharaonic patron,
but by the XXV Dynasty (ca. 700 BCE
)
a new wave of Osirian persecution
led to the final destruction of the original Priesthood of Set.
When the Hebrews emigrated from Egypt
during the XIX Dynasty,
however, they took with them a caricature of Set:
Satan
(possibly from the hieroglyphic Set-hen,
one of the god's formal titles).
Originally a sort of prosecuting angel for YHVH,
the Hebrew Satan was changed by Christianity
into a personification of everything God was not -
and since God was supposed to be good,
Satan was necessarily bad.
Alluring or mysterious deities
from religions
competing with early Christianity -
such as the Hellenic/Roman Mysteries
and the Persian Mithraic faith -
were also bad,
hence the Christian Satan was decorated
<b
r> with many of their characteristics,
such as Pan's horns & cloven hoofs.
Non-Christian gods generally were
redefined as Christian demons
and given a place in the C
hristian Hell
(another name stolen and perverted,
this time from ancient Norse mythology). </span>
Christian propaganda notwithstanding,
there is no record of any actual Satanic religious underground
throughout the course of Christian European history.
The myth of such a witch cult, however,
was promoted and actively
used by the Christian churches to terrorize their followers
into docile obedience and to eliminate
those who could not be threatened.
The number of accused Satanists
tortured and burned to death
in medieval and Renaissance Europe will never
be known conclusively,
but estimates run as high as 13 million.
Man
y European museums still display the grisly,
almost unbelievably cruel devices used in such torture,
and detailed records of the trials and confessions
of the victims survive in shameful abundance.
Cases of torture, murder,
and genocidal extermination
of in
fidels and heathens in other areas of the world
similarly abound -
and stand collectively in testimony to the appalling legacy
of the world's major monotheistic religions.
It must further be remembered that the more tolerant climate
of modern times did not come about through the wishes
of conventional churches themselves,
but rather through their increasing rejection
by
a mankind exhausted
by religious warfare and terrified by the wanton viciousness
of such establishments as the Holy Office
(better known as the Inquisition).
<span style=\'color:red\'>If the Enlightenm
ent of the 17th and 18th centuries succeeded
in reducing Christianity -
the dominant monotheism of Europe -
to a secular moral propaganda device,
it was not until the late 19th century that the so-called Black Arts
began to be tolerated, and then only in their
most simplistic and socially innocuous forms.
From
Freemasonry came a ceremonial magical offshoot -
Rosicrucianism - which became increasingly more sophisticated
in the Rosicrucian Society of England (S.R.I.A.)
and then in the famous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (G.'.D.'.).
In 1904 an Adept of the G.'.D.'. named Aleister Crowley
broke away from that disintegrating body to form his own
<
br> Order of the Astrum Argenteum (A.'.A.'.).
To the Rosicrucian/ceremonial magical philosophy of the G.'.D.'.,
Crowley added first a strong emphasis on attainment
of the highest level of self-conscio
usness
(Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel)
and later the Masonic/sexual magic practices
of Germany's Order of Oriental Templars (O.T.O.).
The latter practices, together with Crowley's cavalier lifestyle,
brought him public notoriety.
His organizations survived his 1947 death only in
highly-fragmented and doctrinally simplistic factions.
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n
Others followed , as The TEMPLE OF SET
See link.
http://www.xeper.org/pub/gil/xp_FS_gil.htm
The original Priesthood of Set in ancient Egypt survived
for twenty-five recorded dynasties (ca. 3200-700 BCE).
It was one of the two central priesthoods in predynastic times,
the other being that of HarWer (Horus the Elder).
Unification of Egypt under both philosophical systems
resulted in the nation's being known as the
Two Kingdoms and in its Pharaohs wearing the famous
Double Crown of Horus and Set.
( Which is now the crown of the pope,
YEP ! they stole that, too ! S. )
riginally a circumpolar/stellar deity portrayed
as a cyclical counterpart
to the Solar Horus,
Set was later recast as an evil principle
by the cults of Osiris and Isis.
During the XIX and XX Dynasties S
et returned
as the Pharaonic patron,
but by the XXV Dynasty (ca. 700 BCE
)
a new wave of Osirian persecution
led to the final destruction of the original Priesthood of Set.
When the Hebrews emigrated from Egypt
during the XIX Dynasty,
however, they took with them a caricature of Set:
Satan
(possibly from the hieroglyphic Set-hen,
one of the god's formal titles).
Originally a sort of prosecuting angel for YHVH,
the Hebrew Satan was changed by Christianity
into a personification of everything God was not -
and since God was supposed to be good,
Satan was necessarily bad.
Alluring or mysterious deities
from religions
competing with early Christianity -
such as the Hellenic/Roman Mysteries
and the Persian Mithraic faith -
were also bad,
hence the Christian Satan was decorated
<b
r> with many of their characteristics,
such as Pan's horns & cloven hoofs.
Non-Christian gods generally were
redefined as Christian demons
and given a place in the C
hristian Hell
(another name stolen and perverted,
this time from ancient Norse mythology). </span>
Christian propaganda notwithstanding,
there is no record of any actual Satanic religious underground
throughout the course of Christian European history.
The myth of such a witch cult, however,
was promoted and actively
used by the Christian churches to terrorize their followers
into docile obedience and to eliminate
those who could not be threatened.
The number of accused Satanists
tortured and burned to death
in medieval and Renaissance Europe will never
be known conclusively,
but estimates run as high as 13 million.
Man
y European museums still display the grisly,
almost unbelievably cruel devices used in such torture,
and detailed records of the trials and confessions
of the victims survive in shameful abundance.
Cases of torture, murder,
and genocidal extermination
of in
fidels and heathens in other areas of the world
similarly abound -
and stand collectively in testimony to the appalling legacy
of the world's major monotheistic religions.
It must further be remembered that the more tolerant climate
of modern times did not come about through the wishes
of conventional churches themselves,
but rather through their increasing rejection
by
a mankind exhausted
by religious warfare and terrified by the wanton viciousness
of such establishments as the Holy Office
(better known as the Inquisition).
<span style=\'color:red\'>If the Enlightenm
ent of the 17th and 18th centuries succeeded
in reducing Christianity -
the dominant monotheism of Europe -
to a secular moral propaganda device,
it was not until the late 19th century that the so-called Black Arts
began to be tolerated, and then only in their
most simplistic and socially innocuous forms.
From
Freemasonry came a ceremonial magical offshoot -
Rosicrucianism - which became increasingly more sophisticated
in the Rosicrucian Society of England (S.R.I.A.)
and then in the famous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (G.'.D.'.).
In 1904 an Adept of the G.'.D.'. named Aleister Crowley
broke away from that disintegrating body to form his own
<
br> Order of the Astrum Argenteum (A.'.A.'.).
To the Rosicrucian/ceremonial magical philosophy of the G.'.D.'.,
Crowley added first a strong emphasis on attainment
of the highest level of self-conscio
usness
(Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel)
and later the Masonic/sexual magic practices
of Germany's Order of Oriental Templars (O.T.O.).
The latter practices, together with Crowley's cavalier lifestyle,
brought him public notoriety.
His organizations survived his 1947 death only in
highly-fragmented and doctrinally simplistic factions.
`````````````````````````````````
n
Others followed , as The TEMPLE OF SET
See link.
