One third more or less (wedging in the Trinity)

(warning, strong language)

The doctrine of God is of utmost importance to one's personal theology. Now, what, may one ask, is the doctrine of God of those who run the whole charade? Lets start in Egypt (our favorite destination):

A hymn from Esna states that Neith fashions the world “in her form of Goddess who reaches to the limits of the universe, in her material form of the liquid surface, in her name of unlimited duration,” (Esna, vol. 5, p. 111); “the extension of the water which makes eternity [heh],” “the stream which fashions everlastingness [djet],” (ibid., p. 114 n. i). Neith’s independence and autonomy are emphasized in her demiurgic activity. Thus it is often said that Neith is both feminine and masculine – “two thirds masculine, one third feminine,” (Esna, vol. 5, p. 110) – both mother and father, “who inaugurated birth when birth had not yet been,” (Lichtheim, vol. 3, p. 38), having “appeared from herself,” (Esna, vol. 5, p. 253). The primordial register in which Neith’s cosmogonic activity occurs can be seen from the fact that, in the version from Esna, Neith brings forth both Re, the principle of cosmic order, and Apophis, the principle of entropy.

Neith was the male-female creator and represented the flow of time, matter. She was called the Queen of Heaven in the same fashion as Isis, and represented wisdom. Now, in this she was the archetype or the direct inspiration behind an interesting type of the gnostic Sophia. The Sethians were a particularly anti-Jehovah sect, and worshipped a compound deity called Barbelo, which, juxtaposed next to Neith, seems a direct "port" into the latter mystical religion. And it was not only the Sethians

THE DIVINE BARBELO

 

Another syncretic goddess of the Egyptian Gnostics is Barbelo. She resembles Khokhmah in her presentation as a divine emanation. The Sethian scripture Allogenes calls her “the first Arche of blessedness, the Aeon of Barbelo, full of divinity, and the first Arche of that one without Arche, the spiritual invisible Triple Power, the All that is higher than perfect.” [Arthur, 165] Many writers refer to Mother Barbelo as part of a trinity, along with the Father and Son. Here the Christian influence comes into view, but it is tempered by Egyptian themes: the trinity abides in the female sphere of the “Eighth.” [Pagels, 166; Arthur, 166] Epiphanius reports that the Gnostics placed Barbelo with Christ in the Eighth heaven. [Doresse, 43]

            Attempts to reconcile conflicting traditions results in contradictions in the Barbelo literature. The Gospel of the Egyptians says that Barbelo originated from herself, as the ancients had said of Neit, Mother of the Gods. But the Three Stelas of Seth represent her as “the first shadow of the holy Father,” who existed before her. Its author addresses her with feminine pronouns, but paradoxically praises her as “the male virginal Barbelo.”[Arthur, 165-6] A later passage reverts to goddess imagery:

 

Thou art a Sophia. Thou art a Gnosis. Thou art truth. Because of thee, there is life. Life is from thee. Because of thee, there is mind... Thou art a cosmos of truth.

Thou art a triple power... [Arthur, 166]

 

The Sethians said that this trinity was made up of Light, Breath, and Darkness. The Peratae had it as Father, Son and Matter, with the Son mediating between the exalted Father and a passive female principle. [Both according to the Philosophumena, in Doresse, 52, 50]

            But the Trimorphic Protennoia exalts “Barbelo, the perfect glory, and the immeasurable Invisible One who is hidden."  She is called Protennoia—Primal Thought—who "dwells in the Light," and from her originated a trinity of Father, Mother, Son. This scroll begins with an aretalogy that praises her as "the movement that dwells in the All...she who exists before the All."  [Trimorphic Protennoia, tr by John D. Turner, <www.gnosis.org/naghamm/trimorph.html>]

 

I move in every creature... I am the Invisible One within the All... It is I who poured forth the water. It is I who am hidden by radiant waters. It is I who gradually put forth the All by my Thought. It is I who am laden with the Voice. It is through me that Gnosis comes forth.” [Ibid]

 

Protennoia's connection with the waters recalls the primal flood of Neith and Isis, who brought forth the Nile inundation. And like both goddesses who were mothers of the sun, Neit to Ra and Isis to Horus, Protennoia proclaims, "I am the Womb that gives shape to the All by giving birth to the Light that shines in splendor. I am the Aeon to come. I am the fulfilment of the All, that is, Meirothea, the glory of the Mother." [Ibid check is this Arthur?]

            The Apochryphon of John contains another aretalogy of “the perfect Pronoia of the universe,” who was the First. She represents “the light which exists in light,” but wandered in the great darkness, “into the midst of the prison,” and the depths of the underworld. [not Arthur?, 132, 162-7] However, this book unfavorably compared “sister Sophia” to Barbelo. A splitting of Gnostic goddess images was underway, in the process of subordinating her to “the Father.” The Christian authors now disparaged the independence of a goddess not firmly partnered to a male god. These  derivative Gnostic aretalogies reflect an emerging concept of the “fallen” goddess.

            The longest aretalogy appears in Thunder, Perfect Mind, which follows the form of the old Isis litanies:

 

I am the first and the last.

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin

I am the mother and the daughter

I am the members of my mother

I am the barren one, and many are her sons....

I am the silence that is incomprehensible

And the idea whose remembrance is frequent

And the word whose appearance is multiple

I am the utterance of my name.

[Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and History of an Ancient Religion, 1984, in Long]

 

           

Further on there is a veiled but pointed reference to Isis: “I am the Sophia of the Greeks/ And the Gnosis of the barbarians/ I am one whose image is great in Egypt...” Unlike the pagan aretalogies, however, Thunder is dualistic, pairing negatives—”ignorance... shame... fear”—with Barbelo's divine qualities. [Arthur, 7, 164, 173-5. She reasons that Thunder was originally titled The Divine Barbelo, based on abbreviations and the association of Barbelo with the title "Perfect Mind."] Some of the lines in Thunder resemble verses in the “Song of the Woman” in the Origin of the World. This version attributes the song to Eve, assigning her a male lord not present in Thunder. In the Hypostasis of the Archons, similar declarations about Eve are put in Adam’s mouth. [Arthur, 162, 148]

"This is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the Mother-Father, the first man (Anthropos), the holy Spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth."

Anyone who has read the 8th chapter of the proverbs knows that Jesus is described as the Wisdom of God, the one set and anointed before all, the first emanation of God into the emptiness to create the worlds etc. The gnostic Sophia/Barbelo is an attempt to replace Christ in his creative, redemptive, eschatological roles etc with a all encompassing hermaphrodite (mother-father of good and evil).

 Barbelo was to be found in the 8th heaven alongside Jesus and was a hermaphroditic virginal being that created itself and directs the flow of time and matter in the age to come. What is interesting is that one of the groups that God despises and condemns in the Book of Revelation (which was left outside of the RCC and EO reading list) , the Nicolaitans, apparently also worshipped Barbelo.

She is noticed in several neighbouring passages of Epiphanius, who in part must be following the Compendium of Hippolytus, as is shown by comparison with Philaster (c. 33), but also speaks from personal knowledge of the Ophitic sects specially called "Gnostici" (i. 100 f.). The first passage is in the article on the Nicolaitans (i. 77 f.), but is apparently an anticipatory reference to their alleged descendants the "Gnostici" (77 A; Philast.). 

Barbelo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbelo

 In our discussion of the major demolition project of the jesuits to pull down the stern, separate, masculine image (and doctrines....and Bibles) of God, it was mentioned how the main blow to the traditional Biblical idea of God will come with

"Mary absorbing Jesus and His wrath completely and His Redemption and judicatory destruction becoming utterly meaningless."



.............."if she (Sophia/Eve) enters into him and he takes her to himself, death will no longer exist" .......

One earth, one faith - part 2 - Fossil fuels and fossil masculine Jesus

https://jesus-partisans-on-the-balkans.blogspot.com/2022/05/one-earth-one-faith-part-2-fossil-fuels.html#comment-form

So one way for her to "enter" is to make her a part of the trinity. Well, that already has been done in Pentecostalism and liberal theology where the Holy Spirit has been described as feminine. Which makes God one third woman. It is curious that there is a strand of theology in Roman Catholicism that admits Mary as part of the godhead. But even within broader RCC thought one can't escape the thought that Mary is elevated to godhood and made a representative of the Holy Spirit. A poll taken at a parish in Ireland showed that the majority of catholics think Mary should be considered a part of the trinity. The only divine work she has not been fully admitted yet is redemption. For now, she is 'only' the house of the trinity,  a dispenser or vessel of grace. But with the fifth dogma, she will be elevated as co-redemptrix etc... a title only applicable to Jesus, the God and Savior.

All this profanity and travesty of a hermaphrodite self-generating androgynous god was condemned in the Book of Revelation. Curiously, this book condemns both the gnostic Nicolaitans that are said to be attempting to infiltrate certain churches and a great Whore church that is the result of that infiltration. And curiously, the Whore suffers plagues very reminiscent of the ones against Egypt with their river and water goddess Neith - the one the Nicolaitans went on to call Barbelo (Spiritually the new city is called Egypt). Even more shockingly, the phrase "one third" and rivers and waters (symbol of Neith) seem to feature prominently in the description of the plagues:

 Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Revelation 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
Revelation 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

 In the Book of Exodus the first plague is directed against Neith - one of the deities of the river Nile.

The 1st plague was directed against the Nile itself, which the Egyptians worshipped as their source of life. This plague confronted the numerous river deities, including Khnum (guardian of the Nile), Hapi (spirit of the Nile and god of fertility) and Osiris (god of the underworld, whose blood the Nile was considered to be). By turning the Nile into blood and killing the fish (supposedly protected by Hathor and Neith), Moses was not only shaming all these Egyptian objects of worship, but also showing that sustenance comes only from the hand of Yahweh.

The ten plagues of Egypt

https://creation.com/the-ten-plagues-of-egypt

  

Now, I will not attempt to treat the nature and fulfillment of the plagues here - the link is what is important. Later on, the devil is said to drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. The Nicolaitans are said to come from Nicholas, one of the first seven deacons of the church. Seven can't be divided by three, but if we recollect that Stephen was martyred, we are left with 6 men. This must mean that Nicholas was not alone in his apostasy - one of the remaining six could have been "dragged down" by Satan as well. Since the Nicolaitans were called so after Nicholas and there is a gnostic work that goes by the gospel of Philip, it is easy to assume that the apostle Philip or some disciple of his was the other protoapostate. However, this is completely in the mists of speculation and since the Bible testifies of Philip as being tested and led by the Holy Spirit, it is rather unlikely. This much we know about the link.

One can't help but wonder if the next entity in the male-male-female trinity line is some masculinized Mary or an effeminated Christ, or both. Seeing that the spiritual Egyptians are preparing for a grand return on the world stage, the gender equalizing must be more than visible, it must be the highlight contour of this grand re-entrance of the real "god". To wedge in the Trinity might just be more damning than to replace it altogether. After all, God does not like to share his glory with another. Which was what Satan has been trying to do ever since Noah's sons populated the world.

 

Satan's new testament - the Egyptian connection , "It is I whom am a man, you who are women"

 

Since there is "nothing new under the sun" we are bound to find the contours of the current social and even geopolitical situation back in the corridors of time. Concretely, since we are the brink of the final (hopefully) refounding and reunification of the (un)Holy Roman Empire, we must look at the point in history where its shape was forming. The Satanic project for the Roman Empire was for it to be an inheritor of all paganism and a sworn enemy to the people of God at a time when there was a mingling of religions and cultures under the wing of Rome. And as we all know too well, all pagan religions and heresies morphed into the state church of Constantine. This ancient pagan hatred towards the hyper-masculine monarchical God, our God the Father and His Christ and Spirit, embedded in humanity, underlies the efforts for a new liberal, human-rights based, eco-feminist ecumenist civilization which, from its newfound strength, will attempt to annul everything Christ stands for - patriarchy (the Father), sola Christus (real Jesus), Apocalypticism (the Spirit of prophecy) etc.

The core nature of the citizen of this civilization is supposed to be of a earth-conscious and female-conscious earthling who has vowed to protect the feelings of mankind and the future of the planet. These feelings and this future are nothing more than the self-righteous ambition that has commenced with Cain who made cursed earth his home and his kingdom, and was the first to advance civilization. One of the most revolting aspect of the spirit of pride and arrogance that underlies the end stage development of civilization is the rejection of male/female identity. Or in other words "transgenderism.". In a recent segment on Fox News, Tucker Carl-son, an agitator for the conservative cause, gave a surprisingly accurate description of the mindsets of both christians and trans-people.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya8Ab-xYig0

Transgenders claim power and dominion over nature that has never been given to man. Whereas christians acknolwedge guilt and the resulting loss of dominion over creation. In other words, christians are content with their stations, and transgenders are not. And both sides consider their position "gospel". Which leads to apparently contradictory philosophies at the most basic level of identity - the human sex. Now what is the matter here? Isn't Tucker right? Of course he is. But what he conveniently omits in his analysis is that there is a final goal - to reconciliate both groups, but only after a blood bath has occurred and everyone considers reconciliation a miracle. Talking partisan heads like Carson are the fuel to the fire, the catalysts to a very malevolent scheme. The apogee of the present conflict is far from reached - there needs to be blood in order to have a piedestal for the peace-maker, aka Mary or rather the Mary-Jesus alchemical alloy. An apparition of both at the same time is certainly possible. As I previously discussed, the goal of the RCC is to unify the male and female, Jesus and Mary, the masculine East and Feminine west, under the secret power of the sorcery of Rome. What concerns us is not what the exact final form of it, but that it is not simply discarding one, but elevating one at the expense of the other in the amalgamation. The goal of feminism, transgenderism, elevating Mary etc is both to dethrone the man and enthrone the woman while appearing to reconcile them as if the male has been an usurper. Whatever the final result may be isn't entirely clear, but the expense in the case of christians vs liberals will be the claim to exclusivity of the radical viewpoint that has been promulgated by force. And part of that radical viewpoint is the Bible and its distinctive doctrines.



The christians in the US are the pro-gun party which represents fundamentalists from all over the world, and have been calling for a revolt, secession, or at least armed resistance, so they will have to renounce the claim to exclusivity and the right to evangelize as their credibility and legitimacy will have been destroyed. Not that they have much credibility and legitimacy already - pope Francis once said (and we know he says nothing but that which can be accepted by the world) that a fundamentalist, even if he doesn't hurt anyone, is violent. Fundamentalism has to go. But only hyper-masculine and "aggressive""doctrines must be emasculated. Good ole family values and roles will be upheld. as long as they are limited to the privacy of the home. That will be considered the only sensible solution to prevent another conflict. And the paranoia of the "conservatives" will be quelled. Bibles will be edited, preachers will be muzzled and even if the "conservative" religion retains its conservative character, the power, freedom, apocalyptic urgency, purity of the gospel, will be gone. The Pharaoh was happy for the jews to sacrifice in Egypt, as long as they blended in Egypt. He was unhappy at the promises of God - both positive and negative. (Exodus 8:25).

Gender fluid to fill the cup of abominations

But why transgenderism - why is it the champion of the dark powers of this world? Not just because it is a gross violation of nature, an apostatic catastrophic abandonment of the creative purpose of male and female stations (Jude 1:6-7). But also to provoke a fearful survivalist response in the psyche of christians. Threatening one's property is not good enough, the progeny and genitals are far more precious and close to "home". In this Satan has proven himself a masterful tactician, using this boogeyman as a driving force in his new scheme (Fear- Hebrews 2:15; Isaiah 8:12). But there is more - by polarizing society so much, the gnostic alchemists seek to prove their power over opposites. As the war drags on, societies become split into camps diametrically opposite on almost any issue. In fact, so opposite, that if one doesnt suspect that something is amiss, his intelligence can be rightfully brought into question. Now in this the ambition is clear - to do what Moses couldn't. After all, as we already saw, the spiritual re-incarnation (if one can say that) of the ancient Egyptian priesthood lives on as todays secret societies. As we all too well know, Moses couldn't reconcile the conflicting jews and was driven away (Exodus 2:13). Now Jesus himself admitted that he is not here to provide peace between men - in fact the opposite. Of course that didn't come from lack of ability but of the nature and purpose of the gospel - to divide. And we are carried back to the discussion of separation. Where Moses and Jesus failed or where they did wrong  - in separating the sexes and separating nations (as both drew a sword against their kingmen - the law and gospel) - the alchemists will claim victory or do right. According to the alchemical formula:

                         "Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought."

Transgenderism is no new thing under the sun or rather from hell. The lack of binary sexual identity was present in ancient Egyptian culture, which had a third gender....

Thus it is often said that Neith is both feminine and masculine – “two thirds masculine, one third feminine,” (Esna, vol. 5, p. 110) – both mother and father, “who inaugurated birth when birth had not yet been,” (Lichtheim, vol. 3, p. 38), having “appeared from herself,” (Esna, vol. 5, p. 253). The primordial register in which Neith’s cosmogonic activity occurs can be seen from the fact that, in the version from Esna, Neith brings forth both Re, the principle of cosmic order, and Apophis, the principle of entropy.

Neith

https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/neith/

It is curious that when the desert fathers and mothers appeared, gender identities again became blurred, partly due to the asexual nature of ascetism, but mostly due to the demonic spirit of pride occupying the skulls of the ascetics. This usurping spirit is evident in the sayings of one notable desert "mother":

Amma Sarah lived in the desert of Peluseum, perhaps situated in the Arsinoite or Fayyum area. She evidently encountered masculine doubts concerning her valid identity as a desert-dweller. Her sayings include the assertion, addressed to male ascetics: "It is I whom am a man, you who are women"

 

 The contagious nature of this rebellion against every institution (remember, the openly gnostic fathers and mothers of the desert fathers and mothers were fighting against all authority, and especially against Christ who concentrates all authority in Heaven and Earth) can be seen in the fact that the social atmosphere in this church period had drastically changed - so much so that the once patriarchal and monarchical Empire was being emasculated, which is the true process underlying  "christianity weakening the Roman empire". In this sense the gnostics accomplished their task of pulling down the power of the authoritarian monarchic masculine Emperor - the Empire - with the massive drain of human potential into monasteries and deserts - then was giving way to the masculine East - the Eurasian steppe and its never-ending torrents of invading barbarian tribes.  The so called church fathers, however, being part of the intellectual elite, had no issue with the loss of traditional roles and identities, as they considered themselves and their followers sexless angel-like humans who had transcended the mundane.

By "divesting themselves of sexual indentification" the ascetics attempted to divest themselves from humanity altogether and enter a new mode of existence - of saviors of the human race, usurpers of God. This ambitious spirit of rebellion had darkened their ancestors the Egyptians and gnostics so much , that they believed that their true god was virginal hermaphrodite caricature that polluted itself. The name of the game is always the same - pulling down God to the level of fallen humanity, and exalting humanity to the level of God. But first it must be proven that other identities once thought of as shatterproof can be destroyed.  First man(woman) must be exalted, then God pulled down. Jesus can't be allowed to be separate from sinners. Or women. It is an attempt, rightfully noted by Avles of the spirithismouth.blogspot.com blog to merge the body of Christ with the world and deface it. This is the reason the exaltation of the female deity remains to be seen - there needs to be some groundwork done. The daring insolence of this spirit explains why we frequently find in the blasphemous vocabulary of the feminists words like "fragile", "weak", "basic"

. The distrust and ill feeling of the rulers of the Roman empire towards the ascetics was justified. They sensed in them more than an aspiration to power - but a madness that went into unspeakable heights.  In ancient society the move to become a monk/nun was even more scandalous and radical than today. It was a venture beyond nature, custom, common sense... it was mystical and outrageous...sensational and courageous. In reality it was a burst of mania before death, an abomination of civilizations that had overstayed their welcome and under the influence of Satan were mutating like end stage cancer cells. The Roman world had stared at itself self-absorbed for so long it was beginning to obsess with genitals. The term "navel gazing religion" used for self absorbed piety should in reality be renamed "genital gazing". The Bible describes this profanity in Romans 1 as the gradual darkening and debasement of the heathen.

The Rebel Virgins and Desert Mothers Who Have Been Written Out of Christianity’s Early History

From the beginning, the followers of Jesus of Nazareth comprised a movement that was extreme, countercultural—a revolution that embraced both men and women, even social outcasts and slaves. In those first centuries, while the religion was still defining itself as an institution, many devout women flouted cultural convention and chose Jesus himself—not bishops and bureaucrats—as their personal guide. These women had permission to live beyond their gender as the leaders and patrons of local congregations, as preachers and ecstatic prophets and tough ascetics. .......

That said, laws passed by Augustus just before the start of the Common Era still required all upper-class men to marry and all women to procreate, in a return to Roman family values that were largely political myth. Women could only become financially independent—or, simply, independent—if they’d been divorced or widowed or given birth to a minimum of three children. To escape this system, some upper-class women went so far as to register as prostitutes in order to have free rein with their own money......

They flaunted their independence from men, refusing to hide away or to veil themselves, rubbing their ethical superiority in married couples’ faces. They dressed to make a statement, sometimes adopting men’s clothing and hairstyles (some sheared their heads entirely), and preached in the streets in drag. Women of all social strata, in a move that evokes the late-1960s hippie exodus from the American suburbs, were abandoning their parents and husbands and homes to follow Christian prophets who claimed to offer a starker, truer interpretation of the gospel, and a chaste life as equals alongside equally devout men. Together, the


https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rebel-virgins-and-desert-mothers-who-have-been-written-out-of-christianitys-early-history

The article is very plain but several things stand out. First, in a nod to Romanism and its continuous novelties, the phrase "religion still defining itself" implies that christianity was a non settled by truth religion that somehow evolved and perhaps continues to evolve. Secondly we see how the pendulum swing effect created monstrosities - the policies of Augustus oppressing women just created more rebellion that broke out as non traditional roles. The same development can be observed today in the USA where, after the hyper masculine post war 40s and 50s, the sexual revolution and second/third wave feminism broke out. China and the muslim world - same thing. Anyone knowing a number of Chinese and liberal Arab women knows that patriarchal practices and attitudes like foot binding and hijabs have created the most hyper-feminist and unbridled women of our generation. A counterculture as much as anti-god-ism.

It is worth noting that in those times only very few had the time and resources to be infected with the feminist disease. Today, with the growing middle and high classes, the disease can spread further. Capitalism's alienating (rightfully noted by Marx) influence exacerbates the polarization and war between the sexes. Conservatives are right in saying that the rich world men built is coming back to bite them. However the perceived weakness is irrelevant due to the fact that there will be no barbarian invasions to be had in our day. Today, women are becoming more like men due to better informed and safeguarded choices, and men are becoming more like women due to the lack of challenges from outside invaders and hardship that demands manual/physical labor. And our attitude towards nature will not be domination (like the trans community claims) or subordination (like the conservatives claim), but cooperation. The new Roman empire isn't culling the able bodied men to launch a military invasion, but is preparing them for a non-exclusively male god.... by showing them the evil and uselessness of extreme manliness. This alchemical process of both polarization and amalgamation is the leaven which will make the "christian" dough rise in the hands of the wicked woman.


  The fact of the matter is that after the turmoil of the 4th and 5th centuries Roman Catholic society eventually stabilized and marriage was returned to its rightful place. Cooler heads prevailed, since the barbarian menace was growing and getting worse. 

Something like that may be in the papacy's  books for today as well. After a period of polarization and radicalization and global crises, there should come a golden age of mutual understanding and coexistence, with the condition that both sides need to find the golden middle, lay their evangelizing "weapons"of indoctrination and turn against the real problems facing the world - pollution, AI, war, aliens etc. The jesuits can't turn the world into a giant monastery.... but they can turn it into a giant village full of superstitious people who are thankful for the order and peace brought by eliminating fundamentalism and tackling the "real" problems (not sin). A new digital dark age is coming for the now global village. There will be a crying need for humility and understanding each other to work together for the salvation of humanity..... and the gods - i.e. everything we have worked for. 

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. Isaiah 9:10

Ancient Egypt's populace took active part in the salvation of their own gods - the Barque of Ra needed the help of the adepts and dead Osiris was chanted to life. It is no different in the liturgies of both East and West, where the salvation of the human race and the planet is predicated on the sacerdotal role of the priest who creates god in the material world and deifies the world at the same time. A religion that reconciles the ever warring sexes and exalts man so high as to make him a savior of the gods must be extremely appealing to the flesh.