Ra•Tum•Khephra•Ahathoor

These four gods — Ra, Ahathoor, Tum, and Khephra — are saluted in Liber Resh and voice the first four chapters of the Book of Codes. I discuss the ritual in Liber Resh Annotated.

There are two patterns that stand out to me regarding Ra and Tum, Khephra and Ahathoor.

The first pattern appears in the Book of Codes, chapter 3: verses 16 and 17. Its temporal scope is not only a day or a year, but an entire lifetime in the world.

We human animals, the incarnations of our Eternal Selves, are represented by the Beast mentioned below.

My notes are encapsulated in [square brackets] in verses 16 and 17 of the third chapter of the Book of Codes.

718,3:16. Book of Codes,
chapter 3: verse 16
Study the threefold Book and the Book of Thoth; all works of Science are useful unto you. Yet become not as the Din who read and memorize, compare and analyze, yet are devoid of practice. The rituals shall be performed according to season, as of old. Let the year begin at the Yuletide [Capricorn–Khephra] with a beautiful invocation of Earth []: for this represents the birth of the Beast out of the darkness of Time. Thou shalt make merry by nature, for the waxing of the Sun is powerful to uplift the Spirit.

718,3:17. Book of Codes,
chapter 3: verse 17
The Ram’s Equinox [Aries–Ra] shall be to you the celebration of fire []: and these feasts and rituals thou shalt celebrate as of old. Luna’s Solstice [Cancer–Ahathoor] shall be Water [] to my chosen, and the Fall of the Sun [Libra–Tum] shall be known to you as Wind []. For the Babe is born in the womb of the Mother [Capricorn–Khephra], becomes inflamed as Therion the Great [Aries–Ra], unites with the Lady in the heat of celestial procreation [Cancer–Ahathoor], ascends unto the Consciousness of Nu [Libra–Tum], and is subsequently reborn [Capricorn–Khephra]. This is the scheme of the most ancient mythos, to be enacted once again by the maenads of Thelema.

We are born in Capricorn — Atu XV The Devil, Khephra — and are children in Winter.
We experience puberty in Aries — Atu IV The Emperor, Ra — and adolescence during Spring.
We procreate in Cancer — Atu VII The Chariot, Ahathoor — and bring up our children in the Summer of our lives.
We are old and hopefully wise, walking on three legs (with a staff or cane), in Libra — Atu VIII Adjustment, Tum — experiencing senescence and death in the Fall.
The subsequent incarnation of our Holy Guardian Angel is born in Capricorn as the cycle begins again.

The other pattern that strikes me follows the precise order of the four names given in the Book of the Law, chapter 3: verse 38.

zodiac with cardinal signs — Ra = Aries = Tzedeq = Justice.
Tum = Libra = Scales of Justice.
Khephra = sun of midnight, ever the son = 777.
Ahathoor = Het (418) + Horus (359) = 777.

The light is mine; its rays consume
      Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
      Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
      The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

– 220,3:38

Ra (Aries) and Tum (Libra) represent the axis of the equinoxes. צTzedeq (90), Tzedeq, is the Hebrew letter to which Aries in the east is attributed. Tzedeq means that which is just or righteous. The sign Libra, לLamed (30), Lamed, symbolises law and learning, the Scales of Justice in the west. Both Aries in the east and Libra in the west denote justice, the first as active righteousness, the second as passive adjudication.

Khephra is (Capricorn), שטןShin (300)
Tet (9)
Nun (50)
Satan (359), 359 at Yuletide in the north. Ahathoor is (Cancer), חיתHet (8)
Yod (10)
Tav (400)
Het (418), 418 in the south. Both solstices are 777.

Ra-Hoor-Khuit says in his chapter of the Book of the Law,

220,3:74. Book of the Law,
chapter 3: verse 74
There is a splendour in my name hidden
and glorious, as the sun of midnight is
ever the son.

The “sun of midnight” is Khephra in the north. The “son” of 666 is 777.

Aleister Crowley’s comment on 220,3:74 is as follows.

Perhaps refers to the addition of the name to 418. But Khephra is the Sun at midnight in the North. Now in the North is Taurus, the Bull, Apis the Redeemer, the Son.
– Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law, ed. Symonds & Grant, Crowley’s comment on 220,3:74.

The “name” is Satan (359). The addition of the name to 418 = 777.

The constellation Taurus is indeed in the northern sky. Apis, the sacred bull and son of Ahathoor, is born at the midnight of the year in the northern hemisphere.

In verse 14 of his chapter of the Book of Codes, Khephra says:

718,4:14. Book of Codes,
chapter 4: verse 14
I am Satan. Yes! Didst thou not know? I believe you did. But what ye all know not is that I am not only King of Hell, but Lord also of Heaven. My name is three-hundred and fifty-nine; that is half 718, which is the number of this Book of Codes. Why half? Thou shalt know that the half must be united.

Satan (359), the Holy Guardian Angel, must be united with their Thelemite (777) incarnation in the Angel-Beast temple, Het (418), the Khu. The Khabs (359) is in the Khu (418), per 220,1:8.

break-out of hierogliph Het and Hor, Hathor

The Sun in the earth, who pokes out as volcanoes with lakes of fire and brimstone in their calderas in ancient myths, is the same Sun as the Sun in the sky. Everything that lives is a child of sunlight and liquid water.

The Book of the Law defines hell as a “state of manyhood bound and loathing.” Heaven, in contrast, is a state of wholeness as to the outer and the inner.

Khephra and Apis are gods of resurrection. Satan — Sun-god of nature’s cycles — is consciousness (Shin – Atu XX The Universe) continued (Nun – Atu XIII Death) by procreation (Tet – Atu XI Lust). Khephra is the dung beetle who buries the old Sun in the earth at sunset and pushes the new Sun out of the earth at dawn, in ancient Egyptian myths.

The Secret Name of Horus is Satan. In fact, all Sun gods are Satan, the god of nature. This reveals something interesting about verse 49 in Nuit’s chapter of the Book of the Law.

220,1:49. Book of the Law,
chapter 1: verse 49
Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all
words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath
taken his seat in the East at the Equinox
of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa,
who also are one. But they are not of
me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the
sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and
splendour is the Lord initiating.

Asar is Osiris. Isa ibn Maryam, is Jesus son of Mary. Hoor, Heru, Hre is the Sun-god Horus. “Hoor in his secret name and splendour” is Satan, each individual’s own Holy Guardian Angel.

My Satan is a real symbol in the form of an imaginary person which represents the living cycles of nature: birth, puberty, procreation, death, and rebirth.

777, the “son,” symbolises the Holy Guardian Angel (359) in its temple (House 418), the definition of a Thelemite. See 220,1:39-40.

Two Patterns:

The cycle of a day is represented in Liber Resh. The cycle of a year is represented in the zodiac [see graphic above]. The cycle of a lifetime is represented in the Book of Codes, chapter 3: verses 16 and 17. It is the same cycle at different time scales. Being explicitly aware of these symbols, in their appropriate times, permits us to intuitively triangulate the centre of the circle.
The cross — right to left (Ra and Tum), top to bottom (Khephra and Ahathoor) — represents the union of extremes: spring and fall on the one hand, winter and summer on the other. Aries and Libra, righteousness and justice, are the equinoxes. Capricorn and Cancer, Satan (359) and the House 418, are the solstices.

Both patterns make connections with nature.

718,4:13. Book of Codes,
chapter 4: verse 13
Say farewell to the old, the new is yet to come. It shall rise as the great God Phallo in his lust of love. My people shall establish such an hardness of realization in due course of time. So much, so much to be done, my scribe. Thou hast the ability to transform our Lady’s sister for thou understandest thine unity with both earth and sky.

Ra and Tum,Khephra and Ahathoor

Ra and Tum,
Khephra and Ahathoor