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AFU-RĀ, i.e. THE SUN-GOD RĀ IN-THE-FLESH, DEAD
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symbol of the Incarnate God,— the Higher Self involved in matter of
the planes of manifestation during the Cycle of Life, and
indiscernible (dead) to the lower consciousness.
“Sun is dead, but "In the cabin of the boat stands the Sun-god, with
a sceptre in one hand, and the sign of life in the other, his head
is a ram's head surmounted by the solar disk. This god is Af Ră,
Flesh of Ră,'- not Rā himself, for the his flesh and blood. In front
of the cabin stands Apuat, Opener of the Ways,' a form of Anubis,
whose office it was to introduce the soul of Ra as well as the souls
of departed men into the underworld." - WIEDEMANN, Rel. of the
Egyptians, pp. 86, 87.
“The boat" is a symbol of the World-soul or prototypal causal-body
which passes through the Cycle of Life (the Tuat) and contains
cabined God, which ram-headed, represents the Higher Self sacrificed
for humanity, the "Lamb (Ram) slain from the foundation of the
world." God limits and obscures himself in producing his creatures.
He involves himself in matter, and thus is sacrificed that we may
live in him. "Anubis" is a symbol of the human body of flesh which
introduces the Divine and human souls to the physical existence
which carries with it astral and mental activities of the lower
planes (the underworld). In the early human races, the " opener of
the ways" of life may be a buddhic, mental, or astral body, prior to
the formation of a physical body. Hence the relation of “ Apuat to
"Anubis."
“On looking into the Boat of the Sun-god we see that this deity has
transformed himself, and that he no longer appears as a fiery disk,
but as a ram-headed man, who stands within a shrine; in other words
Ra has taken the form of Osiris. The name given to this form is Af,
or Afu, which means literally 'flesh,' and a dead body'; it was as a
dead body that Osiris first entered the Tuat, and those who wished
to become what he became subsequently had to enter the Tuat as dead
bodies and with the attributes wherewith he entered it." - BUDGE,
Egypt. Heav. and Hell, Vol. III. p. 106.
“It must be remembered that "corpse" or dead body is symbol of the
lower self or personality in its natural aspect of possessing no
sign of Divine life. Osiris (Christ) enters the lower nature in
evolution as a completely hidden Spirit, and every spiritual ego
follows the same course. Osiris passes successfully through all
states of the lower nature and carries his Osirified egos with him
to rise finally to life immortal. "For if we have become united with
him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness
of his resurrection" (Roм. vi. 5).
“From first to last Osiris was to the Egyptians the God-man who
suffered and died and rose again and reigned eternally in heaven.
They believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had
done, provided that what was done for him by the gods, was done for
them." - BUDGE, Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II. p. 126.
“This Self is hidden in all living things, it shines not forth; but
it is seen by the keen and penetrating mind of those that see into
the supersensible." - Katha Upanishad, III.
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