Where is the stele of revealing

Lutea suggests that the name may be closely related to the Ankh, which is both a tool and a symbol meaning 'new life. Lutea the entire name may be translated as 'the truth that has crossed over. As we mentioned, the Ankh is a mysterious ancient Egyptian symbol with many meanings and unknown history.

It is one of many important ancient Egyptian symbols. But is there really a connection between the Ankh and the priest Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu?

In Egyptian mythology, Khonsu is the god of the moon and he plays an important role in the creation of new life in all living creatures. Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu would most likely remain one of many Egyptian artifacts and go unnoticed, but it caught the eye of British occultist Aleister Crowley — and it has been connected with him and his new religion Thelema, ever since. During a visit to Cairo in , Crowley and his wife Rose saw the stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu and Crowley became convinced that the stele had been produced to commemorate his own death years ago.

Khonsu , the ancient Egyptian moon-god, was depicted either as a falcon wearing the moon-disk on his head left or as the child of Amun and Mut.

Credit: Public Domain. Crowley came to believe that he was a reincarnation of priest Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu. He claimed that this knowledge came to him while he heard the voice from an entity he called Aiwass who dictated to him Liber al vel Legis, the Book of the Law. Crowley was the scribe, so he must have been Ankh-f-n-khonsu, or so he said. Of course, the belief in reincarnation was not an Egyptian concept. Ancient Egyptians believed in afterlife , but they did not consider it likely that a soul left a body and then returned to a different body.

This notion did not stop Crowley who now believed that he was the prophet of a New Age, the Aeon of Horus. When Crowley and his wife Rose visited the museum to look at the stele they noticed its catalogue number was , a number holding religious significance in Thelema. The importance of religion to humanity is paramount. This claim implies the possibility of knowledge derived from sources other than the unaided investigation of nature through the senses and the intellect.

It postulates, therefore, the existence of one or more praeter-human intelligences, able and willing to communicate, through the medium of certain chosen man, to mankind a truth or truths which could not otherwise be known. Religion is justified in demanding faith, since the evidence of the senses and the mind cannot confirm its statements. The evidence from prophecy and miracle is valid only in so far as it goes to the credit of the man through whom the communication is made.

It establishes that he is in possession of knowledge and power different, not only in degree but in kind, from those enjoyed by the rest of man kind.

But [Rose Kelly] recognised it! There was the image of Horus in the form of Ra Hoor Khuit painted upon a wooden stele of the 26th dynasty—and the exhibit bore the number ! Horus has a red Disk and green Uraeus. His face is green, his skin indigo. His necklace, anklets, and bracelets are gold.

His nemyss nearly black from blue. Green is the wand of double Power; his r. His throne is indigo the gnomon, red the square. The light is gamboge. Above his are the Winged Globe and the bent figure of the heavenly Isis, her hands and feet touching earth. Unity uttermost showed! Appear on the throne of Ra!

Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit! Bid me within thine House to dwell, O winged snake of light, Hadith! Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit! Saith of Mentu the truth-telling brother Who was master of Thebes from his birth: O heart of me, heart of my mother!

O heart which I had upon earth! Above them stretches Nut or Nuit, the goddess of the night sky, whose hands and feet touch the ground. These illustrations are followed by five lines of hieroglyphs, which are continued with an additional eleven lines on the reverse side.

The tablet comprises the essence of the cosmogony of the Egyptian priesthood and it is also a magical talisman designed to facilitate the success of the prophet Ankh-f-n-khonsu in the after-death state. Egyptian religion was intricately interwoven with magical beliefs and practices. The hieroglyphic inscription on the obverse side of the stele contains a hymn addressed to Nuit, who is the personification of the stars of the night sky and hence of space , and to the Solar Deity Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the Warrior who instills fear in the hearts of the other gods.

The inscription on the reverse side consists of spells to aid the prophet in the judgment after death, and to assure him of powers in the afterworld, including the ability to return to Earth. From its heights of achievement in the 18 th dynasty, Egyptian culture deteriorated under the stresses of competing forces from the Hittite and Assyrian empires, economic crisis and political corruption.

The 25 th dynasty began with the Ethiopian conquest of Egypt under Piankhi of Napata. The dynasty stayed in power until Egypt was taken in the Assyrian invasion of BC. Piankhi became the first king of the 25 th dynasty after successfully overcoming the short-lived 24 th dynasty that had been established by Tefnakht.

They represented the mysterious forces of nature as they appeared to the imaginative minds of this creative and mystical culture. In a poetic paraphrase of the inscriptions on the obverse side of the stele, she is introduced:. Above, the gemmed azure is The naked splendour of Nuit; She bends in ecstasy to kiss The secret ardors of Hadit.

The prophet identifies himself before the gods and invokes the supreme power of the solar warrior-lord:.