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• 1.
Consciousness: reflective awareness, reasoning, and the ultimate
nature of an individual. This may also be thought of a an aspect of the
Gift of Set.
•2. Action: the power to make manifest or to cause change,
creation, and self-unfolding, as well as the ability to extend consciousness
both inward and outward. This may also be thought of as an aspect of the
Power of Horus
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3. Skills:
the principle of taking on, changing, or terminating skills. In the subjective
universe these are the skills of thought, feeling, and behavior. In the
objective universe these skills b come the "laws" of nature or the way
things occur, subject to th workings of magic.
The Order
of Horus is a Left-Hand Path initiatory Order, and works with all three
of these principles. The nobles of the Order of Horus are psychecentric
individuals striving for initiation and immortality. By refining the Gift
of Set, each Initiate further develops the first principle. All initiation,
action, and magical practices within the Order of Horus are designed to
further this Left-Hand Path initiation into selfhood.
This initiatory
work is furthered by the second principle: the taking of action. By taking
action one's sense of self is reinforced and further defined. When an
individual acts, he affirms himself as the creator and cause of the action
and its result. By extending and manifesting one's own unique selfhood
into the subjective and objective universes, nobles of the Order of Horus
further both their selves and their power.
The Order
of Horus is further based upon the third principle, which involves self-control
and -mastery. With this principle the workings of magic and yoga take
place as the Initiate develops new skills that further individual initiation,
and casts off old and unwanted habits that limit initiation. In its work
with the third principle, the Order of Horus includes all forms of operative
magic, yoga, and related fields, including traditional initiatory methodologies
as well as modern and postmodern methods.
The Order
of Horus includes, but does not limit itself to a Left-Hand Path training
curriculum based on Aleister Crowley's A.'.A.'. The primary difference
between the Order of Horus system and the traditional A.'.A.'. is that
the Order of Horus assumes that its initiates will choose to become "Black
Brothers" and enter the City of the Pyramids as self-made and -defined
Initiates. Hence the Order of Horus is not tied to an antiquated notion
of initiation that requires teachers and students.
As many people
are familiar with the O.T.O. and similar organizations, it is important
to distinguish the Order of Horus from them. First, while the Order of
Horus includes Thelema as an aeonic Word, its scope within the Order is
primarily restricted to workings dealing with the third principle of skill.
Secondly and more importantly, the Order of Horus is a Left-Hand Path
organization which employs Right-Hand Path methodologies only as useful
to individual Initiates.
The Order
of Horus maintains an internal hierarchy based on a nine- grade system.
However this hierarchy is subordinate to each member of the Order, regardless
of grade, being treated as a noble and of equal dignity with every other
member of the Order. Hence members of the Order are all equal in the sense
of a college of peers or fraternal order.
The Order
of Horus views itself as an Order based on power, action, and creation.
The Order is primarily concerned with the initiation of its members and
the sharing of initiatory methodologies. Adepts II°+ of the Temple of
Set may apply by writing to the Grand
Master. The Order of Horus is selective in its membership, and applicants
should have one or more areas of initiatory expertise with which they
have worked or wish to work.
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