Heru-ra-ha

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Heru-ra-ha is a composite deity within Thelema—a religion established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley—composed of Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Hoor-par-kraat.^[1] He is associated with the other two major Thelemic deities found in The Book of the Law, Nuit and Hadit, who are also godforms related to ancient Egyptian mythology. Their images link Nuit and Hadit to the established Egyptian deities Nut and Hor-Bhdt (Horus of Edfu).

Contents 1 Active aspect 2 Passive aspect 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References

[edit] Active aspect

Ra-Hoor-Khuit (Egyptian: Ra-Har-Khuti), more commonly referred to by the Greek transliteration Ra-Herakhty, means "Ra (who is) Horus on the Horizon."^[2] An appellation of Ra, identifying him with Horus, this name shows the two as manifestations of the singular Solar Force. Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the speaker in the Third Chapter of The Book of the Law. Some quotes from his Chapter:

• "Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance." ^[3]
• "Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms." ^[4]
• "I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any!" ^[5]
• "There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt." ^[6]

Within Thelema, Ra-Hoor-Khuit is called the Lord of the Aeon (which began in 1904 according to Thelemic doctrine), and The Crowned and Conquering Child.

According to the instructions that Crowley claimed to have received from the 8th Enochian Aethyr, the six-pointed "star of flame" symbolizes Ra-Hoor-Khuit while the two constituent triangles refer to Nuit and Hadit.^[7]

[edit] Passive aspect

Hoor-pa-kraat (Egyptian: Har-par-khered), more commonly referred to by the Greek transliteration Harpocrates, means "Horus the Child"; Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, distinguished from Horus the Elder, who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt; but the worship of the two gods became confused early in Egyptian history and the two essentially merged^{[citation needed]}. Represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. The Greeks,^[8] Ovid and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn attributed Silence to him, presumably because the sucking of the finger is suggestive of the common "shhh" gesture.

Also known as "The Babe in the Lotus", Hoor Paar Kraat is sometimes thought of as the Baby Ra Hoor Khuit and sometimes as the son of Ra Hoor Khuit.^{[citation needed]} Heru Ra Ha, is Crowley's term for the Thelemite version of the Holy Trinity (in Hinduism known as the Trimurti) Heru Horus- Conquering Child, Ra - fiery Father and Ha - joyous spirit).^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Horus
• Nuit
• Hadit

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Book of Thoth, XX, The Aeon.
2. ^ See for example Seattle Art Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The latter also shows the winged sun globe in connection with "the new idea that the deceased could become one with the sun god, previously only a royal prerogative."
3. ^ AL III:3
4. ^ AL III:17
5. ^ AL III:46
6. ^ AL III:60
7. ^ Liber VIII and Liber 418, 8th Aethyr
8. ^ http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Harpokrates.html

[edit] References

• Crowley, Aleister. The Book of the Law.
• Crowley, Aleister. The Book of Thoth.