ANTINOUS and the Imperial entourage were in the ancient city of Hermopolis during the celebration of the Death and Resurrection of Osiris.
It is believed that the forces of this occasion, and the mysteries divulged to him by the Hermetic priests of the god Thoth, were the inspiration for this ascension into godliness.
The story is that Isis returned from Phoenicia with the sarcophagus containing the body of Osiris.
With the assistance of Thoth, she brought life back into the dead body, and hovering over the body in the form of a bird, she became impregnated with Horus who would avenge his father.
Set, however discovered that the body of Osiris had returned to Egypt and together with seventy-two accomplices, he attacked it and torn in into pieces, scattering the fragments up and down the valley of the Nile, like the seeds that are scattered over the fields when the Nile recedes.
The festival of Osiris celebrated at Hermopolis and observed by Hadrian and Antinous commemorated the rending of the body of Osiris and the searching of Isis for each of the parts.
Like Osiris, Antinous descended into the Nile, and arose to bring the blessing of eternal life to the world.
The religion of Antinous, like the body of Osiris was scattered over the face of the world, and we who worship him, are like Isis, gathering the fragments together again.
Hermopolis was the last city that Antinous ever saw, and the Passion of Osiris was the last religious ceremony in which he took part.
Certainly it was here and at this time that an awakening occurred, dark in its implications, causing Antinous to relinquish his life, but it was of splendid power in that from the death of the boy, a god emerged.
We observe that in Hermopolis, the scattering of the body of Osiris was the moment when the sperm of the blessed one was planted in the immortal spirit of Antinous, Our God.
~ANTONIUS SUBIA
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