house of bread

Court of Amen 20

 

Bread of Everlastingness. The "2nd Kether," arrival square. enlightenment can occur at this stage. Third turning square.

Offering of sepulchral food is indicated by the glyph. In my Enochian Chess series, in Book Two "Qabbalah Deconstructed" and in Zenet Three - THE 31st GOD) I look at how Western Cabbalists seemingly copied most of their key concepts from Egyptian sources, Zenet in particular, all of which predate the bible, let alone the Zohar and Sepher Yetsirah.


Amongst the ordinary people it seems the Osirian/Elysian vision of continuation of this lifetime more-or-less but reunited with passed on friends and family was most popular. Amongst intellectuals and the elite priesthood of Amen (Amen Ra) existence in the afterlife was conceived of as being more etherial, bodies or spectators of light, rather than the more human-shaped resurrection envisaged by both Osirians and mystical Christians. 

How the beautified (Justified) passed their time in the Kingdom of Osiris
may be seen from the pictures cut on the alabaster sarcophagus of
Seti I, now preserved in Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn
Fields. Here we see them occupied in producing the celestial food on
which they and the god lived. Some are tending the wheat plants as
they grow, and others are reaping the ripe grain. In the texts that
accompany these scenes the ears of wheat are said to be the "members
of Osiris," and the wheat plant is called the maat plant. Osiris was
the Wheat-god and also the personification of Maat (i.e., Truth), and
the beautified lived upon the body of their god and ate him daily,
and the substance of him was the "Bread of Everlastingness," which
is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts.

In Chapter XLII (Book Coming Forth into Day) every member of the
deceased is put under the protection of, or identified with, a God or
Goddess, e.g., the hair with Nu, the face with Aten (i.e., the solar
disk), the eyes with Hathor, and the deceased exclaims triumphantly,

"There is no member of my body which is not the member of a god." 
One of McGregor Mather's (Golden Dawn founder) favorite sayings. 

In the Book of the Dead CXLVIII, The Chapter of Providing the Deceased 
with Food in Khert-Neter [the Afterlife]: The God addressed is Osiris, 
himself also the Bull of Amenti, so the food that Osiris is asked to 
give is himself. Herein lies the very root of Christianity.

It is clearer if you also read end of the preceding chapter 147:
There is joy of heart for the Bull, and for the celestial beings, and 
for the Company of gods. I am the god, the Bull, the Lord of the gods, 
who maketh his way over the [sky]. O wheat and barley of the nome of 
the god, I have come into thee. I have come forward. This maybe also alludes to the sepulchural bread

When CXLVIII concludes it is the Osiris aspect of Ani that is being 
addressed, and he is also the narrator from the start of the chapter: 
The Osiris Ani whose word is truth saith: ..... Let the Osiris Ani, 
whose word is truth, have glorious power in the Beautiful Amentet."

 Ra is acknowledged also, but not as a self-sacrificing food-providing God.
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Coffin Text,' 330, contains a clear identification of the soul
(Osiris) with grain/ food and the act of digestion.

Whether I live or die I am Osiris,

I enter in and reappear through you,

I decay in you, I grow in you,

I fall down in you, I fall upon my side.

The gods are living in me for I live and grow in the corn

that sustains the Honoured Ones.

I cover the earth,

whether I live or die I am Barley.

I am not destroyed.

I have entered the Order,

I rely upon the Order,

I become Master of the Order,

I emerge in the Order,

I make my form distinct,

I am the Lord -of the Chennet (Granary of Memphis?)

I have entered into the Order,

I have reached its limits. . .