Horus (Heru)-"The Highest" (Number 10 representative of the highest number of the original unity. At Ten, Horus is the new One; the return to Source); His name means 'He who is above". He was the outcome of the heavenly marriage between Isis and the holy ghost of Osiris. The reverence of the Ausar/Auset/Heru (Osiris/Isis/Horus) Triad/Trinity was the focal point of the Egyptian theology. Horus is the Greek translation of the Egyptian Heru. Alchemically, Horus symbolises the joining of Spirit (Osiris) and Matter (Isis).

The legend of his miraculous conception goes as follows: The evil Set (representing darkness/chaos); brother of Isis -(representing creation/light)and Osiris-(representing truth/order) murdered Osiris, cutting his body into fourteen pieces dispersing them in various places. Isis, joined by her sister Nephthys, her nephew Anubis, and their uncle Thoth (God of Wisdom & Magic) travelled far and wide until she located every piece of the body except the phallus.

Isis fashioned a wooden facsimile of the missing member, pieced the body together, and brought it to Abydos fo burial. Together with Nephthys, Anubis and Thoth, Isis wept bitterly over her husband’s remains and chanted magically. Thoth made the full force of his magical powers available to her, and Osiris was temporarily restored to life so that Horus could be conceived.

The story of Horus is allegorical in the sense that his journey resonates with human ascension / alchemy; As we rise up the djed (sacred pathway of the chakras) to expanded states of consciousness.