We Can Be Heroes

Wondering what all this warmongering
​'Hero' cult is all about? Here's a clue;

'Every perfected Master becomes a Christ, a Hermes etc. Initiation consists of attaining the Master-state. A failure to understand these symbols & allegories resulted in the crude dogma of popular theology. Many have read this later though into the Mysteries themselves, & have supposed that the rites merely symbolised the death & resurrection of some Hero or Demi-God, some special divine personage who was considered by the celebrants as a God. According to this the aspirant was representing the death & resurrection of the God from whom the Mysteries derived their name. This crude conception falls far short of the reality, for the cosmic aspect of all these religious tragedies was symbolised by the activity of the Logos in the universe, but these Sun Myths also typify the mystic life of the Initiate. The Initiate did not merely represent some Hero, he was the Hero himself, & the rites typified what he became, a Buddha, a Christ, a Mithra etc...'
- 'Ancient Mysteries & Modern Masonry' 
By Charles H. Vail.


Meanwhile in Hollywood;

'The Marvel Cinematic Universe has landed one of Hollywood’s biggest fish, it has been revealed, after reports suggested Angelina Jolie is closing a deal to star in a superhero movie based on The Eternals.
No official announcement has been made, but it is understood that Marvel is moving ahead with the project after studio president Kevin Feige confirmed its development last April, as part of Marvel’s so-called “Phase 4”.
The Wrap suggested the central character of The Eternals film – whom Jolie is presumably playing – is called Sersi, one of a group of near-immortal humans given superpowers by aliens. (An online Marvel character profile identifies her with Circe, the witch from Greek myth who appears in Homer’s Odyssey.)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/28/angelina-jolie-joins-marvel-superhero-universe-the-eternals​
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Homer’s Odyssey is a veiled dramatisation of the Ancient Greek Mystery Schools initiation ceremonies.

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'Circe is no other than the Egyptian Isis…...'
- John Fellows,
'The Mysteries of Freemasonry; or, An exposition of the religious dogmas & customs of the ancient Egyptians: showing from the origin, nature & object of the rites & ceremonies of remote antiquity, their identity with the order of modern masonry'(1835).

'The Greeks fix the date of the establishment of The Mysteries of Eleusis at the year 1423 B.C., during the reign of Erechtheus at Athens. According to some authors, they were instituted by Ceres herself; & according to others, by that Monarch, who brought them from Egypt, where, according to Diodiorus of Scicily, he was born. another tradition was, that Orpheus introduced them into Greece, together with the Dionisiac ceremonies, copying the latter from the Mysteries of Osiris, & the former from those of Isis. Nor was it at Athens only, that the Mysteries of Isis, metamorphosed into Ceres…..'
- Albert Pike, Morals & Dogma (1872).

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Left; parade for the Heroes of Jersey.
(Note the stylised 'G')

​'Heroes'

by Crowleyite & Qabbalist David Bowie;

'I, I will be king
& you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day

& you, you can be mean
& I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, & that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, & that is that
Though nothing will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever & ever
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever & ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day

I, I will be king
& you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing by the wall (by the wall)
& the guns shot above our heads (over our heads)
& we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
& the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever & ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes

We're nothing, & nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer, just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh
Just for one day'

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​Left; Harry-Pocrates
Right; Grip of the Fellowcraft Degree of Freemasonry (Scottish Rite).
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