Lying on stained & wretched sheets w/a bleeding Virgin. We could plan a murder, or Start a religion.
—Jim Morrison
The Aeon of Harpocrates is not an Aeon that comes after the Aeon of Horus. The real Aeon of Harpocrates is contemporaneous with the Aeon of Horus.
The Word of the Aeon of Horus is “Thelema”, whose number is 93. The Word of the Aeon of Harpocrates is ‘Athelema’, whose number is 94.
The Aeon of Horus is the Aeon of the passionate Union of opposites. Its integral Union is the Union of Isis and Osiris.
Isis (with Osiris beside her)
Osiris (with Isis below him)
Horus/Harpocrates
Ma’at/Isis (with Osiris beside her)
Osiris is the male who divides the male from the female. Horus is the male who unites the male with the female.
“The essential characteristic of the Grade [of Magus] is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word, which transforms the planet on which he lives by the installation of new officers to preside over its initiation. This can take place only at an ‘Equinox of the Gods’ at the end of an ‘Aeon’; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development.
(Thus ‘Suckling’ is the formula of an infant: when teeth appear it marks a new ‘Aeon’, whose ‘Word’ is ‘Eating’).
A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at intervals of some centuries; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph.
This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make personal progress equivalent to that of a ‘Word of an Aeon’; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living.” (Crowley, “One Star in Sight”.)