THE GODS 
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Mohammed was in reality a "Master" or messenger of some 
such person , more or less as Aiwass describes himself as "the 
minister of Hoor-paar-kraat ." (AL , I: 7) His name implies 
some such function ; for G.B.R. is Mercury between the Two 
Greater Lights, Sol and Luna . This seems to mean that he is 
something more than a lunar or terrestrial archangel ; as he 
would appear to be from 777. (There now! That was my 
private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our 
Gods!) 
777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the 
Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of 
lexicography 
(for really they are little more) , is our 
text-book . We are bound to · note at once that the Gods 
sympathise , run into one another , coalesce much more 
closely than any other of the Orders of Being. There is not 
really much in common between a jackal and a beetle , or 
between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under 
Pisces or Aries respectively. 
But Adonis, Attis , Osiris, 
Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a whole string of them comes 
tripping off the tongue. They all have histories ; their birth , 
their life, their death , their subsequent career; all goes 
naturally with them exactly as if they were (say) a set of 
warriors , painters , anything 
superbly 
human. 
We feel 
instinctively that we know them, or at least know of them in 
the same sense that we know of our fellow men and women ; 
and that in a sense which never so much as occurs to us when 
we discuss Archangels. The great exception is the Holy 
Guardian Angel; and this as I have shewn in another letter is 
for exactly the same reason; He is a Person , a macrocosmic 
Individual. (We do not know about his birth and so on ; but 
that is because he is, so to speak a private God ; he only 
appears to the world at all through some reference to him by 
his client ; for instance , the genius or Augoeides of Socrates.) 
Let us see how this works in practice. Consider Zeus, 
Jupiter , Amoun-Ra , Indra , etc. , we can think of them as the 
same identical people known and described by Greeks , 
Romans, Egyptians and Hindus ; they differ as Mont Cervin