- Author
- FraterP (Frater Praemonstro), Order of the Thelemic Golden Dawn
- Published
- 10 April 2020 (updated 15 April 2020)
- Kind
- Occult essay on a practitioner's order website, openly speculative
- Original
- www.praemonstro.com/post/hru-and-hua-enochian-angels-demons-gods-horus-hga-tarot-or-egregore
- Subject
- Occult, myth and religion
- Themes
- Belief at work, How forms evolve
What it is
FraterP writes on the site of the Order of the Thelemic Golden Dawn. The essay asks why Hru and Hua recur in magical texts over four centuries.
What it says
- Both names appear in John Dee's Enochian notes. One dictionary calls Hru a minor angel and Hua a cacodemon.
- In the Golden Dawn, Hru presides over secret wisdom and tarot. Hua is the avenging angel who punishes oath-breakers.
- Hua is also a Hebrew god-name in Kether. Crowley wrote of Hua as God in a poem.
- The author cites Crowley's advice to unite opposites such as god and devil. One name may then serve both roles.
- Crowley writes in the Book of Thoth that Heru is identical with Hru. Hru is the Angel set over the Tarot.
- The author speculates that Mathers inserted a coded Horus egregore into the Golden Dawn. The author admits the evidence is sparse.
What evidence it gives
The essay relies on quotations from Dee-related dictionaries, Golden Dawn instructions, and works by Crowley. It matches spellings and correspondences. It offers no historical document showing the intent it proposes.
Interests and limits
The author belongs to a magical order. The essay is written as occult speculation. The author states that the evidence is sparse and rests on conjecture. The claims of a hidden egregore are not testable. Quoted sources were not checked.