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Perhaps the difference between the two Horuses is not merely a difference between two deities.
Perhaps it is the difference between two sentences.
One sentence rules history.
The other rules heaven.
One creates identityThis — IdentityThis names the formed identity: the body, role, image, wound, belief, or story claimed as what the self is.Read full entry →.
The other reveals image.
One says:
I am thisThe False-Self Sentence — I Am ThisThe false-self sentence forms when claim joins reflection to a fixed object of identity: I am this.Read full entry →.
The other simply says:
Am this.
The difference appears small.
A single word.
A single letter.
And yet perhaps the entire drama of consciousness unfolds within that difference.
Human beings live by the sentence:
I am this.
I am my name.
I am my profession.
I am my beliefs.
I am my successes.
I am my wounds.
I am my memories.
Identity forms through possession.
The claimantSetIn Geomytha, Set names the claimant: I — the interruption by which reflection is taken as mine and converted toward ownership.Read full entry → appears.
The story hardens.
History begins.
This sentence is not…
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