> in native egyptian religion, the "ogdoad" is a company of eighth precreational deities, at the head of which stands thoth. these fashion the primordial egg out of which creation hatches by the word of thoth > in hermetism, the "hebdomad", the fate-driven part of nature, is below the "ogdoad", just as "7" is smaller than "8". indeed, there are no inner semantics between the egyptian and the hermetic use of the words "ogdoad" and "ennead" > for hermes, the ogdoad is the realm of illumination, associated with the fixed stars, the deities and the blessed souls (the gnostics). it can be reached while in the physical body. this sphere is the presence of hermes as human teacher or "logos", the "holy word" coming forth from the light of the divine nous. because of this, the ogdoad and the ennead are intimately connected. for the word brings the light and this light is hermes as the mind of god. and he who sees the mind of god becomes the mind of god, but not in this life ... > in egypt, the deities and the fixed stars were the "akhu" or "spirits" of atum-re, the supreme creator-god. pharaoh ascended to this sky through the northern shaft or through the entrance to his tomb. this light of these circumpolar stars was deemed to be the house of these spirits. in the old kingdom, this type of transformation was pharaoh's afterlife privilege and involved his sublime attainment of the "power of powers", being more powerful than the gods
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