The Souls of the Daimons

I just noticed something pretty interesting.

1. There are three levels of reality: Heaven, Duat, and Earth. Heaven is the place of stars and gods, Duat the place of planets and daimons, and Earth the place of bodies and humans, each a reflection of the one above. Humans, of course, reflect the planets in their endless dance; but the characters of the planets presumably reflect gods in Heaven, which are stars.

2. I have, myself, associated the children and grandchildren of Heaven and Earth with the planets. Plutarch, too, calls them daimons (in Isis and Osiris XXV ff.).

3. It seems sensible to connect the most powerful (brightest) planets to the most powerful (brightest) stars. Furthermore, Plutarch says that the Egyptians explicitly connect the soul of Isis with Sirius (in Isis and Osiris XXI), fitting this scheme.

4. The planets, in order of brightness, are Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Mars. (These are also the order they appear in Isis and Osiris XI ff..) Of these, the first and third have a dual aspect as morning and evening stars, while the others do not.

5. The stars, in order of brightness, are Sirius, Canopus, Alpha Centauri AB, Arcturus, and Vega. Of these, the first and third are binary stars, while the others are solitary. (!!!)

6. I might therefore suppose that the two stars of Sirius are the souls of Osiris and Isis (Venus), Canopus is the soul of Horus the Elder (Jupiter), the two stars of Alpha Centauri AB are the souls of Nephthys and Set (Mercury), Arcturus is the soul of Anubis (Saturn), and Vega is the soul of Horus the Younger (Mars).