Sons of Horus and the Bible, the camp of Reuben, the Chariot, sphinxes, and pied felines

I discovered Buried Julii's Substack a few days ago when G. at the Junior Ganymede linked to one of his essays. Last night I checked his older posts, of which there are not many, and opened "The Sons of Horus, the Tell Asmar Seal, and the Bible" in a new tab to read later, which I have not done yet.

This morning, while the tab with that post with a "Sons of Horus" title was still open on my browser, I saw that I had gotten a new comment on a 2022 post of mine titled "The sons of Horus and the Four Living Creatures, and more syncs." Blog posts connecting the Bible to the sons of Horus aren't something you see every day, so that was something of a sync. The comment, which is anonymous says:

you have no idea how much this has been a confirmation for things I am learning right now! Thank you for writing this up 3 years ago! Let me know if you get this and have more to share, I would be interested in reading it!

Let who know? Don't post as anonymous and then expect me to get back to you! Anyway, my best guess is that the post is by Buried Julii himself. I discovered him via the Junior Ganymede, where I sometimes comment and leave links, so it seems likely that he could have discovered my blog there. If it's not him, but some random third person who just happens to be learning about the sons of Horus, that's even more of a sync.

The comment asked what else I had written on the topic, and I replied that my main post about the Four Living Creatures is "The Throne and the World" (2018). I went back and read that post, which connects the Creatures with, among other things, the four camps of Israel (Reuben, Judah, Dan, and Ephraim), the "four powers of the Sphinx" in the magical philosophy of Éliphas Lévi, and the "chariot" vision of Ezekiel.

After rereading that 2018 post, I turned to Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox. In the part I read, Ari and others travel back in time to the Exodus and find themselves in the camp of Reuben. While there, Ari says to his yeshiva classmate, "You're a Levi, aren't you?" -- using, instead of the usual English Levite, the Hebrew title which Alphonse-Louis "Éliphas Lévi" Constant adopted as part of his magical nom de guerre.

This afternoon, I drew a Rider-Waite Tarot card at random for meditation (not a divination) and got the Chariot. Preferring in this case the 17th-century Jacques Viéville deck over the standard Marseille pattern, Waite has his chariot drawn by black and white sphinxes rather than by horses.

In "The Throne and the World," I wrote:

Commentators on the Tarot almost invariably speak of the four living creatures as being the four constituent animals of the Sphinx, but the fact is that, while we may find two or three of the four creatures combined in such mythical creatures as the sphinx, the griffin, and the lamassu, the complete tetramorph is to be found only in Ezekiel and those influenced by him.

The specific visions of Ezekiel I had in mind were those in Chapters 1-3 and 10 of his book, which I said "are generally referred to by the Hebrew term Merkabah, meaning 'chariot.'"

As a minor addition sync, as I was contemplating this image of a chariot drawn by black and white human-headed felines, by black-and-white cat Pinto walked into the room. I have a lot of cats, but only one of them is black-and-white.