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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Whip of Osiris}}'''. The scourge which symbolises Osiris as the “judge of the dead ”. It is called the ''nekhekh,'' in the papyri, or the flagellum. Dr. Pritchard sees in it a fan or ''van'', the winnowing instrument. Osiris, “whose fan is in his hand and who purges the Amenti of sinful hearts as a winnower sweeps his floor of the fallen grains and locks the good wheat into his garner ”. (Compare ''Matthew,'' 12.) | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Whip of Osiris}}'''. The scourge which symbolises Osiris as the “judge of the dead ”. It is called the ''nekhekh,'' in the papyri, or the flagellum. Dr. Pritchard sees in it a fan or ''van'', the winnowing instrument. Osiris, “whose fan is in his hand and who purges the Amenti of sinful hearts as a winnower sweeps his floor of the fallen grains and locks the good wheat into his garner ”. (Compare ''Matthew,'' 12.) | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:54, 8 October 2026
H. P. Blavatsky
Whip of Osiris. The scourge which symbolises Osiris as the “judge of the dead ”. It is called the nekhekh, in the papyri, or the flagellum. Dr. Pritchard sees in it a fan or van, the winnowing instrument. Osiris, “whose fan is in his hand and who purges the Amenti of sinful hearts as a winnower sweeps his floor of the fallen grains and locks the good wheat into his garner ”. (Compare Matthew, 12.)
Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Whip of Osiris