Harpocrates

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The Egyptian God of Silence. Harpocrates is Greek for the Egyptian Hoor(or Heru)-paar(or par/pa)-kraat(or kraath) and means "Horus the Child." Aleister Crowley described the image of Harpocrates as being a young naked boy or babe, pink in color, his right forefinger to his lips, and standing on two crocodiles (or seated on a lotus). In ritual, the Sign of Harpocrates consists of putting the right forefinger to the lips and pertains to the 0=0, Probationer Grade (which is typically paired with the Sign of Horus) of the A.'.A.'..

In the Neophyte hall of the old Golden Dawn Neophyte Grade, Harpocrates is considered the the "younger brother of Horus" and his station is in the path of Samech "between the place of Thmaist and that of the Evil Triad".