My Word (i)

On October 3, 2014 EV. I was Recognized by the Temple of Set as Magus of the Word

While in English Xeper has only one way of being spoken or written, Egyptian allows for something more nuanced. The core meaning of this Word is “Evolution,” with the specific implication of “Evolution by Force of Mind” or “Mindful Evolution.” It implies that Xeper is not a one-time event, but something requiring repeated engagement with the biological and psychological orderings as an active designer so that your Isolate Consciousness might come to its full unfolding. It is the active redesigning of the Self and the World via the Gift of Set.

The Æon Initiating Utterance of Ra-En-Set, as recorded in the Book of Coming Forth by Night, is



It is the root from which all Words in the Æon of Set arise. Each is a means of the individual Magus/Maga of Remanifesting what they gained from this Primary Utterance, or modifying it, in a manner which constitutes an entire Xeper-derived philosophy in a single Word.

My Utterance, as all Æon Enhancing Utterances, finds its empowerment through the Primary Utterance of Ra-En-Set. Without that, it could not exist in any meaningful manner. This is reflected in the hieroglyphics of my Word. Remove the XPR-root, and it is nothing but a gapping maw and a meaningless scroll. Where Ra-En-Set’s Utterance is the Omnidirectional empowerment of the Æon of Set, mine is a more specific, focused, lens by which his Utterance can be explored and Understood.

Setnakt’s Utterance of Xeper informs and holds some similarities to mine. For details on his Utterance see “Xeper: the Eternal Word of Set.” His Utterance came from an alternate reading of Ra-En-Set’s Utterance emphasizing the stative-tense aspects, “I have come into Being.” This was implicit in the Primary Utterance, but had gone unexplored. It was his Word that showed me my way, and it was from working for years to Understand his Word and its relationship to Ra-En-Set’s Word that my own Utterance took shape. I had been a close student of the tale of how he came to his Word, and knew of the importance of integrating hunches with seeking out linguistic and cultural information about Egypt. It was because of him that I knew where to look in Budge’s Egyptian Language in order to learn the form of the Eternal Word that had survived from Antiquity to ignite the Æon in the mind of Ra-en-Set. His Work had informed the seven years of my Sentinelship of the Black Sun Rising Pylon and my five years as Director of the Soa-Gild.

Ra-En-Set gave me access to the Fire. Setnakt’s Utterance showed me the process by which I could be transformed by what I had Seen and provided me with the clues in order to unravel my Word’s implications.

My own Utterance shares an implicate element with Setnakt’s Utterance. It can be seen as the Verbal Noun form of the Root Xeper, or Evolution as an abstract process. It was this sense, articulated by Dr. Aquino in the August 1990 issue of the Scroll of Set:

What distinguishes Xeper from preceding Magus- Words is the principle that the telos of humanity – at least initiated humanity – lies beyond the capacities of humanity as it presently defines itself. Xeper presupposes the evolution of consciousness into what humanity now holds to be divine levels of being. The telos of Xeper, therefore, is unique in that it is dynamic. It holds up no fixed ideal, as do its predecessors; rather it identifies the evolutionary process itself as telos.

It was this sense of Xeper that had early on empowered me as a Setian. At the time I was pursuing a B.A. in Anthropology focusing on Human Origins and Uniqueness. This work involved learning in detail the science behind the evolutionary synthesis, biological evolution, and cultural evolution. Ra-En-Set’s Utterance and Setnakt’s Utterance entered my life at the same time, providing a way that I could pursue this Work not simply as a secular anthropologist but as an Initiate. It would be during a period of still deeper study of these same topics that I would recognize my Word, having been prepared across 12 years as a Setian to finally See what had always been there waiting for me. In this sense, my Utterance is embedded in the Primary Utterance yet has only found its full articulation in my own. It was always there, but it needed someone to modify and focus upon it.

The wave of Utterances of Xeper has been tied to the Working Years of the Temple of Set, and forms a hierarchy of explaining what to do as an Initiate. On the fundamental, and most important, level we have Xeper as “Become!” Do not worry about the specifics, do not worry that you are going into unknown territories. Become and you will find what you need. Setnakt’s Utterance as “I have come into Being” marks the initial response to having Become. Now that it has happened the individual can look upon the past patterns that transformed them so that they might be able to see the next set of patterns that will transform them still more. My Utterance is what to do when you have come to see those patterns, to actively reiterate and select from them in order to re-design the total of your life and being by the application of the Gift of Set to this process.

The totality of my school of thought derived from my Word is still unfolding. What was Seen could not be unseen, but it could be Uttered, and it will be Uttered. It will be through this Task that I will be transformed, and which will transform others in turn. I could not find a better, more challenging, insightful people with which to engage in this Work than those I have found within the Temple of Set.