"Dionysus-Osiris is the God of the life that is torn apart and restored, of the vine cut back and sprouting again, of the soul that descends and returns. The panther is His mount and His companion: the wild force of life, ecstatic and dangerous, carried under the hand of the God.
Its spotted hide is the teaching in one image. Dark and light lie together on every inch of the coat, neither erasing the other. The Temple teaches that Light and Darkness are both positive when bound by Ma'at; the panther wears that binding on its skin."
"The leopard alone among wild cats drags its prey up the trunk and stores it in the branches. This is the ascent of the life-force: power taken from the ground and raised along the spine, the Kundalini current climbing Sushumna between Ida and Pingala, and kept above where nothing can steal it."
HAIL DIONYSUS
HAIL BACCHUS
HAIL OSIRIS
HAIL HIS SACRED PANTHER


