Aeon of Horus

In Thelemic cosmology the history of the world is divided into long ages, each named for a presiding Egyptian deity. The Aeon of Isis was the matrilineal pagan past; the Aeon of Osiris was the patriarchal-monotheistic interval that ran through the Christian and Islamic eras; the current Aeon of Horus opened in 1904 with Aleister Crowley’s reception of The Book of the Law in Cairo and is characterised by the child-god Horus, the doctrine of the True Will, and the dissolution of received moral codes. The framework is internal to Thelema and not endorsed by mainstream historians of religion.