The birthday of the United States of America and the date inscribed on the Statue of Liberty’s tablet; the cornerstone laying for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal and the groundbreaking for the World Trade Center; the groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon and the attacks in New York and Arlington/Washington—why were these dates used by occultists in repeated fashion, and what do they have in common? The dates in question are all connected to the brightest object in the occult pantheon (as well as the brightest star in the night sky), Sirius, the Dog Star. “It would be difficult to exaggerate the fanatical degree of attachment the priesthood of Egypt and all subsequent related Hermetic traditions had for Sirius,” writes Michael Hoffman in Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare. “The entire calendar year of the Egyptians was based upon the rising times of this star.

Indeed, Sirius was of unique importance to the Egyptians, and is recorded in the earliest astronomical records. During the Middle Kingdom, Egyptians based their calendar on Sirius’ heliacal rising, the date on which a star or other celestial body first becomes visible above the eastern horizon just before sunrise after a period of being absent from view. In ancient Egypt, Sirius’ heliacal rising originally occurred just before the annual flooding of the Nile River and the summer solstice, after a 70-day absence from the skies.

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The Greeks and Romans knew Sirius well. Writing in the Iliad, Homer, the greatest ancient Greek epic poet, said this concerning Sirius: Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky On summer nights, star of stars, Orion’s Dog they call it, brightest Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat And fevers to suffering humanity. Homer elaborates, referring to Sirius as the star “whose beams blaze forth in time of harvest more brilliantly than those of any other that shines by night; brightest of them all though he be, he yet bodes ill for mortals, for he brings fire and fever in his train.”

Sirius is part of the constellation Canis Major, which Roman myth referred to as Janitor Lethaeus, the watchdog of Hell. Canis Major (Latin for ‘greater dog’) is one of the dogs following Orion the hunter, and Sirius is recognized as the dog’s nose. “An evil portent,” the nose of the watchdog of Hell