Have been returning to an article draft about the solar cult of Thelema and I feel that a lot of my threads of thought are going to consolidate further as a result.
There's some bonus SMT brainrot attendant to this that I'm not really going to touch on in that article, and as you might expect it's about the Asura Lord and our old friends the Gaians, in connection to Dainichi Nyorai. That's gonna require backtracking a bit though.
The way Crowley talks about Ra-Hoor-Khuit, the big sun god of his Thelema, sometimes implies that he is the macrocosmic form of the individuality represented by the star that every person is. "this Solar-Phallic Ra Ha is Each Man Himself". In certain forms of Japanese esoteric Buddhism, the macrocosm is Dainichi Nyorai, the solar buddha Mahavairocana taken to represent the ultimate reality of buddha-nature.
Throughout the SMT games and the MegaTen series as a whole, the Asura Lord is presented as having originally been either the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda or Dainichi Nyorai. His bio in the GBA version of the first SMT seems to embrace the idea that he is Dainichi Nyorai. His A-Mode bio there says this:
The supreme god of Vajrayana. He is also known as Maha Vairocana, the god of fire and light. He is the universe himself and exists within the smallest of things. He is portrayed sitting meditating on a white lotus, in the center of both realms.
It's definitely a description of Mahavairocana, which at least makes sense of "the supreme god of Vajrayana", though we should remember that this applies specifically to Japanese Vajrayana sects such as Shingon, which are referred to as Mikkyo, referring basically to Tantric Buddhism. That brings us to the Gaians, because that's basically the Buddhism practiced by the Gaians. See for example the "Dark Priest", whose bio calls him a master of "the Shingon Esoteric Mantra".
Idk I think that's just another aspect of how things seem to be coming together for me.
