Let’ s travel to the wonderful world of Myths. I have a beautiful poem for you that will whisk you off to another era. However, in order to understand it, I will have to point out that, according to many researchers, even the Trojan War, except that it may took place in real time in ancient years, is also raging within our soul and the fight over Helen, who is the beauty of our World of Senses, that is the World we live in, and according to Euripides ( Helen 31-46 ) is the copy of another Helen, that is a copy of another World, the Perceived one. Likewise, according to many researchers, significant mythological episodes take place in our soul…
The Beginning of the World, if there ever was a beginning,
Two huge snakes seem to have coiled.
Snakes in their tails. They took a human form.
It was ageless Time and Need, which is all-prevailing.
From their intercourse was born Chaos, Night, and Ether.
Then, thick bright scales took an oval shape.
The egg cracks, and lo and behold! Primitive Phanes1 is already born.
Heads of a Ram, Bull, Lion, and a Snake altogether
In a young androgynous body have scattered around,
Mating with Night, and begetting the Sky and the Earth,
by whom Cronus and other children have been born,
And a new life cycle has been realised2.
Zeus comes into life, born by Cronus and Rea,
Raised in a cave, with the Curetes3 keeping him company.
Chased by his father Cronus
As only one of them must prevail.
They got Cronus drunk, upon Night’s advice.
Then, Zeus gulped down whatever had been born by then.
Trees, rivers, stars - they all ended up in his belly.
They came back to Light, but in a different way now.
A gold chain unites every body and form4.
Zeus is now the first Creator,
Prevailing all over the Universe, the mightiest of all.
Once, in a fight with the Titans5, as a potent force,
He hurled them into the Underworld, away from the Sun’s light.
Like the Silver Tribe6 they wait chained
For the end of Zeus’ kingdom, so that they may come to the surface.
Likewise, the lowest points of our soul
Do not die. They only wait and come up with ease
When Zeus’ justice is not powerful,
and the Logical part of our soul cannot hold sway.
In order for a balance to exist in the soul and matter,
there should be Harmony7 in the couples of Gods,
Venus and Mars’ fateful daughter
as all things important come out of opposites.
Zeus without Hera cannot create
as she is the mediator, for him to continue.
Hestia without Hermes8 cannot function
as womb with no seed cannot bring life.
Demetra and Poseidon complement each other,
like the elements that constantly separate and unite.
But also Demetra mates with Zeus,
And brings to life her daughter Persephone.
Pluto envied her, and snatched her away to Hades,
And she goes through the tortures of the flesh in the darkness.
He fools her with a pomegranate when she goes up to her mother,
And is forced to go up and down forever.
Zeus9 splits and mates,
divides and unites.
He has no end, middle, or beginning.
He is always behind all forms.
Like the Unit that manifests itself as the Golden ratio10 in Creation,
Like Thetis, who leaves her mark in history, along with Poros and Tekmor11.
With the help of Mitis12, whom he had swallowed,
He turned into a Bull to mate with Europe,
And into a chased Swan to hide in Nemesis’ embrace,
Whom, like Thetis, Peleus longed for,
And changed forms to avoid him. 13
From their union came Helen,
The most beautiful Daughter of God, famous the world over.
From Paris, she was snatched away to find herself in Troy ,
But she made for Egypt, and there they sent her effigy.
Achaeans set off to seize Troy,
Not knowing that it was a simple idol they sought to conquer.
Along with the Trojans, they deluded themselves,
For real Helen14 wasn’t in Troy.
As the bright beauty of the Truth
Does not reside in the Night’s tangible phenomena.
She has her kingdom in the Mental World
And, if you lead a prudent life, her Light will shine before you.
The aim of each soul may be
To search for the Light, once it has entered the darkness.
Like Jason and the other Argonauts,
Who set off for Colchis.
On their way, they ran into traps
But, when they met Circe, she was like a bright Sun15.
And Ulysses, in order to go to Ithaca
To meet his own Truth,
went through ordeals, deluded himself,
Until he found the way to his salvation.
In the Golden Generation6, may we all go through
the hardships of the body, so that we will forget forever.
1. About Phanes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanes_(mythology)
2. Orphic excerpts 82 (Kern)
They say that it all started with an explosion, the Big Bang. As if energy was condensed and suddenly got spread around in an endless void and filled it. But, before that, what? Was there no Universe? The philosopher Empedocles tells us that there are Traction (union and attraction) and Repulsion (conflict and disruption), two forces that eternally rule the World. They are like inhaling and exhaling; it all contracts and expands and that’s a constant. So, is there an End and a Beginning or is it all a constant?
3. About Curetes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korybantes
4. Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, p. 228
5. About Titans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy
6. About Hesiod, Golden and Silver Ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_and_Days
Plato mentions in “Republic 469 a” that Hesiod’s Golden Race are the Guardians (Angels) who protect us.
7. About Harmonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)
8. About Hermes - Hestia
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Relationships/Hermes-Hestia
9. About Zeus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus
10. About Golden Ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
11. About Alcman, Poros and Tekmor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekmor_(mythology)
When the Achaeans gathered in Aulis to set off to Troy, the winds had let up, they were not propitious and ships couldn’t move. According to a Calchas’ prophecy, they had to sacrifice Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia. Artemis took her and left a deer in her place. In the end, Agamemnon sacrificed a lamb… And the winds had become propitious now. There had to be a sacrifice for the Soul to find a Pore (passage) to pass from the Spiritual World to the Material World. The Pore is the passage and Tekmor is the point, the Pythagorean Unit. Through those, Chaos develops three dimensions and becomes our world, what we perceive with our senses. The Tekmor – point – unit becomes a line, the line becomes a rectangle and the rectangle becomes a cube (Plato Republic 546). Our world is the cube.
12. About Metis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metis_(mythology)
13. Cypriot epics, extracts 3, 5, 6, 10
14. Euripides, “Helen,” verses 31-46, 570-588, 702-708.
According to Euripides’ tragedy “Helen,” Beautiful Helen never got to Troy, she went to Egypt… Homer’s Helen symbolizes the Beauty of the World. Since everything around us is but an idol, it wasn’t Helen herself that went to Troy (the world of the Perceptible), but her idol. The real beauty is hidden behind idols in the Conceivable world… This is where Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic (1,175) comes in: “The myths want to indicate, I believe, through Helen, the whole of that beauty that has to do with the sphere in which things come to be and pass away and that is the product of the demiurge. It is over this beauty that eternal war rages among souls, until the more intellectual [the Greeks] are victorious over the less rational forms of life [the Trojans] and return hence to the [Conceivable] place from which they came.”
15. Orphic Argonautics, verses 1218 – 1246.
The ship Argo embarks on her journey as a Vehicle of the Soul. She is pushed off the land by fifty Argonauts, who constitute the necessary elements for the commencement of her existence. Step by step, she puts on her bodies and her chitons, until she gets to the material body, that is the beginning of Life, in Colchis, in the sacred grove of the war god Ares. Once Jason has taken hold of the Golden Fleece, he begins along with Medea the journey Home back to the Creator. The ordeals they go through are our lives in this World until we come full Circle.
The Beginning of the World, if there ever was a beginning,
Two huge snakes seem to have coiled.
Snakes in their tails. They took a human form.
It was ageless Time and Need, which is all-prevailing.
From their intercourse was born Chaos, Night, and Ether.
Then, thick bright scales took an oval shape.
The egg cracks, and lo and behold! Primitive Phanes1 is already born.
Heads of a Ram, Bull, Lion, and a Snake altogether
In a young androgynous body have scattered around,
Mating with Night, and begetting the Sky and the Earth,
by whom Cronus and other children have been born,
And a new life cycle has been realised2.
Zeus comes into life, born by Cronus and Rea,
Raised in a cave, with the Curetes3 keeping him company.
Chased by his father Cronus
As only one of them must prevail.
They got Cronus drunk, upon Night’s advice.
Then, Zeus gulped down whatever had been born by then.
Trees, rivers, stars - they all ended up in his belly.
They came back to Light, but in a different way now.
A gold chain unites every body and form4.
Zeus is now the first Creator,
Prevailing all over the Universe, the mightiest of all.
Once, in a fight with the Titans5, as a potent force,
He hurled them into the Underworld, away from the Sun’s light.
Like the Silver Tribe6 they wait chained
For the end of Zeus’ kingdom, so that they may come to the surface.
Likewise, the lowest points of our soul
Do not die. They only wait and come up with ease
When Zeus’ justice is not powerful,
and the Logical part of our soul cannot hold sway.
In order for a balance to exist in the soul and matter,
there should be Harmony7 in the couples of Gods,
Venus and Mars’ fateful daughter
as all things important come out of opposites.
Zeus without Hera cannot create
as she is the mediator, for him to continue.
Hestia without Hermes8 cannot function
as womb with no seed cannot bring life.
Demetra and Poseidon complement each other,
like the elements that constantly separate and unite.
But also Demetra mates with Zeus,
And brings to life her daughter Persephone.
Pluto envied her, and snatched her away to Hades,
And she goes through the tortures of the flesh in the darkness.
He fools her with a pomegranate when she goes up to her mother,
And is forced to go up and down forever.
Zeus9 splits and mates,
divides and unites.
He has no end, middle, or beginning.
He is always behind all forms.
Like the Unit that manifests itself as the Golden ratio10 in Creation,
Like Thetis, who leaves her mark in history, along with Poros and Tekmor11.
With the help of Mitis12, whom he had swallowed,
He turned into a Bull to mate with Europe,
And into a chased Swan to hide in Nemesis’ embrace,
Whom, like Thetis, Peleus longed for,
And changed forms to avoid him. 13
From their union came Helen,
The most beautiful Daughter of God, famous the world over.
From Paris, she was snatched away to find herself in Troy ,
But she made for Egypt, and there they sent her effigy.
Achaeans set off to seize Troy,
Not knowing that it was a simple idol they sought to conquer.
Along with the Trojans, they deluded themselves,
For real Helen14 wasn’t in Troy.
As the bright beauty of the Truth
Does not reside in the Night’s tangible phenomena.
She has her kingdom in the Mental World
And, if you lead a prudent life, her Light will shine before you.
The aim of each soul may be
To search for the Light, once it has entered the darkness.
Like Jason and the other Argonauts,
Who set off for Colchis.
On their way, they ran into traps
But, when they met Circe, she was like a bright Sun15.
And Ulysses, in order to go to Ithaca
To meet his own Truth,
went through ordeals, deluded himself,
Until he found the way to his salvation.
In the Golden Generation6, may we all go through
the hardships of the body, so that we will forget forever.
1. About Phanes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanes_(mythology)
2. Orphic excerpts 82 (Kern)
They say that it all started with an explosion, the Big Bang. As if energy was condensed and suddenly got spread around in an endless void and filled it. But, before that, what? Was there no Universe? The philosopher Empedocles tells us that there are Traction (union and attraction) and Repulsion (conflict and disruption), two forces that eternally rule the World. They are like inhaling and exhaling; it all contracts and expands and that’s a constant. So, is there an End and a Beginning or is it all a constant?
3. About Curetes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korybantes
4. Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, p. 228
5. About Titans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy
6. About Hesiod, Golden and Silver Ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_and_Days
Plato mentions in “Republic 469 a” that Hesiod’s Golden Race are the Guardians (Angels) who protect us.
7. About Harmonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_(mythology)
8. About Hermes - Hestia
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Relationships/Hermes-Hestia
9. About Zeus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus
10. About Golden Ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
11. About Alcman, Poros and Tekmor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekmor_(mythology)
When the Achaeans gathered in Aulis to set off to Troy, the winds had let up, they were not propitious and ships couldn’t move. According to a Calchas’ prophecy, they had to sacrifice Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia. Artemis took her and left a deer in her place. In the end, Agamemnon sacrificed a lamb… And the winds had become propitious now. There had to be a sacrifice for the Soul to find a Pore (passage) to pass from the Spiritual World to the Material World. The Pore is the passage and Tekmor is the point, the Pythagorean Unit. Through those, Chaos develops three dimensions and becomes our world, what we perceive with our senses. The Tekmor – point – unit becomes a line, the line becomes a rectangle and the rectangle becomes a cube (Plato Republic 546). Our world is the cube.
12. About Metis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metis_(mythology)
13. Cypriot epics, extracts 3, 5, 6, 10
14. Euripides, “Helen,” verses 31-46, 570-588, 702-708.
According to Euripides’ tragedy “Helen,” Beautiful Helen never got to Troy, she went to Egypt… Homer’s Helen symbolizes the Beauty of the World. Since everything around us is but an idol, it wasn’t Helen herself that went to Troy (the world of the Perceptible), but her idol. The real beauty is hidden behind idols in the Conceivable world… This is where Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Republic (1,175) comes in: “The myths want to indicate, I believe, through Helen, the whole of that beauty that has to do with the sphere in which things come to be and pass away and that is the product of the demiurge. It is over this beauty that eternal war rages among souls, until the more intellectual [the Greeks] are victorious over the less rational forms of life [the Trojans] and return hence to the [Conceivable] place from which they came.”
15. Orphic Argonautics, verses 1218 – 1246.
The ship Argo embarks on her journey as a Vehicle of the Soul. She is pushed off the land by fifty Argonauts, who constitute the necessary elements for the commencement of her existence. Step by step, she puts on her bodies and her chitons, until she gets to the material body, that is the beginning of Life, in Colchis, in the sacred grove of the war god Ares. Once Jason has taken hold of the Golden Fleece, he begins along with Medea the journey Home back to the Creator. The ordeals they go through are our lives in this World until we come full Circle.
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