During the day, the eagle fed on Prometheus’ liver, which would regenerate during the night. A purification followed by a progressive liberation must lead to the doors of transformation. According to Apollodorus it occurred during the evolutionary phase which Hesiod identifies as “the brazen race”, corresponding to the third stage of mental evolution associated with the development of the intellect. Atlas “through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms “(Theogony verse 507). These were men governed by their senses, lacking individualisation and still not able to regulate their desires and impulses. This includes support for PromQL, the powerful Prometheus query language for processing your monitoring data in a flexible way which was not possible before Prometheus and PromQL. (Not included here are those who are not yet truly engaged on the spiritual path, generally known as the Pelasgians, they who are “near the beginning” and who are the most ancient people of the Peloponnese pushed out of Thessaly by the Lapiths. Strength will be right and reverence will cease to be; and the wicked will hurt the worthy man, speaking false words against him, and will swear an oath upon them. (Ref. Diodorus, on the other hand, states that Prometheus discovered how to make fire and draw it forth from certain plants, of which the fennel stalk is prominently mentioned in all sources. She is the wife of Inachos, “he who is not yet human”, himself son of the Titan Oceanos who begins the lineage of the “evolutionary process in accordance with nature”). According to Hesiod, the silver race was markedly inferior to the first. Therefore Zeus had to avoid entering into this union at all costs. Zeus uses the same “trickery” as the snake in Genesis (the ultimate symbol of evolution): seduction. Deucalion and Pyrrha then wandered on the waters for nine days and nine nights before reaching the coast of Thessaly. (Cf. Das Rollengedicht Prometheus von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe aus dem Jahr 1774 wird der literarischen Epoche des Sturms und Drang zugeordnet. Then when the being becomes sensitive to the mental changes which bring about the acquisition of “discernment”, The Fall is brought about. Till this time, men had lived free from all afflictions. On the other hand the personality, the being of appearance, can only correct mistakes after they have occurred. This is only the start of their undertakings! This is the central tale in the Works and Days, in the section called ‘Why Life is Hard’. This is the primary meaning of Epi: on top, at the surface of. Finally Hermès bestowed Pandora with the gift of a voice: the voice is a symbol of true expression, of what “names” in accordance to the Truth of things. This point should be studied in conjunction with the study of the differences of functioning between the East and the West in accordance with the prevalence of one or the other of the “two brains”. The man who gave us fire, the Greeks say, was Prometheus. As barbarous as our era may seem however, it must not cause a sense of nostalgia for this golden race, for at that time sensitivity and individuality were but beginning to develop. This succession of races facilitates a condensed illustration of the double movement already discussed: as humankind evolves, sensitivity is refined as well as the ability to investigate the inconscient. Prometheus Bound gives Prometheus much more credit for aiding humanity. The centralising movement contributes in the first place to the formation of the ego or the animal self, allowing for a separation from the group soul of the herd. It is the acquisition of the awareness of polarity, but without separation. Still full of questions after seeing Ridley Scott's Prometheus? Zeus did this, according to Hesiod, because Prometheus stole fire. It is no longer a lightening fire, but rather a fire which smolders and consumes itself slowly as in a fennel stem: like the fire of the forge this inner fire must be constantly watched over and maintained. This time corresponds to the developmental stage observed in children between the ages of 4 and 5, who, although already sexual, display only a spontaneous and natural curiosity for alterity. In pursuit of the necessary construction of an individualised centre of consciousness, nature has used the force of separation with all its deviations, mixtures and impurities for the elaboration of an “ego” or a personality which serves as a mask. ” (Works and Days, verse 83). They stopped accepting death as a simple passage and became conscious of duality, losing the inner contact (the light of Helius). It was absolutely necessary for man to become individualised, to remove himself from the hold of the clan and to accept the process of individuation. But the link was not completely broken. For these gifts (or possible realisations) are neither linked to the soul nor to the psychic being, being only attributes granted by the summits of mental consciousness to an entity emerging from matter and life (made of earth and water), an imitation of reality. They will not repay their aged parents the cost their nurture, for might shall be their right: and one man will sack another’s city. He then clashed with an all-powerful god, perhaps an even cruel or sadistic one. During this endeavor, the seeker is warned of possible false starts by a feeling of inner unease. His relationship with the Absolute establishes itself in the highest part of his vital emotional being and therefore through nature, the strongest and purest expression of this as symbolised by the garden and its fruits. Prometheus's Theft of Fire, Christian Griepenkerl (1839-1916). Instead, it pushes the act of interpretation itself into the fore- H.G. Zeus then sent forth a deluge which wiped away all men except those who had sought refuge in the high mountains. Deucalion married his cousin Pyrrha, “the red-headed one”, daughter of Epimetheus. The war between the gods and the Titans closed an idyllic period (the “Golden Age” under the rule of the Titan Cronos, or in the Bible the time in which man lived his days in happiness in the Garden of Eden under the benevolent care of Yahweh) and assures a transition under the predominance of the mind. He may have thus confused the rhythm of the great cycle with the before-last period of the lesser cycle. As humankind submits increasingly to the forces of individuation and experiences the loss of true direction brought about in the majority of cases by a still all-powerful ego, a dwindling minority keeps feeding their inner fire and strives to pierce towards the summits present beyond the mind. It would also be possible to interpret the myth of the five races according to the five successive periods of yoga, which bring the seeker into and increasingly deep exploration of evolutionary memories. This is therefore only a passing entity which vanishes with death. Thus the cause for the Fall is not Pandora herself, but rather the will of Epimetheus to take ownership of her, just as it is not the tree of knowledge of good and evil which creates a problem but rather the eating of its fruits and keeping them for oneself. At every moment, man is capable of using the obstacle, of “understanding” the meaning of what happens to him. Under the double influence of fundamental ignorance, Typhon, and of this perversion, Echidna, reason had the pretension of alone accessing Truth rather than serving intuition, which lost itself in the various processes of active divination and lost all contact with Reality. “Works and Days”, Hesiod, trans. For without the knowledge of Zeus, Prometheus gave men the seed of fire which he had stolen, “sperma puros”. Although the symbolism of the two can sometimes seem unrelated, the parallel study of the myths of Prometheus and Genesis seems to be an imperative. Look around, what art or science could exist without these things? This was a period of closeness with the sacred, the decline of which Hesiod may have observed. As a centralizing movement, the ego itself cannot reestablish the ruptured connection which it suffers from and makes use of at the same time, and can therefore not free itself from guilt. In fact, it was no longer the time for the group to be of primary importance. In the story of Genesis,”Yahweh caused a deep sleep to fall upon man”, and the first awareness of duality was manifested: Yahweh created woman from one of Adam’s ribs (actually, from a pillar (rib) of the Tree of Life). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.) Following the instructions of Zeus, Deucalion and Pyrrha hurled stones over their heads, thus creating beings of their own gender. “Prometheus Bound” (Gr: “Prometheus Desmotes” ) is a tragedy often attributed to the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus although it is now usually considered to be almost certainly the work of another (unknown) hand, perhaps as late as 415 BCE. In the form of fire Prometheus is credited with bringing mankind knowledge and enlightenment. Menoetius does not appear in any myth. The children of Deukalion and Pyrrha, Hellen and Protogenia, open the two main lineages of development in the superior planes of consciousness. “They lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them; but with legs and arms never failing they made merry with feasting beyond the reach of all evils. As a basis for Prometheus Unbound, which he completed in 1819 and which is his masterpiece, Shelley used Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. The evolutionary impulse manifests itself through Prometheus as through the snake of Genesis. “Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked”: shame. This progression follows the spiritual journey. If Hope had been given along with the rest, ills would not have been deprived of the ability to communicate, and man would have been able to understand the reasons for his suffering. For from within Zeus, Metis “might devise for him both good and evil.” (Theogony), and their combined action led to “self knowledge”. Later on, Aeschylus wrote a version of “Prometheus unbound ” which we know nothing of, but later tradition ascribes the account of the liberation of the Titan to Heracles. This episode will be examined during the third Labour of Heracles. As he progresses into the separative part of the cycle, his perception of Reality becomes blunter. Goethe's Prometheus is an astounding exception. He not only gives us fire but in his ‘own’ words, “In one short sentence understand it all: every art of mankind comes from Prometheus.” (Ln. And Yahweh symbolically protects with the flames of a burning sword the access to the tree of life, for it seems that Adam and Eve had no wish to touch it: the vast majority of humankind, dominated by the process of separation necessary for the formation of the ego, does not in fact worry about finding the path of lost unity again. Contrary to many interpretations, men in fact chose to remain united and were punished for this. The names Prometheus and Epimetheus are usually translated as “he who thinks first” and “he who thinks after action”, based on the interpretation of the parallel between μηθευς and “μανθανω, to understand”. Then appeared the snake, a symbol of evolution within the cycles. Then the earth and the oceans were filled with troubles, and illnesses were “deprived of the power of speech“. As long as man remains predominantly under the control of his vital (impulses, emotions, feelings), the two fundamental forces of the universe, fusion and separation, are at play with each other in a non-dissociated way as they do in the animal kingdom. Even if the inner being, Prometheus, knows that he is being misled, the identification seems inescapable. Zeus wanted to destroy the brazen race when he witnessed its violence and vice. The initiates of ancient time therefore considered Prometheus to be a benefactor of humanity, for he reminds man of his divine origin. The other threat menacing the kingship of Zeus over the supremacy of mental consciousness was avoided by the forced marriage of the goddess Thetis with the mortal Peleus, for a prophesy had predicted that her son would be more powerful than his father. Here we will bring up only Metis and Hera. Prometheus is a monumental tour de force that harkens back to the sweeping sci-fi of the 1970s, an epic that confronts Gauguin's Big Questions more squarely than anything in recent memory. This was approximately six thousand five hundred years ago, at the beginning of the era of Taurus and a thousand years before the first pictographs. Actually they seem to be the automatic compensations to the process of discernment when the child (or man) cuts himself apart from his inner being, which is not in fact “separate”. In the end, he accepts falsehood as Truth in all good faith. Evelyn-White, verse 69). If the “upright serpent” can also be associated with the infinity symbol, vertically depicted as the figure 8, then the “laying down serpent” can be associated with the symbol and the beginning of this movement symbolised by the unfinished symbol alpha α. he Bible describes some specific points about the relation between man and evolution in this new phase of progressing in the mental plane as Yahweh tells the snake “I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; it will bruise your head and you will strike its heel.” (Genesis 3.15): while the human mind will act to slow down evolution, the latter will make humankind “limp” just as Hephaestus does, for it still functions only according to one of the poles. They were not conscious of time, and death was not associated with any mental panic. From this moment only Ish and Isha become Adam and Eve, the individualised couple. (Melia means “ash tree”. Actually, in the original text, it is not yet Eve, but only Isha, wife of Ish. Some say that Athena was still a very young girl at this time, which is to say that the inner quest had just barely begun. Comments about Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fabrizio Frosini (1/3/2016 12:10:00 PM) Nadine's (see box below) , is right, of course.. unfortunately not all … That would place the present day at the very end of the period of separation, at the time of the reversal of energies. Throughout his mythos the most common themes … Humanity will need to work long and hard to put an end to this identification with the external personality. Only Hera united with Zeus well before Metis, even without the knowledge of their parents (Iliad, XIV,295), for her limiting action in the mind intervenes well before the entry into the process of discernment. Prometheus (Spanish: Prometeo) is a fresco by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. Both myths insistently put forth the notion of “discernment “, ascribing the responsibility for the unleashing of all ills on the desire to possess the “fruits of wisdom” (the apple and Pandora): these are the effects of the first tremors of the mind striving for “understanding” and associated with the separative ego. Meanwhile guilt is linked to the group and seeks to maintain its cohesion, but without putting in question one’s self image. Here what is spoken about is not expectation, a mental projection, but rather Hope, which is of the order of faith and is therefore the inner certainty which in the preceding stage was still instinctive. But the more thought and reflection take their place and the more sensitivity is sharpened and mental consciousness is forged, the more man despite himself lives increasingly under the influence of these forces and their alternation. For his voice is too weak in the face of the control of the mind on consciousness represented by Zeus. Instead he analyses them from the heights of his mind, and his spontaneous reactions become false. The day symbolises periods of distancing and drawing away from, of separation during which the link to Reality becomes distended (the liver diminishes), while the night favors closeness with the Absolute (the liver regenerates itself). So he divided their dignities amongst them.” (Hesiod. His relationship with the environment is still of a fusionary and instinctive nature. It depicts the Greek Titan Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans. In fact, before this time Zeus would set alight the tops of the ash trees (the trees most often struck by thunder in ancient Greece), where men would come for fire. Then they heard the voice of Yahweh in the garden and hid themselves: guilt. Shelley used the Prometheus myth to express his own ideas about present evils and his hopes for man's future as a result of his belief that man was capable of perfectibility. This is why in Genesis as well as in Greek mythology men were known to be vegetarians. It has received widespread critical acclaim. When man enters into the reflective mind plane, the aim of which is to achieve individuation, there begins a process of discernment which implies both a distancing from the object and a knowledge through identity. This is important to the Greek lifestyle as it allows the people to increase the meat content of their diet without inciting the gods’ wrath. This is why the Fall was also known as the trial of man’s Freedom. Ive posted my symptoms before, that have progressively gotten worse over the last several years, coinciding with pregnancies. When the part of man which remains on the surface and occupies itself with the outer world identifies itself with Pandora and seizes knowledge for himself, all the ills which spill out of the jar automatically appear: attachment and desire and the suffering which they bring. Throughout his mythos the most common themes are his efforts to aid humans and to trick Zeus. The name of the woman given by Yahweh to man so that he would not be alone was Isha, created from a “rib” or “pillar” of the tree of life and not from a “rib” of Adam as was wrongly interpreted later on. There men lived in complete harmony with the forces of nature, without any mental intervention. At the end of the process, the truth of action must be perceived by intuition and realised by reason, which leads to the right action. But there is also no possibility for individuation: according to occult traditions, the animal kingdom is principally constituted of “group souls” governing evolution. It's in the classic tradition of golden age sci-fi, echoing Scott's "Alien" (1979), but creating a world of its own. However, since their race was buried under earth, mortals named them the “pure spirits dwelling in the earth” (Works and Days, verse 140) and their memory is respected. Prometheus fathered a son, Deucalion, whose mother is sometimes known as Pronoia, “she who thinks ahead”, or “providence, she who saves”. below). And this requires a conscious work on the “little things” which, deepened by Achilles, will grant the Greeks victory during the Trojan war. Prometheus vs Jesus. The lineage of Protogenia, the “avant-garde” of the adventurers of consciousness. As long as this mental arrogance dominates, the quest cannot really begin. The opening of the jar is the automatic counterpart to the identification with the surface personality and the body. It will be the ancient memories of humankind (stones) which will serve as ferment for this emergence. A bringing to light similar to this period of evolution is spoken about in Genesis, with an insistence on certain particular points which do not appear in Greek mythology. Trans. In the Promethean case, I don't know of a disease that it prevents, but it does provide a ritual for slaughtering animals that helps with the healthy preparation of the meat. Prometheus - 1868 : In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was said to be the wisest of all the Titans. Midant-Reynes, Beatrix Prehistory of Egypt. This fourth race describes a period of high spiritual realisation, some of which disappeared in time while some aspects remained definitively, the harmony of the first golden race of the time of Cronos having been regained but this time sustained by consciousness. The name of this Titan, constructed around the characters Ι+Π+Τ, expresses the concept of a link (Π) in consciousness (Ι) with the highest levels of the Spirit (Τ). In homothety with the secondary cycles of two thousand one hundred and sixty years, we would be on the point of embarking upon a period similar to that of the slow disintegration of the Roman Empire, a new period of six thousand five hundred years which would lead us into the fusionary part of the cycle. Prometheus 360™ Precision Medicines Platform. He must simply be able to take a step backwards and not identify himself with his personality and his body: he must transgress the order of Zeus. When the creation was complete, Zeus named her Pandora. Their only interest was in fighting, and they ate no bread. The initiates of ancient times named this lineage the “Deucalionides” after their grandson Deucalion. It is through woman, the intuitive polarity and therefore the first to become aware of the transformation to come, that begins the mutation, the entry into the separative movement aimed at the acquisition of discernment, for “your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil”: There was therefore in man a strong inner impulse of divine nature for evolution. Although Hesiod perceives signs of this in the first stages he seems to have given up all hope in the Iron Age in which he lived. Indeed, if the the writing appeared during a period of fusion, it would not have been necessary to elaborate encrypted myth only in order to keep obvious ideas for all.