Love is the Parent

 

Love is the Parent1

The Earth is Fertile2

The Air is hot, Full3

The Ocean still, and moving with Life,4

When Air cools5

And the Ocean springs at the mountain top6

The world is formed

Another world, another story,

The same story

Thank you ❤

1 -

Kiss (Zeus and Dione), János Thorma, 

Hungarian, 1870–1937

The Parent, that is, the productive or demiurgic principle capable of inseminating, ordering, clearing, nurturing, the cause (dia) of growth and life (zen) of everything manifest. Just as without Light life forms cannot survive, so too without Love coming from the Parent nothing can have its being or grow. Zeus, also refered to as Zena/Zenos, “of/from Zeus”, and Dias/Dios, “because of Zeus”. Parental, because like Father and Mother, or demiurgic and animating, He is at the same time intellectual (noetic, causal) and emotional or vivific (psychic, effective, bearer and unfolder of intellectual seeds).

2 - As the center from which everything springs and everything returns, She is already full.

Rhea is but an extension of Her, or Her life-giving principle.

That is why the Parent, or better, the Son, takes on her, disguised as a snake.

Zeus Meilichios

Because Love can only take his own being from the Source, or from what it flows from it.

So, knowing the Source, a strong Eros, desire, takes over Zeus, he wants to swallow it, incorporate It in Him, just the way He swallowed Metis.

So it also becomes full and carries the world in His hand, heart or thought.

But “He” or “Him” is an euphemism, refering only to the active power of Love, because Love has no gender in Itself, and as the orphic hymn says, 

“Zeus born a male, Zeus the immortal nymph (…) 

One power divine, great ruler of the world,

One kingly form, encircling all things here,

Fire, water, earth, and ether, night and day;

Wisdom (Metis), first parent, and delightful Love”.

So in "His" hand the world rests, or poetically, in the arms of Love.

3 - The Air, Aer, or Hera, is also full of productive power. Recreating the pattern of Gaia being both the Mother and wife of Ouranos, Hera is also an extension of Rhea, becoming the sister (half) and wife (cocreator) of (with) the hermaphroditic Zeus.

Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida by James Barry, 1773 (City Art Galleries, Sheffield.)

Concealing the Fire, it is already a contraction of it, as Heraclitus the Commentator says, “Hades is Air”,

But it is one with the Parent, and even though it is a contraction of It, it is still fertile and carries His light.

The Mother has got it covered, secure.

4 - Like Wide-Bosomed Gaia which hold the Ouranian seeds, She is an ocean of souls, full of parental seeds, which grow like fruits on a tree, the psychic ocean, since Hera is the World Soul Herself,

"“And the power of the whole air is Hera, called by a name derived from the air: but the symbol of the sublunar air which is affected by light and darkness is Leto; for she is oblivion caused by the insensibility in sleep, and because souls begotten below the moon are accompanied by forgetfulness of the Divine; and on this account she is also the mother of Apollo and Artemis, who are the sources of light for the night.” Fr. 5

which is the vehicle of the Intellectual Fire, as Porphyry says about the egyptian Sun God Re,

“The sun they indicate sometimes by a man embarked on a ship, the ship set on a crocodile. And the ship indicates the sun's motion in a liquid element: the crocodile potable water in which the sun travels. The figure of the sun thus signified that his revolution takes place through air that is liquid and sweet.” Fragment 10

Still, because it is One, like the Sea of Consciousness from which separate consciousness spring and swim in, Moving because it is fertile, productive of souls or individualized consciousness.

But whereas the World Soul is like a Sea or Sky in itself, it is still only a reflection of the One Source of Consciousness. The psychic world, like the mental concrete realm is the source or sea of individualized consciousness, soul or sense of separate perception, the ego, whereas the intellectual world is purely intellectual, or abstract mind, the ego-free or quiet mind.

5 - Becomes dense, materialized.

6 - Becomes individualized, apparent, issuing from the Mountain, the top or beginning of the material world, just like the terrestrial (form of) Rhea is the beginning of sensible material life.

“The name Rhea they gave to the power of rocky and mountainous land” Fr. 6

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