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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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APOLLO, SON OF ZEUS
A symbol of the Second Logos proceeding from the
First. God manifest, or the Higher Self.
"Nine days through the army went the arrows of the God (Phœbus
Apollo); but on the tenth, Achilles called the people to an
assembly; for to his mind the white-armed Goddess Juno had suggested
it; for she was anxious concerning the Greeks, because she saw them
perishing." - Iliad, Book I. trans. BUKKLEY.
For nine periods the life-giving force of the Logos ensouled the
egos, or monads of form; but at the tenth period, the personality
(Achilles) is evolved sufficiently to enable the lower mental
qualities to assemble to it as a centre. For at this period of
soul-growth there was some glimmer of such higher perception as is
essential to the further development of the individuality. And the
Wisdom aspect is directly concerned with the evolution of the mental
qualities which had begun to languish.
“Dionysius proclaims: The Divine Goodness, this our great Sun,
enlightens, nourishes, perfects, renews. Even the pure can thus be
made purer still. 'He, the Good, is called spiritual light; he
cleanses the mental vision of the very angels they taste, as it
were, the light.' All this imagery goes back, in the first instance,
to Proclus. For Proclus puts in parallel 'sun' and 'God,' and be
enlightened' and 'to be deified'; makes all purifying forces to
coalesce in the activity of the Sun-God, Apollo Katharsios, the
Purifier, who 'every. where unifies multiplicity purifying the
entire heaven and all living things throughout the world'; and
describes how from above, from his super-heavenly post, Apollo
scatters the arrows of Zeus,-his rays upon all the world' (In Par.
IV. 34). - F. VON HUGEL, Mystical Element, Vol. II. p.93.
“Nothing can be more profound, of entire, than the reverence Homer's
mortals for Apollo and Athenè." - W. E. GLADSTONE, Juventus Mundi,
p. 177.
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