Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

MENIS; WRATH OF ACHILLES

A symbol of the strife within the soul,--the passionate self-will, or self-seeking of the lower nature, which in all religions is said to be opposed to the law of God. Yet the strife is necessary to the Divine purpose.

“Sing, Goddess, the wrath, the ruinous wrath of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought countless woes upon the Greeks." - Iliad, opening lines.

Utter thy voice, O Wisdom, in the inborn strife of relativity and imperfection! Proclaim the fierce out-going energy of nature constituting the lower Self (Achilles), which is begotten of the Higher Self (Peleus)! For the lower Self brings sorrow and countless sufferings into the separate minds (Greeks).

"The Christ of God hath many names in Scripture; but they all mean only this, that he is, and alone can be, the Light and Life and holiness of every creature that is holy, whether in heaven or on earth. Wherever Christ is not, there is the Wrath of Nature, or nature left to itself and its own tormenting strength of life, to feel nothing in itself but the vain, restless contrariety of its own working properties. This is the one only origin of hell and every kind of curse and misery in the creature." - W. LAW, Law's Memorial, p. 65.

“By the word 'earth is understood the wrath in the Essence." - BOEHME, Mysterium Magnum, p. 42.

"We must know that war is universal and strife right, and that by strife all things arise and are used" (Heraclitus). - ORIGEN, cont. Celsus, VI. 42.

"Man will not always be warring against man, either in the battlefield or the counting-house. As Professor Huxley said in his Romanes lecture, the law of the survival of the fittest is giving way before the higher impulse of fitting as many as possible to survive. But we shall not have done with the struggle when war in all its modes has been left behind; we shall still have to fight, but the fighting will be on a higher plane. For the individual it is on a higher plane even now. It is the struggle to conform the soul to Christ, to respond to the call of his spirit, to bring every faculty of our being into captivity to his love. We do not kill men in this fight; we do our best to save them. It is against ourselves that we strive, ourselves that we have to overcome in order to share the glory of the Lord. If there were no struggle, if we had nothing to fight, there would be no growth, we should be beating the air. It is a curious thing, but true, that all advance, in whatever field, material or spiritual, is due to opposition." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Warfare of Life.

See Also

ACHILLES
BATTLE
CONFLICT
CONQUEROR
EARTH
GREEKS
JOB
MAN (Natural)
OPPOSITES
PEACE AND SWORD
PERSONALITY
STORM
STRIFE
SWORD
TAWHIRI-MATEA
VICTORY
WAR
WARRIORS
WRATH