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MYRMIDONS OF ACHILLES

A symbol of the lower mental concepts subject to the personality.

(Agamemnon to Achilles),-Go home with thy ships and company, and lord it among thy Myrmidons; I reck not aught of thee nor care I for thy indignation." - Iliad, Bk. I.

The Personality is therefore bidden to depart on its upward way, and the Desire-mind (Agamemnon) conceives it to be possible for the Personality to dissociate itself in so great a degree from the false concepts, lusts and passions, as to confine the ego to the upper planes, an attempt to withdraw the Spirit from the lower, which would more and more retard evolution. The Desire-mind cannot realise the Personality under its higher aspects, nor can it sympathise with its dawning higher emotions.

 

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ACHILLES
AGAMEMNON
JESUS OF GOSPELS
MAN (Natural)
PERSONALITY
SHIPS (GREEK)