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ODYSSEUS, ULYSSES

A symbol of courage, arising out of Love and Faith, in learning by experience to rule the lower nature in the interests of the higher.

"Then Odysseus of many counsels brought Chryseis to the altar, and gave her into her father's arms, and spake unto him: Chryses, Agamemnon king of men sent me hither to bring thee thy daughter, and to offer to Phoebus a holy hecatomb on the Danaans' behalf, where-with to propitiate the king that hath now brought sorrow and lamentation on the Argives." - Iliad, Bk. I.

Then Courage, full of resource, delivered the Intuition of Truth to her parent, the Spiritual-mind, and spake thus," The Desire-mind, ruler of the lower nature, impelled me hither to bring thy offspring and offer up to the Higher Self the results of the operation of the mind, in order thus to enable the Desire-mind to operate more harmoniously than it hitherto has been able to do owing to the emotional distress which has been engendered."

"The morality of Jesus involves the only true secret of courage and of the freedom that comes of courage. More and more we come to see that courage is a positive thing. It is not simply the absence of fear. To be brave is not merely not to be afraid. Courage is that compactness and clear coherence of all a man's faculties and powers which makes his manhood single operative unit in the world. is the reason why narrowness of thought and life often brings a kind of courage, and why, as men's range of thought enlarges and their relations with their fellow-men increase, there often comes a strange timidity." - PHILLIPS BROOKS, Influence of Jesus, p. 66.

See Also

ALCINOUS
AGAMEMNON
ARGIVES
BRISEIS
CHRYSE
CHRYSEIS
HECATOMB
PRIEST OF APOLLO