Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Pantheon of ancient gods

“In your terms of time, man has always projected unassimilated psychological elements of his own personality outward, but in much earlier times he did this using a multitudinous variety of images, personifications, gods, goddesses, demons and devils, good spirits and bad. Before the Roman gods were fully formalized, there was a spectacular range of good and bad deities, with all gradations [among them], that more or less “democratically” represented the unknown but sensed, splendid and tumultuous characteristics of the human soul, and have stood for those sensed but unknown glimpses of his own reality that man was in one way or another determined to explore.
“It was understood that all of these “forces” had their parts to play in human events.  Some stood for forces of nature that could very well be at times advantageous, and at times disadvantageous – as, for example, the god of storms might be very welcome at one time, in periods of drought, while his powers might be quite dreaded if he overly satisfied his people.  There was no chasm of polarity between the “good gods and the bad ones”.”
(Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment Vol 2Session 921)

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