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CADMUS, SON OF AGENOR

A symbol of experience or wisdom, the offspring of the Divine Mind. When intuition (the cow that Cadmus followed) ceases to function and guide (the cow laid down), then experience establishes itself, and finally is transmuted to wisdom (Thebes).

"When Jason had yoked the two brassfooted bulls, he was to plough with them a piece of land, and sow the serpents' teeth which Eetes possessed, to whom Athena had given one half of those which Cadmus had sowed at Thebes." - Argonautic Expedition, KEIGHTLEY, Mythology.

And when the desire-force and the reason had been yoked together, it was necessary for the Self (Jason) to apply those powers which had been acquired, to the development of the lower nature, and to adapt to useful purpose those faculties which the Supreme bestowed upon him, and which amounted to one half, i.e. the lower aspect, of those which were yielded to the Supreme by Wisdom (Athena), through experience (Cadmus).

 

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AEFTES
ATHENA
BULLS
EIDOTHEA
GOLDEN FLEECE
JASON
THEBES