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EROS, OR PHANES
A symbol of the Higher Self in its aspect of Love, that which draws all things towards unity with itself.
"By the philosophers, and in the mysteries, Eros was regarded as one of the fundamental causes in the formation of the world, inasmuch as he was the uniting power of love, which brought order and harmony among the conflicting elements of which Chaos consisted." - Smith's Class. Dict.
"At first Chaos was, and Night, and dark Erebus, and wide Tartarus ; nor was there earth, or air, or heaven; but first of all black-winged Night lays a wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus, from which in revolving time sprang the much-desired Eros, his back glittering with golden wings, like the swift whirlwinds." - ARISTOPHANES, Aves, V. 692.
At first matter is homogeneous and formless, and from it arises the capacity for taking forms (Night), and also the power of producing forms (Erebus) in the lower manifestation (Tartarus). But as yet there were no physical, kama-manasic or buddhi-manasic planes. Then it is that the aspiring form side (Night) brings forth a spiritual germ (wind-egg) of Love and Truth for embodiment in the natural order, so that in the course of time and in the process of involution, the Higher Self should manifest his nature in the soul and rise triumphant to the higher planes at the end of the cycle.
"Love is the essence of divinity. Love is that by virtue of which all things are produced, which is in all things, and is the vigour of all things, by its guidance souls rise in contemplation by the power of flight it inspires, the difficulties of nature are overcome, and men become united with God" (Bruno). - J. L. MCINTYRE, Giordano Bruno, p. 292.
Love is the creative action of the Universe, the force which emanates from God to individuate itself into innumerable centres of Godhead which all beings are, or shall become." - E. C. U., A Message to Earth, p. 39.
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See Also
CHAOS, COSMOS, CUPID, EGG, EREBUS, ERICAPAEUS, HIRANYAGARBHA, LOVE, NIGHT, NOx, PHANES, TARTARUS, WINGS.
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