Home
Preface
5 Planes of Existence
Introduction
Five Planes of Manifestation
A to Z
Contact
Related Information
BIBLE VERSES
|
HARPIES
A symbol of the unregulated appetites of sensation and desire, which seize upon knowledge in order to promote their own aims.
"The Gods to punish Phineus struck him blind, and sent the Harpies to torment him these fell monsters came flying the instant food was set before him, carried off the greater portion of it, and so defiled what they left, that no mortal could endure to eat it." - Argonautic Expedition.
Life becomes difficult at this stage, and a condition of spiritual blindness overtakes the discriminating mind (Phineus), all of which implies torment and trouble. And so it came about that immediately knowledge (food) was placed for the mind to partake of, it was appropriated by the irregularities of the sense and desire natures, and in this way it was that the knowledge, instead of being assimilated by the understanding, was turned to base uses.
|
See Also
NICOTHEA
OCYPETE
PHINEUS
ZETES
|