Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

OLYMPUS, MOUNT 

A symbol of the height of perfection and attainment; or the plane of atma, the summit of manifestation. "Homer was the first to divide the world into five portions. The three intermediate he has assigned to the three gods, the two extremes, Olympus and Earth, whereof the one is the boundary of things below, the other of things above, he has left common to all and unallotted to any." - PLUTARCH, On the E at Delphi, § 13.

There are five manifested planes (portions) of the soul (world). The three intermediate, namely, buddhi (Hera), manas (Hermes) and kama (Hades), have above them atma (Olympus), and below them sthula (Earth). Atma bounds manifestation above, and the physical (sthula) is the limit below. The highest and the lowest planes are the foundations of the rest.

“And Athene forthwith was departed to Olympus, to the other gods in the palace of ægis-bearing Zeus." - Iliad, Bk. I.

And from this time forward, in the course of the evolution of the soul, Wisdom appears to retire from the plane whereon it can be revealed to the Personality (Achilles). It is therefore said to join the "other Gods," or immortal, transcendental facts on the highest planes, which are at the origin of the Divine scheme of existence.

“Many elements of the Hebrew traditions recorded in the Holy Scriptures, or otherwise preserved among the Jews down to later times appear in the Olympian Court of Homer." - W. E. GLADSTONE, Juventus Mundi, 209.

"The Incarnation of Christ may be compared to the Mountain of continental Greece, from which all its principal rivers flow, and fertilize the land. He is the One Well-spring of Living Water." - WORDSWORTH, Bible, Acts, p. 75.

"Is not Christ the mountain up into which the believer goes, and in which he finds the divine idea of himself? As a mountain seems to be the meeting-place of earth and heaven, the place where the bending skies meet the aspiring planet, the place where the sunshine and the cloud keep closest company with the granite and the grass: Christ is the meeting place of divinity and humanity; He is at once the condescension of divinity and the exaltation of humanity; and man wanting to know God's idea of man, any man wanting to know God's idea of him, must SO go up into Christ, and he will find it there. . . . This, then, is the great truth of Christ. The treasury of life, your life and mine, the life of every man and every woman, however different they are from one another, they are all in Him." - PHILLIPS BROOKS, Serm., The Pattern in the Mount.

See Also

ALBORDJ
ALCINOUS
AMARAVATI
ATHENE
ATMA
CAUCASUS
FRIGG
HIMAVAN
JUDAS ISCARIOT
KAILASA
MERU
MOUNTAIN
PALACE
WORLDS (Five)