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Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Pro me the us
The Rebel Titan
Prometheus was a not a fool, but why else would he rebel against Zeus? He tried to trick Zeus (who knows all and sees all) with a false sacrifice. How foolish can you get? Prometheus also stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the primitive mortals on the earth. Zeus did not punish Prometheus alone, he punished the entire world for the effrontery of this rebel god.
Prometheus was the son of Iapetos and Klymene (Clymene). His name means Forethought.
Prometheus was a god long before Zeus took the Throne of Eternity. He fought *for* Zeus against the devising Kronos (Cronos/TIME), but Prometheus never had true respect for Zeus. He feared that the new Olympians had no compassion for each other or the mortals on the earth below. To show his disdain, Prometheus prepared two sacrifices and, in an attempt to belittle father Zeus, he made one sacrifice of fat and bones and the other of the finest meat. The trick was, Prometheus had wrapped the fat in such a way that it looked to be the most sincere tribute of the two. Zeus saw through the trick and magnanimously controlled his anger. He warned Prometheus but did not punish him.
The Crimes of Prometheus
Zeus had many plans for the reshaping of creation. After the fall of Kronos and his confinement in Tartaros, Zeus took no interest in the mortal race of men on the bountiful earth, he intended for them to live as primitives until they died off. Zeus said that knowledge and divine gifts would only bring misery to the mortals and he insisted that Prometheus not interfere with his plans.
Dispite Zeus’ warning, Prometheus took pity on the primitive mortals and again, he deceived Zeus. Prometheus gave the mortals all sorts of gifts: brickwork, woodworking, telling the seasons by the stars, numbers, the ALPHABET (for remembering things), yoked oxen, carriages, saddles, ships and sails. He also gave other gifts: healing drugs, seercraft, signs in the sky, the mining of precious metals, animal sacrifice and all art.
To compound his crime, Prometheus had stolen fire from Zeus and given it to the mortals in their dark caves. The gift of divine fire unleashed a FLOOD of inventiveness, productivity and, most of all, respect for the immortal gods in the rapidly developing mortals. Within no time (by Immortal standards), culture, art, and literacy permeated the land around Mount Olympos (Olympus). When Zeus realized the deception that Prometheus had fostered, he was furious. He had Hephaistos (Hephaestus) shackle Prometheus to the side of a crag, high in the Caucasus mountains. There Prometheus would hang until the fury of Zeus subsided.
Each day, Prometheus would be tormented by Zeus’ eagle as it tore at his immortal flesh and tried to devour his liver. Each night, as the frost bit it’s way into his sleep, the torn flesh would mend so the eagle could begin anew at the first touch of Eos (the Dawn).
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Originally posted by interestedalways
What is the big secret of Fire???
I mean the Stolen Fire?
Prometheus and Lucifer
The Promethean myth is Hellenistic in origin. Prometheus is a type of archetypal trickster figure, a rebel titan who stole fire from Zeus (the gods) and brought the gift of consciousness to humanity, for that is what the fire symbolizes: divine consciousness, similar to Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge and thus being thrown into awareness.
Originally posted by interestedalways
Lucifer was infamous as being the Peacock Angel, self expainatory enjoys it's prideful existance and desire for admiration. Some believe in the Redemtion of the Peacock Angel.
Lucifer was the trailblazer, the torch bearer, the Fallen Archangel.
At least that seems to be a common theme.
Satan on the other hand is said to Prowl like a lion, out to hunt and destroy.
This doesn't fit with the image of beautiful man (angel) in the sky who had desire and got in trouble for it and was cast in the earth, but given dominion.
Nimrod was a great hunter before God.
'Where does the seek and destroy fit in?
How does that make one eligible for redemtion?
I kinda get the God having charge and allowing Satan, but why the big secret of Lucifer.
What is the big secret of Fire???
I mean the Stolen Fire?
thermostat
ther·mo·stat [ thúrmə stàt ] (plural ther·mo·stats)
noun
Definition:
1. temperature regulator: a device that regulates temperature by means of a temperature sensor such as a bimetallic strip. Thermostats are used in vehicle engines and domestic heating systems.
2. device triggered by temperature change: a device that activates a mechanism or system such as a FIRE alarm or a sprinkler system in response to a change in temperature
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Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
som noticed a thing in the valley that peter demonstrated ....
the mirror's reflection runs on light, and look into the mirror and the light is opposite that of the caster, so the eyes say ....
mirror image is opposite when light is "bounced" off the mirror.
peter said:
"but the spoken word is not corrupted." and peter yelled: "som" ,and a short time passed and then peter's voice returned and it sounded "som" as the sound of som "bounced" off the rock in the valley.
peter said to som: "the rock does not lie", nor does the spoken living word.
either our eyes lied, the light lied, or the mirror lied. Or ...... their truths were not compatible with eachother directly.....
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
bullies ... silly bullies .... soms are for rightious who are not "me before anything and everything".
college = coleg
"c" also makes "s" sound.
so ledge, soul ledge, sow ledge, coal leg, co-all leg.
one is knot the loneliest number, nor is 0. marry kulls happen.
Originally posted by interestedalways
I saw the post about Satan being a mask, but it didn't fully explain to me what you mean about the two being one.
The purpose of the two "entities" seems distinctly different to me.
Originally posted by queenannie38
Originally posted by interestedalways
I saw the post about Satan being a mask, but it didn't fully explain to me what you mean about the two being one.
The purpose of the two "entities" seems distinctly different to me.
Well, i don't know if i can say it any other way.
Maybe just meditate on that because i think it will come to you but i lack the words to explain it. I'm sorry for that, it's lame, i know. :shk:
Definition: Om is a very simple chant with a complex meaning. Often chanted three times at the start and finish of a yoga session, om is the whole universe coalesed into a single sound and represents the union of mind, body, and spirit that is at the heart of yoga. When chanted, the sound of om is actually three syllables - a, u, and m.
Pronunciation: aaaaauuuuummmmm
Examples: To close this class, please join me in chanting om three times.
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Om mani padme hum[1] (Devanagari ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ, IAST oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ) is probably the most famous mantra in Buddhism, the six syllabled mantra of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara (Tibetan Chenrezig). The mantra is particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara. The Dalai Lama is said to be an incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, so the mantra is especially revered by his devotees.
In English the mantra is variously transliterated, depending on the schools of Buddhism as well as individual teachers.
Possible spellings and their romanizations include:
Tibetan: ཨོཾ་མ་ནི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་Om Ma Ni Pe Me Hung [or Hum]
Devanagari: ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ; IAST: Oṃ Maṇi-Padme Hūṃ
Chinese 唵嘛呢叭咪吽, pinyin Ǎn Má Ní Bā Mī Hōng
Hangul 옴마니반메훔, Om Ma Ni Ban Mae Hum
Katakana オンマニハツメイウン On Mani Hatsu Mei Un
OM's "Samsaric realm" is Devas
OM's syllable (*silly bull) purifies Pride
OM's color is white
om's symbol of the deity is wisdom
(wish them to be born in) the perfect realm of potala
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The Om symbol on the back of the t-shirts and also on some of my bracelets is a sacred syllable that is considered to be the greatest of all the mantras, or sacred formulas. The syllable Om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u coalesce to become o), which represent several important triads. One of which is: the three worlds of earth, atmosphere, and heaven.
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Aum was a San Francisco-based blues-rock group that lasted from 1968 to 1970 and released two albums. Members were Wayne Ceballos (guitar, piano), Kenneth Newell (bass), and Larry Martin (drums). ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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Introduction to SOM
Self-Organizing Maps
It is likely that outliers will be overcome by the process. This makes SOM a good "natural" fuzzy classifier, natural in the sense that it is not rule-based like in fuzzy logic, and is on the contrary a feature extraction device.
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The SOM is a new, effective software tool for the visualization of high-dimensional data. It converts complex, nonlinear statistical relationships between high-dimensional data items into simple geometric relationships on a low-dimensional display. As it thereby compresses information while preserving the most important topological and metric relationships of the primary data items on the display, it may also be thought to produce some kind of abstractions. These two aspects, visualization and abstraction, can be utilized in a number of ways in complex tasks such as process analysis, machine perception, control, and communication.
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