{"id":23074,"date":"2023-01-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/?p=23074"},"modified":"2023-01-27T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:13:54","slug":"aphrodite-pan-and-eros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/aphrodite-pan-and-eros\/","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite, Pan and Eros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dearest friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am pleased to send you a few words on the topic of&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">&#8230;APHRODITE, PAN AND EROS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros.png\" alt=\"Aphrodite, Pan and Eros\" class=\"wp-image-23041\" title=\"Aphrodite, Pan and Eros\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros.png 860w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros-480x295.png 480w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros-768x472.png 768w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros-455x279.png 455w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros-286x176.png 286w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/afrodita-pan-eros-195x120.png 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><figcaption>Aphrodite, Pan and Eros<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The official opinion says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;Pan is depicted clutching Aphrodite&#8217;s left arm, who is undressing to take a bath and protecting her nudity with that arm, while she threatens him with a sandal. Her posture is linked to the most common depictions of Aphrodite taking off her shoes and Aphrodite in the bath. Eros protects his mother by pushing Pan&#8217;s horns so as to drive him away&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To delve deeply into this Greek mythological theme it is necessary to know the<strong> Gnostic mysteries<\/strong>, because otherwise everything remains insubstantial verbiage of ambiguous talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us start by saying that <strong>Aphrodite<\/strong> is the representation of <strong>love linked to eroticism<\/strong>, so Venus is not the same as <strong>Aphrodite<\/strong>.&nbsp;Venus is the representation of the Divine Mother Kundalini, Stella Maris, as the alchemists would call her; instead, we have to approach<strong> Aphrodite <\/strong>as the image of <strong>conjugal love<\/strong>. Hence, her son becomes, precisely, <strong>Eros<\/strong>, because for there to be <strong>conjugal love <\/strong>the presence of <strong>eroticism <\/strong>is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unquestionable that there are two types of eroticism: superior and inferior. Superior eroticism springs from LOVE, devoid of animal passions which usually end up in total FORNICATION; inferior eroticism is that practiced by Tom, Dick and Harry and anybody at all, as V.M. Samael affirmed. That eroticism is the basis of the fabrication of new animal-like \u201cI\u2019s\u201d that keep the human psyche trapped. That is what we call in alchemical terms ARSENICATED SULFUR or DRY MERCURY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the reason why <strong>Aphrodite <\/strong>is ready to hit PAN <strong>\u2500Lucifer\u2500<\/strong>&nbsp;with a sandal so as not to allow the <strong>shadow of the Eternal \u2500Lucifer\u2500<\/strong> to interfere in an animalistic way in the topic of our sexuality. Every time PAN controls the act of love in a savage way he turns it into an <strong>orgy<\/strong>, and such procedures ruin our pilgrimage on the Secret Path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attitude that we want to adopt during chemical coitus is fundamental here. If we help <strong>EROS<\/strong> we need to understand first of all that sexuality IS SACRED. In this way, <strong>Eros-Cupid<\/strong> is able to refrain PAN and his characteristic animality by pulling him by his horns, that is, removing him from our amorous moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, it is good to know that we can only remove his savagery from <strong>PAN <\/strong>himself by resorting to the alchemical phrase used by medieval alchemists, namely: <strong>BURN YOUR BOOKS AND WHITEN YOUR BRASS&#8230;.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To burn the books means to abandon the labyrinth of theories and to whiten the brass means to <strong>refine ourselves psychologically<\/strong>, in this way we march toward our own inner purification. <strong>Brass<\/strong> signifies in this case the blackness of our mercurial waters and the blackness of our own <strong>Lucifer<\/strong>, since he has turned black because of our own psychological filth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Master Samael says: &#8220;<strong>Those who anathematize Lucifer are anathematizing Christ or Chrestos himself<\/strong>, for Lucifer is simply his shadow, yet he is a part of our own PROFOUND INNER BEING.&#8221; This was known in ancient Christianity, but since the Catholic Church began to disfigure the early Christian doctrine, they then confused <strong>Lucifer <\/strong>with <strong>Satan<\/strong>.&nbsp;Satan is the \u201cI\u201d constituted by his ten thousand psychological aggregates that we all have in our psychology. Lucifer is something else, he is the fire that is necessary for allowing us, through our alchemical transmutations, to be able to obtain the <strong>Sacred Fire of Devi-Kundalini<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must note in this part of our comments that, originally, the statue of Pan that we observe in this photo of this sculptural trio had its <strong>virile member \u2500<em>phallus<\/em>\u2500 <\/strong>in a state of erection. Unfortunately, today such a member has probably been mutilated by the parochial puritanism of our times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, we now attach the second sculptural group for you \u2500below\u2500, the work of Master Michelangelo Buonarroti, which shows us the God called <strong>Bacchus<\/strong>, whom we see very close to the God <strong>Pan<\/strong>. But, in this case, the presentation of the latter is surprising: he is seen stripped of his goat skin \u2500that is to say, <strong>whitened<\/strong>\u2500 and transformed into an innocent child eating the delicious grapes of love \u2500the goatskin is found flayed at the feet of the child\u2500, while <strong>Bacchus<\/strong>, crowned with a garland of vine leaves and grapes, raises his cup with his right hand very carefully so as not to spill it. The two characters are on a foundation that is a hard rock \u2013allegory of sexuality\u2500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan.png\" alt=\"God Bacchus and God Pan, Michelangelo Buonarroti\" class=\"wp-image-23053\" title=\"God Bacchus and God Pan, Michelangelo Buonarroti\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan.png 850w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan-480x391.png 480w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan-768x625.png 768w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan-455x370.png 455w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan-286x233.png 286w, https:\/\/vopus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/miguel-angel-baco-y-pan-195x159.png 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption>God Bacchus and God Pan, Michelangelo Buonarroti<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this second sculptural group it is easy to see that the god Pan is now transformed into an innocent child because, indeed, he has been divested of animal instincts, represented by the goat skin he has at his feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attitude of the god <strong>Bacchus <\/strong>is very interesting because, being the god of <strong>transmutatory <\/strong>art,he is careful not to spill a single drop of the precious liquid contained in his chalice. All this belonged to the Mysteries of Eleusis, in Greece, and of Dionysus, in Rome, and was understood only by the Initiates who belonged to the Mystery Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now give you a few sentences for your reflection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;The true lover loves everywhere and always remembers the beloved.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Saint Teresa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different copies.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>La Rochefaucauld<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;There is nothing stronger than true love.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Seneca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;A look, a sigh, silence, are enough to explain love.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Moliere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Man needs to love and the basis of religion is love.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Balmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>HORAS NON NUMERO NISI SERENAS<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><br><strong>\u2500\u2018<\/strong>I count only the serene hours\u2019\u2500.<br><strong>KWEN KHAN KHU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to send you a few words on the topic of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros.<br \/>\nTo delve deeply into this Greek mythological theme it is necessary to know the Gnostic mysteries, because otherwise everything remains insubstantial verbiage of ambiguous talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[476,161,466],"tags":[485,486,533,536],"contenido":[271],"fuente":[],"pilar":[],"fase":[],"conferencia":[],"read_online":[],"author_tax":[322],"class_list":["post-23074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universal-symbols","category-alchemy","category-messages-vm-kwen-khan-khu","tag-mensajes-del-v-m-kwen-khan-khu","tag-mensajes-del-v-m-kwen-khan-khu-en","tag-arte-en","tag-simbolos-universales-en","contenido-articles-en","author_tax-v-m-kwen-khan-khu-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"contenido","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contenido?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"fuente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fuente?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"pilar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pilar?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"fase","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fase?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"conferencia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conferencia?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"read_online","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/read_online?post=23074"},{"taxonomy":"author_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vopus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_tax?post=23074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}