Balance of Life and Divine Law

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I am pretty sure it is in regards to divine law, putting aside the obvious as above so below paradoxes, “My image was Great in Egypt”would refer to Ma’at found at nearly every burial chamber. “Feared by the Greeks” you have the titan Themis, her daughter Dike, and the one who carried out the punishment for breaking laws set forth was the goddess Nemesis, daughter of Nyx. “no image among the barbarians” because by definition a barbarian would be someone with no morals and no divine practices. However in the “On the Orogin of the World”.

What are your thoughts WF? Do you follow any laws you consider divine because of - or even despite your beliefs?

Do you think the closer you are to following divine law, you are by extension closer with communion with the Divine? Do you see “synchronicities” as a sign you are on the right path?

What are your thoughts in regards to the poem being about balancing life, morals and divine law, is a set of divine laws necessary for easier communication with the gods/goddess’?

Do you believe life needs a set of divine laws or do you think humans can live harmoniously without a set of laws agreed upon?

Should the laws be exclusive to religious views or can it transcend, Norse Pagans have Wyrd, governed by the fates, Modern pagans the threefold law, Rosicrucians have Christ between spiritual and the physical (Lucifer and Ahriman) East have a balance of Ida and Pingala, Sun and Noon, Masons have the pillars of Mercy and Severity ect….
take a dive into what we call life, communion and put any religious or philosophical thoughts below! Regarding what I wrote above!


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Oops, I didn’t backspace far enough, phone can be tricky ignore the “On the Origin of the World” part.

 

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You might want to look at this new translation complete with scholarly comments.

Personally, I have a highly chaoist/sceptic/agnostic mindset - for me there is no balance, no divine justice and no universal laws that supposedly govern the universe, so for me this intriguing ancient poem is a paradigm buster of the first order which was designed precisely to blow up long established human preconceptions and 'rules' we might fabricate in a futile attempt to impose order on the unknowable. It's zen, in a way, a Coptic koan.

One of the scholars in the book says somewhere that the poem plays with our expectations and constantly surprises us. Applied Hermetic logic would probably require that every one of its paradoxes consisted of neat polar opposites, everything nicely symmetrical and thus 'balanced' as behooves fusty ideas of perennial wisdom but "Thunder" doesn't oblige and unpredictable changes tack, zigs where you want to zag. For example, we read "I am the bride and the bridegroom", an aesthetically appealing marriage of two diametrical opposites, i.d. male and female, but the next lines run:

And it is my husband who gave birth to me
I am my father’s mother,
my husband’s sister, and he is my child

which is mindboggling and just wild. For me, this is not a venerable treasure trove of eternal wisdom, it's a subversive spiritual firecracker. Because the speaker appears to be mostly female and downtrodden, it has been considered a feminist poem; it even appears this Prada commercial directed by Jordan & Riddley Scott.

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Of course you can read a lot of things into every poem but for me it's about defying expectations and a non-conceptional openness of mind.

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I just realized that the speaker in the commercial skips lines, for example "I am the bride and the bridegroom" is in the clip but not the wild mindboggling sequitur.

 

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You might want to look at this new translation complete with scholarly comments:

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It's zen, in a way, a Coptic koan.

I’ve heard it referred to it in this manner before, just don’t recall where:
as far as it not being entirely hermetic I 100%,
a Coptic koan poem indeed. No arguments about that as it gives me an esoteric Christianity vibe, like that of “On the Origin of the World”.

I think it does point towards the light and dark of the mind or consciousness, as Jung put it, it seems to be the “Anima” (or female mind) speaking, it is up to the “Animus” (male action of doing)

“The Anima is the most important but the Animus must come first.”
I think it may be saying “life comes first but you need to raise the spirit within through finding a balance within the mind” like having a set of divine laws or a moral code.

Idk as a poem I just think it’s thought provoking and speaks on the nature of what it is to be alive, and a conscious being, we all try to navigate through the different stations we are born into or positions we are in as we see them when the truth is we are so much more than just the body, our soul is the perfected mind, but our spirit is what tries to navigate the waters, and thunder our physical rational causes rough seas, you cannot become a good sailor if all you ever know is calm sea’s, life is a way of testing the spirit, the body is a Middle ground to question and actually invest in and the more we invest the more we believe in the consequences of the illusion creating a self perpetuating system.
“It zigs where you are wanting it to zag” thus is an unaligned life.
Thank you for sending me the newer link!