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"Hercules. The Man and the Symbol"

by Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar

 

The life and accomplishments of Hercules, the great mythological hero of the Greeks, signify the experience of the Soul through its journey along the zodiacal path of the 12 sun signs. Through the twelve labours Hercules transforms himself into a great adept. It is the history of discipleship, where the disciple is not satisfied until his individual activity is merged in the Universal. It is recommended to go each month into the spiritual aspect of the respective sun sign.

Content: The I-AM-consciousness - our common platform; The Phenomenal and the Noumenal World; A Son of Man Transforming into a Son of God; Hercules - His Life up to his 18th year; The Six Gifts; Aries - Taming the Wild Mares; Taurus - Fetching the Bull; Gemini - The Golden Apples; Cancer - The White Dove; Leo - The Cave and the Lion; Virgo - Girdle of the Queen; Libra - The Lift-Up; Scorpio - Hydra; Sagittarius - Noise & Voice; Capricorn - The Release of Prometheus; Aquarius - Cleansing the Stables; Pisces - Accomplishment.

 

Dhanishta Publishing House, Visakhapatnam, India, 1999.

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Chapter 3: A Son of Man Transforming into a Son of God

The Son of God

Hercules is a story which makes us understand the steps for the transformation. The 12 labours of Hercules is the story of a solar year with 12 months. The 12 labours can be experienced through the 12 solar months of the year. We have passed through many summers without experiencing the solar God. The labours relating to Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer etc. are the 12 qualities that have to be worked out in us to find ourselves as the solar angels.

It takes 12 months or 12 years or 12 lives to experience it. It took 12 years to Hercules. He realized the importance of the solar year of 12 months even in his 1st year. He started working in the occult path under the guidance of a Teacher who was instructed by Jupiter. Hercules found himself in a 12 years' cycle through the 12 labours.

These labours seem to be very difficult and very heavy; that is why we developed the idiom of 'Herculean task', but it is not difficult when we have the right orientation. In every story of a son of man we find similar situations. When we go through the story of a son of man who transformed into a son of God, we get inspired.

When the son of man works out the 12 labours, he gradually transforms himself into the son of God. The transformation is gradual, but not sudden. For those who live with him, his conduct is an inspiration to follow. The story of the son of God is an inspiration for those who are around him. That enables them also to pick up the Path and work with it.


Inspiration Versus Emotion

Every time there is the story of a son of man working out the Path we find two varieties of people gathering around him. One variety gets inspired and also picks up the threads to function. Those are the ones who are said to tread the Path.

The second variety, their inspiration coupled with emotion, makes them worshippers of the son of man and the son of God. Slowly, as the emotions die out, they also get into the Path, but in the meanwhile the second category of the contemporaries founds a religion upon him.

Every religion we know is founded upon the life work of a son of God. They project the son of God as "The God", trying to propagate him as such, and gradually it crystallises into a religion.

Every time there is a man walking upon Earth transforming himself into a sun ray, his life definitely leaves an inspiration around. There are the two varieties who keep getting this inspiration. Some are inspired to work Iike him, others are inspired to worship him. The first—ones follow the Path, the second ones also follow the Path, but after a cycle of time. Out of the second, the religions are given birth.