The Gospel According to Zeus

Godspel

The great Zeus … we are told had simply one battle strategy … throw the light of love … beauty … perhaps peace … and understanding at your enemies. Doesn't matter if they think its … ineffective … and lacks the punch of modern warfare … but you keep doing it … and eventually people will start to see. And what do they perceive as the truths of life? Freedom … liberty … and the exercise of the individual will. For evil … and its cohorts … are not much more than what denies … the experience of the fair world!

As the devoted friend of Eros … Old Zeus … always figured they ought to be a way to get things right the first time … and so he waited … and waited … and I understand … he still does. Like children … who think they don't have to get into a muddle … on account of their age … Zeus … creates a temple of youth … and prays for the day … when things would be just perfect. That unfortunately doesn't sit well with his father … who thinks a boy at 18 … ought to have an idea about the career … he wants to get into.

But it is hard making choices … isn't it? Especially when none of those choices … present an actual achievement … or … a fair and equitable experience of life. No … Zeus doesn't wait … no one would let him … and he is inevitably pulled into the melee of life … to ' do something worthwhile with your life.' As a child … his mother read to him … the story of the squirrel who stored nuts for the winter … compared to the other squirrel who didn't. That story … served its purpose. Like a prod on an elephant … it kept him on the move to do something.

Its the great bane of the individual … in a life that's lived … with affection and consideration for all. How can he manage what he is … in the flesh … a little better? How best to match the delicately profound concerns he has of life … and bring that into community life? His impulses for life … represent the very heart of the ambitions of creation … and as it creates cognition of itself to him … it fills him with the wonder of possibilities … that may be realized in the world experience.

In public life … he is driven to communicate his will in matters … that maintains a safe distance … from his delicate interior … that's stored in a special place of devotion … in the belief … that all that will be possible some day. In time … he chooses to associate himself with an identity … that is consistent with his responses … and matches the way … others refer to him … in their eye contact. And soon … he grows into the experience … like light from the sun … that reaches down to the forest floor … and is soon one with it.

Like Zeus … we make the attempt … each day of our lives … to maintain contact with our delicate center … and dearly hope we will not be pushed into anything more rigorous. We fear the risk of jeopardizing its content … and spilling its polished manner of view … onto the street. We fear the ravages of time … that may threaten its isolated nature … criticize its manner … even mistaking it for being indifferent to the concerns of others. We seek all manner of remedies to safeguard its presence in our lives.

Democracy … in all its founded premises of fulfillment for the hopes of man's inspiration … has been a comfort to our life's ambition's. The founding of the American republic … was hailed as the realization of the dream. It was a call that was heard many miles away around the world. It has inspired many to discard the old ways … and to subscribe to the belief … that our dreams are within grasp of realization. Its a critical factor in the world today … and its preservation … key to our continued social development.

As a society … are we moving in the direction of regaining our hopes … in the search for the dream's realization? Has the grain moved … to favor the individual's realization of the same? Then we need to persuade ourselves … to diminish the grand ambitions of mass achievement in society … and re-direct our attention and effort … to the realization by the individual … quietly … in his own life. Re-learn? I would think we need to do that … our habituation has been to be the team player all our lives … in a game … that is quickly lacking in global enthusiasm.

The same sex fervor has worked to move away from the staid social natures … and to pry into the individualistic qualities. Political ambitions that bring the gravy closer to home … in our habits and practices … promise the same achievement. In viewing the virtue of such acts … at selfishness … we must also refer to its broader scope of values. Each individual … learning to be self-sufficient in their needs … is also the achievement of social ambition … and its very roots of stability.

The study of individualism … leads down the path of sexual vanity and obsession. It surprises us … to find the extent of adoration … and narcissism an individual applies … in respect of the regard he has for himself and his abilities. Its a wondrous opportunity to examine the power of the eros … and the way it manages its matters … with the sole consideration of its own self interests. In a mind founded on reason … its an opportunity to bring to the individual eros powers … the wisdom for managing such a condition … beyond its petty savvy.

Its as much the arts as it is science … when engaging the biological and chemical properties of the passions. In adding to that … human love and concerns … we bring much to the eros … that was not a tuition … in the anima experiences of the pleasure principle. It has to be guided to learn the truths of its qualities and personality traits. Its the father who raised us from the wilds and he relies on us today … to be patient with him … and to see beyond his mere defenses … in order to help him. In doing so … we raise him from the kingdom of the child … to the world today.