…that wonderful scene. Well there are two scenes that I would like to bring out one, when hector is going out to fight Achilles they know each other, they know each other's relative strength and hector's wife comes to him with her little child whose name…

…who will their fates guide, those who won't, they drag. So he goes forth. Then when we come to the end of the epic, Achilles has killed hector and has dragged his body around troy tagged onto his chariot. That sounds to us like a brutal event and…

…magical as well as actual warrior walls. And then old Priam, the old father of hector and of the destroyed city, comes to Achilles to beg for the body of his son. There's a beautiful scene there mutual sympathy and understanding and so forth. This is a…

…of the father. It can never be quite explained. Therefore in every system of theology there is an umbilical point, an Achilles Tendon which the finger of mother life has touched and where the possibility of perfect knowledge has been impaired. The problem…

…when we read who these people are this is thetis and this is Peleus this is the mother and this is the father of Achilles. So it is a marriage. Thetis was a beautiful nymph with whom zeus fell in love. Then he learned that her son would be…

…music of the spheres, the music, the voice of the universe. The third serpent is biting the heel the bite of the Achilles Tendon, the bite of death dying to one's little ego and becoming a vehicle of the knowledge of the transcendent, becoming transparent…

…painting by a Swiss artist of the 19th century bicklin death playing the violin to the artist, that is the serpent bite on the Achilles Tendon which opens the two eyes he is no longer just himself, he is the vehicle of the voice of the muse. Now I…

…when we read who these people are this is thetis and this is Peleus this is the mother and this is the father of Achilles. So it is a marriage. Thetis was a beautiful nymph with whom zeus fell in love. Then he learned that her son would be…

…music of the spheres, the music the voice of the universe. The third serpent is biting the heel, the bite of the Achilles Tendon, the bite of death, dying to one's little ego and becoming a vehicle of the knowledge of the transcendent, becoming…