…he beheld the ghosts of others performing incredible and mysterious tasks. And the ghost world described by Homer and by other Greek poets, Hesiod, and in the plays of Socrates and people of this time, this ghost world is very close to the idea of a…

…cycles such as the great Vedic cycle of India, and the Puranas and Bharatas. We can also see in it the Theogony of Hesiod, and the great epic poems of Homer. We can parallel it with the Bharata, the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana. all of the great…

…unfolds through the writings of points, mystics, and of those constructors and delineators of myth, of which Homer and Hesiod are typical examples. The third or historical part emerges slowly from the fabulous, and gradually we secure certain footings.…

…that many of these fables by no means appear to have been invented by those persons who relate and evolve them, whether Homer, Hesiod, or others. For if I were assured that they first flowed from these later times and authors that transmit them to us, I…

…be differentiated, by which all nature could be formed and bound. Thus at the root of our Grecian lore there must lie, as Hesiod has pointed out, the root and substance And this root and substance tells us that in the beginning there was a total…

…will occupy between the bodies. And it is reasonably certain that this unembodied person would not find himself in the inferno of Hesiod or in the strange dark underworld of the Homeric legends. He would not find the universe like the drawn in some table…

…empowered to bring forth his world, to set forth his generations, much as in the story of the Greek creation myths of Hesiod and the Orphic theology. Therefore, with the sanction of the law, the Great One brought forth his kingdom. And because the law…

…in many respects, the dramatists made the distinguishing of the deities not only difficult, but almost impossible in some instances. Hesiod points out that there are also layers of interpretation, and we have suggested already that some of these layers arose…

…of fable or myth. We've already given a brief summary of the creation as it was set forth, at least in the time of Hesiod, and later unfolded by Plato and Proclus. We might add something, however, to the previous account in order to make it as complete…

…you go back into your earliest Greek philosophy, as we find in the Neoplatonist interpretation of Homer's Odyssey, we discover with Hesiod that the cyclop was not a being with one eye originally. He was a being originally seeing in all directions. That…

…Olympus and knew perfectly well that it was not a physical mountain that was to be considered the abode of the gods. So following Hesiod and thinking in terms of the Elder Ada of the Nordic peoples, we could get a certain vision of the world as it…

…and only important land created for a very long while. But the Greek myth could well have begun in about the same manner, although Hesiod does not give us the details. But we do know that in the midst of ocean, as in a constant and ancient guardian,…

…that the same had to be true in the opening chapters of Genesis, which we cannot expect to have everyone take literally. Hesiod gives us a wonderful sweep of Greek creative religious thought. And we must also bear in mind the contribution of Pythagoras of…

…the various temperatures and climatic areas of the earth. The same type of thinking reminds us that the Greeks, including Hesiod, and other ancient ones among them, describe a race of beings called the Hyperboreans. The Hyperboreans, as their name implies,…

…this is this mysterious middle region between history and prehistory. And there stands the great cycle of the myths from Hesiod, Leviticus, the great teachings and mysteries of Assyria and Chaldea and Babylon, the wonderful legendary lore of China, and even…

…this does not exhaust their whole thinking on it by any means. It would not be easy to quickly exhaust the thinking of Hesiod or the thinking of Plato on such problems as this. The Greeks in many regions had their legends and their myths. One of…

…reach of its light and warmth. The beauty of the poet. The great dream of Homer. The wonderful theogenic vision of Hesiod. This magnificent word symbolism of Virgil. All of these things coming out bear witness to some wonderful order and dispensation in…

…his work that showed that he was well-versed in the Odyssey and Iliad of Homer. He was also well-equipped in the study of Hesiod. He was like many of the later men, like Dryden, who made a poetic translation of the Aeneas and Virgil, and, of course,…

…which for thousands of years have inhibited the expression of this internal totality. Plato intimates as much, so does Hesiod in his Theogony. These possible explanations might also explain how and why the Atlantean mystery was possible in Atlantis.…

…Castor and Pollux. We are told, for instance, in the primordial Greek myth that is preserved for us in the Theogony of Hesiod, the great creating or creation myth, which almost everyone interested in these subjects should read Hesiod, we are told that in…

…in the Theogony of Hesiod, the great creating or creation myth, which almost everyone interested in these subjects should read Hesiod, we are told that in the beginning there was the eternal power, the eternal being, undimensioned, unlimited. And that within…