Pluto Plutus : Greek god of Hades (Romans renamed Pluto to Orcus of Dis). Since ploutos is Greek for Riches or Wealth, ancient Greeks commonly used Hades as possessor of all rich the metals & gems of the earth.
... than Homer and Hesiod and has been recounted by them: Persephone, daughter of Demeter and Zeus, is carried off by Pluto, God of the Underworld, with Zeus' consent, when she goes to pluck the narcissus-flower, grown specially for the occasion by Gaia, the Earth-Goddess, at Zeus' behest. Pluto makes her his queen and keeps her as his prisoner. Demeter, in deep sorrow searches for her everywhere and, roaming... place. The common story tells of how she goes to ask Zeus to send for Persephone, compelling him to do so by stopping all growth of corn and fruit on earth. Zeus sends Hermes to fetch Persephone and Pluto has to release her, but he has given her seven pomegranate seeds to eat, to assure her return to his realm. There is an Orphic Hymn, however, which speaks of Demeter's descent into Hades. I have not... realities of the here and now..." The myth of Demeter and Persephone speaks of the separation of the soul from its Divine Mother-Consciousness and its descent into Matter, (the Greek "hyle"), into Hades. Pluto, Lord of the Underworld, called also "the Nether Zeus", is the entire material Nature which imprisons the soul until the Divine Consciousness descends and redeems it, and all Nature with it. The ancients ...
... sorrow's dead, and I Return to kiss your feet, 0 Joy Divine. Curtain Page 69 SCENE 3 Pluto's throne-room. The thrones on a pedestal in left foreground. A thick screen hangs behind them. Entrance - cavern opening - at farthest right, back-stage. Pluto's seat, to Persephone's right, is vacant. Persephone on her throne, now unveiled, exceedingly beautiful, but with arms... her. All the small beings gather around in ordered patterns, Page 70 clinging to the hem of her long flowing white robe. Pluto comes rushing in. The beings make way for him at once and briskly withdraw. Pluto (awed, stands at a distance) Persephone, beloved mine, you're safe!... - Why, yes, of course, I should have known it. Love, This is... come one day. Persephone (very quietly) I know She's come. Pluto (noticing her broken chains) Oh, what! Your fetters have been broken too! Who freed you? Persephone As these rock-foundations shook, My shackles broke and fell. Yes, I am free. Pluto Free? Free! - Persephone, you will not leave me? (Suddenly kneels) Ah, no, how ...
... The Secret Splendour (Taking suggestions from one of Homer's hymns about the capture of the Spring-spirit Persephone by Pluto, the god of die Underworld, I wrote this poem more as an experiment than seriously, a pleasurable indulgence in word-colour touched with mystery. The suggestions from Homer are marked by an asterisk.) The crocus like a sun ...
... in the treacherous lonely night To foes betrayed, environed and undone. O Trojans, will ye sleep until the doom Have slipped its leash and bark upon your doors? Not long will ye, unless in Pluto's realm, Have slumber, since forsaken among foes I drink the bitter cup of lonely death Unheeded and from helping faces far. O Trojans, Trojans, yet again I call! Swift help we need or Ilion's ...
... a world of light into the body that is darkness. Again, there is the Lion which too is symbolic. In the myth of Persephone it is Pluto who bears the virgin away to his subterranean palace: Blake substitutes the Lion because in the Neoplatonist tradition the empire of Pluto begins from the sign Leo where "the rudiments of birth, and certain primary exercises of human nature commence..." 20 Blake's Lion... poems... is... Blake's version of the myth celebrated in the Mysteries of Eleusis, the story of the descent of Persephone into Hades, and the search of the Mother for her lost child". 16 Hades or Pluto is material Nature. The Virgin Persephone or Proserpine is the vital animating part, commonly called the Soul, descending into that world of generation. Her mother Demeter or Ceres is the Intellect... Lion symbolizes 17. Ibid., 33. 18. Ibid., 43. 19. Ibid., pp. 43-44. 20. Ibid., p. 36. Page 135 Pluto, but in the designs of the poems we have only a Lion and a Lioness and no indication of the symbolized supernatural power. So there is nothing odd in the absence of a recognizable Christ-suggestion in Blake's illustration of the Tyger. And if we examine the ...
... AUROBINDO: Like Atlantis? And your intuition of brinjal and typhoid won't have any chance. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Quite welcome. PURANI: He has brought out new planes. Uranus SRI AUROBINDO: And Pluto. Uranus, he says, is more psychic in nature. NIRODBARAN: How can that be when Stalin is under Uranus? SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? Dictators sometimes bring about profound changes. Daladier also. It ...
... Paradise Regained, 102,108 Persephone, 134, 135 "Pestilence: the Death of the First-Born", 5 Philosophia ad Athenienses, 170 Pluto, 135 Platonists, 28 Pleroma, 252 Plowman, Dorothy, 144 fn. 18 Plowman, Max, 133,134 Pluto, 134,135 Poems and Prophecies by William Blake, 133 fn. 13 "Poetic Genius, the", 70,216 Porphyry, 134 Portable Blake ...
... dead Tammuz, her only son, who was taken away before his time. The descent-myth of Orpheus depicts how, after the death of Eurydice, his beloved wife, Orpheus descended into Hades, moved Pluto and Persephone to pity with the sweet notes of his lyre, and sought and received their permission to bring back Eurydice to the land of the living but 'on one condition — that Orpheus should precede ...
... himself becomes in the Inconscient a frontal aspect of the Supreme; when the veil gets removed we meet him in his positive countenance in this paradoxical unfolding. Death is a mode of manifestation. Plutus, the god of wealth mentioned by Phaedrus, is a divinity who brings forth riches from the soil; Death or Yama as the son of Vivasvan the Sun-God pours radiances to illumine the mysteries of the Night ...
... the Godhead, is present everywhere and in everything, even now, in the paper on which these words are printed and in the iris of the eye that reads them, as well as in the ice of the comets beyond Pluto and in the burning core of the quasars. Without the Supramental nothing could possibly exist. It will be remembered that God is not only ‘higher’ but also deeper, more inward, and it is from the ‘inside’ ...
... and warm moisture; then he appeared as the god of pleasure and the god of civilisation; and finally according to Orphic conceptions, as supreme god. Dis: The Roman name for the Greek Pluto or Hades, the god of the nether realm. Dryads: Nymphs of the woods and trees. Enceladus: One of the giants who waged war against the gods. He was hurled down by Athene and imprisoned ...
... promises; for if it is perilous to sin, it is worse to be the cause of sin in others. IOLAUS Thou shalt have gold and farms. I will absolve Andromeda's promise and my own. CIREAS Great Plutus! O happy Cireas! IOLAUS Merchant Tyrnaus, art thou for Chaldea? TYRNAUS When I have seen these troubles' joyous end And your sweet princess, my young rescuer, Happily wedded. IOLAUS... Page 515 SMERDAS Alas, I was compelled by threats of torture. IOLAUS And tempted too with gold. Thy punishment Shall hit thee in thy nature. Farmer Cireas! CIREAS Prince Plutus! IOLAUS Take thou this man for slave. He's strong. Work him upon thy fields and thy plantations. SMERDAS O this is worst of all. IOLAUS Not worse than thy desert. For gold thou ...
... on them like the song. Now know'st thou that voice desolate, — Mourning ruined joy's estate, — Reached thee through a closing gate. 'Go'st thou to Plato?' Ah, girl, no! It is to Pluto that I go. Page 76 This is no imitation, Thompson catches the very essence of Shelley in one aspect, there is a free and living tone which makes it genuine. The man who could write ...
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