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==Primary Gods and Legends==
 
==Legend of Prometheus==
 
The Legend of Prometheus is often equated to the Story of Lucifer. As [H. P. Blavatsky] comments:
 
<blockquote> Hence the allegory of Prometheus, who steals the divine fire so as to allow
men to proceed consciously on the path of spiritual evolution, thus transforming
the most perfect of animals on earth into a potential god, and making him free
to "take the kingdom of heaven by violence." Hence also, the curse pronounced by
Zeus against Prometheus, and by Jehovah-Il-da-Baoth against his "rebellious
son," Satan.</blockquote>
 
(Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Volume II, pg. 244)
 
<blockquote>The name of Prometheus, to those who
had nought to do with the physical body, yet everything with the purely
spiritual man...Each class of Creators endows man with what it has to give: the one builds
his external form; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the
Human Higher Self owing to the personal exertion of the individual; but they
could not make men as they were themselves  --  perfect, because sinless; sinless,
because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these
all perfect  --  from the human standpoint  --  white, pure and cold as the virgin
snow. Where there is no struggle, there is no meritThe first
humanity, therefore, was a pale copy of its progenitors; too material, even in
its ethereality, to be a hierarchy of gods; too spiritual and pure to be MEN,
endowed as it is with every negative (Nirguna) perfection. Perfection, to be
fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the incorruptible must grow out of
the corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle and basis and contrast.
Absolute light is absolute darkness, and vice versa.</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>This drama of the struggle of Prometheus with the Olympic tyrant
and despot, sensual Zeus, one sees enacted daily within our actual mankind: the
lower passions chain the higher aspirations to the rock of matter, to generate
in many a case the vulture of sorrow, pain, and repentance. In every such case
one sees once more  --
"A god . . . in fetters, anguish fraught;
The foe of Zeus, in hatred held by all. . . . "
A god, bereft even of that supreme consolation of Prometheus, who suffered
in self-sacrifice  --
"For that to men he bare too fond a mind. . ."
as the divine Titan is moved by altruism, but the mortal man by Selfishness and
Egoism in every instance.</blockquote>
 
(Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Volume II)
 
 
 
(Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Volume II, pg. 95)
 
==H. P. Blavatsky and Myths==
 
==Notes==
 
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