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| ==Primary Gods and Legends==
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| ==H. P. Blavatsky and Myths==
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| ==Anthropomirphism==
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| <blockquote>"The dark night of the soul," no less than the Götterdämmerung, was, in the
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| ancient mind, just the condition of the soul's embodiment in physical forms.
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| Taylor reasons that Minerva (the rational faculty, as Goddess of Wisdom) was by
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| her attachment to body given wholly "to the dangerous employment and abandons
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| the proper characteristics of her nature for the destructive revels of desire."
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| All this is the dialectic statement of the main theme of ancient theology - the
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| incarnation of the godlike intellect and divine soul in the darksome conditions
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| of animal bodies.<ref>Kuhn, Alvin Boyd. ''The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures'' (Rahway, NJ: Quinn & Boden Company, 1940), 146.</ref></blockquote>
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| ==Modern Analysis==
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| <blockquote>Similarly it is that during those periods of spiritual dryness we can, if we
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| have so trained ourselves, commune with God through various forms of Art, for
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| Art fundamentally is a revelation of the Divine Nature, it reveals what Plato
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| called the Idea or the Archetype. The ancient Greeks were particularly sensitive
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| to this aspect of Art. If they looked at a statue of Apollo, the sun-god, it was
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| not merely to them a statue of some handsome youth, but there radiated from the
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| statue a mysterious influence, so that they came to feel the influence of God.
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| Similarly with the goddess Minerva; they felt, when there was an adequately
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| beautiful image in a temple, that somehow as they offered their adoration to it,
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| the image was like a wonderful window through which they looked into the Divine
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| Nature.<ref>Jinarājadāsa, Curuppumullage. Discourses on the Bhagavad Gita (Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1953), 99.</ref></blockquote>
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| ==Notes==
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| <references/>
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