Maya
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According to Plato, the soul consists of three parts. Two out of the three parts are compared with horses, meaning, each one of these two parts of the soul behaves like a horse, and the third part of the soul is the rider. Imagine an illustration with two horses, one rider, and the carriage. The carriage is our body, and the rider and the two horses are the three parts of our soul.
One horse is the "synesthimatikon" (emotional) part of the soul, and the other horse is the "epithymitikon" (desiring) part of the soul. The "logistikon" part of the soul (the rider - logic) is the one who is going to be in control of the two horses. He is not in control just yet, because he didn't manage to yet. The rider is asleep. The two horses are out of control, noone controls them, noone leads them. They go wherever they want to go and as humans we act based only on them, on our emotions and whims.
And this is the challenge of incarnation, with the reasonable part of the soul, to gain suitable logic, gain the control of the two parts which don't have reasoning, and to make these three parts cowork. When we achieve this, we will be at a stage of Aristotelian logic.
These two horses are not typical horses. One of them is white and good (synesthimatikon) and the other one is black and malicious (epithymitikon). The white horse is beautiful, harmonic, stands proud and tall, in the best position for a horse, with a nice tall and slightly convex neck and black eyes. So the white horse represents virtue, positive coyness, prudence and objective truth. If we want these values in our lives, we need the whole horse to be active. For this horse, the rider needs only to speak to it in order for it to obey.
The black horse doesn't want to stand nice and tall and proud, changes positions all the time, has a short neck, its face looks like many other faces, and its fur looks like many other furs at the same time, and it has white eyes. This horse has a lot of hair inside its ears and can't listen to the rider's orders, so the rider has to whip the horse in order for it to obey.
And now with this contrast, our soul behaves. The white horse sees through the eyes of the black horse, and the black horse sees through the eyes of the white horse. This means that our emotions can see and come from our wishes, our wishes stimulate our emotion, and our emotion is the one that causes our whims.
The rider will wake up when he becomes in charge of the energies of the two horses, when he becomes able to balance them, then our connection with our higher self begins.
Our whims are defined by our emotions, and our emotions are defined by our whims. This can't change unless these two parts become totally and completely balanced, then they will be guided by objective logic.
Now let's bring in our minds the yin yang symbol. We see a white side, a black side, one dot of the opposite colour inside each one, all in harmony, inside a perfect circle (rider - objective logic).
Because whatever info we find in ancient civilizations, we see the same logic, the same philosophy, the same symbols illustrated differently.
One horse is the "synesthimatikon" (emotional) part of the soul, and the other horse is the "epithymitikon" (desiring) part of the soul. The "logistikon" part of the soul (the rider - logic) is the one who is going to be in control of the two horses. He is not in control just yet, because he didn't manage to yet. The rider is asleep. The two horses are out of control, noone controls them, noone leads them. They go wherever they want to go and as humans we act based only on them, on our emotions and whims.
And this is the challenge of incarnation, with the reasonable part of the soul, to gain suitable logic, gain the control of the two parts which don't have reasoning, and to make these three parts cowork. When we achieve this, we will be at a stage of Aristotelian logic.
These two horses are not typical horses. One of them is white and good (synesthimatikon) and the other one is black and malicious (epithymitikon). The white horse is beautiful, harmonic, stands proud and tall, in the best position for a horse, with a nice tall and slightly convex neck and black eyes. So the white horse represents virtue, positive coyness, prudence and objective truth. If we want these values in our lives, we need the whole horse to be active. For this horse, the rider needs only to speak to it in order for it to obey.
The black horse doesn't want to stand nice and tall and proud, changes positions all the time, has a short neck, its face looks like many other faces, and its fur looks like many other furs at the same time, and it has white eyes. This horse has a lot of hair inside its ears and can't listen to the rider's orders, so the rider has to whip the horse in order for it to obey.
And now with this contrast, our soul behaves. The white horse sees through the eyes of the black horse, and the black horse sees through the eyes of the white horse. This means that our emotions can see and come from our wishes, our wishes stimulate our emotion, and our emotion is the one that causes our whims.
The rider will wake up when he becomes in charge of the energies of the two horses, when he becomes able to balance them, then our connection with our higher self begins.
Our whims are defined by our emotions, and our emotions are defined by our whims. This can't change unless these two parts become totally and completely balanced, then they will be guided by objective logic.
Now let's bring in our minds the yin yang symbol. We see a white side, a black side, one dot of the opposite colour inside each one, all in harmony, inside a perfect circle (rider - objective logic).
Because whatever info we find in ancient civilizations, we see the same logic, the same philosophy, the same symbols illustrated differently.
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