Why doesn't Odin use magic to regrow his eye?

[Symmachos-ZEUS/SHAITAN]

I would like only advanced members to respond, so I will keep the allegory. Those who know its meaning need no explanation.

Could Odin use his new power status to regrow his eye? Or if the eye grew back, would his whole journey lose its meaning?

Does Mimir's source have permanent effects?

Maybe a middle ground, so that he does not appear with a disfigured face when at least one person who loves him looks at him.

 

[WrathOfVishnu]

I believe it is because the act of losing an eye was a sacrifice for greater knowledge. Once you sacrifice something you can no longer have it back, this is the law of nature. It could also be an allegory for the 3rd eye, sacrificing your physical sight or eyesight by focusing on your spiritual sight or your third eye.

 

[Seeker in the Dark]

Perhaps it was the sacrifice of the “innocence” of ignorance. Once you lose the false perception (sacrificing ignorance to gain knowledge) you cannot gain it back. The knowledge could also scar you in a sense as some information about certain things can be disturbing. I also think it relates to alchemy. You have to sacrifice the old self to give birth to the new self.

So perhaps the “eye” Odin lost was his ignorance. You cannot gain ignorance back once you achieve full gnosis.

 

[Karnonnos [TG]]

It is an allegory for concentration of spiritual power in what is left rather than relying on 'perfection'. You cannot see reality the same way once an advanced initiate.

To understand this more, you need to understand Nietzsche's references in Thus Spake Zarathustra to how some people may lose an eye and are mocked, but some people may appear physically perfect but are just one gigantic eye (lacking depth, unable to process information) or whatever other organ (ear, leg, penis, whatever)... and nothing else, are considered 'valid voters', 'the height of culture' and so on by the mediocre.

The DEFORMITY OF THE SOUL is still there in a pristine, young body acclaimed by everyone. Look at our present-day idols that make billions, they are valid in varying extents to what they do, but they are not superhuman of intelligent divinity like Leonardo da Vinci, let alone the Gods. Leonardo in his own time was overlooked in terms of what he could contribute to elevate humanity in favor of idols more acceptable to a younger mind.

Beyond spiritual matters, the regular goy Vikings (who considered a true Viking young, beautiful, capricious and violent) considered deformities and even old age to be abhorrent and a writeoff, that's the natural state of primitive humanity. So it is a partial rebuke of that mentality by their priestly class.

This is about balance. People cannot take this too far, obviously. The point is not to glorify disability, cripple-worship and retardation like Christianity and late stage Rome did. Things like the latter being 'accepted' to the point society literally dies (i.e. everyone is disabled) require an adjustment back to elements of that young Viking mentality - like when Rome burned or in 1933.

 

[Symmachos-ZEUS/SHAITAN]

It is an allegory for concentration of spiritual power in what is left rather than relying on 'perfection'. You cannot see reality the same way once an advanced initiate.

To understand this more, you need to understand Nietzsche's references in Thus Spake Zarathustra to how some people may lose an eye and are mocked, but some people may appear physically perfect but are just one gigantic eye (lacking depth, unable to process information) or whatever other organ (ear, leg, penis, whatever)... and nothing else, are considered 'valid voters', 'the height of culture' and so on by the mediocre.

The DEFORMITY OF THE SOUL is still there in a pristine, young body acclaimed by everyone. Look at our present-day idols that make billions, they are valid in varying extents to what they do, but they are not superhuman of intelligent divinity like Leonardo da Vinci, let alone the Gods. Leonardo in his own time was overlooked in terms of what he could contribute to elevate humanity in favor of idols more acceptable to a younger mind.

Beyond spiritual matters, the regular goy Vikings (who considered a true Viking young, beautiful, capricious and violent) considered deformities and even old age to be abhorrent and a writeoff, that's the natural state of primitive humanity. So it is a partial rebuke of that mentality by their priestly class.

People cannot take this too far, obviously. The point is not to glorify disability, cripple-worship and retardation like Christianity and late stage Rome did. Things like the latter being 'accepted' require an adjustment back to that Viking mentality - like when Rome burned or in 1933.

Thank you very much. This thing you wrote changed my vision. I thank you for taking the time to explain.