This said,
he ceased. The king of men replies:
"Thy
years are awful, and thy words are wise.
But that
imperious, that unconquer'd soul,
No laws can
limit, no respect control.
Before his
pride must his superiors fall;
His word the
law, and he the lord of all?
Him must our
hosts, our chiefs, ourself obey?
What king
can bear a rival in his sway?
Grant that
the gods his matchless force have given;
Has foul
reproach a privilege from heaven?"
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from : http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-h/6130-h.html#toc5
Here wisdom is
revered.
It is not
the age of the elder but knowing what is legal and what is right and wrong.
Human laws
cannot bind the reality away from of
what by all wisdom is legal and divinely blessed. It is anarchical or based on pre-legal ideas
and principals that allow for laws to reflect the reality of the necessity of
human laws, though sometimes human laws that need to be fixed as some are created insight
of lesser wisdom. Thus there are laws
that reflect their divine form and abide to true wisdom that can only accord to
the divine proper and true if it is to be truly considered wisdom universally.
Such wisdom
fells enemies and makes people of greater authority shrink to equal or lower
levels; wisdom has such powers. It knows
what is needed to be of the privilege of heaven, meaning wise people act and know what is legal and of heaven in that
anarchical manner. Such a person is said
to be host to divine presence and wisdom as well as its reflection on
earth. This kind of person can be of any
age though experience helps found intelligence in the wisdom of reality and the
truth of all things : earthly and divine.
note Socrates picked up on this point and found this section equally intriging. In Plato's Protahoras he refers to teh hidden wisdom found in homer's works,
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