Monday, May 2, 2016

Iliad 1 divine submstion



 Thus Thetis spoke; but Jove in silence held
The sacred counsels of his breast conceal'd.
Not so repulsed, the goddess closer press'd,
Still grasp'd his knees, and urged the dear request.
"O sire of gods and men! thy suppliant hear;
Refuse, or grant; for what has Jove to fear?
Or oh! declare, of all the powers above,
Is wretched Thetis least the care of Jove?"

n Here the prayer insights Joves providence
n Jove will act according to the divine lawfulness.
So what happens will be just and of the divine will.
She said; and, sighing, thus the god replies,
Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted skies:
"What hast thou ask'd? ah, why should Jove engage
In foreign contests and domestic rage,
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The gods' complaints, and Juno's fierce alarms,
While I, too partial, aid the Trojan arms?
Go, lest the haughty partner of my sway
With jealous eyes thy close access survey;
But part in peace, secure thy prayer is sped:
Witness the sacred honours of our head,
The nod that ratifies the will divine,
The faithful, fix'd, irrevocable sign;
This seals thy suit, and this fulfils thy vows—"
He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows,70
Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate and sanction of the god:
High heaven with trembling the dread signal took,
And all Olympus to the centre shook.71
-        Here it sounds like judgment is sounded.  Like the someone who heard what have you done, here it is asked what did you ask?
-        It is divine will that leads them and determines this jushement and pace, the jealousy of bad people and the triumphant upgrade of the peoples of troy.  Hune is the warnings of what is now begun… judgement.


Swift to the seas profound the goddess flies,
Jove to his starry mansions in the skies.
The shining synod of the immortals wait
The coming god, and from their thrones of state
Arising silent, wrapp'd in holy fear,
Before the majesty of heaven appear.
Trembling they stand, while Jove assumes the throne,
All, but the god's imperious queen alone:
Late had she view'd the silver-footed dame,
And all her passions kindled into flame.
"Say, artful manager of heaven (she cries),
Who now partakes the secrets of the skies?
Thy Juno knows not the decrees of fate,
In vain the partner of imperial state.
What favourite goddess then those cares divides,
Which Jove in prudence from his consort hides?"
To this the thunderer: "Seek not thou to find
The sacred counsels of almighty mind:

n This is a divine judgment of the God of all mind, whose judgment and will is what ensures the throne and all that occurs as goddess in flames lights the way to this which must occur by the grace of Gods and those who obey their laws.

Involved in darkness likes the great decree,
Nor can the depths of fate be pierced by thee.
What fits thy knowledge, thou the first shalt know;
The first of gods above, and men below;
But thou, nor they, shall search the thoughts that roll
Deep in the close recesses of my soul."

n Even the thoughts of people will be monitored by the divine and only the divine to make what must occur as perfect for everyone lawful and good,
Full on the sire the goddess of the skies
Roll'd the large orbs of her majestic eyes,
And thus return'd:—"Austere Saturnius, say,
From whence this wrath, or who controls thy sway?
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Strict paths are drawn turning to the stars as the sky or the goddesses will above, meaning the higher thought , will rule and reign the way for this endevour.


Thy boundless will, for me, remains in force,
And all thy counsels take the destined course.
But 'tis for Greece I fear: for late was seen,
In close consult, the silver-footed queen.
Jove to his Thetis nothing could deny,
Nor was the signal vain that shook the sky.
What fatal favour has the goddess won,
To grace her fierce, inexorable son?
Perhaps in Grecian blood to drench the plain,
And glut his vengeance with my people slain."

Here the divine will tell that Greece or that epoch nowed is ending as the new age begins will a new troy rising, this is all judgment of upgrade because the old greek regime needs upgrading to be steered from its corrupt murderous ways.  Just vindication as lawful revenge.

Then thus the god: "O restless fate of pride,
That strives to learn what heaven resolves to hide;
Vain is the search, presumptuous and abhorr'd,
Anxious to thee, and odious to thy lord.
Let this suffice: the immutable decree
No force can shake: what is, that ought to be.
Goddess, submit; nor dare our will withstand,
But dread the power of this avenging hand:
The united strength of all the gods above
In vain resists the omnipotence of Jove."

---  here everyone submits to the divine will through goddess to God,  they submit to the perfect will of Jove, a face of Godthet. 
Only this way do the heroes access and interface with the grace and power of the gods, thus unifying as one force lead by divine universal omnipotent mind to a victory as one people driven to the same ultimate divine goal. 

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