some anonymous bard wrote:In Greek mythology, Prometheus is honored chiefly for stealing fire from the Great God Zeus and giving it to mortals for their use.
For this transgression, Zeus ordered that Prometheus be chained to a mountain crag above the pit of Tartaros for eternity. On each day that followed, an eagle would come and eat his liver. Since Prometheus was immortal, his liver always regenerated, and so he was left to bear this horrible pain every daily.
Prometheus is commonly depicted in myth as an intelligent and cunning figure who had sympathy for humanity; today, the term "Promethean" is used to describe people who are connected with great creativity, intellect, and boldness.
Prometheus (foresight) together with his Brother, Epimetheus (hindsight) carried out the plan to bring light and warmth to the world defying the control freak Zeus, the archetypal dysfunctional Father. True to his name, Prometheus, anticipated that Zeus would discover their transgression and warned Epimetheus to be careful of anything unusual that may take place.
Zeus did discover their conniving and devised a trap. He created a woman and he sent her with a 'gift'. Her name was Pandora and forgetting the warnings of his Brother, Epimetheus opened the jar and let loose on our world all the things that make it the terrible, ambiguous place it is. Zeus refused to release Prometheus from his chains unless another Immortal could be found to complete his suffering. But in so doing, that Immortal would also relinquish his immortality.
The savour turned out to be Chiron, a Centaur, who descended into Hades to completed Prometheus's suffering. Chiron died but was then resurrected and immortalized in the heavens as the constellation, Centaurus. The Centaurs were wild but wise and famed healers, half-man, half-horse (and if you take Chiron and Prometheus to be one and same person, we can see a clear parable to the later mythology of Jesus Christ, himself a Wounded Healer).
Chiron journeys to both the Underworld (Hades) and Olympus (home of the Gods). His wound is what enables him to travel between the human world, the Underworld, and the Divine world. He walks in everyday visible life and the invisible (the worlds of Spirit and Soul), adept both in the ways of this world, and the next.
In alchemy, and psychotherapy, the symbolic transformation of Prometheus is bound together with the idea of Chiron as 'The Wounded Healer'.
In many ways, I would argue, the ex-BK and their obsession with picking at their wound (or unpicking BKWSU mental conditioning), is very much following the archetypal path of the "Wounded Healer" ... seeking the cure for other from the poisioned arrows that have cause them pain. Stealing the light, or fire, from the gods of the BKWSU (both exposing the Brahma Kumaris and empowering lowly humanity or their following) is part of that healing process that will gain the Promethian ex-BK their final liberation.
It is also nice to be reminded that the Western spiritual tradition has intricate tools of understand that have great value and beauty ... having lived out of the trash cans of Brahma Kumari Hinduism-lite™ for such a long time.
From 'Chiron and Prometheus', one might be guided to explore the concepts of the 'Puer and the Senex'.
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