|
Myths & Legends >
Greece & Egypt
|
|
By : Jean-Louis Brun - Friday, 21 May 2010 00:00 |
 This presentation is the following of the part: Towards a universal tradition? The scenario in which Jean-Louis Brun shows an original key of reading, initiatory, from the I Ching, which enables to understand the order of more than fifteen myths and legends. In this part the author talks about "the archetypal myth" of ancient Egypt: Isis and Osiris by Plutarch (1st century). Plutarch priest of Apollo, thinker in the tradition of Plato, asserted that myths hid a deep and unique truth. He wrote: "like mathematicians say that the rainbow is an image of the sun colored by the reflection of its beams, the same way the Isis myth is the image of a certain truth which reflects a same thought in different environments".
What does represent the union of Isis (knowledge, fertile earth) Osiris (the one who has many il, the nil) on a symbolic point of view, and what story within the story will be born from Seth (the burning principle) Nephtys (the arid slope that even the Nil's rises in level of water won't reach?) to the light of the I Ching?
The eight symbols that we find successively in this story are: 1 "an emptying cup": the end of a dualist perception of the world. 2 "the light at the top, the fire at the bottom": mastering one's desires. 3 "the wind on the lake": the search of the inner master. 4 "the mountain under the sky" involves a change of skin. 5 "the mountain on the thunder", suggests the union of male and female principles, or a reversal of the situation that precedes a birth. 6 "the wind under the Earth": end of illusions, exit from darkness towards light. 7 "the fire in the sky": the radiance. 8 "water on the earth": perfect union of the waters.
Answer of Jean-Louis Brun in this short part which lasts eleven minutes.
 
 
Show Other videos Of Jean-Louis Brun
|