the capture of the cretan bull
that's a lot of bull
“Do you feel ready to continue?” Divine Mother asked Hera-kles.
“As
ready as I’ll ever be considering what happened during the first
labor. Abderis is dead and I will learn how to live with that
eventually. I think I just need to keep going.”
As the
second gate slowly opened Divine Mother guided, “Pass through the
gate. This time your labor is to find the sacred bull and
return
it to the Temple of the Gods, where the one-eyed men dwell. Perform the
labor, then again come back to me.”
Hera-kles passed through the gate and as he does, the light of the gate
reveals the island of Crete on the horizon.
Crete
was the home of King Minos, the keeper of the bull. The
sacred
white bull had been given as a gift to King Minos from the God of
Waters, for the purpose of being sacrificed, but King Minos chose to
keep the bull for himself. He sacrificed another in its
stead.
As a consequence of his betrayal, the bull was cursed
and went mad. To protect his kingdom from being terrorized,
King
Minos built a maze and therein kept the bull. Every year,
young
women were sacrificed to the bull’s appetites. Many adventurous young
men had sought to capture the bull but upon entering the maze, they
were lured into bewilderment and never seen nor heard from again.
Crossing
the ocean to the island of Crete Hera-kles began his search for the
bull. He was aided by the bull itself, for upon the forehead
of
the bull was a shining star. This star, this light, moved as
the
bull moved of course and, shone like a beacon in the darkness.
The
bull led him all over the place until Hera-kles finally cornered
it. He captured it, then mounted on its back and began the
return
trip, riding the bull as if it were a horse. He rode the bull
back across the waters to the mainland, where the Temple of the Gods
could be found.
At the water’s edge stood three
one-eyed men. These three great sons of God had been awaiting
his
return and had watched his progress as he rode the bull through the
waves to the mainland.
“He comes with strength,” said Brontes, whose name means thunder.
“He rides in light,” said Steropes, whose name means lightening.
“He comes with speed,” said Arges, whose name means whirling activity.
When
Hera-kles reached the shore of the mainland, the three one-eyed men
reached out and grasped the bull, taking it away from him.
“What have you here?” asked Brontes, stopping Hera-kles upon the Path.
“The Sacred Bull” answers Hera-kles.
“Who are you? Tell us your name” says Steropes
“I
am the son of Hera, a son of man and yet a son of God. I have
performed my task, now please take the bull to the Temple of the Gods
and save it from death, as it was meant to be sacrificed.”
“Who told you to seek and save the bull?” asked Arges starting to
meander to the Temple.
“Within
myself I felt an urge and sought understanding. Guided by Divine Mother
I was sent on my Way. With much searching and many pains I found the
bull. Aided by its Holy light, I rode it through the separating sea to
deliver it to you here.”
“Go in Peace my son, your task is done.”
The Divine Mother saw Hera-kles returning and went out to meet him
along the Way.
“You came back with empty hands,” comments Divine Mother.
“My
hands are empty because I have fulfilled the task. The sacred bull is
rescued and safely secure with the one-eyed men in the Temple of the
Gods.”
“You have done well Hera-kles” praises Divine Mother.
Upon hearing her words, Hera-kles finally allows himself to relax and
drops to the ground in exhaustion.
“This task seemed easier then the first,” Hera-kles expresses.
“That is because with this task you began to learn the riddle of
proportion,” Divine Mother replies.
“The riddle of proportion?” Hera-kles asks.
“Yes,”
Divine Mother responds, “the riddle of proportion. You
performed
a task that tasked you not. Your willingness is
what made
it easy.
In the first labor you learned about ideas and
how everything originates in thought, so be mindful of those
thoughts. This second labor teaches about Desire.
Ideas are
always followed by desire. A mental impulse is always
succeeded
by an experience in sensitivity, in feeling. Understanding
this
sensitivity of Desire and the potency of it and in it, brings mastery
of all Creation.
The solution to the riddle of proportion
lies in Understanding the Law of Attraction. This is the Law that
governs real Power. You may have heard of it before described
as
‘The Word made flesh’.”
“I’ve heard that phrase before but I
guess I never understood it. I thought it was the Word of God
as
God commands. Like my father Zeus lays down the law and
demands
everyone obey.”
“If that were so, then how could you, a son
of God yourself, ever realize your own Divinity? A
Creator’s son that has no Power over Creation? A child of God
that never grows up? You claim your name is
Hera-kles, not
Peter Pan.
“Who’s Peter Pan?” Hera-kles asks.
“A
little boy that never wanted to grow up,” Divine Mother
explained. “He desired ‘never’, where the reason why you are
now
upon the Path, is because you desire ‘ever’.
The Law of
Attraction is a Principle of Cohesion and Desire is what is at the root
of it all. It is Divinity’s desire for self-expression that
creates the cohesion of matter into forms of Creation, through which
God is expressed.
It is sex. It is the Desire of
Father Spirit for Mother Creation, which births a Soul, which is
exactly what you claim as your Divine heritage.
‘I claim
to be a Soul but know not what one is’, is what you said to me at the
very beginning of the Way and, the reason you now walk the Path.
‘I am a son of man and a son of god.’
Well…, the labors are for the purpose of revelation.
Revealing you to you.
The
purpose of our conversations is to make understanding the reasons and
meanings of the labors easier. I am here to
comfort. It
helps considerably when you’re not flying blind.
Which is
also one of the riddles of the second labor.
Had you ever given any consideration to your own thoughts before the
first labor revealed to you their nature?”
“No,
I hadn’t. I hadn’t even so much as stopped to think about
what I
thought, much less understood the devastating effects such unbridled
thinking could do.” admitted Hera-kles. “Now I know all too
well.”
“All
thoughts are followed with feelings, this is a sensitivity, an
awareness. It is the sensitivity of an ear to discern perfect
pitch. It is the sensitivity of a pallet to discern the
bouguet
of a wine. Sensitivity is a feeling and it brings awareness.
You
have heard tell the sacred bull was a gift to the King from Neptune,
the God of Waters. The sacred bull is a bull of Desire, for
it is
through desire that creation is made.
Desire is the
interaction of polarities, ‘As above, so below’. Desire is
the
energy maintaining the foundation of all realities. It is the
living Integrity of the Whole that produces the stability and
persistence of matter and forms of all natures, planes and dimensions,
no matter what form, of whatever nature, of whatever plane or
dimension.”
“Feeling? Sensitivity? I’m not a
sissy. I don’t go around crying boohoo because I’m
sensitive! I’m a warrior,” replied Hera-kles.
“When
a wine taster senses the aroma of fine wine he’s not crying
boohoo. As a warrior you’ve been trained to be sensitive to
certain sounds and signals. This sensitivity may very well
have
come about through a lot of boohooing and a desire to avoid it but
sensitivity, awareness, is what it is.
The boohooing
you’re talking about is the cause of this second labor. The
bull
was a feeling gift to be sacrificed or uplifted to the honor of
God. But King Minos chose to keep it for himself.
Let
loose, it was the bull of Desire running around in the dark out of
control.
It was the desire of the King’s wife’s to
have sex with the bull and, the King’s desire for retaliation, royally
angered with wounded pride, that caused a maze be built to imprison the
child of that union. It is lives spent in bewilderment.
The
maze represented part of the madness that results when the choice is
made to use the bull for selfish purposes. It leads to
confusion
and bewilderment, with no way out. This is what happens when
you
become fixated on your human senses alone, without your Soul’s
guidance.
What was your desire when you left the mares to Abderis and went on
your way?”
Moaning, Hera-kles answers, “My desire was to impress the King.”
“Did you? Were you ‘impressive’?”
“No. I not only got my friend killed, the mares got away and
I had to go round them up again.”
“See any relationship between thinking of your desire to impress and,
the mares getting away?
Desires
we pursue without the illumination of our Soul can run us ragged as we
chase after one then another, never ending up with what we imagined we
had in mind.
Un-illumined desires usually result in sacred
cows running mad all over the place, destroying country sides,
despoiling sensitivity and, creating mazes of confusion and
bewilderment that swallow many human lives. This is what
religious fanaticism is all about.
Your task was to capture
the bull and return it to the Temple on the mainland. Just as
the
island of Crete is separated from the mainland, so was the sacred bull
separated from God’s guiding light.
In completing the task
you captured the bull and mounted it, representing the desires of your
lower nature. You steered its return to the mainland, to the
Temple of God, where it was sacrificed or uplifted in Honor of your
Divinity.
Notice the task was to capture the sacred
bull and return it, not kill it. Many have tried to kill the bull and
this is making a critical error. Creator’s son’s are not
eunuchs
or impotent. Divinity’s daughters are not frigid and
infertile. The bull is a sacred bull, a Divine gift of
experience
and awareness. Do not discount the value of Desire,
for
without it, there would be no Creation.
The goal of the
labor and the task was to learn how to consciously work in cooperation
with the gift of Desire, the coming together in Unison of Divinity and
Matter, through Willpower illuminated by vision.
How did you find the bull running around on an island in the
dark? How did you find your way out of the maze?”
“It
was easy to find the bull. The light shining from the middle
of
its forehead was like a beacon, a headlight. No matter where
it
ran or how far, I could still see it. The light kept
attracting
my attention and would draw me right to it. All I had to do
was
follow the Light,” said Hera-kles.
“It was the light that shone forth from the forehead of the bull that
revealed the Way?” affirms Divine Mother.
“Yes,” answers Hera-kles.
“How many Lights were on the forehead of the bull?” she asks.
“Why, only one,” replies Hera-kles.
“And how many eyes did each of the three men have?”
“Only one.”
The
key to the second riddle of this labor unlocks the mystery of Spiritual
Illumination. A son of man sees with two eyes; a son of God
sees
with one. Spiritual sight reveals Unity, where human sight
sees
only conflict.
When your eye is opened, all is revealed as
Light. Most especially the Light of your Desire.
For Desire
is a Power. It is a magnetic pull of cohesiveness.
It is
the Law of Attraction.
Like the sacred bull running around
in the dark causing devastation, when you become blinded by your
desire, you become lost in it. True sensitivity and the use
for
which the gift was intended, is for the purpose of realizing and
understanding your own desire nature. Both the Power and the
Potency of it.
Unbridled desires, like unbridled thoughts, cause death and destruction.
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