The Human Basic Problem

The fundamental problem with humans - and there is one, as any of you with an ounce of perception and focus and attention and who lives among people will know - goes way back and persists to this day.

Okay, yes of course there are many problems, but there is one fundamental one.

You will seldom find any account in any writings, ancient or contemporary, of exactly in what way Prometheus assisted Zeus to defeat Cronus.

Don't worry, you can live in
'high places.'

But I will tell you what happened.

It is in the first place important for you to realize these are real people, and the matters all about real events.

All of the myth traditions say that Prometheus, whilst later on being the subject of Zeus' wrath, actually helped Zeus gain victory in the Titanomachy, and so it would seem like Zeus is not showing any kind of gratitude to who was the most key partner in his victory actions.

The 'modern' Bible - that is, the Gospel accounts - regularly place the Devil as a being residing in the high atmosphere of the air above the Earth. This is broadly the same as the Veda account of the being who 'gave fire to Mankind' being someone in fact who is 'of the air:' Matarisvan.

Air feeds fire, we all know this.

So anyway, here is what happened:

Zeus is seeking to release his uncles from inside of Cronus, and gets Prometheus to allow himself to be replaced by Zeus in disguise as the cup-bearer to the god-king Cronus.

Zeus is after all himself a complete master of disguise; the disguise is not the issue.

Prometheus was the actual normal cup-bearer, and a Titan, and also the chief of the heralds of the Titans against the Olympians.

Anyway, Zeus poisons Cronus, who disgorges the hundred-handed ones. And they completely overpower the warring Titans.

Prometheus appears to have betrayed his side - the Titans.

I like to live in the dark, to attract
no attention...
lol

Prometheus though, knows in advance the entire future and first and foremost wants to be the literal Ruler of the Cosmos himself, supplanting both Cronus and Zeus, and he even tells Zeus that at some future time Zeus will be replaced as absolute Universal Monarch.

Prometheus does not object to Zeus defeating Cronus. This is just step one of his (Prometheus's) own plan.

Prometheus thus does indeed 'betray' the erstwhile leader of the Titans.

But then later on, and although many narratives claim that Prometheus 'formed' Mankind, he simply was the last one to endow men with something from the realm of the Divinities - he steals creative fire of Athena from out of the workshop of Hephaestus, and installs it in Man.

Zeus objects to this and chains Prometheus up forever on a high mountain place, and has an eagle eat his liver during each day.

Hercules later on still, kills the eagle thus somewhat releasing Prometheus from the fate.

Remembering that Zeus' own wife Hera, initially fought on the side of the Titans, being a Titan herself -, as things eventually unfold, she relents from her hatred of Hercules and adopts him as her own son, despite that Hercules' real birth mother was a human.

But this is all by-the-by.

Prometheus is a deceiver. He is primal cunning. His intent is eventual Absolute Rule.

Zeus realizes that Prometheus was engaged in his own machinations when he appeared to side with Zeus, and that Prometheus' end game was to de-throne Zeus as well.

When the Devil takes Jesus up to a high mountain, he is both taking Jesus to where he the Devil lives, but also seeing if he can capture the Divine Eagle that was killed by Hercules.

Pandora - in Vegas.

This is the basis of the saying in the Bible - 'for where the flesh is, there the eagles gather.'

Mortal flesh is mortal; but that which can go to the higher places is immortal and goes there conveyed by 'an eagle.' Now this obviously not an Earthly bird!

Prometheus's original plan, was to have Man defeat all the gods, and eventually de-throne even Zeus himself, and have the blame fall on Mankind if anything of the plan went astray. 

Prometheus has given men the power of Divine Fire...

This power is completely obscured in most of Mankind.

The assent to use this fire comes only from the Highest Cosmic Authority however.

You can use it if you can find it, but you cannot employ it unilaterally.

To disrupt the human intent to ascend to the 'heavens' (meaning into Heaven), and take the ultimate throne there, Zeus causes Man to be given a gift that possesses all the gifts of the Earth, but is also the source of all of human suffering: He gives to the Titan Epimetheus, Prometheus's brother - Pandora.

Pandora is the 'Eve' of this strand of the ancient myths.

The Gods regularly are re-running this system, and the other ancient story along the same lines is to do with Paris and the Goddesses having him choose which of them is 'the most beautiful' at the same time as the Goddess Eris has brought the Golden Apple of Discord to the 'party.'

Man cannot live happily or peacefully with the descendants of Pandora (Eve).

Divine fire...

Yet Man cannot live all that happily without them.

This is a quandary for all men.

But the solution is straightforward. Man is not on any account to attempt to unseat the God who Rules Eternally.

Man is not on any account to display the main characteristic of one of his primordial artisans, namely Prometheus - that characteristic being treachery; the inclination to betray for personal gain.

Humans talk a lot about 'love' but they fail to see the most obvious fact about it: it is impossible to authentically love that which dies. Atheists discover new and ever-more lunatic ways to get around this matter of logic every five minutes - just like the eagle that picks out the liver of the Titan every day.

It is a combination of the intent of Prometheus (who, remember also knows all things in advance, maybe), and the decision of the Gods at a point, to truncate the years of the life of men, so that they will not be able to gain so much power that they can really threaten the heavens.

But for a human being, whose end is clearly death, there can be nothing more important than to overcome Death.

How is this to be achieved?