Quotes:Gyges

H. P. Blavatsky

Gyges. “The ring of Gyges” has become a familiar metaphor in European literature. Gyges was a Lydian who, after murdering the King Candaules, married his widow. Plato tells us that Gyges descended once into a chasm of the earth and discovered a brazen horse, within whose open side was the skeleton of a man who had a brazen ring on his finger. This ring when placed on his own finger made him invisible.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Gyges