Eros

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Eros

(Gr.)

Hesiod makes of the god Eros the third personage of the Hellenic primordial Trinity composed of Ouranos, Gæa and Eros. It is the personified procreative Force in nature in its abstract sense, the propeller to “creation” and procreation. Exoterically, mythology makes of Eros the god of lustful, animal desire, whence the term erotic esoterically, it is different. (See “ Kâma”.) (TG).

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Shortly: Hesiod makes of the god Eros the third personage of the Hellenic primordial Trinity composed of Oura...