Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς

Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς (Part 1) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. 'Because real knowledge means that we know nothing, and this nothingness (oudeneia) is both the initial silence and silence as telos, as the final goal of philosophy'. (Algis Uzdavinys) Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς was a great shaman-magician and powerful theurgist-argonaut. It is he who points out and teaches the correct method and doctrine to model a correct way of life = bios Orphikos, through the acquisition of a very strict personal and individual rule. It is a simple way of life or spiritual rule harmonized through purity of soul, virtue – arete – and following a path of faithful life and total dedication. At the same time, the absolute mastery of the art of rhythmic and verbal musicality in his archaic poetic lyric or "poetry drink" is essential. We can say that by the control of certain recognized spiritual exercises, theurgical feats and initiatory rites – teletai – they liken the vate with that other great shaman, the old entangler and disentangler of Odin. (1) The teachings of this ancient theurgist and "Athlete of Fire" are an essential part of a very old and rich millenary tradition of the theurgic master ancestors. It is a mystery initiatory current, little known and jealously private, indicating the "old way", path or spiritual initiatory way. At the same time, it is an initiatory path of personal practices, solitary and very ancient, "whose head still continues to sing to many". In this same sense, we can say that it is not the vulgar and charlatan magic already correctly criticized by Master Plato. (2) It seems, then, that there is only one shamanic Orphism but many ways or ways of accessing it. "I conclude that Orpheus is a Thracian figure of much the same kind as Zalmoxis, a mythical shaman or prototype of shamans." (3) In any case, in the polemical and controversial Path of the "ORPHIKA" = (texts and rituals credited to Orpheus), being a genuine magician carries with it an enormous responsibility to assume the correct philosophical way of living. Consequently, one lives in common agreement with those noble postulates of ritual and moral purity - Orphic bios - within the same process of an "arcane discipline" of a shamanic nature. The Orphic neophyte learns in his spiritual process everything related to life and death, salvation of the soul, soul-body dualism, antecedent sin and transmigration of the soul in countless recurring cycles. The soul, in eternal pilgrimage towards purity, then seeks the PATH of UNION with the Transcendent Divinity. Therefore, the Master reforms and gives a superb ethical and divine character to his teachings. On the other hand, the essence that permeates that millenary mystery tradition or doctrinal current -originally exclusively oral and verbal-, overcomes the necessary and certainly very fertile controversies about the real and historical existence of Orpheus, religion, science or myth. That ancestral "esoteric knowledge" of the old Orpheus-theios aner- transcends in its pragmatic and effective nobility the apparent and rational, because it is a primordial expression, of an exclusive orality or "revelation" incarnated of an original solar substance as the Son of the Sun. (4) The Master singer and poet is the depository of fine and educated oral mystery-verbal spell- and his INTERNAL essence transcends the literality that lives in the very letter of the gold plate = (Entella, Hipponion and Pelina). Or, in the dusty and valDerveni papyrus and bone graffiti in Olbia= (Ukrania, 1978). Simplicity is found in the absolute unity of Being. Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς (part 1) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 Bibliography: 1. Jan de Vries, History of Religions; The Ancient Religions. Vol. III, Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, 1970, 77-80. 2. Raquel Martín Hernández, Orfeo y Los Magos, Abada Editores, Madrid, 2010, 290-294. 3. E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, Alianza Editorial, Spain, 2010, 138-144; Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi, John Hopkins University Press, 2006, 41-43. 4. W. K. C. Guthrie, Orpheus and the Greek Religion, 20; Walter Burkert, Archaic and Classical Greek Religion, Abada Editores, Spain, 393. Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς (part 2) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 In Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς the attractive verb of the song of the "theurge's" glorifies and vivifies the well-known incantation of the "Beyond" that is alive, latent and even effulgent in the theurgical and practical ritual of the concrete or appropriate action of the "Hereafter". In this way, his mystery teachings direct the initiate through the Sacred Apollonian Road in his constant inner search and make possible the reunion of his solar nature. (5) Rich and valuable literary and epigraphic sources, scholarly and well-documented research are an essential part of the initiatory and mysterious conglomerate that arises from the very spiritual essence of his theurgical teachings = "foreign Apollonian shamanism" that resurfaces from the attractive song of the vate. (6) However, it is possible to say that the correct spell is assimilated with the tonic letter and effective invocation of the verb of power, embodied in the recurrent and active force of the sympathetic magic of the solar shaman. A living and practically verifiable path of the Solar Path that the magician-shaman undertakes on his journey towards the light -in a private and personal way-, resuming the direction of that old path or traditional 'Way' that some will call "prisci theologi". (7) For some educated, cultured and systematic scholars and intellectuals, Orpheus was not a real historical character but was a mythical character within all the attached characteristics of mythological divinity, invented name... Or author of nothing. "There is no Orpheus to whom we can look; only the name Orpheus''. (#8) Others consider him a historical character and a legendary figure. On the other hand, the wise Redfield was of the opinion that the Orphic tradition was fresh revelation: "... bypass tradition and claim (as it were) a fresh revelation''. Some continue to be enraptured between the endless struggle, agreements, disagreements and contemporary conceptual and epistemological antagonisms between science and rationalism. They seek the impossible and infinite task of finding a "logical" and surely "very rational" explanation for the "irrational" and anti-scientific work of the true magician and theurgist. Since the time of Plato, the theurgist-magicians were not well understood and the concept of "foreigner" was attributed to the Mage, being confused with a pleiad of rationalist charlatans who, in our opinion, were not well understood. they still "continue to reincarnate". We can think like Florian Ebeling about hermetic alchemy. "Because they had not been initiated into this knowledge, detractors were in no position to criticize." (9) Orpheus can and must be approached with great respect and dignity. The Path of Hermes is Path of Orpheus. The Renaissance Master and Humanist Marsilio Ficino gave and maintained the doctrinal guideline. Song = Sacred List, prayer and humility. To choose the eternal eye of the Sun and to undertake the SOLAR Path is to internalize the DIGNITY of MAN and the Shaman! All good things come to us from the Sun! (10) The Orphic lyre is the cosmic lyre. In his letter to Cosimo de 'Medici he states: "The other day, to relax my mind with the grace of music I took up my lyre and offered up a hymn of the divine Orpheus which he dedicated to the COSMOS, that is the World". (11) A shaman cannot heal without healing. It is not shaman without the night flight. In no way can he be a faker devoid of POWER. Shamanism is not literature. A powerful ORAL tradition of doctrines derived from a venerable and mysterious antiquity is recorded. Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς was a SOLAR Master of the Word and re-emerges in the power of orality, even before being considered as "a literature". It has its musical and spiritual journey, the Orphic entrustment, conscious of containing the ability and the "miraculous effect" of descending, endowed with a body of light, to the underworld and knowing how to fight against forces and powers of the darkness/light of the beyond. Eurydice dies often. (F. Paolini (1535-1605) (12) His head must continue to "speak" and prophesy actively after his dismemberment or ritual initiatory tearing. He is never a Spiritist medium. He controls—not possessed by certain entities—all possible variants of his spiritual environment, with a certain ritual precision and effective verbal incantations. No bloodshed. Orpheus points to a state of spiritual awareness. Your musical zither operates through cosmic sound to facilitate the transformation of your natural or human environment. The Orphic voice is the essence of the magical spell between silence and sound. Its power emanates directly from the PRIMORDIAL cosmogony of the COSMIC EGG. From that cosmic egg is that the Phanes-Eros Protogons emerges. (13) A shaman is a dynamo or center emitting a powerful mysterious solar light or source of personal internal power that he manages to incarnate in himself, thanks to the assimilation of the same solar nature of the luminous egg. (14) This universal and cosmological seminal power is received through effective theurgical assimilation of 'solar substance' from Cosmic forces similar as seminal substantial= (spermatic logos), internalized through very hard shamanic practices and initiatory and rigorous. Among the old Mysteries of Mithra, that watery substance was the 'Achelous, the blood of the Bull=Universal Semen. For Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς, the Sun is a phallus, and darkness is the Night or watery substance within the Cosmic womb, where all things are born. In the same way, the wise Ficino said: Orphica comparatio SOLIS (Opera Omnia). The voyage of the Argonauts was an initiatory journey, and the Golden Fleece is a divine transmission of noble, alchemical, and pure solar substance. ''The Fleece represents the liquid, astral gold, extracted from the nature of higher realities and from the elements; as a soul and seed, as a SOLAR SUBSTANCE flowing out of God's bounty, it gives life to things, sustains them, and is able to PENETRATE the densest solid bodies''. (15) Orpheus founds mystery teachings and points out the catabasis and "Apollonian katharsis" within the initiatory and mystery rites, and according to Euripides, "showed the radiance of the ineffable mysteries". (M. Eliade, 1999, 220-221) "Orphism is the theological elaboration of the mythical and ritual elements and of the very experience of the Greek mysteries: an intellectual process that in turn bears fruit in poems, rites and beliefs determined by this speculation". (16) In the very essence of the primordial substance of the Cosmic Egg is that astral solar liquid that is internalized and assimilated by means of high and rigorous initiatory and mystery theurgy, since it is received as "liquid of the primal soul". We only need to open ourselves to the spiritual sun by intoning the harmonic song of Master Orpheus. There is no myth, it is the otherness of a reality that multiplies and has internal spiritual meaning on broad and staggered cosmic levels. There is no irrationality because reason itself is the unreason of the inexplicable. For a shaman, the experience of multiplicity is found in the absolute unity of Being. Orpheus = Ὀρφεύς (part 2) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.🌹 Bibliography: 1. Jan de Vries, History of Religions; The Ancient Religions. Vol. III, Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, 1970, 77-80. 2. Raquel Martín Hernández, Orfeo y Los Magos, Abada Editores, Madrid, 2010, 290-294. 3. E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational, Alianza Editorial, Spain, 2010, 138-144; Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi, John Hopkins University Press, 2006, 41-43. 4. W. K. C. Guthrie, Orpheus and the Greek Religion, 20; Walter Burkert, Archaic and Classical Greek Religion, Abada Editores, Spain, 393. 5. Algis Uzdavinys, Philosophy and Theurgy, Sophia Perennis, California, 2010, 44. 6. Alberto Bernabé, Textos Orficos y Filosofía Presocratica, Editorial Trotta, Madrid, 2004, 9-15; Fiore, C. Aspetti sciamanici di Orfeo, 1993. 7. Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, University of Chicago Press, 1964, 78-79. 8. Radcliff G. Edmonds III, Redefining Ancient Orphism, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013,3. 9. Florian Ebeling, The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus, Cornell University Press, 2007, 107. 10. Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance Thought, Harper Row, 1961, 129-132. 11. Angela Voss, Marsilio Ficino, Berkeley, 2006, 59 and 197-199. 12. Hebdomades, sive septem de septenario libri (1589) in Wouter J. Hannegraaff and Joyce Pijnenburg (EDS.) Amsterdam University Press, 2009, 82-83. 13. Algis Uzdavinys, Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism, The Matheson Trust, 2011, 8-9. 14. Mircea Eliade, El Shamanismo, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1960, 66. 15. Antoine Faivre, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, State New York Press, 199e University of 3,41. 16. Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Orphic Tradition and Ancient Christianity, Editorial Trotta, Spain, 2007, 29.