#29 Monday Morning Coffee Post

The esoteric version of the Greek legend of Prometheus tells the story of how Prometheus molded man in clay by order of Zeus, farther of the gods and also god of lightning. The esoteric teachings see Prometheus as an energy of creation and not as a man as such. The meaning of Prometheus is; he who sees before- in other words someone who has the gift of foresight, the gift of having knowledge of something before it happens, the gift of creativity. Prometheus represents the creative light of man.

To begin with man was creature that could not reproduce, this is why Prometheus steels the sacred fire from the Gods and give it to man, who then become a sexual creature with the ability to create. Prometheus steels fire by keeping it in a hollow a stalk of fennel, like a reed, and in this image lies the symbolism of the spinal column. Man is given fire by the energy of Prometheus itself who enters through the fennel stalk, the spinal column of man, to deliver the sacred fire of God, the sacred fire which is the creative fire gives us the power of procreation along with the power of knowledge of the divine and the means of creating through those divine powers. Thus by fire the human journey as a sexual creature began, as well as, the journey of creative knowledge, manifesting knowledge. Fire, therefore, also holds to us a promise; a promise of foresight, a promise of wholeness and a promise of continuation.