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Once upon a time, it was the λόγος of Heraclitus 3⁄4 reason, law, measure 3⁄4 that governed all things, which the Stoics assumed, in their philosophy, as a form of pantheistic materialism signifying a divine reason governing the world. However, it shall be Stoicism’s allegorical exegesis of mythical deities as personifications of abstract ideas, which shall endow mytho-poetic Hermes 3⁄4 once creator of the divine lyre,91 of poesy’s first lyricisms, bliss of Apollo’s spirit 3⁄4 with the Stoic’s notion of λόγος: a subversive exegesis, for Hermes possesses a mytho-poetic divine wisdom that insinuates more of μῆτις than of λόγος.92
—Divine Creation in Hermes— On Hermes & Ποίησις
Was he one or many, merging Name and fame in one,
Like a stream, to which, converging, Many streamlets run?
Who shall call his dreams fallacious? Who has searched or sought
All the unexplored and spacious
Universe of thought?
Plato Complete Works. Timaeus 32c ff. Ed. by John M. Cooper, D.S. Hutchinson. Indiana, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. Please see also Trans. by Donald J. Zeil. USA: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000. 17ff.
91Just as Plato’s Demiurge beholds the Ideal Model outside of his Mind, Hermes, too, beholds the Ideal Form of the Lyre outside of his Mind when he looks at the form of the tortoise and is inspired to create the dulcet lyre from it. The lyre is the first item he ingeniously creates when he is just off his cradle.
92 Sanders, J.N. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “The Word.” Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume 4. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. 870.
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