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dance of salvation where the logos carries thumos and thumos, in turn, drives the logos. In this carrying and driving, Vetala becomes Minerva’s owl, the wise dweller between the realm of good and evil, knowledge and ignorance, virtue and vice, justice and injustice. Vetala, seer and in-between dweller, can annihilate the overpowering Ksantisilian forces of desires only with the cooperation of King Trivikramasena for thumos and logos, as one, can transcend and liberate us from the interminable cycles of suffering.
They can also reveal to us our true identity and purpose once we are united and embraced with the primordial fountain, the divine source. For Ksantisila, dweller of darkness, to irrepressible desire Vetala’s spirit and King Trivikramasena’s wisdom is to journey with epithumia, to be blinded by its folly, to be prisoner to his bodily appetites and be asphyxiated by his magic circle. Yet, Ksantisila is not only essential but necessary to our existence, we need him for the quest’s sake, we need to overcome him with mastery, perseverance and endurance so that we may be rewarded with knowing Vetala and King Trivikramasena, our higher essences, and the Great Lord, the primordial being. Then, and only then, by our self-mastery the universe can attain self-mastery. At a simple level, while King Trivikramasena is the wiseman and divine orderer of the cosmos, paragon of benevolence and Socratic virtues 3⁄4
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