Hades and the Three Headed Dog Cerberus – (1126)

Introduction

One of the strangest Greek Gods is Hades, well for me anyway. Actually some of the Greek Gods are quite hard to understand at times. Especially some of their behaviour, but I have a hunch this is symbolic.

Anyway this post is devoted to Hades and once again thanks to Master Samael we can understand the symbolism of Hades and the shroud of ambiguity and confusion can be removed.

Hades

Greek Mythology tells us that the three brothers Zeus, Poseidon (yeah!) and Hades after defeating the titans divided the realm of Earth amongst them. Hades became the Lord of the Underworld, Poseidon the Lord of the Seas and Zeus the Lord of the Sky.

So that is how Hades myth says became the lord of the underworld. The staff and the three headed dog are very important in being the lord of the underworld. Let’s see why.

Three Headed Dog Cerberus

Master Samael tells us in his book the three mountains that the dog is a symbol for the sexual force. He says that the last work performed in the third mountain is the labour of taking the three headed dog Cerberus out of the underworld completely tamed and under the command of the hierophant.

The sexual force is an ally, just as a dog in this world is. The sexual force can help us in our liberation.

It accompanies the initiate on his or her path.

Like a dog it can be trained and says obedient to that training. The dog is special in that it is loyal and obedient and can be trained. A cat can not be trained like a dog can and is not so loyal and neither are many of the other animals.

We give the sexual force the wrong training when we add ‘needs’ and emotions to it. We have to work those mental and emotional additions (which we can call lust) because the sexual centre becomes obedient to the mind and the emotion. We retrain he sexual centre by transmuting and by removing those additions of a mental and emotion type.

We think the sexual centre has needs but it is something in our psychology that has these needs (which are false needs), not the sexual centre.

The three heads could be to do with how creation of any kind always operates by the law of three and the sexual force’s primary function is to create. The three heads could also represent the three powers of the sexual force which are to generate, degenerate and regenerate. This also reminds me of the three classes of sexuality which are infra, normal and supra, as well as the three uses which are physical, magnetic and spiritual.

Two Pointed Staff

The two pointed staff of Hades could represent duality and that one has to be in command of duality, that is not stuck in one side or the other.

To have overcome duality, one knows the good in the bad, and the bad in the good, and the work in the abyss shows us this. When one is free of the ego one attains this knowledge and when one is free of the ego one is free from one’s abyss and when one is free from one’s abyss one becomes a Lord of his or her own abyss, just as is Hades.

Summary

The symbol of Hades being the Lord of the underworld bearing a leashed and tame three headed dog Cerberus and the two pointed staff indicate to us that the maximum work of the abyss is the total command over duality and the sexual force. In others works the result of the having worked over our own abyss completely gives us the reign over the sexual force and the duality.

To be a lord of the underworld or of one’s own underworld one must have tamed completely the sexual force and have risen above duality.

So then we may be able to extrapolate and say that the three brothers: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades represent us or the major parts to us which are: Zeus the Being, the sky the esoteric side of ourselves, Hades our psychology and Poseidon our sexual waters.

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