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Living Your Life: The Sacred Game of Existence

I understand the idea, but I struggle to see the beauty in all the suffering. Knowing we’ll lose our loved ones, or face heartbreak, makes life feel less meaningful to me, not more. I’d find meaning in the possibility of it being eternal, not in its promised ending.
Life is meaningful because we know its opposite. We see beauty because we know ugliness. We know love because we know the loss of love. We appreciate life because the end exists. And Eternity becomes sacred because we lived through transience. Eternity only holds meaning when you becomes strong enough to live through life in its entirety every moment of every seconds, every second forever.

Learning to live life properly means knowing all aspects of it and overcoming all of it. To refine love until you reach its perfection. To refine beauty to its perfection. To refine the self until perfection. And the refinement must exist in transience because without it there is no eternity. And without eternity then transience loses its purpose. All things exist in exactness and navigating the world is our journey. And if it must be navigated, then why not choose to play otherwise suffering simply becomes pain without meaning.
 
Life is meaningful because we know its opposite. We see beauty because we know ugliness. We know love because we know the loss of love. We appreciate life because the end exists. And Eternity becomes sacred because we lived through transience. Eternity only holds meaning when you becomes strong enough to live through life in its entirety every moment of every seconds, every second forever.

Learning to live life properly means knowing all aspects of it and overcoming all of it. To refine love until you reach its perfection. To refine beauty to its perfection. To refine the self until perfection. And the refinement must exist in transience because without it there is no eternity. And without eternity then transience loses its purpose. All things exist in exactness and navigating the world is our journey. And if it must be navigated, then why not choose to play otherwise suffering simply becomes pain without meaning.
What you’re saying makes sense, but I can’t really accept the idea of having to lose what I love and then calling it a “game.” It doesn’t sit right with me. I can recognize love without needing loss to define it. I know my feelings won’t change how things are, but it leaves me uneasy and conflicted toward the Gods. Trying to refine things toward perfection in transience still seems like a game we can’t really win... If we assume perfection is reached and eternity follows, would we be reunited with our loved ones, or would that loss remain forever? That would change a lot in the way it all comes together.
 
Thank you High Priest Zevios Metathronos. The knowledge of this magnitude and reminder come in handy because the feeling of all these in the sermo to be expressed even to a fellow Zevist would be undescribable with words and we're most grateful for this sermon hitting on the various civilizations and through all of them, the same message. Duality is necessary for balance. We are very thankful to our Gods and Goddesses for their care and the gift of life and the guidance on our part as Zevists to advance day in and out. We're playing our part to the max
Hail Father Zeus
Hail Mama Aphrodite
Hail all our Gods and Goddesses.
What you’re saying makes sense, but I can’t really accept the idea of having to lose what I love and then calling it a “game.” It doesn’t sit right with me. I can recognize love without needing loss to define it. I know my feelings won’t change how things are, but it leaves me uneasy and conflicted toward the Gods. Trying to refine things toward perfection in transience still seems like a game we can’t really win... If we assume perfection is reached and eternity follows, would we be reunited with our loved ones, or would that loss remain forever? That would change a lot in the way it all comes together.
We're all in this world together but advancement is an individual task that each of us is undergoing. Unattached to anything that hinders advancement. The example of Sri Krsna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Bhakti yoga explains the need for one to be unalloyed and all concentration is on the supreme personally of Godhead. With time you'll understand and get over attachment and things will start to make perfect sense as you advance. May our Gods and Goddesses bless and guide us all through our advancement day in and out.
 
What you’re saying makes sense, but I can’t really accept the idea of having to lose what I love and then calling it a “game.” It doesn’t sit right with me. I can recognize love without needing loss to define it. I know my feelings won’t change how things are, but it leaves me uneasy and conflicted toward the Gods. Trying to refine things toward perfection in transience still seems like a game we can’t really win... If we assume perfection is reached and eternity follows, would we be reunited with our loved ones, or would that loss remain forever? That would change a lot in the way it all comes together.

Look at it this way. From the perspective of the Gods they also feel loss. Every time a disciple falls. Every time excessive suffering occurs beyond what is necessary for us. Every time we cause our own suffering because we ignore the teachings we are given. If the pain still happens at their level then what would you do if at the stage of development you are right now was eternal and the ones you love aren't? Its because the struggle is still ongoing for us still mortal that eternity isn't given right from the start. Its a capacity that must be reached so that life can be lived with joy.
 
This was beautiful! Thank you High Priest. May all Zevists save this and come back to this time and time again. We must live, that is why the Gods gave us life.

I quote the below passages to ensure all read them clearly.

The Zevist meditates in order to perceive reality more clearly, not in order to withdraw from reality. The Zevist performs rituals in order to strengthen the connection between the human and the divine, not in order to escape the human condition. The Zevist studies the ancient wisdom traditions in order to live more skillfully, not in order to accumulate theoretical knowledge that never touches the ground. The Zevist trains the body, cultivates the mind, develops the emotions, and strengthens the will, all in service of a single goal: to live the fullest, most beautiful, most powerful life that the individual's nature permits.

This means: travel. See the world the Gods created. Stand on mountains and swim in oceans and walk through forests and sit in ancient temples and feel the sun on your face in countries you've never visited before. Learn. Read the books the ancient sages wrote. Master a craft. Develop a skill so deeply that it becomes an extension of your soul. Build. Create something that will outlast you: a family, a business, a work of art, a community, a tradition. Love. Give yourself to another person with the full intensity of a heart that knows both joy and grief and chooses to open anyway. Celebrate. Gather with your people around a fire, around a table, around a ritual, and give thanks for the fact that you are here, that you are alive, that the Gods placed you in this world and gave you the capacity to perceive its beauty.

Live your life. And do more than the minimum. Do more than what is expected. Exceed the requirements. Go beyond the boundaries. Push further than you thought you could push. Because the Ka, the divine essence within you, demands not merely that you survive, but that you live, and that your living be so complete that when you finally stand before the Gods, you can say without hesitation: I used what you gave me. All of it. To the last drop.
 
This was beautiful! Thank you High Priest. May all Zevists save this and come back to this time and time again. We must live, that is why the Gods gave us life.

I quote the below passages to ensure all read them clearly.
Exactly High Priestess Lydia Coventina. I keep reading and reading, checking comments as well. I'm forever thankful to our Gods and Goddesses for making me part of this family. We keep learning and will do our best to advance daily as you all our leaders urge us on always. May our Gods and Goddesses bless you all.
May all Zevists advance in all positivity.
Hail Father Zeus
Hail Mama Aphrodite
Hail all our Gods and Goddesses forever
 
Why Odysseus would not accept becoming a God? What would happen if he accepted the offer?

Was she telling lies?

Well last year, a full Temple was found in Odysseus's name. So based on this, we have technical evidence that yes, he ascended to the Godhead. His tale appears to be mythologized, but the real person actually did ascend Godhead. Another person who enters the list of Initiates becoming Gods is factual.

Ancient Greek inscriptions point to the ‘Sanctuary of Odysseus’​


Archeologists continue to shed light on the historical origins behind Homer’s ‘Odyssey.’


Last week also, in full accordance with what I am telling you in the Temple of Zeus, an Egyptian Mummy was found with the Illiad inside it (ie, it was used in the mummification process).


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Well last year, a full Temple was found in Odysseus's name. So based on this, we have technical evidence that yes, he ascended to the Godhead. His tale appears to be mythologized, but the real person actually did ascend Godhead. Another person who enters the list of Initiates becoming Gods is factual.

Ancient Greek inscriptions point to the ‘Sanctuary of Odysseus’​


Archeologists continue to shed light on the historical origins behind Homer’s ‘Odyssey.’


Last week also, in full accordance with what I am telling you in the Temple of Zeus, an Egyptian Mummy was found with the Illiad inside it (ie, it was used in the mummification process).


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Thank You HP for this!

But what I asked was in the context of the Odysee Poem, I also thought that the actual person or entity behind the Name Odysseus would be Deidificated, like probably many other characters.

But in the context of the Odysee, the Goddess was lying, yes? As how can you become a God by not completing your destiny?

Would sound like escapism, like in the island of lotus eaters, and similar.
 
The thing about this “life” is it doesn’t really feel like a gift to me. It feels like a punishment, like we did something wrong to be here.

And the positive things seem more like an excuse for the bad things. Yeah you feel good when you smoke crack, but your body is being barraged. Life is a bit like crack but on a grander scale. It’s a journey alright but a soul-crushing one, for most people anyway, unless you got lucky.

The drug analogy also works in the sense that we don’t really have control over ourselves. This fact is often ignored. We can be puppeted like marionettes by forces we can’t perceive (I’ve seen it firsthand done on me) and not be aware of it, and I’m not even including astrology which determines so much of what you “choose” to do. These facts make karma feel like a scam.

This feels like a slave existence and I’m always obeying, always following orders, always listening to this or that person, or to my desires, or my astrological influences, even my willpower is just a product of astrology, and luckily I was given quite a bit of that. More recently I feel like I’ve gone “above” these things though. My astrological influences when they appear I feel aware of them and beyond them. At this point I’m just tired of all the clowning.

Still I hate being a slave and I hate that they created us as slaves having to earn our way through a rigged, chaotic system designed to just take people on a ride rather than actually benefiting them. You benefit in spite of all the bullshit, not because of it.

No one needs to feel the pain of loss of loved ones. No one needs to have a disease. No one needed to be raped, murdered or harmed by other astrological slaves who were driven by their programming to do these things. Both the victim and perpetrator were scripted into all this mess.

It’s like the Gods have no empathy towards their creation whatsoever. Just a “can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs” mentality where we get a couple thousand man-gods who win the “game” while billions stay suffering on the Samsara fuck-wheel of suffering for who knows how long and that’s if their soul survives.

Even the “bad guys” are victims of all this crap. It’s like a giant stupid drama show where everyone’s forced to play their little roles and suffer in the process of all their retarded decisions and whatever else is thrown at them. It’s great if you were scripted as a “winner”, then you get to tell the “losers” to work harder and feel better about yourself.

Even if they wanted to become “winners”, it’s not really a “loser”’s choice, that’s up to other powers and influences beyond them. Some “losers” become “winners” but again that was likely scripted as well, for what reason, likely the same reason the lion got lucky catching that gazelle this time, none whatsoever just planetary fuckery.

Drama is great in movies and fictional scenarios, not real life. Even then our love for drama and desire for some chaos was also programmed into us. We’re literally programmed to self-sabotage on varying degrees depending on what astrological plate you’re served with.

If you somehow go through all that and end up a “winner” through your totally not scripted “determination”, you still get the “gift” of old age and all the wonderful things that entails on the body and mind and how others treat you. Just read some nursing home stories to get an idea of that.

Did we have a choice to accept this “gift”? And if we did were we fully aware of what it would entail?

If this is their “gift”, then I’d hate to see what their punishment looks like.

No I don’t want to be a slave marionette getting fucked sideways from 10 different directions again. Thank you. Won’t be playing next time, if I even get a choice.
 
The thing about this “life” is it doesn’t really feel like a gift to me. It feels like a punishment, like we did something wrong to be here.

And the positive things seem more like an excuse for the bad things. Yeah you feel good when you smoke crack, but your body is being barraged. Life is a bit like crack but on a grander scale. It’s a journey alright but a soul-crushing one, for most people anyway, unless you got lucky.

The drug analogy also works in the sense that we don’t really have control over ourselves. This fact is often ignored. We can be puppeted like marionettes by forces we can’t perceive (I’ve seen it firsthand done on me) and not be aware of it, and I’m not even including astrology which determines so much of what you “choose” to do. These facts make karma feel like a scam.

This feels like a slave existence and I’m always obeying, always following orders, always listening to this or that person, or to my desires, or my astrological influences, even my willpower is just a product of astrology, and luckily I was given quite a bit of that. More recently I feel like I’ve gone “above” these things though. My astrological influences when they appear I feel aware of them and beyond them. At this point I’m just tired of all the clowning.

Still I hate being a slave and I hate that they created us as slaves having to earn our way through a rigged, chaotic system designed to just take people on a ride rather than actually benefiting them. You benefit in spite of all the bullshit, not because of it.

No one needs to feel the pain of loss of loved ones. No one needs to have a disease. No one needed to be raped, murdered or harmed by other astrological slaves who were driven by their programming to do these things. Both the victim and perpetrator were scripted into all this mess.

It’s like the Gods have no empathy towards their creation whatsoever. Just a “can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs” mentality where we get a couple thousand man-gods who win the “game” while billions stay suffering on the Samsara fuck-wheel of suffering for who knows how long and that’s if their soul survives.

Even the “bad guys” are victims of all this crap. It’s like a giant stupid drama show where everyone’s forced to play their little roles and suffer in the process of all their retarded decisions and whatever else is thrown at them. It’s great if you were scripted as a “winner”, then you get to tell the “losers” to work harder and feel better about yourself.

Even if they wanted to become “winners”, it’s not really a “loser”’s choice, that’s up to other powers and influences beyond them. Some “losers” become “winners” but again that was likely scripted as well, for what reason, likely the same reason the lion got lucky catching that gazelle this time, none whatsoever just planetary fuckery.

Drama is great in movies and fictional scenarios, not real life. Even then our love for drama and desire for some chaos was also programmed into us. We’re literally programmed to self-sabotage on varying degrees depending on what astrological plate you’re served with.

If you somehow go through all that and end up a “winner” through your totally not scripted “determination”, you still get the “gift” of old age and all the wonderful things that entails on the body and mind and how others treat you. Just read some nursing home stories to get an idea of that.

Did we have a choice to accept this “gift”? And if we did were we fully aware of what it would entail?

If this is their “gift”, then I’d hate to see what their punishment looks like.

No I don’t want to be a slave marionette getting fucked sideways from 10 different directions again. Thank you. Won’t be playing next time, if I even get a choice.
This is why in a way I understand people from certain yehuboric religions or even bhuddism who try to escape or avoid all/most of this stuff through asceticism.

Skipping all the religious nonsense, they know at some level, especially the bhuddists that attaching to something or someone is a bad idea as eventually one way or another you will lose it and then pain comes in.

In a way it’s a form of rebellion against the traps this world gives you. Even then I don’t think this really works as it simply leads to repression and all the problems that follow from that. That’s because you don’t really decide what you want either. Ironically the asceticism was likely astrological programming too. You simply can’t win and will suffer one way or another.

There is only one way to temporarily escape all this, but I don’t think that leads to good results on the other side, and may just lead to a rebirth into an even worse life. I don’t think the Gods are fond of it either and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone for any reason.

We’re just forced to shovel through the shit and that’s all we can do. It’s not really a choice. It’s suffer or suffer more.
 
This is why in a way I understand people from certain yehuboric religions or even bhuddism who try to escape or avoid all/most of this stuff through asceticism.

Skipping all the religious nonsense, they know at some level, especially the bhuddists that attaching to something or someone is a bad idea as eventually one way or another you will lose it and then pain comes in.

In a way it’s a form of rebellion against the traps this world gives you. Even then I don’t think this really works as it simply leads to repression and all the problems that follow from that. That’s because you don’t really decide what you want either. Ironically the asceticism was likely astrological programming too. You simply can’t win and will suffer one way or another.

There is only one way to temporarily escape all this, but I don’t think that leads to good results on the other side, and may just lead to a rebirth into an even worse life. I don’t think the Gods are fond of it either and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone for any reason.

We’re just forced to shovel through the shit and that’s all we can do. It’s not really a choice. It’s suffer or suffer more.
The only real way to escape is to empower the soul, work through the system the Gods set and eventually “ascend” to the higher realms. Any other “solution” people might think of will lead to more problems.
 
Did we have a choice to accept this “gift”? And if we did were we fully aware of what it would entail?

If this is their “gift”, then I’d hate to see what their punishment looks like.
The experience was a choice. And we didn’t know what would happen; otherwise, the desire to undergo the experience would never have arisen. And the gods have given us the game of life. It must be mastered. Just as the gods master chaos by playing within its realm.

The first obstacle, certainly, to seeing this Gift, remains understanding. The mind must be transformed. All the reasoning you have presented defines entropy and the hardness of matter very well. But it is filtered through a mind of chaotic form.

Spiritual elevation will transform the chaotic mind into pure geometry. After this process, life will change drastically, and one will be able to see and observe beyond. Including the “game of life.”
No I don’t want to be a slave marionette getting fucked sideways from 10 different directions again. Thank you. Won’t be playing next time, if I even get a choice.
You will have the choice not to return once you have overcome/transcended the density of matter. Until then, you will be drawn to where you are “compatible.”
 
It's also important to keep in mind that the scenario of the life game is different for everyone, depending on their circumstances, personal tastes, and stage of life. Someone might not be interested in some things and, conversely, want to focus on others.
 

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