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of the human nature: he is the of woods and savage
life. He wanders through the land, jumps over rocks, lurks in the woods
and rapes the His lifestyle is the of freedom without
or fully devoted to enjoying the of the wild
nature, so characteristic for the wood spirits in primitive cultures.
It is therefore not accidental that it was his image that Christianity took as a
portrayal of the devil. Pan is the prototype of the Tarot Atu The Devil.
His animal and character denote the wild, instincts, while
his human parts suggest that the bestial aspect is an integral part of the
human nature. of the half-human half-bestial creature is the
symbol of man and the universe. The upper part to the upper
world - the realm of the spirit and high (the highest chakra,
Sahasrara, the spiritual The lower part of Pan's body to
the lower world, the domain of instincts and urges, the most basic needs
and impulses (the lowest chakra, Muladhara, the earthly plane). Pan's
horns are the emblem of transformation of the earthly and instincts
for the sake of spiritual progress.
The goat of Mendes (originally a ram called Be Neb Dedet),
identified with Pan, was incorporated by occult philosophies as the image
of Baphomet - the vital of the universe. The famous illustration the
nineteenth-century French occultist Eliphas Levi presents Baphomet as the
symbol of the creative universal the of all living creatures and
the nature. In the illustration he is as an entity
uniting all opposites: with the goat's head, the female upper part of the
body, the hooves, the and the torch on the head. This
the union of the masculine energy and all elements. It is the
symbol of creativity, wisdom and knowledge. In this picture Pan is
a human being, a beast and a He is the force of creation and as
well as destruction and death - the alchemical principles of Solve and
Coagula. For this reason the ancient people considered Pan as the god of the
whole nature, creator and master of all It is that the name
"Pan" derives from the Greek "an" (there is another etymological
interpretation that derives the name from , the shortened form
of "paon" == of the he embraces all of
the universe: the bright side and the dark, demonic aspect. That is why he
is called (All-Devourer) and In this
sense, Pan is the raw energy, without its distinguished aspects, neither
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