#queen cleophis

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Family of Shiva & Dattatreya by Raja Ravi Varma

He next proceeded to the Daedalian mountains,and the dominions of Queen Cleophis; who, after surrendering to Alexander, recovered her throne from him by admitting him to her bed; saving by her charms what she had been unable to secure by her valor. A son whom she had by him, she named Alexander; and he afterwards sat upon the throne of the Indians.

—Justin, 12.7.10

See previous posts: Cleophis of Massaga & Queen Cleophis Offers Alexander the Great Wine after Conquering Massaga

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The last page of poetry by 1dontknows

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Apsara by Dun Huang + The Greek World in the Fourth Century: From the Fall of the Athenian Empire to the Successors of Alexander by Lawrence A. Tritle (pp.210–211)

[Note the similarity between Assacenus and Ascanius, Aeneas’ son.]

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Three Women Riding a Mythical Monster by Nikolay Kalmakov

Then the queen [Cleophis] came with a group of ladies of noble birth who made libations from golden bowls. The queen herself placed her little son at Alexander’s knees, and from him gained not only a pardon but also the restitution of her former status, for she retained the title of queen. Some have held the belief that it was the queen’s beauty rather than Alexander’s compassionate nature that won her this, and it is a fact that she subsequently bore a son who was named Alexander, whoever his father was.

—Rufus, The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics, p.201)

When, after the period of kamaloka, the human being lays aside his astral body as a third corpse, everything upon which the ego has not yet worked separates from him. But in the astral world there remains behind something like a web, consisting of whatever hindrances to evolution he has himself brought into the world. The human being himself paves his path through the world with all the forms that are evidence that he has caused injury of some kind to others. If the human being concerned has completed the development of his archetype in Devachan and has woven into it everything that came with him from the last incarnation as the extract of his etheric body, a kind of fecundation now takes place. The archetype is permeated by the web of its own unrequited deeds. Thus, the first thing that happens to the soul after it has reached maturity in Devachan is that it is permeated with what we call karma, and this gives it the impulse to descend again to the earth in order to make compensation for as much as possible of the harm previously caused. At the end of the period in Devachan the soul is permeated with the consequences of its own deeds. Not until then is there complete readiness for the descent into a new existence on earth.

—Rudolf Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericism

See also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views

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Apsara (1924) by Nikolay Kalmakov + A 12th-century sandstone statue of an Apsara from Madhya Pradesh, India at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Alexander the Great] next proceeded to the Daedalian mountains, and the dominions of Queen Cleophis; who, after surrendering to Alexander, recovered her throne from him by admitting him to her bed; saving by her charms what she had been unable to secure by her valor. A son whom she had by him, she named Alexander; and he afterwards sat upon the throne of the Indians.

—Justin, 12.7.10

The further we descend the more does thought become merely logical, and the more it tends to a merely external faculty of judgment. Pure logical thought, mere human logic, that which proceeds from one idea to another, requires the human brain as its instrument; the cultivated brain makes logical thought possible. Hence external thinking, even when it has reached an astonishing height, can never of itself comprehend reincarnation, because it is in the first place only applicable to the things of the external sense world that surrounds us.

—Rudolf Steiner, Universe, Earth & Man: Lecture XI

See also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views

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Queen Cleophis Offers Alexander the Great Wine after Conquering Massaga by Gerard Hoet

We must contemplate life itself in the light of karma and repeated earthly lives. But such a contemplation requires the very greatest earnestness, for it may indeed be said that the temptation is very great for man to spin out all manner of ideas about karmic connections and repeated earthly lives. The temptation is great; the source of illusions in this sphere is exceedingly great. And indeed, real investigations in this sphere can be made only by one to whom the spiritual world has in a sense been opened through his own soul-development. ___

On many matters very adequate ideas existed in the Middle Ages. They might be legendary, but they were adequate; they corresponded to the real events. Legendary though they may be, how adequate are the narratives that centred round the personality of Alexander the Great. How vividly his life appears, as I already said, in the description of Lamprecht the Priest! ___

I think one may indeed preserve the holy awe and reverence before the truths of karma, which should indeed be held sacred and virginal in the inmost depths of life. For one who has a true feeling for the contemplation of the spiritual world, these deep truths are, verily, not unworthily unveiled. I mean this in the sense of what is so often said about the sacred veils of truth, of which people say that they should never be drawn aside.

Anthroposophy has been reproached again and again, notably in theological circles, for drawing aside the veil of sacred mystery from secret and mysterious truths, and thus making them profane. But the more deeply we enter into the esoteric portions of the anthroposophical conception, the more do we feel that there can truly be no talk of profanation. On the contrary the world itself will fill us with a holy awe when we behold the lives of man one after another in the marvellous working of former into later lives. We must only not be profane in our inner life or in our way of thinking and then we shall not make such objections.

—Rudolf Steiner, Karmic Relationships vol. 4: Lecture II, V & VIII

See also the histories by Justin & Rufus + The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views