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“When I hear him… my heart leaps… tears come to my eyes…
I am beside myself…
He forces me to admit that my life is no way to live.”
“Many others suffer the same thing… we are overpowered by his words.”

~Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades on Socrates



After listening to High Priest Zevios Metathronos, I understand what my ancestors must have felt when they were listening to Socrates.
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"The Greek Word: Ἄτη (Ate)
The first element, ATI, derives from the Greek Ἄτη (Ate), the primordial personification of ruinous delusion. In Homer (Iliad 19.91–131), Zeus himself declares that Ate blinded even him, and in his wrath he seized her by the hair and cast her from Olympus, swearing that she should never return. She fell not into oblivion but upon the earth, where she walks among mortals and blinds them. Ate does not produce simple ignorance; she produces the specific condition in which the victim believes his blindness is sight, his confusion is clarity, and his imprisonment is freedom. This is the precise theological content of the first element: Atibilibil begins with the force of divinely expelled delusion, the blindness so complete that it does not know itself as blindness."

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