Eros  (Greek) Love, desire; represented in the Hesiodic theogony
as one of four self-existent deities, the others being Chaos, Gaia, and
Erebos; otherwise as the son of Aphrodite by either Ares, Zeus, or
Hermes. Eros is the cosmic force which causes the unmanifest to seek
self-manifestation: it is divine love, will, desire; the desire to
manifest in creative activity, and thus to give life and existence to
all beings. This desire, which "arises first in It" (SD 2:578), is in
the gods and in all nature. After the worlds have been manifested, Eros
then becomes, under the form of fohat, the ever-active force which
brings together and combines the elemental atoms. "Fohat, in his
capacity of Divine Love (Eros), the electric Power of affinity
and sympathy, is shown allegorically as trying to bring the pure Spirit,
the Ray inseparable from the one absolute, into union with the Soul"
(SD 1:119). Eros, like his synonyms kama, amor, and cupido, acts on many
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