Ares is the destroyer of obsolete forms, the force that severs. It is a strength that the weak fear but that is appreciated by the strong.
Zeus Between Athena and Ares – British Museum
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Ares and Hephaestus are the two male children of Zeus and Hera, and therefore the two essential active principles of human consciousness in the period in which it is identified with the mind.
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As the name Ares is built around the single letter Rho (P) this god carries the same energy as Eros, his grandmother Rhea, and his mother Hera – whose movement of the Absolute reaches outward and returns towards its origin – but not on the same plane.
Ares, the God of War, Palazzo Altemps, Rome, © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0
We have seen that the character Rho is a double letter, carrying two opposite meanings depending on whether we consider the part of the movement going away from or towards the origin. Ares is therefore also the symbol of the inversion of this movement, which plays harmoniously in the higher planes but leads to their destruction in the plane of forms.
Forms as we know them ver