THE ROYAL TROJAN LINEAGE: LAOMEDON, PRIAM, HECTOR, PARIS AND AENEAS

The lineages involved in the Trojan War include: the Tantalum lineage, the Trojan royal lineage, the Spartan lineage, the Maia lineage, the Deion lineage and the Asopos lineage. The Trojan royal lineage (Electra lineage) studied here symbolizes access to the illumined mind and its stabilization in the context of the search for the divine in the heights of the spirit and the separation spirit/matter. It includes in particular Tros, Ilos, Ganymedes, Laomedon, Priam, Paris and Hector.

Ganymede holding a hoop and a cock,

Ganymede holding a hoop – Louvre Museum 

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The leaders opposing the Achaean troops at Troy belong to the royal Trojan lineage, which itself forms part of the greater lineage of the Pleiad Electra. Electra has been associated with the plane of the illumined mind, situated directly above the higher mind to which some ancient authors connected the lineage of Atreides by the ascendants of Hippodamia.

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If this association is correct then the Trojans represent the vastest or most integrative space that can be established on the mental plane at this particular stage of yoga, at least during this period of ancient Greek history. It is for this reason that the war took place in Troy on the coast of Anatolia and at the easternmost limits of the Greek empire, which is to say at the limits of personal yoga. Lands even further to the east are mentioned in the myths, such as Colchis or the land of the Amazons, but there are only few instances.

The Trojan War was therefore a civil conflict rather than a war of the Greeks against a foreign people. On one side of the conflict were the Achaeans, ‘they who through concentration strive towards the purification and liberation of the being’ (sometimes also known as the Danaeans, ‘they who strive for union’, or the Argeans, ‘they who strive towards the goal of purity and light’). They were led by the aspiration of a ‘unified intelligent will’ (Agamemnon). On the other side were the Trojans, ‘they who strive for the right development on the plane of the spirit’, also known as the Dardanians, ‘they who strive towards union in the separation of spirit and matter’ (descendants of Tros and his grandfather Dardanos).
In this inner struggle for the conquest of the Truth of evolution (Helen), two parts of the seeker will fight each other:
On the one hand the will of incarnating the Divine in man, which is to say a refusal to separate the world of the Spirit and that of Matter, associated with the will for transformation to achieve an integral divinity of man;
And on the other hand the will of the ‘liberated seeker’ to maintain himself within the peace and joy of the Self, no longer relating to the action of this world. This attitude is uninterested by the transformation of the outer being, perhaps because it considered it to be an impossible task beyond a certain threshold of mastery.
In fact, Sri Aurobindo writes that ‘self-knowledge, the absence of desire, impersonality, beatitude and freedom in relation to the modes of Nature, when withdrawn into themselves, absorbed into themselves and inactive, have no need for equality, for they do not have awareness of things that bring about the opposition of equality and inequality’. (Essays on the Gita, The Divine Teacher).

Dardanos

The founder of the lineage is Dardanos, thought to be the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra, symbols of the illumined mind. His name is built in the form X+RX, like that of Tartarus. It could therefore indicate both a union and its opposite. In this work, it is interpreted as a union in spirit in the separation of spirit and matter.

Dardanos fled Samothrace to escape the pain of the death of his brother Iasion, struck dead by lightning for having had the presumption of desiring Demeter. He sought refuge with the king of Phrygia, Teucer (Teukros), who was wed to Idaia. This king was the son of the river god Scamander, the river of the Trojan plane known by the gods as the river Xanthos. He gave Dardanos half his kingdom as well as the hand of his daughter Batia in marriage, who was sometimes also known as Arisbe.
According to some sources Dardanos, following the counsel of Apollo, founded on the slopes of Mount Ida a city which was named Dardania as his namesake (this city must be distinguished from Troy, which would be built on the plain). He then inherited the kingdom upon Teucer’s death, and fathered Ilos and Ericht