Alexander the Great in history

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Alexander the Great in history[[1]]

• In our old school at Braddell Rise Primary, next to Mt. Alvernia hospital I never have forgotten the old lessons in history. One of the teachers we had was a great history teacher <Mr. Stephen Lim Yew Lock> and daily I remember with rapt attention and looking forward to hear some new lesson in history. In those days in the 50s and 60s we had no entertainment except going to school and listening to our teachers. The history lesson was one of my favorites.

• Imagine those British schoolteachers repeating the same stories about the great conquerors like Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great in the old England. I could imagine a lot of them were inspired to become great explorers and pioneers in search for new lands for settlement for their overpopulated little Country of old England. They invented many necessities along with their efforts to conquer the world. With their great sailing ships they were able to sail around the world. The story of around the world in eighty days was a real hit and I saved enough pocket money to go watch the movie when it was first out and screen in our cinemas. They used the wireless telegraph as well as around the world underwater cable to communicate, and messages were for the first time taking only minutes to decode instead of weeks by letters. It was like a great miracle changing the world of yesterday.

• How could the story of a foreign conqueror<Alexander the Great> so inspire so many people and especially those grammar school students in old England to venture out and became masters of new settlements and new lands? The answers are simple: "inspiration " of “no venture no gain”! or no battle fought no real win

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[edit] Who was this Alexander the Great?

Alexander's Origins

July 357

His parents were Olympias and Philip II and according to some legends and oracles Alexander has divine origins: Zeus and Olympias.

Alexander was born at Pella in Macedonia in late July of 356 BC, on the same day on which the famous Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed by fire. His father, Philip II of Macedon, was a brilliant ruler and strategist. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus, daughter of King Neoptolemus. Olympias was initiated into the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus. She was often jealous, vindictive and very protective of Alexander.

According to tradition, Olympias' ancestor was the mythical hero of the Iliad - Achilles, while his father, Philip II of Macedon, was said to descend from the Zeus' son - Hercules.

The legend of Alexander of Macedon begins even before his birth. Alexander's parents, King Philip II of Macedon and Myrtali - the Princess of Epirus, later known as Olympias - were in their dreams warned about his birth. Philip and Olympias were initiated in the mysterious cults of Kabira of Samothrace, and they had believed in the messages in dreams, so that they have invited the most renowned prophet of that time Arixstandros Telmisy, to interpret their dreams. Olympias had dreamt of a loud burst of thunder and lightening that had hit her womb, while in Philip's dream, he was sealing her womb with the seal of the lion. Arixstandros determined that Olympias was pregnant, and that the child would have the character of lion. The oracle of Delphi advised Philip to worship Zeus-Ammon, more than any other god. That brought the advent of Alexander's birth. Ammon (also Amon, Hammon, Zeus, Jupiter) represents the principle of invincibility, and ancient Egyptians had called Ammon "The Invisible", so any other attribution is superfluous. The animal dedicated to the cult of Ammon was ram-aries, one of the "astral fire signs", with the active male principle and the symbol of Pure Will strength, that stands behind everything , which initiates each significant event and crushes all obstacles (like aries or thunder). The thought and vision, now become action. Only through action does it take form, power and is transformed into reality. The purely spiritual can not be stopped and is invincible. Alexander's historical mission was to prepare the impulse of a new astrologic era, to terminate the old one and to transform ancient-obsolete forms of culture and world dominion. (This transition period from Aries to Pisces astrologic era in history is known as the Hellenistic period, and it has lasted for more than two centuries. One astrologic era has a duration of 2000 years.)

In our Chinese legend we have the story the miracle <divine> boy on rolling fire wheels> is that a mythical saga originated from Greeks and European sources?

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continued on Alexander the Great part two

Map showing where the army of Alexander the Great went..