02 - Κύκλοι του Ιεροκλέους - CIRCLE OF HIEROCLES
Treat the stranger as a brother.
Self, family, community, humanity. The work of life is to draw the outer circles inwards, until the distance disappears.
Circle of Hierocles
22 carat gold
$7,500.00
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Circle of Hierocles | Hanuman's Mace
TREAT THE STRANGER AS A BROTHER
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$7,500.00
Hierocles, the Stoic, drew every person as a set of rings. You're at the center. Then family, then the people you live among, then everyone else alive. Most of us love the inner rings and forget the rest. The work of a life is to pull the outer ones in, until the stranger gets treated like a brother. And the center is empty on purpose. A self that clings to itself has nothing left to give. Service only flows out of a man light enough to let it pass through.
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TREAT THE STRANGER AS A BROTHER
Self, Family, Community, Humanity.
Hierocles, the Stoic, drew every man as a set of rings. You at the center, then family, then your street, then everyone alive on the outer edge. The work of a life is to drag the far ring inward, until the stranger gets the same care you'd give your own blood.
That is what the Circles ask. Not that you love the people closest to you, anyone does that. But that you close the distance to the ones who are far, and keep closing it, for as long as you live.
The task is to draw the circles somehow toward the center, and to keep drawing.
Four circles outward
The self, then those who share your roof, then those who share your streets, then everyone who shares the earth. Each ring is wider, and harder to love.
Draw them in
The work is to contract the distance, to treat the far circle the way you treat the near one. The cousin becomes a brother. The stranger becomes a cousin.
A center that lets go
The hollow middle is deliberate. A self that clings cannot give. Service flows outward only from a center light enough to let it pass through.
Hierocles' Story
Hierocles was a Stoic philosopher in the second century, and almost everything he wrote is gone. What survived was one idea, passed mouth to mouth for nearly two thousand years because no one could bring themselves to forget it. He drew a picture of what one human being owes another, and it still holds.
Picture yourself standing at the center of a set of rings. The first ring is your own family. The next, the people who share your streets. Then your city, your countrymen, and on the far edge, every human being alive. Hierocles said the pull is always the same. We love the inner rings and barely notice the outer ones. He didn't blame anyone for that. He just said the work of a life is to drag the far rings inward, until a man you've never met is treated like your own blood.
That is the question the Circles put to you. Not whether you love the people close to you. Whether you'll close the distance to the ones who aren't.