A Note on the Chariot of Zeus
I. W. Cleeve

But the first of The Twelve Leaders (i.e. The Liberated Gods), is said by Socrates to drive a Winged Chariot (πτηνπον αρμα) in The Heavens. How therefore, can he who is connected with The Kosmos , and who approximates to The Gods in The Heavens, be considered as the same with him (i.e. The Demiurgos) who is exempt from all [Kosmic Natures,] and who abides, as Timaeus says, in his own accustomed manner? (Proclos, Theol. Plat. VI, Ch. 19 tr. Taylor)

The CHARIOT (arma) of LIBERATED ZEUS

ο μεν μηγας ηγεμων εν ουρανω Ζευς, ελαυνων πτηνον αρμα, πρωτος πορευεται, διακοσμων παντα και, επιμελουμενος (Phaedr. 246e)
"Now The Great Leader in Heaven, Zeus, driving a Winged Chariot, goes first, arranging all things and caring for all things." (Fowler, Loeb 36)
αρμα does not merely mean a chariot, but a complete equipage, including the horses (LSJ [1996] S.V., as an organised and disciplined unity - in fact, αρμα is a Pythagorean word for 'Unity' (ibid . s. v. Ill).
It especially signifies a war-chariot, but is also used for a racing-chariot, and even just for the team of horses yoked to either. (ibid. s.v. I., I. 3)
It should be noted that Liberated Zeus leads an army of Gods and Daimons, an organised group united to a single purpose and way of Life, and so rides in a war-chariot.

The Contrast between The Divine CHARIOT (αρμα) of ZEUS and The IRRATIONAL VEHICLE (οχημα-πνευμα) of Human SOULS

αρμα is opposite to ochma (LSJ [1996], s. v. I), which is the term used for the Irrational Vehicle or Pneuma (Οχημα-Πνευμα) of the Human Soul in the Timaeus (41E). In the myth of the Phaedrus, it is 'heated' by the Inspiration of Intelligible Beauty, and so is energised to grow it Wings.
(See the Scholia on EROS-3.REF, Ann. 6: "The HEAT of INTELLECTUAL FIRE and The WINGS of The Dry SOUL".) - This scholia is to be found later in this issue.
In exoteric terms οχημα signifies a vehicle drawn by mules (ibid.). What a powerful image this creates: on the one hand there is the sleek, light, rapid war-chariot (arma) of Zeus; on the other a mule-cart (οχημα) dragged by an ill-matched and inharmonious pair of mules - each of them born of ill-matched parents - as the Vehicle of a Human Soul.
αρμα is also opposite to armamaxa (ibid.), a covered carriage, generally luxuriously appointed, and used by women and Persian notables, e.g. the Persian ambassadors to Susa. (ibid. s.v. αρμαμαξα); for, esoterically, the αρμα is not a vehicle of the Senses, but of the vaulting purpose of Reason and Intellect.
Source: http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk/html/chariot_symbology.html

άρμάμαξα, a covered Persian chariot (esp. for women and children), Cu. Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.

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