6. 4 La tragi-comédie et la re-naissance

‘insists we try to reform our inner lives to be more in harmony with his Orphic vision of earthly potential, of matter interpenetrated by divinity, and that we strive to reform social and political systems to reflect the measure and harmony of the planetary dance and the unheard song of the planets and the cherubim. ⁵⁸⁵ ’ ‘In contemporary psychological terms, Psyche achieves bliss through completing her rite of passage from unknowing passivity to knowing actor, from being served and adored by Cupid and his invisible servants to serving Amor and actively adoring his divinity. […] But such transformation is possible only when what is to be transformed enters wholly into the feminine principle, that is to say, dies in returning to the Mother Vessel, whether this be earth, water, underworld, urn, coffin, cave, mountain, ship or magic cauldron. […]in every case renewal is possible only through the death of the old personality. ⁵⁸⁷ ’ ‘INNOGEN
Thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far
From thy report as thou from honour, and
Solicit'st here a lady that disdains
Thee and the devil alike.

(Cymbeline , 1. 6. 146-149)’ ‘POSTHUMUS
[…] Perchance he spoke not, but
Like a full-acorned boar, a German one,
Cried 'O !' and mounted ; found no opposition
But what he looked for should oppose and she
Should from encounter guard.

(Cymbeline , 2. 5. 15-19)’ ‘GIACOMO
[…] The love I bear him
Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,
Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.

(Cymbeline , 1. 6. 177-179)’