The passage of the mythological hero may be over-ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiq uitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.
The dreadful mutilations are then seen as shadows, only, of an immanent, imperishable eternity; time yields to glory; and the world sings with the prodigious, angelic, but perhaps finally monotonous, siren music of the spheres. Like happy families, the myths and the worlds redeemed are all alike.
坎伯
英雄之旅
be over-ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward—into
depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost,
forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the
transfiguration of the world.
longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiq
uitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but
with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous,
it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love,
and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.
light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque
materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.