Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of "The Tempest."Scholarly Press, 1972 - 247 páginas The author claims that "The Tempest" belongs to the same class of religious drama as the mediaeval Mysteries, Miracles, and Moralities; that it is an allegorical account of those psychological experiences which constitute what mystics call Initiation; that its main features must, therefore, of necessity resemble those of every ritual or ceremonial initiation which is based upon the authentic mystical tradition. |
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... ancient ceremonies of initiation . in terms of psychological experience , and then to show that the moral philosophy which these ceremonies symbolically expressed is precisely what is intended in The Tempest . In this latter endeavour ...
... ancient ceremonies of initiation . in terms of psychological experience , and then to show that the moral philosophy which these ceremonies symbolically expressed is precisely what is intended in The Tempest . In this latter endeavour ...
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... ancient poets to smile approval . * This latter point warrants a brief digression . If Dante's Lower Paradise , which he identifies with the Lost Estate of Man , be the subjective plane of reason , then he regards the Fall as a ...
... ancient poets to smile approval . * This latter point warrants a brief digression . If Dante's Lower Paradise , which he identifies with the Lost Estate of Man , be the subjective plane of reason , then he regards the Fall as a ...
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... ancient ritual initiation corresponds exactly with what may be called empirical initiation . For this detachment of the consciousness from material and passional concerns is precisely what every philosopher must achieve before the Truth ...
... ancient ritual initiation corresponds exactly with what may be called empirical initiation . For this detachment of the consciousness from material and passional concerns is precisely what every philosopher must achieve before the Truth ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE PLAY AND THE PAGAN RITES | 12 |
THE MEANING OF INITIATION | 83 |
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A. E. Waite Aeneas Aeneid AETHER allegory allusion Alonso ancient angels Ariel ascent aspirant Beatrice Caliban Celestial Paradise ceremonies Christ cited consciousness corresponds Court Party Dante darkness declares Desire devil divine Dragon EARTH elements Eleusinian Eleusinian Mysteries Eleusis Elysium evidence evil experience fact Fall Ferdinand Gonzalo Greater Initiation Greek hierophant Ibid implies interpretation Island Lady Lesser Initiation Lower Paradise Masque matter means Miranda MIST monsters monstrous mystic myth mythical mythological ordeal pagan pagan Mysteries pagan rites passage passional WATER Persephone plane Play Poet present Prospero psychological Purgatory reason reference remarks represented resemblance revelation RING OF FIRE ritual initiation says Scene sense sensuous Shakespeare significance Sirens sleep Soul speaks spirit Stephano and Trinculo story story of Ferdinand strange subjective suggest Sycorax symbolical Tempest temptation Tempter Thalath thee Themistius Third Degree thou tion tradition Truth Veil wanderings Warburton Wilderness Wisdom Woman words Zoharic Zoroaster