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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... body . WATER is a symbolical term suggested by the liquid state of matter , and particularly the sea ( i.e. , the " water below the firmament " referred to in the Genesis account of the creation of the world ) . It connotes the sensuous ...
... body . WATER is a symbolical term suggested by the liquid state of matter , and particularly the sea ( i.e. , the " water below the firmament " referred to in the Genesis account of the creation of the world ) . It connotes the sensuous ...
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... bodies . Whichever way we choose to interpret it , this tradi- tion is implicit in the actual text of the Genesis narra- tive . Before the trespass , Adam was in the AIRY body . After he succumbed to the Tempter , he put on . the WATERY ...
... bodies . Whichever way we choose to interpret it , this tradi- tion is implicit in the actual text of the Genesis narra- tive . Before the trespass , Adam was in the AIRY body . After he succumbed to the Tempter , he put on . the WATERY ...
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... body , and St. Irenaeus remarks likewise that it is " the visible body . " And Theodoret , yet more explicit , declares : " Adam is clothed in the fourth man — that is , in the Earthly man ; this is what is to be understood by the tunic ...
... body , and St. Irenaeus remarks likewise that it is " the visible body . " And Theodoret , yet more explicit , declares : " Adam is clothed in the fourth man — that is , in the Earthly man ; this is what is to be understood by the tunic ...
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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