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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... death . * As a successive discarding of the several " bodies , " the process which the mystic supposes to ensue at death must correspond to an ascent of the consciousness through those same " bodies " in the course of subjec- tive ...
... death . * As a successive discarding of the several " bodies , " the process which the mystic supposes to ensue at death must correspond to an ascent of the consciousness through those same " bodies " in the course of subjec- tive ...
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... death , to represent that " closing of the eyes " to all the things of this world which is a condition precedent to divine revelation . And , indeed , there is a mythological connection between death and the RING OF FIRE , although for ...
... death , to represent that " closing of the eyes " to all the things of this world which is a condition precedent to divine revelation . And , indeed , there is a mythological connection between death and the RING OF FIRE , although for ...
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... death . Is there , then , some direct connection in tradition between the RING OF FIRE and death ? There certainly is ; for to the mythical Iris , who personifies the Rainbow , is ascribed the unction of cutting the thread of life in ...
... death . Is there , then , some direct connection in tradition between the RING OF FIRE and death ? There certainly is ; for to the mythical Iris , who personifies the Rainbow , is ascribed the unction of cutting the thread of life in ...
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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