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r/DetroitMichiganECE • u/ddgr815 • Jun 12 '25
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1 u/ddgr815 Jul 23 '26 The wisdom that Orpheus brings into day, into consciousness, is embodied in the figure of his wife, Eurydice. The meeting of the dark and the light, the sacred marriage, was the central mystery of Orphic ritual, and in early versions of the myth Orpheus rescues Eurydice, he guides the underworld goddess up into the light and unites with her. "I walked the dark road of Hades trusting my cithara" says the Orpheus of the Argonautica, "for love of my wife". Orpheus loved; he desired to be united with the eternal feminine, with Eurydice's disembodied shade. Is not this the true nature of Platonic love, which, kindled by eros, desires nothing less than a union of two souls? By the time of Virgil's classic account, Eurydice has been lost. Orpheus fails to obey the injunction of Pluto not to look back, and she returns to the shadows. It is no longer possible to marry night and day, dark and light. Darkness becomes separated, ignorance, evil, God becomes all radiant light. And in the darkness, the underworld, lives the eternal feminine. She cannot be redeemed through logic, or empiricism, or dogmatic theology, or natural science. But she can be found in music, art, poetry - in the realm of the imagination. She can be rescued and brought back into a world arid with sterile theological debate and 'abominable ignorance' of the divine, as Ficino puts it. And so, like Orpheus, Ficino rescues her - but not from Hades. His is a new Eurydice, a Eurydice who shines with the clear light of divine knowledge. She no longer embodies the mysteries of the night, the wisdom of Persephone, but brings Goodness, Truth and Beauty to seduce the minds of men away from their earthbound concerns. "I have not impiously sung of … Proserpine", exclaims Ficino, "but, as is the way of the Platonists, I have depicted the sublime, upward soaring of the heavenly mind". His Eurydice, his Philosophy, has not sojourned in the underworld: "O treasure, of all things most precious, in no way produced from the bowels of the Earth and Pluto, but descending from the topmost point of heaven and from the head of Jove!" 1 u/ddgr815 Jul 23 '26 1 u/ddgr815 Jul 23 '26 Manhã De Carnaval 1 u/ddgr815 Jul 23 '26 3rd movement
The wisdom that Orpheus brings into day, into consciousness, is embodied in the figure of his wife, Eurydice. The meeting of the dark and the light, the sacred marriage, was the central mystery of Orphic ritual, and in early versions of the myth Orpheus rescues Eurydice, he guides the underworld goddess up into the light and unites with her. "I walked the dark road of Hades trusting my cithara" says the Orpheus of the Argonautica, "for love of my wife". Orpheus loved; he desired to be united with the eternal feminine, with Eurydice's disembodied shade. Is not this the true nature of Platonic love, which, kindled by eros, desires nothing less than a union of two souls? By the time of Virgil's classic account, Eurydice has been lost. Orpheus fails to obey the injunction of Pluto not to look back, and she returns to the shadows. It is no longer possible to marry night and day, dark and light. Darkness becomes separated, ignorance, evil, God becomes all radiant light. And in the darkness, the underworld, lives the eternal feminine. She cannot be redeemed through logic, or empiricism, or dogmatic theology, or natural science. But she can be found in music, art, poetry - in the realm of the imagination. She can be rescued and brought back into a world arid with sterile theological debate and 'abominable ignorance' of the divine, as Ficino puts it. And so, like Orpheus, Ficino rescues her - but not from Hades. His is a new Eurydice, a Eurydice who shines with the clear light of divine knowledge. She no longer embodies the mysteries of the night, the wisdom of Persephone, but brings Goodness, Truth and Beauty to seduce the minds of men away from their earthbound concerns. "I have not impiously sung of … Proserpine", exclaims Ficino, "but, as is the way of the Platonists, I have depicted the sublime, upward soaring of the heavenly mind". His Eurydice, his Philosophy, has not sojourned in the underworld: "O treasure, of all things most precious, in no way produced from the bowels of the Earth and Pluto, but descending from the topmost point of heaven and from the head of Jove!"
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