I mitation itself, he is whatever Prospero wills; an instrument of the creative
imagination.
Prospero’s books describe a universe composed of four spheres through
which the soul passes in its progress to God: the realm of earth (mortal life), water
(the dead), air, and ether. These elements together form the spiritus mundi, the
soul of the earth and the self (Jung, CW 9(ii), par. 393-400). We might well find in
Prospero’s Books a cosmos analogous to Corbin’s I maginal Realm of the Sufis and
also discern the soul’s advance from its projected manifestation in the cave wall
pictographs to the realm of mythopoeic literature.
ron
(Ron)
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