The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms... the two are the terms of a single mythological theme... the down-going and the up-coming ( and ), which together constitute the totality of the revelation that is life, and which the individual must know and love if he is to be purged (=) of the contagion of sin (disobedience to the divine will) and death (identification with the mortal form).

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