PARADISE LOST by John Milton . .. .. ... ... . .From Line 51.


Here in the heart of hell to work in fire,
Or do his errands in the gloomy deep?
What can it then avail though yet we feel
Strength undiminished, or eternal being
To undergo eternal punishment?
Whereto with speedy words the arch fiend replied:
"Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering: but of this be sure,
To do aught good will never be our task,
But ever to do ill our sole delight,
Asbeing the contrary to his high will
Whom we resist, then if his providence
Out of our evil seek to bring good,
Our labour must be to pervert that end,
And out of good still to find means to evil;
Which offtimes may succeed, so as perhaps
Shall grieve him, If I fail not, and disturb
His inmost counsels from their destined aim.
But see the angry victor hath recalled
His ministers of vengeance and pursuit
Back to the gates of heaven; the sulphurous hail
Shot after us in storm, o'er blown hath laid
The fiery surge, that from the precipice
Of heaven received us falling, and the thunder,
Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now
to bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn
Or satiate fury yield it from our foe.
Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild,
The seat of desolation, void of light,
Save what glimmering of these vivid flames
Casts pale and dreadful? thither let us tend
From of the tossing of these fiery waves,
There rest, if any rest can harbour there,
And reassembling our affected powers,
Consult how we may henceforth most offend
Our enemy, our own loss how repair,
How overcome this dire calamity. . . . ... ... ... . . . . ... . .To Line 189.

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JUNG DREAMS - Captions of the Pictures.


*The Mountain of the Adepts. The temple of the wise ("House of the Gathering" or of "Self Collection"), lit by the sun and moon, stands on the seven stages, surmounted by the phoenix. The temple is hidden in the mountain - a hint that the philosopher's stone lies buried in the earth and must be extracted and cleansed. The zodiac in the background Symbolizes the duration of the OPUS, while the four elements indicate wholeness. In foreground, blindfolded man and the investigator who follows his natural instinct.- Michelspacher, CABALA (1654).

** Etna: "gelat et ardet".-Boschius, Symbolographia (1702).

***Ludus puerorum.- Trismosin, "Splendor soils" (MS 1582)

****Pygmies (helpful child-gods).- Fragments of an Egyptian mechanical toy.

*****The "Grand Peregrination" by ship. Two eagles fly round the earth in opposite directions, indicating that it is an odyssey in search of wholeness.- Maier, Viatorium (1651).

******The philosophical egg, whence the double egg is hatched, wearing the spiritual and temporal crowns.- Codex Palatinus Latinus 412 (15th cent.)

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