August 2000
Beginner
260 pages
5h 7m
English
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4Shadows of the Soul
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.1
—CARL JUNG
HISTORICALLY, ARTISTS of all types have tended to use movement from darkness to light as symbolic of growth, associating light with the divine. Light represents heaven, knowledge, good, that which is to be sought. The Great Canon, composed by St. Andrew of Crete around 700 C.E., celebrates the coming of Christ in the world as symbolized in the appearance of light in the morning and is still sung in monasteries at the break of day. Eighteenth-century artist William Blake chose light and dark figures to represent ...