ABSTRACT

The creative God of the first poem "The Moth to the Sun", whose dual nature, moral and physical, was shown especially clearly to us by Job, has in another poem a new qualification of astral-mythological, or, to express it better, of astrological character. Therefore, the sun is adapted as is nothing else to represent the visible God of this world. That is to say, that driving strength of our own soul, which we call libido, and whose nature it is to allow the useful and injurious, the good and the bad to proceed. Dionysus stands in an intimate relation with the psychology of the early Asiatic God who died and rose again from the dead and whose manifold manifestations have been brought together in the figure of Christ into a firm personality enduring for centuries. The powerful God, the equal of the Sun, is in that one, and whoever knows him is immortal.