#185: Eleusis in the Spring (Vernal Equinox Special) feat. Joseph Campbell - The Eleusinian Mysteries, the Rites of Orpheus, Fertility and Persephone, the Descent into Hades, and the Resurrection

<p>Happy Equinox. The Beginning, is at last: <em>beginning</em>.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/txJmJFFSpq8" target="_blank">Music Credit: Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 5 &quot;Emperor&quot; Gernot Schmalfuss / Music Director and Chief Conductor Gwhyneth Chen / Piano Evergreen Symphony Orchestra National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 13 Nov. 2020 (Creative Commons).</a></p><p>Percy Bysshe Shelley</p><p><em>Hymn to the Spirit of Nature </em>(1820).from <em>Prometheus Unbound </em>(Act II, Scene V):</p><p>Life of Life! Thy lips enkindle<br>With their love the breath between them;<br>And thy smiles before they dwindle<br>Make the cold air fire; then screen them<br>In those locks, where whoso gazes<br>Faints, entangled in their mazes.</p><p>Child of Light! Thy limbs are burning<br>Through the veil which seems to hide them,<br>As the radiant lines of morning<br>Through thin clouds, ere they divide them;<br>And this atmosphere divinest<br>Shrouds thee wheresoe&#39;er thou shinest.</p><p>Fair are others; none beholds Thee;<br>But thy voice sounds low and tender<br>Like the fairest, for it folds thee<br>From the sight, that liquid splendor;<br>And all feel, yet see thee never,—<br>As I feel now, lost for ever!</p><p><strong>Lamp of Earth! Wheree&#39;er thou movest</strong></p><p><strong>Its dim shapes are clad with brightness,</strong></p><p><strong>And the souls of whom thou lovest</strong></p><p><strong>Walk upon the winds with lightness</strong></p><p><strong>Till they fail, as I am failing,</strong></p><p><strong>Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing!</strong></p><p><br></p>