Fire and Desire in Poetry

Quote, Edinger, Mysterium Coniunctionis, p. 21
There is a fountain whose water is polluted. A winged youth burns with love for this fountain and, actually, the fountain is meant to be his bride. But, there is an evil thief who is the polluter of the fountain, and he prevents the approach of the winged youth. Then, with the help of Diana, the youth enters the pores of the earth adjacent to the fountain, and this union causes an earthquake and raises up a dark cloud.

Quote, Edinger, Mysterium Coniunctionis, p. 25
The more you cling to that which all the world desires, the more you are Everyman, who has not yet discovered himself and stumbles through the world like a blind man leading the blind with somnambulistic certainty into the ditch…This means burning in your own fire and not being like a comet or a flashing beacon, showing others the right way but not knowing it yourself.

Self-centered desirousness that is true Sulphur. Self-centered desirousness is centered in the Self is regenerate or transformed desire which the ego serves as a religious duty—the desire whose nature has been transformed by consciousness (Good).

Emerson— “All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

Quote, Edinger, Mysterium Coniunctionis, p. 25
If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need for redemption.