Back to AtD "Welcome Home" .p. 956

[Mark Kohut]

So a monk welcomes Cyprian in "University-accented English." Home, what is that
Eliot line about all our wanderings returning us to where we started but seeing it for the fist time? 
"Home as Found". Book on early Amer Lit getting its title from JF Cooper, I think.

The Order descended from ancient Bogomils who 'did not embrace the Church in 1650'
but went underground....So, its spiritual tradition had "more nocturnal elements" attached
back to the Thracian Orpheus.......

And "the Manichean elements had grown ever stronger"....with all haunted by the unyielding
doubleness of everything"....the "nearly unbearable..cosmic struggle of darkness and light"....

Cyprian soon discovered "gazing into it [a carved iconostasis] as if into a cinema screen where
pictures moved and stories unfolded....Shadowless faces"......

Earlier in AtD and lifelong, TRP has found Manichaeanism lacking---lots of truths
in the pointing but ultimately simplistic, binary. The Middle excluded.

I suggest he captures that again here....Cyprian "looking behind the presented world"--"consciously"--
but above is a fine reuse of Plato's Allegory of the Cave,  yes?....in which one sees "moving pictures"
[Plato's myth used to talk about early cinema too]...but seeing only forms, "shadowless faces" not
reality........[and I'd suggest having no [Jungian] shadow ain't a good thing...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
Preceded in Plato by, get this!, Mason & Dixon, the Analogy of the divided line - Wikipedia,
within Plato's Metaphor of the Sun!   (Everything Connects!)
    * Plato, in his dialogue The Republic Book 6 (509D–513E), has Socrates explain through the literary device of a divided line his fundamental metaphysical ideas as ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_of_the_divided_line - Cached
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