Night and Day, The Basic Duality

The real “duality” in human behavior is day and night—--the nighttime Dionysus needs to be harmonized with the daytime Apollo—--we need a shift-change-briefing where the irrationality of the night is synthesized into the rational day.

The wild and dark insights of the night, of the dreamworld, and the sleepless world, are very creative but need to be harmonized with Apollo in the morning.

The Inward Path is the dark, the Dionysian Path, the Soul, the Kosmic Center, with the absence of the Spirit of the Apollonian day. The Outward Path is the light, the Apollonian Path, the Spirit as the Kosmic Summit, the White Mountain beyond the sun, Godhood, beyond the Kosmic Center. This is why the light leads the dark, as the Spirit leads the Soul.

Even though the Inward Path affirms the Revealed Religions of Tradition, the Inward Path includes this Dionysian definition mainly because of the Inward Path's virtual rejection of material life, which is highly irrational, and irrationality is the basis of Dionysus. Also the Soul of the Inward Path exists in the human unconscious psyche which, at least in Western psychology, is the home of Dionysus. Apollo is assigned to the Spirit which is the Zenith of the Soul because it has the material, rational and even scientific goal of material evolution to Godhood. Yet Dionysus and Apollo are harmonized in EC.

The Soul is the sun, the Spirit is the Kosmic Summit far beyond the sun, the exclusive Inward Path believes it sees the sun when it is seeing the reflecting moon. The Outward Path seeks the star or the Kosmic Summit of Godhood.