Just heard some new music from The Great Bear (Mr. Bear) this afternoon and it inspired me to be daft.
It’s about this bull frog who thinks he’s really cool croaking to his beat in the swamp part of town. Lets call him a musician frog for the purpose of the story. He’s not too ugly - for a frog but his head is full of tunes and he’s so into his art that he hardly looks up these days. Has no time for love right now because he’s an artist right? So he’s minding his own business and hopping along the swamp whistling a song in a froglish sort of way when something makes him stop and look up and what he sees changes his life forever, like when Dante saw Beatrice and she became for him the face of the divine, or when the face of Helen of Troy launched all those ships and caused normally quite sensible men to go to war for her love . He has what you call in human language an aesthetic arrest. This is the moment when you see such beauty and perfection that it arrests you at the deepest level of your being and you instantly fall in love with the object that is in front of your eyes. What our frog has seen is the princess to whom he will now spend his life coaxing into kissing him.
Well she’s the beauty in the eye of the beholder who is our frog and she is a pure virgin and what she represents symbolically is his soul. The only way to win the virgin who is his soul is to become pure just like her. And so with this image of truth and beauty now imprinted upon his brow he sets off to win her love. Only she has the power to turn him into a prince and she does this at the end of the story when he has proved himself to be worthy of her, which involves much tribulation and more than a bit of suffering.
The minute she touches his lips with hers the magic happens and this is real magic – none of your rabbits and tophats or hocus-pocus. No, this is the magic that turns us whores down here into the highest of the highest and we will even become fools for her recognition. It is called the one true love and the frog and the princess are the only ones who know all about it and what’s involved. What the princess does is to lead the frogs’ soul on an upwards journey towards his true self.
On a mundane level, that is, an everyday level, it is the search for the divine within each other.
I have just shown you that behind the soppiest fairy tales lies the most profound of truths if you dig a little below the surface. Anyway they live happily ever after of course., which is a reference to eternal and immortal life that can be yours too one day.....maybe talk about that another time......
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