3PM
Betty Blythe as The Queen of Sheba by James Abbe in Theatre, June 1921. The comment reads:
The latest of the long and royal line of screen vampires is particularly royal, for it is none other than she whom King Solomon considered the last word in feminine sovereigns. Chosen as the star for this latest Oriental spectacle, Miss Blythe is said to have gone hungry on Broadway a couple of seasons ago. It was good training for the feasts which Solomon prepare for her in this picture.
Solomon and Sheba as a mirror of our own lives. The process of individuation described by Carl Jung’s work is personalized in this love story, a timeless tale of the meeting of a wise King and a powerful and beautiful Queen. The narrative includes the lovers meeting, testing each other, getting to know each other, connecting with each other and finally parting. The story of Solomon and Sheba can be understood on many levels. It is a love story, but it is also the splendid account of the heart’s journey toward individuation and inner marriage; it is also a coniunctio of the masculine and feminine principles that exist in every human psyche, male and female. The end of the journey results in a new birth, and the transformation is unmistakably a story of mystical love, and the love of God.
(via gloriesofthewest)
12PM
“The struggle against religion is a struggle against that world of which religion is the spiritual aroma.”
Voegelin
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