Chapter 1
Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno and
the Harpies - may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition
- but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the
archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of
that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us
all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects,
considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us
bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older
standing. They date beyond body - or without the body, they would
have been the same… That the kind of fear here treated is purely
spiritual - that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on
earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy -
