Spiritual concepts
Hero - the quest

The stages of all heroes' quests follow a pattern:
- the call to the adventure and departure many first calls involve some shock, rebirths or even ‘near death experiences’ signifying the need for a change
- initiation usually involving a wise advisor e.g. Merlin, Gandalf, Obi wan kenobi, the Trickster magician, Taliesin from the Mabinogian, the Alchemist from the book of the same name. A seer mystic, wizard a mysterious and powerful person
- the giving and receiving of the magic weapon – the sword, the light sword, the cloak of invisibility etc
- the fellowship of allies – the support of friends e.g. the order of the Jedi knights, the Knights of the Round table, the fellowship of the Ring
- the period of training
- defeat of inner demons, resistance to temptation
- the quest itself with all its troubles, traumas, defeats and victories
- the return as a hero.
Observations
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- Al-Ghazzali - The Alchemy of Happiness - 20 Death, the soul and immortal soul
- Arthur Osbourne - The Few
- Auden, W H - Sext
- Bayard Taylor - Poems of the Orient – The Arab Warrior
- C P Cavafy - Ithaca
- Chichen Itza - Mayan - The Great Ball Court
- Cus D’Amato - from Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth – The importance of converting fear to become a hero
- Delos - 06 Ivory plaque
- Dr Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg 01
- Dr Seuss - Horton Hatches the Egg 02
- Enûma Eliš - Fourth Tablet
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazar 1760 4th illustr.
- Judee Sill - Soldier of the Heart
- Kerberos and Hercules
- Korean mystic shamanism – Methods – Questioning and doubting all existing beliefs
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Masters and Houston
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from On the honour and dignity of this book 02
- Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Novalis – Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Organisation of Pictish society – Roles - Knight - The Whitham Shield
- Parrish, Maxfield - Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's teeth [1908]
- Parrish, Maxfield - The Reluctant Dragon
- Reeve, Christopher – What is a hero
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The shield
- Rops, Felicien - The Social Revolution
- Rubens - The drunken Hercules
- Schuré - The Great Initiates – 01 Reconstruction of an Initiation ceremony
- Sri Aurobindo - Invitation
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 00 The Court Cards introduction
- Tarot - 10 Minor Arcana - 03 The Knights
- The Ancestors - Somerset - Cadbury Castle
- The Monument of Sir Humfrey de Littlebury at All Saints, Holbeach
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1904 Wounded Amazon
- War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness – 05 Disposition and weapons of the front formations
- War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness – 12 Addresses and prayers of the battle liturgy
- Yeats, Georgie - A Vision - The Phases of the Moon