Psyche

By Chris Phillips

Psyche breaks new ground about who you are. Contrary to the view that we were all born in original sin, we are actually greatly blessed at birth. This is about your original blessings and the journey of your soul in this life and in past lives.

What are you here on earth to do with the blessings you have?

You probably wont find the answer in religion, politics, or drugs. Here we explore new regions of the human psyche: who you are in spirit and how higher powers work through you. It is also about how you can tune and refine your gifts, most especially the gift of love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Aug 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524561987

Chris Phillips

Christopher Phillips is a manager and senior software developer at Dell SecureWorks, Inc. He is responsible for the design and development of the company's Threat Intelligence service platform. He also has responsibility for a team involved in integrating log and event information from many third party providers for customers to have their information analyzed by the Dell SecureWorks systems and security professionals. Prior to Dell SecureWorks, Christopher has worked for McKesson and Allscripts where he worked with clients on HIPAA compliance and security and integrating healthcare systems. Christopher has over 18 years of experience in software development and design. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and an MBA.

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CONTENTS

1. Legend of Psyche and Cupid.

2. Way Up Past the Gooey Stuff.

3. Pan – The Good and The Gooey.

4. Nine Spheres of Original Blessings.

5. Wisdom Paths.

6. Spheres and their Relationships.

7. Wisdom Paths of Ascension and Progression.

8. The Twin Nature of Psyche – a new approach to AIDS and other diseases.

9. Personal Transformation and Transcendence.

10. Bibliography.

Psyche

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Modernday painting of Psyche by David Parle.

Psyche is given as the youngest and by far the most beautiful of three human daughters of a certain king and queen. In her time, even sculptors, painters and poets had great difficulty in defining her beauty. Her beauty was so widely known and so great that wherever she went crowds gathered and flowers were strewn on her path. The altar in the temple of Venus was frequently deserted because men were so devoted to this young virgin. - Extract from the Legend of Psyche and Cupid.

SUMMARY.

The Greek legend of Psyche and Cupid is reported using a written record of the legend from the 2nd century AD. From this and other sources we add the pictorial exhibits of the legend by the great Renaissance painter Raphael. A critical moment in Psyche’s Soul Journey is captured, inspirationally, by a current painter David Parle. Painted from his imagination is as perfect as Psyche is. You can say that this beautiful Psyche is the female part of our soul we all have in common.

Psyche’s soul journey is discussed in detail and we explore the nature of several other characters, including Greek Archetypes like Zeus, Venus and Pan. We find the soul journeys can be reflected as in the asymmetric wings of a butterfly! The ancient Greek philosophers were right about that. Psyche means Soul and the symbol is a butterfly. This provides the basic structure of Psyche as the term is used today in Psychology.

Mythology and religion can sometimes inform us in a reliable way, it can also be very confused and confusing. In contrast to Psyche where we only have one legend, in the case of Pan there are many legends, myths and interpretations including Psyche’s vital meeting with Pan. You will see astounding confusion but the same principles used to understand Psyche, apply to our understanding of Pan. However, later when we are discussing the Wisdom Paths we will visit some new vital information that confirms most of the myths about Pan are phoney.

Some of the Gooey Stuff [eg., phoney myths] is cleared away when we begin to explore the ancient Chaldean and Hebrew system of the Wisdom Paths. The Wisdom Paths are used as an analogy for the process of human self-actualization and enlightenment in life. And some issues are explored about their view that there are transitions of life after life and before it. Transitions on Earth are generally in six developmental periods of life.

The rules and tools needed to make optimum use of the Wisdom Paths are provided for personal appraisal and reflection.

In finding that Psyche has a twin or Isometric nature, several Organic Chemistry principles are explored in finding a new approach to the psychology of body, mind and soul. We explore the Isometric nature of the Nucleus of Psyche being like the butterfly, +ID Dextro and –ID Laevo. We also find our bodies are a total chiral environment and what is happening in Psyche has definitive effects in many areas such as Health. We further explore a model of the orbitals that contribute to the Nucleus and we explore some AIDS and HIV research of relevance to Psyche.

Finally, some personal exercises in personal transformation and transcendence are offered as a way of exploring the outer boundaries of Psyche. These are only given as examples of what you could consider doing.

DEDICATION:

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To my eternal son Nicholas who gave me this wonderful and centrally important example of the Chaldean Tree of Thirteen Fruits. It has thirteen branches with seven fruit on each branch. He knew why this was important to me and somehow he found it. He knew that 13x7 = 91 and by the ancient Chaldean system that meant Love and Light.

My only wish is that he would have found his Love and Light in this life but he was on the Road of Strife and after service in the Australian Army he took his own life.

So I also dedicate this book to everyone who wants to find a better way forward than they thought.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

All thanks to the Love and Light in Linda Goodman’s massive contribution to unlocking the secrets of the code that underlies the Chaldean-Kabala alphabet and corresponding images, and thanks are due to her for having made this information publicly available. By any measure, this work is an extension of what she did and I am sure she would have been pleased to know that at least a part of her wish is being met and a net + added to theosophical – psychological debate.

Particular thanks are also due to David Hulse for his extra-ordinary work on the Hebrew Keys to the Tree of Life.

AND to Ana Marie Valka who helped me tirelessly with uncovering the underlying patterns and codes of the great mathematician and storyteller Lewis Carol. She was also invaluable in the assistance she gave in researching the foundations of the Wisdom Paths.

AND to my wife Ashlyn; her loving heart and mind has helped me through many hours of difficulty, darkness and pain to reach this point where I must show you the Light I have been gifted to see. Ashlyn gave me a book about Raphael’s life and work and so inspired this exploration of Psyche. She has been a vital, loving and perceptive part of our explorations at Villa Farnesina and in supporting me in this work over many years.

AND to Raphael whose wonderful paintings, research and understanding of Greek mythology enabled a whole new vista to open up after we saw his extraordinary work at Villa Farnesina in Rome.

AND to David Parle for his inspirational painting of Psyche’s moment of realization of her woman’s sense.

AND finally, to Archetypes; because there would have been no development without them. They have guided us to see the twin nature of Psyche and their efforts have enabled us to see them all in a new and much more wholesome light. They have given us some wonderful insights into their processes and our relationships with them.

I think that together we have brought Love and Light to our knowledge of ourselves and of each other.

Thank you all.

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Chris Phillips Jan 2017.

1. Ancient Greek Legend - Psyche and Cupid.

Like many ancient Greek legends, the story of Psyche and Cupid is variously told. The ancient Greek word for Soul was Psyche and it also meant butterfly. In some stories Cupid is called Eros, so yes this is about sex.

What I have written of the legend draws upon three major sources. Initially the writings of Thomas Bullfinch provided an outline or framework for the legend. As luck would have it, the writings of the Greek scholar Apuleius in 200AD were available and I have preserved the expressions he used as far as possible. Some of his word images are wonderfully rich. A further rich storehouse of information came from the pictorial narratives of the Renaissance painter Raphael and his workshop assistants at Villa Farnesina in Rome, which we visited and photographed.

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The later works were partly inspired by Niccolo da Correggio’s Psiche published in 1491. Raphael’s work was carefully set out in the Loggia di Psiche at Villa Farnesina – then a private banker’s palace in Rome. Most of the pictorial exhibits that follow are from Raphael’s work at the Villa.

These paintings are unlike any of his religious work except for his exceptional attention to detail and magnificent skill as an artist. The difference can be seen in his naked and voluptuous subjects that he found suited the mistress of the private banker. Apparently Raphael also had access to the story by Apuleius but he evidently had other sources for the legend as he relates it with differences.

The Legend.

Psyche is given as the youngest and by far the most beautiful of three human daughters of a certain king and queen. In her time, even sculptors, painters and poets had great difficulty in defining her beauty. Her beauty was so widely known and so great that wherever she went crowds gathered and flowers were strewn on her path. The altar in the temple of Venus was frequently deserted because men were so devoted to this young virgin. Venus became extremely jealous of Psyche’s beauty and the homage paid to her. She was greatly offended that a mortal should be paid so much attention whilst she was increasingly ignored.

As Venus shakes her ambrosial locks with indignation she exclaims, Am I to be eclipsed in my honours by this mortal girl? But she will not so quietly usurp my honours. I will give her cause to repent so unlawful a beauty.

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Venus called her winged son Cupid who is mischievous enough in his own nature but is roused and provoked by her complaints. She points out Psyche to him and says, My dear son, punish that ….beauty; give thy mother a revenge as sweet as her injuries are great; infuse into the bosom of that haughty girl a passion for some low, mean, unworthy being, so that she may reap a mortification as great as her present exaltation and triumph.

Cupid prepares to obey his mother and goes to the fountains in his mother’s garden. In one fountain, the water is bitter and in the other it is sweet. He fills two amber vases, one from each fountain and flies to Psyche’s chamber where she is sleeping.

The sight of the beautiful Psyche almost moved Cupid to pity but as instructed he carefully pours two drops from the bitter waters onto Psyche’s lips and then touches her side with his arrow. She wakes so suddenly and looks straight at the invisible Cupid that he is startled and accidentally wounds himself with his own arrow. Heedless of his own wound and now wanting to repair the mischief he has done, he pours the sweet waters of joy all over her silken ringlets. But the damage is done.

Although there are still as many admirers as there ever were, there are no suitors and Psyche grows increasingly lonely in her chamber and begins to curse her beauty that somehow fails to awaken love. Even her two elder sisters, who were much less well charmed than Psyche, had been married to two royal princes for many years. She deplored her solitude and her parents grew increasingly worried that the deity had been inadvertently offended.

Psyche’s parents decided that they needed to consult the oracle of Apollo and so they went to his temple where they were told terrible news: The virgin is destined as the bride to no mortal lover. Her future husband awaits her at the top of the mountain. He is a monster that neither deity nor men can resist. Her parents and all the people are dismayed and stricken with grief.

Psyche says, Why my dear parents do you now lament? You should rather have grieved when the people showered me with flattery and called me a Venus. I know now that I am a victim to that name. I submit, so lead me to that rock on the mountain where my unhappy fate awaits me.

When all the preparations had been made the procession to the mountain was led by Psyche’s parents. But this was amidst so much lamentation it was more like a funeral. At the rock on top of the mountain Psyche was left alone panting with fear, trembling in every limb and with eyes full of tears as the people with heavy hearts returned home.

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However, as Psyche stood on the rock, a gentle Zephyr lifted her up and carried her to a valley full of lovely flowers of countless different shapes and hues. There she gradually began to compose herself and she lay down and fell asleep. When she awoke she was much refreshed and began to look around and saw three girls playing beside a pleasant, stately, stand of tall trees that they beckoned her to enter.

It was Cupid that had pointed out Psyche to the Three Graces – Faith, Hope and Charity – and he sent these girls to help Psyche recover.

The three girls led Psyche to a beautiful fountain with delightfully fresh water and then she noticed a magnificent palace nearby.

It was clear to Psyche that this was not the work of mortal hands but the palace of a deity. Everything she saw caused her pleasure – the columns of gold, the vaulted roof and ceilings, carved walls, paintings of rural scenes and every object she encountered was there to give pleasure to her senses. She was drawn on through the palace in increasing awe and wonder at the beauty in the place.

Suddenly Psyche heard a voice and yet when she looked around she could not see who was addressing her.

Sovereign lady, all you see is yours. These voices that you hear are your servants and we will obey all your commands with our utmost care. Retire therefore to your bed of down. When you are rested you will find your bath waiting for you in the alcove. Supper awaits you in the adjoining alcove when it suits you to present yourself there.

Psyche heeded her vocal attendants but after repose she was still timid, even to fear so she called the three girls to amuse and chaperone her during her refreshment in the white marble bath. They were attentive to their charming mistress and playfully laughing for their own pleasure at the details of her toilette.

Later, she took her seat in the adjoining alcove.

To her surprise a table appeared covered in many delicacies and delicious wine. But the table was not brought by any waiters or servants that she could see; it appeared as if by itself; and her ears too where feasted by wonderful musical harmony but she could not see who was playing or singing. It seemed to Psyche that as she was enjoying her repast someone who was invisible was at her side, murmuring sweet words and ensuring that she should be in want of nothing.

When the evening finally ended and she was reposing in her soft down bed, she recalled that she had not seen her destined husband and she recalled the terrible oracle of him being a monster. For a long time she scarcely dared to breathe as she listened for him to come and interview her.

Tired of listening and waiting she finally succumbed to sleep as if she was a girl – profoundly - with one arm under her head and the other hanging down beside the bed.

Although she had no recollection of her husband coming to her during the night, he had passed over her.

When Psyche rose in the morning she instinctively began covering herself with the bed sheet. Her woman’s sense told her; He was over you last night.

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She turned and looked back at the bed and was blushing and slightly smiling as she realized that her virgin sense had gone

Although her intended husband only came at night he was always careful to have taken his leave before dawn. When he spoke to her he inspired a like passion in her but when she entreated him to allow her to see him he always refused. He wanted to be loved irrespective of his appearance. For some time Psyche was content with Cupid’s explanation. But as she became increasingly lonely, she also began to feel that she was a prisoner, albeit in a beautiful prison.

As Venus watched these developments she finally became placated that Psyche’s fate was sealed and so she mounted her chariot, drawn by four white doves and continued about her heavenly duties as the deity for Love.

Psyche worried that her parents had no news of her and so she disclosed to her intended husband that she wanted her sisters to visit her. Although he was much against this plan he finally agreed and Zephyr was sent to bring them to the palace. They were greatly impressed by Psyche’s riches that were so much greater than their own and they became increasingly jealous of her. They plied her with endless questions about her husband to which she initially replied that he was a handsome young man. Eventually she admitted to never having seen him.

As the elder sisters’ visit was coming to an end they confided in Psyche that she should obtain a very sharp knife and a lantern and keep these concealed from her husband. Whilst he was asleep she should creep forward and find him. If he was a monster, as the oracle foretold, she should not hesitate to cut off his head for otherwise he was sure to destroy her. Initially Psyche rejected the temptation to do as the sisters had proposed but her doubts grew and eventually she was inclined to obtain and conceal the knife and lamp as planned.

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She tied her hair high on her head so that it should not rustle and wearing no cloth to disclose her movements, she stole forward with trembling limbs to find the place where her husband slept. She carried both the knife and lamp in her hands. When she found him, she was astounded to find not a monster but the wonderfully formed son of Venus, Cupid with his bow and arrows lying on the flagstones. Her heart leapt in delight at this sight – he was so beautifully formed - but as she leant forward to see him more clearly she spilt a drop of hot oil from her lamp and he was instantly awakened when it struck his shoulder.

Despite Psyche’s remonstration but true as ever to his promise to Venus, Cupid immediately took wing and flew rapidly out of the palace saying, Love cannot dwell with suspicions.

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Psyche was distraught and tried to follow him.

As she followed, the unfortunate Psyche became increasingly distraught at Cupid’s flight and lamenting her own folly, threw herself headlong into the river to make an end to her distress. But the River deity caused the tide to recede and so saved her young life.

There beside the river was the goat-footed deity Pan but without his seven reed pipe or his flocks. Pan helped Psyche out of the river and invited her to sit with him. In his calming presence, Psyche slowly composed herself.

When she was at last somewhat peaceful, Pan explained the instructions Venus had given to Cupid. In this way Psyche learnt of the manner and extent of Cupid’s transgressions against his mother’s wishes. [The photo of Pan was taken in Napoleon’s apartment at Versailles, France.]¹

More enamoured toward Cupid and feeling ever grateful, her hope revived and she set out to try and find Cupid. Travelling day and night until she came upon a rock that was much like that on which she had first been left on the mountain-top. There she saw a city below her and immediately set forth.

In the city she was standing near a building that was not yet finished when Psyche chanced to meet her sisters who failed to recognize her and she had to go to considerable efforts to prove who she was. After their respective greetings Psyche explained what had happened to Cupid. They were dismayed that the oracle had been so wrong in saying her husband was a monster. As she related her adventure her sisters began an endless series of complaints for they had been slighted, their fears unjustified and their counsel plainly deceitful. But they also deceived themselves and wondered if Cupid who had once been smitten with the charms of a mortal might not now choose one of them.

So in the evening they separately climbed to the rock were Psyche had first seen the city below and believing that a puff of wind was indeed Zephyr come to carry them to his master they surrendered to the deceitful wind and fell to their deaths. Thus Psyche was revenged.

On poor Cupid’s return to his mother’s palace, he was confined to his bed and subjected to the strongest admonitions from his irate mother. Her complaints about his disobedience were endless. Then came his role in Psyche’s pregnancy and his mother’s role as the deity for Love becoming a grandmother! These were constant assaults on his troubled and unhappy ears.

During Cupid’s confinement, Venus was visited by Ceres [deity for agriculture] and Juno [Queen of Olympus on the far right in the illustration]. Throughout their visit they insisted on learning all the details of what had happened to Cupid and Psyche. No detail was too small and the story had to be told and retold many times with many interjections.

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As Ceres and Juno were finally leaving, Venus said to them alone that she must have the insolent Psyche dead or alive.

As Psyche was passing through a field she saw a temple at the top of a hill and hoping to find Cupid there she climbed the hill and collected some wild flowers along the way. When she entered the temple she observed a pile of sheaths of wheat and barley, corn and other grains and various agricultural implements left by the husbandmen at Ceres temple. Psyche’s supplicant flowers refreshed the temple vases and yet when she spoke to Ceres and asked her to permit her to shelter for two days, Ceres refused. Her advice was that Psyche surrender herself to Venus. Only Venus could restore her to her husband. Psyche was deeply troubled by what she now needed to say to Venus to placate her for she knew that her meeting with Venus could be fatal.

Venus met Psyche with a very angry countenance and paying no heed to her pregnancy commanded that Psyche be scourged with rods. Cupid was deeply troubled by Psyche’s cries as he was only separated from her by thin drapery. Had it not been for the hope of seeing Cupid again, Psyche would have preferred death. But Venus, although cruel to excess, did not wish Psyche dead for she had a plan to test and ensnare Psyche as her slave and involve her in a number of dangerous enterprises from which she was unlikely to return. What pretences for new persecutions!

Venus called for wheat, barley, corn, lentils, poppy seeds and a host of other grains to be brought and all mixed together in a huge pile on the floor. Then she called Psyche and commanded her to separate each type into separate piles. Cruelly she said that only a little patience would be needed to have the task accomplished before nightfall. Then Venus went away to a wedding feast and left a very dejected Psyche sitting on the floor. Fortunately for Psyche, Cupid spoke to the leader of the ants and within moments there were thousands of them collecting the grains and putting them into their separate piles. When the task was complete, all the ants disappeared as quickly as they had come.

When Venus returned she entered with an insulting gesture, irony on her tongue and when she saw that the impossible task had been achieved she accused Psyche of having obtained aid. Then she threw a small piece of black bread to Psyche for her supper and departed.

Next morning Venus took Psyche to a wild place. In this place there were large sheep with razor sharp horns but they had fleeces that were as golden threads. These are the Sheep of the Sun and they wander at liberty about their island and have no need of a shepherd for they can inflict mortal wounds. Venus did not warn Psyche of the dangers but said she wanted Psyche to collect a little wool from each of them. So saying Venus departed.

Even as Psyche determined to succeed in this enterprise, the River deity parted the waters of the torrent that separated her from the sheep. Great stones laid bare by the parted waters enabled her to cross the water in safety. Then as she was entering the reeds on the other side, Zephyr spoke to her and warned her of the dangers ahead and described the manner by which to complete her task.

After the noontide sun had driven the sheep into little groups in the shade of the trees, Psyche set forth to the land which the sheep had departed and collected the golden threads they had left on brambles, bushes and the trunks of trees in their passage. Thus Psyche safely returned to Venus with her arms full of the golden bounty.

Her implacatable mistress was scathing in her criticism saying, None of this can be your work. I doubt if you have any capacity to be useful. But I have another task for you. Take this box and go your way to the infernal shades. Give the box to Proserpine and say, ‘your mistress Venus has need of a little of your beauty, for in tending her sick son she has lost some of her own’. Be not too long for I have need of it this evening when I must appear before the Assembly on Olympus.

Psyche was now certain that her destruction was at hand being required to go directly by her own feet down to Erebus in the underworld. Knowing that she could not delay what was inevitable, she climbed to the highest point in a tower and prepared to precipitate headlong to her death.

Just before she launched herself a voice said to her, Why doest thou, unlucky girl, design to put an end to your life in this most unfortunate manner? And what cowardice makes thee sink under this last danger when thou hast been so miraculously supported in all thy former?

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Then the voice told her how to enter the infernal shades by a certain cave; how to avoid the teeth of Cerberus, the three headed dog; and prevail on Charon the ferryman, to take her across the black river and then bring her back again. But the voice added, Once Proserpine has given the box filled with her beauty back to you, of all things this is chiefly to be observed by you, that you are never once to open or look into the box, nor to allow your curiosity to pry into the borrowed treasures of the beauty of the female deity.

Encouraged by this advice, Psyche travelled safely into the kingdom of Pluto and was admitted to the palace of Proserpine where she did not accept the delicious banquet offered but chose course bread and then prostrating herself, she diligently delivered her message from Venus. It was not long before the box was returned to her, shut and filled with the precious commodity. The messenger was dismissed and immediately returned to the light of day.

Having gone so far on her dangerous mission Psyche was seized by a desire to examine the contents of the box. Just the smallest amount of its contents could help her with her husband and Venus was not likely to notice the smallest bit missing. As no one appeared to be watching she opened the box. The intoxicating vapours escaped and she fell to the ground as if she were dead.

Most fortunately for Psyche, Cupid had escaped from Venus’ guards and flown straight to where Psyche lay. With great care he collected the intoxicating vapours and put them back into the box. With a light touch of his arrow he woke the beautiful Psyche.

Oh! What a reunion; during which Cupid gently admonished Psyche for her curiosity and told her that she was to go straight to his mother and give her the box. Meanwhile he has much else to do.

Cupid rapidly flew through the heavens and presented himself to Jupiter [King of Olympus]. He earnestly pleaded his case to marry Psyche and have her granted immortality.

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Long used to Cupid’s mischievous ways, Jupiter searched Cupid’s heart and mind and eventually found him to be pure in his intensions. In this way Jupiter was favourably moved and agreed to Cupid’s plan. But with one proviso - that Venus likewise give her consent to the marriage of Cupid and Psyche.

After Venus’ stout resistance and outright animosity towards the pregnant Psyche, her consent was not likely to be easily obtained. Cupid became increasingly anxious at the prospect of being able to gain her consent. But in order to aid Cupid and Psyche, Jupiter undertook upon himself to intercede and argue their case with Venus.

Through his earnestness she was finally moved to give her consent to the marriage. What remained to be accomplished was the matter of Psyche’s immortality.

For Psyche to be granted immortality and married to Cupid, the matter had to be brought before the whole Assembly on Olympus. No human had been granted immortality before. This was both a rare and very important decision.

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With the full support of Jupiter; and with Juno and Ceres knowing every detail, Venus spoke openly about her discussion with Jupiter and her agreement to the marriage of her son. After further discussion The Assembly soon decided that Cupid and Psyche should marry and that Psyche should be granted immortality.

To convey this happy news, Mercury put on his winged headdress, sandals and staff and swiftly went to Earth where he gathered the delighted Psyche and carried her up to Olympus.

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To the delight of the gathering at the Assembly on Olympus, Mercury offered Psyche a cup of Ambrosia. He explained that the Assembly had granted her the right to obtain immortality and he invited her to drink from the cup. With Cupid’s enthusiastic pleading she readily agreed to drink the Ambrosia and thus she became immortal and at one with the deity on Olympus.

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During the wedding between the two lovers, the nuptials were made perpetual and Psyche was given the Vase of Eternal Life / Ambrosia. The whole Assembly then retired for the wedding feast and this was presided