The Masks of God™ Vol 4: Creative Mythology eBook

In this fourth and final volume of The Masks of God™ — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — Campbell looks at the Western emphasis on the individual as it developed across Europe during the late Middle Ages, particularly in the tales of King Arthur’s court.

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"All the gods are within you, within the world."

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"Amor is neither of the right-hand path (the sublimating spirit, the mind and community of man), nor of the indiscriminate left (the spontaneity of nature, the mutual incitement of the phallus and the womb), but is the path directly before one, of the eyes, and their message to the heart."

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"And just as in the past each civilization was the vehicle of its own mythology, developing in character as its myth became progressively interpreted, analyzed, and elucidated by its leading minds, so in this modern world — where the application of science to the fields of practical life has now dissolved all cultural horizons, so that no separate civilization can ever develop again — each individual is the center of a mythology of his own, of which his own intelligible character is the Incarnate God, so to say, whom his empirically questing consciousness is to find. The aphorism of Delphi, ‘Know thyself,’ is the motto."