Organiz'd Innocence by Margaret Rudd E.;

Author:Margaret, Rudd E.; [Margaret, Rudd E.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138938137
Publisher: TaylorFrancis
Published: 1956-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

His pride is intellectual as hers is sexual. Any doubt concerning her sexual attractiveness, even when she is making herself thoroughly unattractive, prevents her from loving spiritually, and she is full of such doubts because she has not come to terms with her own femininity. Any hurt to his intellectual pride and suggestion that he cannot be a god in reason, comes out in physical impotence, and there are many such hurts for he has not yet learned the bounds to the ‘masculine’ intellect. Each gives full attention to proving him or herself unequalled in what should have only half energy and half interest. Consequently, the other side of human nature is neglected, and she is spiritually impotent, just as he is physically.

And all this is because neither has accepted the main fact of the human condition which is its essential duality in that no man can be all ‘masculine’ force and intellect, nor can any woman be pure earthy attraction without thereby destroying humanity. And this is for the simple reason that no man or woman is all male or female, just as no one is all spirit or all flesh or all mother or all father, but compounded of both in an infinitely delightful variation. Gods like Urizen are boring as are goddesses like Vala, but people are not. This is what Albion and Jerusalem do not realize when she puts all of her energies into being a rampaging earth-goddess as he puts all of his into serving Urizen. The irony of the situation is that she is not very attractive or feminine when she behaves like Vala, and he is certainly not masculine or brilliant as Orc. There is much waste.

But the divine voice speaking for a moment from within Orc tells Jerusalem in no uncertain terms that as Vala she is not lovable, and that he does not love her in this state although as Jerusalem he did love her. Painful as it is to be told this, just when she is rampaging because she feels unloved, this is exactly the jolt that Jerusalem needed. She listens this time. He tells her that she should have remained Jerusalem even when, due to illness, he could not be her lover. The temporary eclipse of passion has nothing to do with their basic love for each other and she should have known this instead of reacting in hurt pride and jealousy. By so acting she has made matters much worse than they would have been otherwise, whereas, had she remained herself she could have helped, seeing what was Albion’s illness and what was not. This would be to care and not to care at the same time which is the only true way of loving, and, although it seems to sacrifice something in being much less intense than Vala’s stormy love, it gains more than it loses in the diamond-like hardness that can endure, and the delicate sureness of response that can note the false notes both in herself and in Albion.

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