Ferdinand is being tested by Prospero after his other tests (loss of father and others in shipwreck; weakness). "My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My father's loss, the weakness...,the wrack of all my friends...this man's threats to whom I am subdued [all] are light to me, might I but through my prison once a day behold this maid". Prospero(in this scene)could represent both the outward ruler (queen) and the inward ruler (his Fa/Mo God). BOTH REQUIRE THE SAME DEDICATION/LOVE AND BOTH OFFER SITUATIONS THAT TEST OUR ADEPTSHIP. WHEN WE ARE VICTORIOUS IN THIS ALL ENCOMPASSING LOVE, OUR TESTS ARE "LIGHT" (as in Ferdinand's case and love for Miranda). His lesser "spirits...are...bound" and THE TESTS "ARE LIGHT TO ME". To be so smitten, so joyous, so IN LOVE WITH OUR FATHER/MOTHER GOD THAT ALL OUR TESTS ARE "LIGHT TO ME" (weigh very little), this is MY GOAL IN LIFE; THEN ALL ELSE FALLS INTO PLACE!! Tag: True Adeptship
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