…that is to say most of us today in this labyrinth, without and within the heart. Alas, where is the guide, that fond virgin Ariadne, to supply the simple clue that will give us courage to Face the minotaur, and the means, then, to find our way to…

…courage to Face the minotaur, and the means, then, to find our way to freedom when the monster has been met and slain? Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with the handsome theseus the moment she saw him disembark from the boat that had…

…the labyrinth if he would promise to take her away from Crete with him and make her his wife. The pledge was given. Ariadne turned for help then to the crafty daedalus, by whose art the labyrinth had been constructed. Daedalus simply presented her with a…

…full of faith that the truth, as he finds it, shall make us free. And so now we may turn to him, as did Ariadne, the flax for the linen of his thread, he has gathered from the fields of the human imagination. Centuries of husbandry, decades of…

…movements of the sun. The hero who has come under the protection of the cosmic mother cannot be harmed. The thread of Ariadne brought theseus safely through the adventure of the labyrinth. This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in…