…The notion there again is of the illicit nature of love. It goes beyond the law and when one reads the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux in the twelfth century, celebrating the love of god, the love of the virgin for god and of god for the virgin, we…

…the altar should be is this crystalline bed of love. He actually uses the words of the mass and of the words of Bernard of Clairvaux, the great mystic celebrant of the love of the virgin, to deify his couple and to sanctify their love. The bed is the…

…the old testament song of songs, from the life of Christ and the teachings of the Ramakrishna to saint Paul and Bernard of Clairvaux, and William Blake, Thomas Mann and many others for whom love was the controlling principle of art. Campbell thought the…