Sometimes the woman
makes a man feel more in touch with his feminine side. Then the phenomenon has
little to do with the woman herself, and it would have more to do with the man’s
Anima: the internal female counterpart to his personality.
At other times the
opposite thing happens. The woman receives so fully and completely the
projection by the man that he loses all the dignity of the Anima and becomes
boorish and insensitive. This is Projection Gone Wrong, and it often ends
poorly for all involved.
Yet from time to time
a Genuine Masculinity is awoken within the Man, and this is because the Woman
is not simply a mirror for his Anima but rather she is loved for her intrinsic
Power. At that moment, the Man has encountered the Goddess Archetype. Women
pretend that they do not want to be seen as Goddesses, but in fact they crave
identification with some form of External Power that is Uniquely Female. This
cannot be emulated effectively by Men, so it inspires another tendency within
the Hearts of Men: that of the Hero. At this point all boyish tendencies,
including those attractive to young girls, are deconstructed, and only the
refined Gentleman, vulnerable but courageous, remains. Young women do not know
how to handle this sort of Man, because most of them cannot admit to themselves
their own capacity to be the Goddess. So they tend instead to covet the
uninitiated boy who still toys with his Anima, adorning his girlfriends with it,
at times sweet and submissive, at other times harsh and aggressive, but seldom
settled in a state of placid equanimity that characterizes the Actualized Male.
With Maturity, all
Gentlemen eventually make Peace with the Goddess. Yet it will only happen when
she is ready to stop hiding what She Is, and so long as he is willing to
continue to venerate it.
Dm.A.A.
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