David Thornton - Pysche's Beauty

In the original myth of Cupid and Pysche, it was interesting to see how men would revere Pysche’s beauty, but would not pursue it. I think this is an interesting perspective to have on beauty, because when it is so apparent it is something can separate people from each other. Those men focuses too much on her physical beauty, but none seemed to have any idea of her inconsolable longing that pervaded her entire life. I think It comes back to what Lewis discusses in The Weight of Glory, where he talks about how people tend to worship the things that truth comes through. Instead of appreciating the beauty of Pysche in the context of her eventual wedding to a God, they wouldn’t go near it because they thought it was too intensely beautiful. Pysche, as all good things, are so because what has created those things. If people replace actual beauty with that which beauty comes through, then they will fail to recognize the humility necessary in having faith in something that is outside of what they see and know in themselves.