through its appeal to appetite and passion alone.
But the second Circe is transfigured, her service is of the spirit, she
releases from the bondage of indulgence, she aids the ethical Return to
Family and State. It is true that she never becomes a saint or a nun,
she would not be Greek if she did; moreover, according to the Greek
view, she must be transcended by the typical man, who is to rise into
an institutional life, which is hardly Circe's. Still the primal moral
subjection is shown in her career.

The domain of morals reveals the spiritual in action, the domain of
true art reveals the spiritual in representation. What shall I do with
this world of the senses? was a great question to the Greek, and still
is to us. In conduct subordinate it; in nature transform it into an
image of the higher. The work of art is a divine flash from above into
a sensuous form; this flash we separate from its material, and pass
into pure spirit; then we reach Tiresias, the mind embodied, not
limited in Space and Time.

Circe thus indicates her own limitation, which belongs to morals and
art. She is not the Infinite, but can point to it; she hints the rise
from art to philosophy. Backwards and forwards runs the suggestion in
her career; the Greek can lapse to the first Circe and die in a debauch
of the senses, or he can rise to the prophetic Circe, and lay the deep
foundation of all future thought. The Greek world, in fact, had just
this double outcome.

Ulysses, then, has to go to Hades, the supersensible realm; his heart
was wrung, "I wept sitting upon the couch, I wished no longer to live
nor to see the light of the sun." But after such a fit, he is ready for
action: "when I had enough of weeping and rolling about, I asked Circe:
Who will guide me?" Then he receives his instructions, which have
somewhat of the character of a mystic ritual, with offerings to the
dead, who will come and speak. Messages from the spirit world he will
get, but he must pass through the Ocean stream, to the groves of
Proserpine. From that point, after mooring his ship, he is to go to the
houses of Hades, where is a rock at the meeting of two loud-roaring
rivers; "pour there a libation to the dead" with due ceremony. In all
of which is the method of the later necromancy, or consultation of the
departed for prophetic purposes. Very old is the faith that the souls
of deceased persons can be made to appear and to foretell the future,
after a proper rite and