“It is a timeless story.
’Now thou hast touched him’ is a very beautiful expression. When the god has touched a mortal, he has to
go a way he does not know. The immediacy
of being touched by fate, by destiny, is very impressive, showing the reality
of being caught by something inner and greater, which forms our life.”
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“So he has a restless heart, is
not someone who can sit still and be content with all that he has…for he has a
restless heart. ‘Thou hast touched him,’
and he must go on this far journey – to face a battle he does not know, to
travel a road he does not know – which is a classical expression for going the
inner way which one does not know. One
only knows one has to go it. The Chinese
word Tao means ‘the way’ as well as
‘meaning’ or ‘goal.’ It is an
equilibrium of the opposites. We do not
know the meaning except by going the way, step by step. We do not know the goal ahead. We only know we want to come closer to the
Self, to become more ourselves. But we
cannot know what it is unless we go every step, not knowing where it leads
us. Naturally, without that attitude,
which needs courage as well as humbleness one does not know.”
The archetypal significance of Gilgamesh
Rivkah Scharf Kluger
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