Cupid in Disguise

Cupid in disguise is the Boy-God Eros without his wings. That is, he has lost his freedom and the capacity to ascend. He is now only a boy, a prisoner of the materialistic world. No longer worshipped, his image has been reduced to the mundane.

James Edward Freeman, Cupid Disguised as a Roman Shepherd Boy, 1842

However, Cupid has not lost all his powers, even in exile. He still has an arrow or two, the emblem of his ability to touch the human soul. He is the divine spark of desire in all of us, waiting to be awakened and nurtured so that he may recover his original numinosity and become, at last, the liberator of our soul.

The Boy with the Arrow by Douglas Volk, 1903
Henry Scott Tuke, Cupid and Sea Nymphs, 1899

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