Cosmic Consciousness

Earlier today I handed in my mini-paper (confined to 2-3 pages) on Northrop Frye's The Great Code--the topic based on a simple, yet elusive question: What is the Great Code?

My response is: here.

I took the odd, perhaps even antiquated approach in contrast to more modern slants--viewing Frye's title 'Great Code', taken from Blake, as a 'cosmic', 'existential' or 'moral' 'code' that is manifested in myths and metaphors, which communicates with and/or guides our Imagination (as well as our general cosmic existence) towards something we might call the good life, that is, moral (or perhaps the word 'ethical' is better) or enlightened being, or better put, a cosmic understanding. The best example of what I mean:

Just as Christ retorted to Satan in the wilderness, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt 4:4), Frye states in his introduction:

Man lives, not directly or nakedly like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from existential concerns. Most of this is held unconsciously, which means that our imaginations many recognize elements of it, when presented in art or literature, without consciously understanding what it is that we recognize. (Frye xviii)