The Lost Prince
The wandering soul who sets forth on a long journey, having lost and forgotten his inheritance.
He forgets his Home, and forgot that he forgot….
The central protagonist of the mythic story and fable. He is the soul of man, he is me and he is you, the reader. He is the King who drank the potion of forgetfulness. He is the crowned one who fell all the way from Kether down to Malkuth.… He wanders as a homeless beggar, yet does not realize he sits upon an infinite mountain of gold.
He is Adam exiled form the Garden. Lucifer cast out of heaven. He is Christ born into the world of darkness, illusion, forgetfulness, sin, limitation, …. Born as a human being who takes on the beliefs and perceptions of this world….
He must undertake a long journey, through many lives, many roles, many characters, many places, many experiences, many trials…. all to finally at the end of his wanderings realize the Truth and return back home….
He lives as a penniless beggar, yet he is the inheritor of a royal lineage….
He must pass through all stages on his way back to coronation and enthronement - pauper, page, knight, prince, princess, queen, king……
He will lose everything, even those meager possessions he thought he could cling to. He will lose even his mind and his sense of self….
He will go into the deepest darkness, witness the depths of evil, become the worst of sinners - in his long journey Home….
He will gain companions and lose them, gain fortunes and squander them in turn…
He will gradually gain knowledge, wisdom, skills, understanding… He will find guides, teachers, north stars to align his ship to…..
He will love and betray, and be betrayed in turn….
He will despair and he will believe he has conquered
He will be mother and father, son and daughter, grandmother and grandfather - he will be born rich and born poor. He will be villain and he will be hero….
Wandering lost through an insane world, he will stumble towards the light. “There is a crack in everything, that’s where the light gets in”. And he will tend towards the light, until the light itself becomes his beacon Home.
Eventually through the long shaping and grating of experience he will learn to discern the voice of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. He will learn to listen, to hear, to be guided, to become emptied so he can be directed….
His very egoic self-centered activity will wear itself out and he will give up and surrender and be willing to listen to another voice, a voice that is not of this world….
Then the path and the journey truly begins for he will have undergone Initiation… He will no longer be wandering lost, but he will have found the entrance to the sacred mountain, the red thread of ariadne which inevitably leads past the shadow monsters and to the heart of the labyrinth….
And after a long and winding journey, he will undergo the mysteries of the passion, the crucifixion, the resurrection….
And he will awaken from the dream of this world, the illusion of death, …..
The long lost exiled Prince finally returns to The Kingdom to the loving embrace of The Father. He ascends the steps and takes his birthright on the throne seated at the right hand of The Creator
And a totally new journey and adventure will begin….
Heaven - Earth
Spirit - Matter
Meaning - Form
Author - Character
In exile: The axis collapses into horizontality.
Life becomes: events → reactions → desires → fears → survival
The Prince lives inside the story instead of authoring it.
The Prince does not know his true name. He has vague feelings that he is more than he seems, more than an orphaned peasant…. yet he does not know who he is or what his nature is or what his inheritance is or who his Father is….
ordinary life is the sacred story,
the human soul is a sovereign creative intelligence that has forgotten its authorship and is relearning it through time
The Royal Art is therefore not one more spiritual path among many. It is a meta-path: a way of recognizing that all genuine paths were always pointing here.
Heir to a Broken Kingdom
The Prince does not return to a pristine, untouched Kingdom. He returns to a realm that has suffered in his absence.
- The Kingdom has fallen into disorder, tyranny, sterility, or false rule
- Usurpers reign in his name
- The land itself is wounded (Waste Land motif)
- The Prince’s exile is not only his loss, but the world’s loss
The Prince as Bearer of the Name
In ancient traditions, the name is not a label. It is function, authority, vibration, and alignment.
New dimensions:
- The Prince once bore the Name of the Father
- The Name was lost, fragmented, or sealed
- The quest is not “self-discovery” but name-recovery
- The Name cannot be spoken prematurely
- The Name is recovered through deeds, trials, and purification
The Prince as Unwilling Participant
The Prince often does not want the throne.
- He resists the call
- He prefers obscurity or comfort
- He fears responsibility more than suffering
- He doubts his worthiness
- He would rather be forgiven than crowned
- avoidance
- procrastination
- self-sabotage
Bearer of Guilt Without Crime
You describe suffering and sin, but there is a subtle missing dimension: existential guilt.
The Prince feels guilty even when he cannot name a crime.
This is not moral guilt. It is ontological dissonance.
- He feels he has betrayed something sacred
- He senses a debt he cannot repay
- He carries shame without memory of cause
- He feels unworthy of joy
Bridge Between Worlds
- Too luminous for the world, too embodied for Heaven
- Seen as strange, mad, or dangerous
- Misunderstood by both rulers and rebels
- Often mistaken for a threat
- Often betrayed by institutions
- prophetic tension
- persecution
- exile-within-exile
Author Trapped Inside His Own Story
The Prince once authored reality.
Now he is subject to narrative momentum.
New narrative mechanics:
- Life happens to him
- He reacts instead of creates
- Time feels like a prison
- Fate appears external
- He mistakes conditioning for destiny
Initiation is the gradual recovery of narrative authorship.
One Who Must Choose to Return
The Prince can remain lost forever.
This adds genuine stakes.
- The Kingdom does not force him
- Grace invites, but does not compel
- He can refuse the crown
- He can dissolve into the world
- Many Princes do
This makes the story tragic, not guaranteed.
Seed, Not Conclusion
You end with enthronement. A further dimension is that the Prince is also a beginning.
- His coronation seeds future worlds
- His consciousness propagates through others
- He awakens Princes in exile around him
- The Kingdom multiplies, not centralizes
The Prince does not rule subjects. He awakens equals.
Myth That Knows It Is a Myth
The Prince is aware, at the highest level, that this is a story that teaches recognition.
The myth is not literal history.
It is a living lens.
- You are not asked to believe this story
- You are asked to recognize yourself within it
- The story activates perception
- The myth works even if doubted