Apollo embodies the balance and harmony of the passions, achieved not by suppressing instinctive impulses, but by directing them through the devel- opment of awareness towards an ever- increasing spiritualization. [...]
On the contrary, Apollo symbolizes the defeat of violence, inspired self- control and the marriage of reason and intuition, being the son of a god, Zeus, and through his mother Leto the grandson of a Titan. His wisdom is acquired, not inherited. [...] He symbolizes the acme of spiritualization and is one of the noblest symbols of the ascent of man.