gods and looked at her husband. That earned her the punishment of being abandoned by Cupid, who sadly said goodbye saying: “Love can not live without trust.” Expelled from the castle, the repentant princess traveled the world in search of her beloved, overcoming a series of increasingly difficult and dangerous challenges imposed by Venus. As a last instruction, he gave her a small box telling her to take her to the underworld. I had to bring a little beauty to Proserpina Pluto’s wife. He was also warned that he should not open the box for any reason. Psyche enlisted for the trip and during it faced several dangers that were overcome thanks to the advice given, however the curiosity to open the box beat her so she did and immediately fell into a deep sleep that seemed like death. Cupid upon finding it, removed the mortal sleep from his body and put it back in the box. Finally he forgave her just like Venus. It was so much that she struggled that eventually the gods moved by Psyche’s love for Cupid, made her a goddess so that she could reunite with her beloved. Happy Cupid and Psyche: Love and Soul, united after hard trials. From this union was born a daughter named Voluptas whose name means “Pleasure”, from which words derive as voluptuousness. From the story of these two characters love has been symbolized by two hearts pierced by an arrow: the arrow of Cupid. In his letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul writes: “Because our struggle is not against enemies of flesh and blood, but against the Principalities and Powers, against the Sovereigns of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits that inhabit space ” (Ephesians 6,12)>