Campbell's formulation is elegant, and that elegance should give you pause. The hero and his god collapsing into a single mirrored mystery — the seeker and the found identical — is a pneumatic resolution, and pneumatic resolutions feel true precisely because they dissolve the tension that was making you suffer. The multiplicity that aches, the feeling that you are split between what you are and what you are looking for, gets answered by a vision of unity. The quest ends in a recognition scene. The ache retroactively becomes the path.

Hillman spent much of his career refusing this move. Not because unity is false, but because the mirror structure requires you to leave something behind — the irreducibly plural, the image that will not resolve into symbol, the wound that does not want to mean. The "great deed" Campbell describes is a deed of the spirit, not of the soul. Spirit ascends toward unity; soul moves laterally among images, finding not synthesis but company.

The question the passage quietly suppresses is what happens to multiplicity after the hero makes his knowledge known. Campbell assumes it waits to be unified. That assumption is worth sitting with before you decide whether the seeker and the found are really the same face.