The elevation Hillman describes here is real — and it is also where the trap is set. When the soul shifts from temptress to psychopomp, something genuinely changes: the anima stops being what you want and starts being what leads. That is not nothing. But notice what the passage requires: a "conscious attitude" that renounces ego-bound intentions and submits to fate's decrees. Notice how clean that sounds. Notice how much it resembles the pneumatic move — the turn away from the mess of wanting, toward something higher, more exalted, suprapersonal. The anima as psychopomp is still a figure of ascent. She leads somewhere. She raises status. The language of kingship is not incidental.

What the passage does not say, and what the anima as temptress knows, is that the desire pulling the ego sideways may not be a problem to be transcended. The soul that is drawn, distracted, seduced — that soul is in contact with something. The temptress is not a lower form of the psychopomp; she may be the psychopomp in the register that actually costs something. Submission to fate is available as spiritual poise. The anima as pull, as ache, as the thing you cannot stop wanting — that is the form that does not let you stay exalted.