Many of us who take cosmic symbolism seriously, might argue that we can read something into this. Perhaps successful temptations require outstanding works of art or craft. You can confidently consider yourself to be cleverer than your own temptations!Aren't guilt and shame best thought of as utterly futile emotional states? What good do they do? They cannot, no matter how intently they are felt, help to turn back the clock. Surely they are just vessels that carry the pain of the past forward to the future. Of course they have purpose and relevance, if there is truly something to feel regretful and apologetic about. But what great crime have you committed? There is no secret so powerful that might ruin everything if it were ever to come to light? Allow things to happen!