Ancient World

New day – and finally sunny again!! ☀️☀️☀️

Today we’re aiming for a bit of Combray reading, and then one more Morning Show tomorrow, on a Friday! 😊

Have a great coffee, and morning!! 🤠

Goooood morning! 🌇😊

Starting early today – with lots of updates on the different projects! But first a great cup of coffee, and a little Morning Coffee podcast. Happy morning!

Happy Tuesday! 🍵😊

Hope you’re having a great afternoon – we’re enjoying a cup of tea here after finishing all the language episodes for March!

Now we’ll get back to the Ancient World, Dante’s Comedy, and the other studies. We’ve just sent off some emails – and getting back on track!

The book keeps getting better and better!

Several big important events between the Fall of the Western Empire by the Visigoth Alaric in 410AD and the explosion of the Renaissance in the 14 hundreds are starting to fall into place. After the increasingly “Greek” Eastern Empire, and the split that happened when Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish King Charlemagne Emperor in Rome in the year 800 AD, a new era in European History began!

Good morning! 🌇☕️☀️

Calm weekend now, still a bit rainy – and we have 80 pages left in the first volume of the history books! But first, more coffee…… 😊

It’s a great feeling to sometimes find back to the deeper experience of reading a good book, like we’re doing now with a four volume history work over the last 2,000 years. And we’re slowly discovering new things about the Easter Roman Empire and the times between the fall of the Western Empire in 410 and Emperor Justinian trying to reconquer Italy from the Goths.

Which also connects to Chapter 6 in Dante’s Paradiso which is fully dedicated to Roman history through the voice of Justinian himself!

And.. we’re also pondering the deeper allegorical meanings of the Earthly Paradise at the top of Mount Purgatory – and how it is referencing the deep symbolism from the Revelation by St. John. It’s partly extra complicated because most of the commentaries are more descriptive on these chapters.. but we are looking into the Italian scholarship as well.. doing a bit of research!

A soothing evening with tea and rainstorms outside..

It’s been busy days for a while – the Purgatory Series is now fully made with 15 episodes and will be posted in the next few weeks until late March.

We’re also reading up on Ancient and early Medieval history with two great books called “Age of Paradise” and “Age of Division”, by John Strickland!

And we’ve been making lots of Morning Coffee shows lately, they’re coming daily in times when there are lots of new things happening, and sometimes a bit more sporadically. All episodes are posted here awpodcast.com/morningcoffee – and check the “links” in the menu for more platforms!

New week, and we’ve just finished episode 13 (of 15) on the Purgatory Podcast! It’s a beautiful morning up here in the mountains, and a much better and calmer week this week. New things are getting sorted into place, and we can get back to enjoying life, hobbies, coffee, walks and nice chats with the skypework 😊

Have a great Morning!

The changes in Terrace Five in the Purgatory still linger as the trembling mountain, which is not an earthquake, shakes the whole story from its first foundations – and into a new exploratory adventure. And we suddenly have a new guide with the Pilgrim, Statius, and we are very close to the Earthly Paradise, and the Paradiso itself.