New day, and we just finished the weekly Sunday Show for all our supporters on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sunday-show-new-45750591
We’re also updating our new Dante website, at dantescomedy.com. The aim is to have it both as an introduction to people fully new to the Comedy, and then 2-3 essays pr. month about specific topics from the books, small scenes as portals to big worlds, or the overall structure and embedded knowledge and wisdom in Dante’s Poetry.
Have a great Sunday! 😊
Today we started a new project with a Dante website, as an introduction for people with little or no knowledge of the Divine Comedy, and with essays about different themes from the books.
Visit here! https://dantescomedy.com
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A theme introduced already in chapter 15 of the Purgatory is how the capacity for more intuitive and transcendent knowledge increases rapidly with learning, once the process has started. The Pilgrim is almost blinded by the light of an Angel in Terrace Two, but Virgil reassures him:
Not long from now, a sight like this will prove to be no burden, but a joy great
as Nature has prepared your soul to feel.
This in some ways also resembles the experience of reading the Comedy itself, the insights can be shattering at first, but gradually they become more and more joyful, natural and inspiring to keep learning.
Reading through Purgatory again very slowly, it’s interesting to see how one of the key claims of the whole book, and especially in the first Terrace – is that acknowledging and accepting the limitations of our intellect and reason is fundamental to spiritual, and real, growth.
Once we can balance what we know and understand, with an appreciation of the mystery and the beyond – the soul and also intellectual being is amplified manyfold in their combined experience. In many ways – this lies at the very heart of the Renaissance. Arts & Sciences unified, Human Experience and the Transcendent Mysteries and Inspiration consciously combined and present at the same time.
First post of 2021! Hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas – we’ve updated the website and going for a bit more blog style again! 😊
Best wishes for a wonderful 2021!!
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Great news! We’ve now started a new series on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the big world of the Greek Mythology. A little introduction from the public podcast is here!
https://radiopublic.com/ancient-world-WP4eJQ/s1!f3e4a
Enjoy! 🙂
Here are some thoughts and meditations on the opening from “For better waters, now..”
https://radiopublic.com/ancient-world-website-8jqOyp/s1!d8602
Enjoy! 😀
As we opened the second Volume of the Comedy this afternoon, the opening verses felt once again breath-taking in their beauty and their immediate shift of atmosphere and outlook towards the sunny and fertile journey through Purgatory:
For better waters, now, the little bark
of my poetic powers hoists its sails,
and leaves behind chat cruelest of the seas.
And I shall sing about that second realm
where man’s soul goes to purify itself
and become worthy to ascend to Heaven.
Then we have the invocation of Calliope, the leader of the Muses, and the Muse of Epic Poetry.
We just published a new episode on Mars! This is the Sphere of the Warriors who died for their Faith, and where Dante meets his ancestry and learns about his fate in life – with both the Exile and the writing of the Comedy.
The episode is here!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sphere-of-mars-42845549
Enjoy!
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Good morning! ☀️
Just a couple of updates – after four great group meetings on the opening/lift-off, and the first three spheres in Paradise, we’re now making new Podcast Episodes on the spheres from the Sun and upwards on the $2 tier here!
https://patreon.com/ancientworld
And aiming for monthly seminars, more info here!
https://ancientworld.website/seminars
Have a great week!
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