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The Blessings

Posted on June 25, 2022 by ancientworld

“Fall to your knees, fall to your knees! Behold the angel of the Divine! And fold your hands. Expect to see more ministers like him.” After the Pilgrim has girded his waist with a soft reed, as a symbol of … Continue reading →

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McGilchrist on the Sacred, and Intellectual Humility

Posted on January 23, 2022 by ancientworld

In his newest masterpiece “The Matter with Things”, McGilchrist writes about the approach to the apprehension of something transcendent, or Divine: “What the term ‘G-d’ requires of us is not a set of propositions about what cannot be known, but … Continue reading →

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Morning Dante Reflections

Posted on September 26, 2021 by ancientworld

We’ve started a new concept today – reflections on the Divine Comedy, with one tercet from anywhere in the whole Journey. Today, from the opening of Purgatory 10: https://dantescomedy.com/morning-dante-reflection And we’ve made a new page for resources for the Divine … Continue reading →

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Breaking free of the Mind’s Confinement

Posted on August 11, 2021 by ancientworld

These four short lines fully re-sets the Pilgrim’s Mind (ie: us, the story, the process) and spans out the book’s scope: my mind, confined till then to what took place, broke free, and now was eager to explore: I raised … Continue reading →

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Friday

Posted on July 30, 2021 by ancientworld

We’re slowly digesting Paradiso whilst opening the first page of Purgatory again. The first time we read Paradiso a few years ago it felt exhausting with the lack of concreteness, but in the last few months that has changed. In … Continue reading →

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Canto XXXIII

Posted on July 28, 2021 by Richard Emerson

Reading the last canto in Paradiso for the 4th time, it felt bigger than ever. The last Canto of the whole Comedy is likely the biggest masterpiece and genius of them all. But it takes years and years to get … Continue reading →

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Ending at the Deep of Philosophy and Theology

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Richard Emerson

One more thought on the Paradiso – in some ways sphere 9 and 10 are repeating the overall idea of Dante of how both philosophy and theology are paths to deep truths, but theology embeds it all. Sphere 9  is … Continue reading →

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Before the 10th Heaven

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Richard Emerson

We’ve just finished the Primo Mobile and the 9th Sphere, and we’re trying to digest what is really happening there; in a sense how the first two books, which are all on Earth, and then eight more spheres in the … Continue reading →

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The Rings of Angelic Beings

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Richard Emerson

Here’s the moment when the Pilgrim looks at the source of the Divine in the Deep of Motion, and sees the nine rings of Angelic Beings: there came showers of light from all the fiery rings, like molten iron in … Continue reading →

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Good morning!

Posted on July 19, 2021 by ancientworld

New week – and a great cup of coffee! ☀️?☕️

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