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Main Keys to reading the Garden of Eden
As a brief summary: to approach the Garden of Eden in Dante’s Purgatorio as an anagogical/spiritual reading, the following images are essential: The Tree: The relationship between Human-Divine, or your Soul and God. It is discovered withered, but blossoms with … Continue reading
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Tagged anaogical reading, Eden, introduction, keys, research, study
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The Internal Restoration in Eden in 14 Essays
Here are the 14 essays that give a new and more anagogical (spiritual) reading of the Garden of Eden in Canto 28-31 of Dante’s Purgatorio, focusing primarily on the Soul’s Journey to God. Beatrice’s eyes – and smile Dual Perception … Continue reading
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Restoring the Spiritual Life
As the exchange with Beatrice is continuing, now seen as both Divine Wisdom and Dante’s inner spiritual life, the big question then comes: Why did Dante abandon the spiritual life for such a long time? What happened that made him … Continue reading
A new relationship: God and Soul
After Beatrice appears, first as a channel emerging from deep within the Chariot, and connecting the Pilgrim to God’s Love and Power (The “Ancient Love”), something extraordinary happens. Virgil disappears, in large part since a direct connection with God is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatrice, carro, chariot, Eden, God, realtionship, soul, spiritual life
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Opening the channel to God
With the pageant of the Scriptures stopping and focusing on the chariot, the spiritual “charge” is sharply intensifying, as the fuller connection to God is about to erupt. One of the elders then starts to chant: “Come, spouse, from Lebanon” … Continue reading
Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden in Dante’s Purgatory is somewhat different in the original compared to most English translations. In Dante’s Italian it becomes more of an expression of the transformed life, and the new experience of the Earthly with the … Continue reading