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Aiming one’s Love
In the third and final examination, conducted by St. John, the Pilgrim is asked “what is it that your Soul is set upon.” The answer is firstly; the Good. “The Good, that full contentment of this Court, is Alpha and … Continue reading
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Increased insight, increased capacity of Light.
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 … Continue reading
Notes from Opening The Paradiso, the Second Time!
The saying goes that after reading the whole Divine Comedy by Dante, one is ready to start reading the Divine Comedy – so now we’re starting our second Journey through Paradiso, and we’ll write about the new discoveries and greatest … Continue reading
Lyceum, July 29th
Today the topics of our Nature Ramblings are all from the Book of Purgatory – about the Mercy of the Divine, bridging Science and Reason with the Spiritual, and the massive arrival of Beatrice in chapter 30, which is also … Continue reading