…you can't bring it forth. It's one of the great puzzles of life. Consider people who've had a great love affair: Dante and Beatrice. Everybody knows about that love affair because Dante could Express it so gorgeously. But supposing there's some people…

…puzzles of life. Consider people who've had a great love affair: Dante and Beatrice. Everybody knows about that love affair because Dante could Express it so gorgeously. But supposing there's some people who've had a love affair and all the guy could ever…

…guy could ever say to the girl was and this is a real puzzle because is that guy any less in love with the girl than Dante was with the effect for mankind of Dante's love was far greater than the guy who can only say: see one, they both go into…

…that space was the same thing as your mind and to see things in space was the same as to see them in your mind. Dante reflected this kind of thinking and so you could perceive then infinite space or infinite mind as being I mean, when people try to…

…a dramatic view at all it's a tragic drama, whereas the eastern view is it's a comedy, although it's curious isn't it that Dante could write the divine comedy, because somewhere you see you can't get around it that if the notation of life, if the…

…tragic, god's a washout. R e I g n. So there is the idea, really in a kind of esoteric strain of the Christian Tradition, Dante brings it out you see when he heard the song of the angels, he said this sounded like the laughter of the universe. And…

…it's like scat singing, where all the meaning goes out of the language and it's just rhythm, it's just sheer exuberance. And Dante makes this quite clear that these angels surrounding god have found it they found the point and there's no need for anything…

…that space was the same thing as your mind, and to see things in space was the same as to see them in your mind. Dante reflects this kind thinking of, and so you could conceive then infinite space or infinite mind as being. I mean when people try to…

…with their joys and sorrows, are a play that the ground is manifesting, a drama, outwardly a tragedy, inwardly a comedy in the Dante sense of the Divina Comedia. We then went on to consider the problem of space, that is to say the problem of intervals…

…on? Is everybody going to look at each other and weep? Are they going to stare into the eye of the lord and say, yeah Dante in the paradiso describes the hymn of the angels and he says it is like the laughter of the universe. In other words they…

…were washing clothes. By chance there was a young girl who's me. She raised her eyes to his. There was a meeting of Dante and Beatrice. From this time on chandidas was filled with love. Rani was very beautiful but in Hindu Society what can a washer…

…the French artist whose name I can just escape at the moment did a lot of illustrations engravings for the Dante Divino commedia and the illustrations for the inferno are magnificent. They show the greatest imagination. Here are really terrible situations…

…we give when we consider the show is glorious is in the heavenly imagery, the angels, you see all singing the song which Dante compared with the laughter of the universe. It's really the game is worth the candle, because if it weren't, I think it would…

…to this image because it seems to me to be so common to all of us. Incidentally, it's the image with which Dante concludes each of the three sections of the divino commedia, perhaps because it seems to convey more than his most elaborate symbols…

…used now it doesn't mean anything except, well in our own slang, whoopee. It's an exclamation of nonsensical delight. And it was Dante in the paradiso who described the song of the angels as the laughter of the universe. And this sense of nonsense as…

…to laugh in church. We don't realize, as g k Chesterton said that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly. And as Dante said in the paradiso, when he heard the song of the angels, it sounded like the laughter of the universe. Well what are…

…there was a time in our own history indeed, by reading between the lines of, say ancient literature, it's as clear as late as Dante that they regarded space and mind as the same thing. And if you think about that you can see it is rather obvious. Take…

…against the cosmos, whereas the most non serious being would be god, because he would be supreme lightness, spirit levity. And indeed Dante Intimates this when he describes the song of the angels as the laughter of the universe. You know what those angels…

…the whole world is. Three for a penny, three for a pound is love that makes the world go round or in the words of Dante, that my own wings were not for such a flight. Except that smiting through the mind of me there came fulfillment in a flash of…

…up our own will set aside our own ego. This, after all too corresponds with the great basic Christian Insight where, as for example, Dante says of the will of god in his will is our peace, or as another Christian writer says, our wills are ours to…

…bring it forth. You see one of the great puzzles of life is to consider people who've had a great love affair Dante and Beatrice. Everybody knows about that love affair because Dante could Express it so gorgeously. But supposing there's some people who've…

…of life is to consider people who've had a great love affair Dante and Beatrice. Everybody knows about that love affair because Dante could Express it so gorgeously. But supposing there's some people who've had a love affair and all the guy could ever…

…ever say: to the girl was oh, oh. This is a real puzzle because is that guy any less in love with the girl than Dante was with Beatrice? Perhaps it was the same degree of love, but obviously the effect for mankind of Dante's love was far greater than…

…parallel to the way for example in which the state of scientific knowledge as it is today makes the cosmology of, say Dante Extremely implausible. I mean nobody has disproved it, nobody has shown positive evidence that there is no god on a golden throne,…

…makes a misprint and prints it comic. But he said there's a certain unconscious wisdom in that the cosmic is the comic. Dante wrote the divine comedy an account of earth, heaven, purgatory and hell. The divine comedy. And one finds you see that in…

…in Latin we translate it blessed, but that's a rather pious word. It really means happy, joyous, Beatus, and so all those angels, as Dante Describes it in the paradiso, when he first hears the song of the angels, he says it sounded as if it were the…

…here. You know we have the first one there we're about here now. Now then, keep on going. When in the divine comedy, Dante, accompanied by Virgil as his guide, explore hell, they pass through a gate which says: all hope abandoned. You who enter here,…

…to realize that there's something you've been ignoring all the time. It was for example, perfectly a matter of common sense to Dante and probably many of his contemporaries to regard space and mind as the same thing. If you read a book called saving…

…on is everybody going to look at each other and weep? Are they going to stare into the eye of the lord and say, uh Dante in the paradiso describes the hymn of the angels and he says it is like the laughter of the universe. In other words they sing…

…thought of a sort of fantasy and I'll try and describe it. When you read about the beatific vision in the paradiso of Dante, you get this fantastic description of the sort of rainbow rose at the center, vivid white light which you can't look at just…

…Indian Cosmology. Just as you would have to study the cosmology of the ptolemaic view of the world in order to understand Dante and in order to understand lots of things about Medieval Christianity, so the cosmology of the Hindus, their view of the…

…places where laughter makes people nervous because it's supposed to be a sign of disrespect. Now it may not be so at all. Dante said that the song of the angels in Paradise sounded like the laughter of the universe. But in church, especially any rather…

…used now it doesn't mean anything except, well in our own slang, whoopee. It's an exclamation of nonsensical delight. And it was Dante in the paradiso who described the song of the angels as the laughter of the universe. And this sense of nonsense as…