c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…two. This is the humanization of the lust chakra. Dante in the divine, in the vita nuova, says that when he first beheld Beatrice there awakened in him an inner realization of love which is not lust, and that love, while it was for a tangible phenomenal…
…than historical sense and more than historical sense. I will take Dante as my guide to begin with. He beholds at the age of nine, Beatrice at the age of nine. This he tells us in his work called the new life. And then nine years later when she is 18…
…then nine years later when she is 18 and he 18, and if you add eight and one together you get nine again. He again sees Beatrice and he says of that first viewing, when I saw her, the spirit of my heart, my life, said you have found a god stronger…
…he identified himself with that love, that grace which proceeds from the transcendent throne and shows itself in the beautiful vehicles of which Beatrice was one. This is a great mythic theme. It has to do with putting on a mask and removal of masks and…
…level that came and is described in Dante's Vita nuova. What turned him from a mere human animal into a poet when he beheld Beatrice? She was an erotic object one way of seeing her was that way but what he saw was a manifestation of beauty. It's…
…stay on the ground. But do you know Dante's first book, the vita nuova, the new life and it's exactly about beholding Beatrice not with lust but with rapture, as a manifestation of god's love, and through following that rapture he was carried to god's…
…here we've broken through, and the energy of love of chakra two is now experienced in its sublime form of love for god. When Dante beheld Beatrice, it was in the way not of chakra two but of chakra six. He saw her not as an object of lust but as a…
…that I came to know your qualities and what love is which is what you are. That's the spiritual way. That's Dante with Beatrice. It was the rapture of the elevation and exaltation of his heart just in beholding her that gave him the spiritual sense of…
…and rendered, to which the arts are pointing. Nine muses, and and the square square root of nine is three. When when Dante beheld Beatrice, she was nine years old, and then his second beholding of her, she was eighteen and so was he, and he said: she…
…was brought to her and the energy of love of chakra two is now experienced in its sublime form of love for god. When Dante beheld Beatrice, it was in the way not of chakra two but of chakra six. He saw her not as an object of lust but as a…
…revelation is achieved and rendered, to which the arts are pointing. Nine muses, and the square root of nine is three. When Dante beheld Beatrice, she was nine years old and then his second beholding of her she was 18 and so was he, and he said: she…