…of this particular century. Everything is right there. The portrait which I spoke about earlier is an imitation of the new life of Dante. You can follow it step by step it's doing all the same things at about the same time. The Ulysses represents the…

…stages of life are handled in the Hindu System and then compare with that the same stages of life as described by Dante in his con Vito. This is a very vivid contrast of the essential oriental and essential occidental attitudes toward the psychological,…

…compare with that to make my transition that I've been promising from the orient to the occident, the system of stages that Dante very, very interestingly presents to us in the last few chapters of the convito, or convivio, which is his sort of summary…

…guessed the middle of life to be about the age of thirty five. There was something just a little bit personal about that choice. Dante was born in 1265 and was himself thirty five in the year 1300, which in the reckoning of that time was thought to be…

…this thing a little bit, perhaps in the wake of his own existence. Well the year thirty five is the mid career year for Dante. The period of maturity extends, in his reckoning, ten years either side of that that is to say from twenty five to forty…

…five to forty five. Those are the years of maturity the Indian is copping out, going. Into the forest at that mid point, Dante has you in mid career, staying in the world. The first period is a period of twenty five years, which he calls sometimes…

…virtue is comeliness in appearance. This is, of course, a bit of an archaic system of virtues but those are the ones that Dante brings up. Then we come to maturity. What are the virtues of the mature man? These are the virtues of the Medieval Knight…

…throughout the period of his maturity, of his duties, he is to be mentally evaluating and criticizing them, and he may, as Dante did, actually have an overwhelmingly illuminating experience at some point. The midpoint is the one for his own. I'm going to…

…spirit moves into you and and you are illuminated rather rather than simply a man doing as told. We call this then with Dante Maturity. Now what about after 45? Are we to go into the forest as the Indian does after his period of householdership? Not…

…with society, and this going out. There is to be a crisis of individual illumination not everyone will have a total one as Dante conceived himself to have had, but there will be a measure of judgment power attained and that is to be applied to the…

…is then necessary a flight. This is the way of quest. That's the first half of the story. Now comes the way of return. Dante went through the three worlds but came back and wrote about it. If this has been the mode of achievement, we will have flight…

…Greek to North European thinking from the beginning, when Odysseus goes, into the underworld, he recognizes those who are there. When Dante goes through hell, purgatory and Paradise, he recognizes everybody there. When you would go into a Buddhist, a Jain or…

…mood and attitude will be the incorporating image of the whole mystery of being and be held at this level as god the trinity by Dante. Now it's no accident that in Dante it was the emotion of love that carried him to heaven and he found god to be…

…image of the whole mystery of being and be held at this level as god the trinity by Dante. Now it's no accident that in Dante it was the emotion of love that carried him to heaven and he found god to be love. The notion there is that all our…

…love according to the greeks, according to the manners of the manifestation of eros in his terrestrial aspect and his celestial. And Dante, following this lead, saw the power of love spanning the universe all the way from the pits of hell to the highest…

…I more or less named. And then back to those, there were certain philosophers who supported them so to say. For Joyce, Dante was a terribly important figure, and Aquinas those are men who understood symbols, the symbolic sense of the imagery of the…

…it is. And the concept of god is only a foreground of the experience. There was this wonderful mystic meister Eckhart, Contemporary of Dante, who a number of Zen Roshis by the way have called very Buddhist. Yes in this sense I found, as I was reading…

…doing today is we're going from infancy to wisdom. And you said that was a shock to me really I have been talking about Dante and the stages of life you know moving from adolescence and so forth through the period of maturity, then to wisdom. And this…

…Eckhart, the ultimate leave taken is the leaving of god to god, is a word that we have in our tradition. Then with Dante, you know in those last cantos of the divine comedy, the last paragraphs rather of the last canto, he beholds the beatific vision…

…I more or less named. And then back to those, there were certain philosophers who supported them so to say. For Joyce, Dante was a terribly important figure and Aquinas those are men who understood the symbolic sense of the imagery of the Christian…

…advantage of the major structuring images having been put right before him. All he's giving is a slice of the big myth, as Dante for example an enormous slice in terms of his experience of the sense of life through the mirror of a symbolic system this…

…reputation of the church that he died before reaching Rome when they summoned him, and it would have been pretty disgraceful to her. Dante: I think that in this whole thing of the early little work, the vita nuova, and then the paradiso of Dante, the…

…to her. Dante: I think that in this whole thing of the early little work, the vita nuova, and then the paradiso of Dante, the past is there that open out this way. Another place that you've rummaged around is on the facade of the cathedral the…

…to repeat these things to set the machine at five seconds automatic and while gregorian chants are being sung, run through the Dante and while the monks of the gyudpa monasteries are chanting you know with those deep gravelly, yeah, we'll run through the…

…it is, and the concept of god is only a foreground of the experience. There was this wonderful mystic meister Eckhart, Contemporary of Dante, who a number of Zen Roshis, by the way have called very Buddhist. Yes, in this sense I found, as I was reading…

…what may we say of such magnificent cosmic metaphors as those reflected in the great homeric epics, the divine comedy of Dante, the book of genesis and the timeless temples of the orient? Obviously we are in the presence of immense consciousness rather…

…is then necessary a flight. This is the way of quest. That's the first half of the story. Now comes the way of return. Dante went through the three worlds but came back and wrote about it. You know the magic flight it's very favorite of the fairy…

…of Ariadne brought theseus safely through the adventure of the labyrinth. This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of and the virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust Successively as Gretchen, Helen of troy and the…

…virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust Successively as Gretchen, Helen of troy and the virgin thou art the living font of hope, praised Dante at the end of his safe passage through the perils of the three worlds. Lady, thou art so great and so avalist…

…from the world and who shall say that his decision was altogether without reason? The magic flight now comes the way of return. Dante went through the three worlds but came back and wrote about it. If this has been the mode of achievement, we will have…

…never to come back, to be absolutely nobody at all, to have learned the lesson perfectly, to have learned. When Dante went to hell, to purgatory, to heaven he recognized everybody he saw the personality, the individuality that intelligible character, that…

…be what you discover there. Here is the fulfillment of the aim of chakra 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…

…seen shining this way before. There was no bridge game. Now this is what's known as aesthetic arrest, and it's what happened to Dante when he saw bertucci. And this is what falling in love is, and falling in love with the world the senses are suddenly…

…of the Christian Vocabulary and try to read them in a certain less 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…

…is the state of those who are learning to break past that bounding thing that holds you to your life concern, which Dante there calls pride. Pride is the holding to the ego, not letting go not opening. In purgatory, those are being broken, those…

…in the fifteenth year that a girl should marry. At the fifteenth night the moon is at its full. You have achieved your fulfillment. Dante put this date in the thirty fifth year of life. He had a certain reason for doing that he was born in 1265 and…

…your life with consciousness, you will find the body can go. That is the great crisis at noon. That is the thing that Dante had happen in his thirty fifth year with the vision of the divine comedy where the whole universe became a manifestation not so…

…drop off. This is the basic oriental idea. Now in contrast to that let me conclude by reviewing the four ages as described by Dante in that wonderful work of his, the convito. This is in the last chapters of the convito of Dante. He says life falls…

…the four ages as described by Dante in that wonderful work of his, the convito. This is in the last chapters of the convito of Dante. He says life falls into four stages. So I thought: great. Now he was 35 in the year 1300. His dates are 1265 to…

…1300 was the middle year of the world. The world had been created somewhere 4000 or so BC and we're in the middle year now. So Dante the middle year of Dante's life he took 35 as the mid year of life, fell in the mid year of the world's life and…

…displayed. So much for what I call well for me it's the greatest book of the middle ages I would put it ahead of Dante Actually because it deals with life and so on and a great deal of information had come to wolfram from the orient. The chateau…

…I thought I'd end with another little story: the tarot cards. The tarot cards appear in the literature in the 14th century. Dante died in 1321 and by 1330 we're hearing sermons scolding people for playing cards. Why, why should that not be recognized as…

…and that's what this is. Then after that you review the details and everything else of your life in the way of Dante going through hell, purgatory, heaven. This is the hell there's the devil very clearly. The purgatory, the tower of destruction, the…

…and we pour the spiritual water out even and go to the transcendent. So when I saw that, I thought: well look there's Dante, Vita nuova, inferno, purgatorio, paradiso. Then I come down and see these four cards cards: 6 7 8 9, youth, maturity, age, old…

…Then I come down and see these four cards cards: 6 7 8 9, youth, maturity, age, old age justice is the virtue of age. Dante in the con Vito divides life into four stages, from birth to about the age of 25. Youth, the lover and that is the dynamic…

…Eckhart that always comes to my mind when I suffer in hell for eternity while being in love and for love. You know when Dante in the divine comedy gets to the circle of the love, the carnal lovers, on flames of wind flaming wind come the great lovers.…

…ages. I think Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal is the high story of the middle ages. I would put it above Dante's Divine comedy. Dante ends up in heaven, Gottfried ends up on earth. The thing is solved here now in the flesh, and in a magnificent way:…

…picture of this buddha and I wanted to write something about it. And I thought: well who am I to write about dainichi nyorai? Dante has already done it. So I turned to the last canto of the divine comedy of paradiso. And there it was, the appearance…

…divine substance, three divine rapture of the divine seated or appearing in the heavenly rose lotus, where the rose is. And Dante said as I was beholding the trinity, the personification of the mystery, there appeared behind them three rings of light one,…

…exercise 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…

…my beloved 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…

…is achieved 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…

…of mythology, are moved by the radiance of god. First we have this fantastic tale of a serpent culminating in three faces. When Dante was lost in the middle of the way of our life, he was in a dangerous wood and was threatened by three animals.…

…picture of this buddha and I wanted to write something about it and I thought: well who am I to write about dainichi nyorai? Dante has already done it. So I turned to the last canto of the divine comedy of paradiso. And there it was: the appearance of…

…the consciousness and the rapture of the divine, seated or appearing in the heavenly rose lotus where the rose is. And Dante said as I was beholding the trinity, the personification of the mystery, there appeared behind them three rings of light, one,…

…chakra three 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…

…There the 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…

…of mythology, are moved by the radiance of god. First we have this fantastic tale of a serpent culminating in three faces. When Dante was lost in the middle of the way of our life, he was in a dangerous wood and was threatened by three animals.…

…authority is very difficult after the age of 45. So this is the first stage of life, and the virtues assigned by Dante are obedience, a sense of shame, not guilt. Those are two very different things. Shame, is embarrassment because of failure of…

…35 at the center. Now Dante's Vision is assigned to his 35th year, the good Friday to Easter of his 35th year. It's rather amusing. Dante was born in 1265, so he was 35 years old in the year 1300, and in that period 1300 was thought to be the middle…

…condition that nothing can knock you down by that time. Then 70 and as I always think you know it's an unfortunate term that Dante has found for this he calls it decrepitude. From here on and the two virtues here are looking back over the lifetime with…