…circle, one inside of the other. And in this cross-section, which is incidentally the same concept of the universe that appears in Dante and in Novo. These layers are nine in number. The lowest of them being the earth, above which are the seven orbits…

…perfect right to achieve this. This achievement is not the ultimate. But it is a middle ground. It is the paradisio of Dante. This mysterious realm of semi-terrestrial beauty which is between earth and heaven. But it is perfectly possible for us to have…

…at a state in which the fiend is completely baffled. And he is strangely redeemed, almost as we find in the divine comedy of Dante. If you remember when the time came for Dante to rise out of the purgatorio, or to come out of the underworld, he did…

…baffled. And he is strangely redeemed, almost as we find in the divine comedy of Dante. If you remember when the time came for Dante to rise out of the purgatorio, or to come out of the underworld, he did so by climbing up upon the very body of…

…became a heavy and terrible burden upon him. Therefore he more or less voluntarily makes the break. Now in The case of Dante, the journey through the inferno, is accompanied by Virgil, the guide, the all-sufficient guide who leads him on. But when he…

…inferno, is accompanied by Virgil, the guide, the all-sufficient guide who leads him on. But when he comes to the Paradiso, Dante comes under the guidance of Beatrice, a beautiful and wonderful symbol used by the old troubadours to represent Sophia, the…

…troubadours. While mentioning this, we might also note that Saint Francis of Asquitha was also a troubadour. So was Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio. All of these men, therefore, may be suspected, and their writings are always suspected. To take the writings…

…Dante, and Boccaccio. All of these men, therefore, may be suspected, and their writings are always suspected. To take the writings of Dante, for example, when he explains how he climbed out of the pit of the underworld on the body of Satan. This seems…

…are available to him when he is able to open his own inner consciousness. Perhaps this is the same meaning as Virgil leading Dante through the inferno and in the Egyptian ritual of the dead. the mysterious being Anubis one of the gods who leads the soul…

…very important and vital part of man. The abdominal cavity is always the underworld. And in one of the early editions of Dante, the Course of Dante, or in another case, the Course of Aeneas, in the Legend of the Aeneid, the difficult, strange, twisting…

…part of man. The abdominal cavity is always the underworld. And in one of the early editions of Dante, the Course of Dante, or in another case, the Course of Aeneas, in the Legend of the Aeneid, the difficult, strange, twisting underworld is represented…

…through which you pass as a distinct experience, as merely a being moving through some strange region like the mysterious realms of Dante and Milton. The vision experience is one in which something happens to you. You know about it. You sense it. It is…

…In the Arthurian cycle, he is Merlin the magician, who goes to sleep in a house of crystal. In the Divine Comedy of Dante, he is Virgil, conducting the souls through the mystery of the underworld. In the mystery rituals of the ancients, he was the…

…a hard surface or shell with which to protect itself. Whereas the light within, the still feeble, had to energize this form. Dante in Inferno describes the trees that walk. And perhaps this is a vision of things in the ancient Polarian epic. through the…

…he realized it or not. This apperception was not sufficiently strong to open the heavens until they resembled the vision of Dante. These achievements were small achievements which he magnified because it is so difficult for the average person to do anything…

…He was able to have many of these thoughts, which are also carried, some of them in the story of the Inferno by Dante. But he wanted a symbol that would some way represent the beauty, the wonder, the mystery of rhythm, of motion, and of movement.…

…few exceptions. And in this bankruptcy, the afterlife is one of sorrow, regret, and realization of mistakes. But in the course of time, Dante is carried upward to the paradisio, where he is united in the vision of the holy city upon the petals of the…

…who are the firstborn of them that sleep. And those that sleep are the uninitiated. Perhaps something of the strange existence of Dante in which he beheld the vast orders of the universe. Perhaps in that moment in which consciousness was relieved of the…

…is part of a very interesting and important tradition. Actually, it is part of early Christian mysticism and we remember that Dante who was a troubadour, a trouvier, meaning a priest, not a harlequin. He was a very deep-thinking man in mysticism. But…

…way of thinking something of the story unfolded in Dante's story of the inferno or the divine comedy. Here we find Dante ascending from the purgatorial to the paradisiacal, or from purgatory to paradise. And in Indian thinking, Devachan is equivalent to…

…situation. Now in the Greek and ancient mystery rites, there are descriptions of these great herds of souls moving in space. And Dante describes the sleepers in the caverns under the earth who sleep through the ages because they believed in death. All of…

…able to pay, which was a great torment to him, but he could never stop doing it. Then there is, of course, the story in Dante about the men rolling the bags of gold uphill, and every time they almost got them to the top, the bags rolled back and…

…within himself by his desires, he is blessed by them. When such an occurrence happens, we may assume that the ego, as Dante, has now passed into the paradiso, or the paradise. Now, paradise is not heaven. The paradise of Buddhism, Sukhavati, is a place…

…Moses. This, in the Eastern philosophy, parallels the idea that the purified Kamarupa becomes, so to say, the Beatrice who must lead Dante into the Paradiso, who must carry him onward into the greater worlds that lie beyond. She is the blessed damozel of…

…of the Arhats is the paradise of Amitabha, which is the middle ground between earth and heaven, even as the paradiso of Dante stands between earth and heaven. represents, therefore, as far as we can put the parts together now, the empire of the good,…

…best and noblest part of creation. It could not go beyond creation itself into the uncreate. It was the terrestrial paradiso of Dante. It was the paradise of the Christian as distinguished from heaven. The paradise being the place of the reward of virtue.…

…personality with the soul. It is the outer life becoming enamored of the inner life. The outer life decisional corresponds to Dante. The inner life to Beatrice. who became the great psychic inspiration of his existence. And we know that the historical…

…psychic inspiration of his existence. And we know that the historical Beatrice was only a phantom of the psychic mysticism which Dante built around the concept. So we find the outer person united in strange ritual and ceremony to the conscious soul. And…

…these messengers, they have several attributes. For Mercury, Hermes, is not only the one who becomes the guide, the Virgil to every Dante seeking to pass through the mysteries of the under region, but also this deity is the god of thieves, of those who…

…as emotional. If something is extremely wonderful, he may experience it with sadness. He may find himself contemplating deity as Dante did and bursting into tears. He finds the emotional equation there. And this emotional equation is a constant stirring up…

…put together flashes of insight and fragments of revelation, but we have no adequate picture. One mystic will say, much as Dante did, that in this condition he was in the state of pure transcendent bliss. that everything was strangely, wonderfully, and…

…Thus we can say that in his meditation, let us say, for the moment that he takes a flower, a rose, as we remember Dante, who was of such a strongly mystical nature that he could not look at an open rose without weeping, becoming almost hysterical. The…

…illusion or have a tendency to result in a distortion of the testimonies of sensory perceptions. The story we have of Dante and his contemplation of the city of Florence follows in this thinking also. Mainly that the mystic, having impersonalized his…

…story of Parsifal. we have lost the guide that would take us through the underworld of uncertainty as in the story of Dante being led by Virgil through the underworld we have lost the leadership and guidance of counsel we are depending entirely now upon…

…of Miranda who represents his own soul Miranda is the blessed demoiselle of Rossetti and is the wonderful mysterious Beatrice of Dante she represents to Ferdinand the principle of love the principle that love must be part of the great triad for the…

…one of the keys to their entire attitude toward life. Christian mystics have also passed through the same experience, and particularly Dante. who, it is said, could not look upon a rose without passing into a strange trance like hysteria. The concept of…

…the Dervish and Sufi mysteries, love came to be far more than a human emotion. This thought undoubtedly dominated the thinking of Dante also, who fashioned out of the imagery of divine love the symbol of his Beatrice. This divine love was human love…

…wish to give all of themselves to hold nothing back to cease to exist in the beloved We know they are talking of the Dante, we know they are talking of mysteries, even while perhaps in our own rather superficial way we would like to think that they…

…think that they are speaking merely of sensory gratifications. Actually, to be lost forever in the beloved was the great goal of Dante and Petrarch and the other great troubadours of Europe. It was to give one's life utterly by the code of chivalry. And…

…life and in his own heart, helps him to preserve some small life near himself. It is all a great pattern. Dante and his visions, the mysterious stories of Homer, the Neo de Virgil, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, are mystical…

…societies set up in Europe Among these secret societies, probably the most important was the troubadours. And these included not only Dante and their membership, but also many other great poet mystics of their time. There's even reason to believe that the…

…relationships alone it was the idea that the troubadour worshipped the feminine principle as the unknown woman The woman whom he never met, Dante has said never to have seen Beatrice except on one or two occasions at a distance. He never spoke to her. He…

…of others that we will take the position that was taken to the troubadours in the effort to solve this problem one thing that Dante points out and his whole Vita noiva is keyed to it is that in the adoration of the blessed Demizel there is no…

…soul offers no reward actually to the person except the realization that it is the proper thing. The service of the soul, as Dante points out, therefore, is not an exceptional thing. It is not a heroic thing. It is not something for which we should be…

…do all things well whereas for the most part up to the present we have been doing them rather badly in this point then Dante is very clear in his understanding when you read his book you also discover another phase of this question and that is the…

…mystic who in his meditations and mystical contemplations was given a vision of the way the universe opened up The way that Dante saw the space cosmos as a tremendous open rose with hierarchies upon each of the petals. That somewhere behind this blank…

…order of being rebelled against God. And for this, the order was hurled into the abyss, as Milton tells us in Paradise Law, Dante in Paradise Law. I'll get it in a moment. Milton's Paradise Law. In this situation, we find an order of beings hurled…

…descended unto them by this would mean that spiritual beings abiding in various orders in hierarchs similar to those described by Dante in the Divine Comedy that these beings waited or remained in their various planes or levels until forms appropriate to…

…the son of anthropos he beheld in the unfolding of universal existence the opening of a great flower reminiscent of the vision of Dante and as the petals of this universal blossom this rose of the troubadours opened in the light of the divine sun it…

…and created a new kind of martyr. The kind of martyr we have with Savonarola and Bruno, and to a degree the exiled Dante. We have here now individuals thrown out of society because they dared to attack corruption. It was no longer heresy against God, it…

…He was like many of the later men, like Dryden, who made a poetic translation of the Aeneas and Virgil, and, of course, Dante, whose Divine Comedy was given in verse. The great epics of that time were nearly always in poetic form. There was a tremendous…

…to the seven gates to the upper world from which he had come. The journey back upward, like the mysterious story of Dante being led by Beatrice from the Purgatorio into the Paradiso, is always man's eternal psychic entity leading him back by his dreams,…

…able to grasp it. Among other things that we sense in mysticism is order, tremendous sweeps of rhythm, as expressed in Milton and in Dante and in many others of the great poets. So we use this medium in part, and then usually a very humble and very…

…eyes of Bamey or Immanuel Swedenborg, we would see it because it extends beyond all conception. It is more vast than the vision of Dante. It is a tremendously in which could we see this cause. It would no longer be a tiny little thing that we can't…