Ty-sama
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 | | Subject: Canto II: The Descent Fri Aug 12, 2016 12:22 pm | |
| "It Is Evening Of The First Day (Friday). Dante Is Following Virgil And Finds Himself Tired And Despairing. How Can He Be Worthy Of Such A Vision As Virgil Has Described? He Hesitates And Seems About To Abandon His First Purpose."
"To Comfort Him Virgil Explains How Beatrice Descended To Him In Limbo And Told Him Of Her Concern For Dante. It Is She, The Symbol Of Divine Love, Who Sends Virgil To Lead Dante From Error. She Has Come Into Hell Itself On This Errand, For Dante Cannot Come To Divine Love Unaided; Reason Must Lead Him. Moreover Beatrice Has Been Sent With The Prayers Of The Virgin Mary (COMPASSION), And Of Saint Lucia (DIVINE LIGHT). Rachel (THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE) Also Figures In The Heavenly Scene Which Virgil Recounts."
"Virgil Explains All This And Reproaches Dante: How Can He Hesitate Longer When Such Heavenly Powers Are Concerned For Him, And Virgil Himself Has Promised To Lead Him Safely?"
"Dante Understands At Once That Such Forces Cannot Fail Him, And His Spirits Rise In Joyous Anticipation." | |
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Ty-sama
Grim, the PumpKin :: Dividing Enigma; Dark Legend of the Dream
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| | Subject: Re: Canto II: The Descent Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:20 pm | |
| The Light Was Departing. The Brown Air Drew Down All The Earth's Creatures, Calling Them To Rest From Their Day-Roving, As I, One Man Alone, Prepared Myself To Face The Double War Of The Journey And The Pity, Which Memory Shall Here Set Down, Nor Hesitate, Nor Err.
-Dante's Hesitation-
O Muses! O High Genius! Be My Aid! O Memory, Recorder Of The Vision, Here Shall Your True Nobility Be Displayed!
Thus I Began: "Poet, You Who Must Guide Me, Before You Trust Me To That Arduous Passage, Look To Me And look Through Me -- Can I Be Worthy? You Sang How The Father Of Sylvius, While Still In Corruptible Flesh Won To That Other World, Crossing With Mortal Sense The Immortal Sill. But If The Adversary Of All Evil Weighing His Consequence And Who And What Should Issue From Him, Treated Him So Well -- That Cannot Seem Unfitting To Thinking Me, Since He Was Chosen Father Of Mother Rom And Of Her Empire By God's Will And Token. Both, To Speak Strictly, Were Founded And Foreknown As The Established Sea Of Holiness For The Successors Of Great Peter's Throne. In That Quest, Which Your Verses Celebrate, He Learned Those Mysteries From Which Arose His Victory And Rome's Apostolate. There Later Came The Chosen Vessel, Paul, Bearing The Confirmation Of That Faith Which Is The One True Door To Life Eternal. But I -- How Should I Day? By Whose Permission? I Am Not Aeneas. I Am Not Paul. Who Could Believe Me Worthy Of The Vision? How, Then, May I Presume To This High Quest And Not Fear My Own Brashness? You Are Wise And Will Grasp What My Poor Words Can But Suggest." | |
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