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The Divine Comedy: Paradiso V. 3 Free FREE THE DIVINE COMEDY: PARADISO V. 3 PDF Dante Alighieri,Robin Kirkpatrick | 576 pages | 01 Mar 2008 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140448979 | English | London, United Kingdom Paradiso (Dante) - Wikipedia Kline, All Rights Reserved. The glory of Him, who moves all things, penetrates the universe, and glows in one region more, in another less. I have been in that Heaven that knows his light most, and have seen things, which whoever descends from there has neither power, nor knowledge, to relate: because as our intellect draws near to its desire, it reaches such depths that memory cannot go back along the track. Nevertheless, whatever, of the sacred regions, I had power to treasure in my mind, will now be the subject The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 my labour. O good Apollofor the final effort, make me such a vessel of your genius, as you demand for the gift of your beloved laurel. Till now, one peak of Parnassus was enough, but now inspired by both I must enter this remaining ring. Enter my chest, and breathe, as you did when you drew Marsyas out of the sheath that covered his limbs. O Divine Virtue if you lend me your help, so that I can reveal that shadow of the kingdom of the Blessed, stamped on my brain, you will see me come to your chosen bough, and there crown myself with the leaves, that you, and the subject, will make me worthy of. A great flame follows a tiny spark: perhaps, after me, better voices will pray, and Parnassus will respond. The Light of the World rises, for mortals, through different gates: but he issues on a happier course, and is joined to happier stars, and moulds and stamps the earthly wax more in his manner, when his rising joins four circles in three crosses. It had made it morning there, when it was evening here: and now that hemisphere was all bright, at The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3, and this one dark, when I saw Beatrice, turned towards her left, gazing at the sun. No eagle ever fixed its eyes on it so intently. And even as the The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 ray always issues from the first, and rises back upwards, like a pilgrim wishing to return, so my stance took its form from hers, infused through the eyes into my The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3, and I fixed my eyes on the sun, beyond our custom. Much is allowed to our powers there, which is not allowed here, through the gift of that place, made The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 fit the human species. I could not endure it long, but enough to see him sparkle all round, like iron poured, molten, from the furnace. And suddenly, it seemed that day was added to day, as though He who has the power, had equipped Heaven with a second sun. Beatrice was standing, with her gaze fixed on the eternal spheres, and I, removing my sight The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 above, fixed it on her. In that aspect I became, inwardly, like Glaucuseating the grass that made him one with the gods of the sea. To go beyond Humanity is not to be told in words: so let the analogy serve for those to whom grace, alone, may allow the experience. Love, who rules the Heavens, you know, who lifted me upwards, with your light, whether I was only that which you created, newin me. The novelty of the sound, and the great light, lit a greater longing in me than I had ever felt, desiring to know their cause. You are no longer on earth, as you think, but lightning leaving its proper home, never flew as The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 as you, who are returning there. In it the higher creatures find the signature of Eternal The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3, which is the end for which these laws were made, that I speak of. In that order, I say, all things are graduated, in diverse allocations, nearer to, or further from, their source, so that they move towards diverse harbours, over the great sea of being, each one with its given instincts that carry it onwards. This instinct carries the fire towards The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 moon; that one is the mover in the mortal heart; this other pulls the earth together and unifies it. And this bow does not only fire creatures that are lacking in intelligence, but also those that have intellect and love. The Providence that orders it so, makes the EmpyreanThe Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 which the ninth sphere whirls with the greatest speed, quiet, with its light: and the power of the bowstring, that directs whatever it fires towards a joyful target, carries us towards it now, as if to the appointed place. You should not wonder more at your ascent, if I judge rightly, than at rivers falling, from The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 to their foot. It would be a marvellous thing, in you, if without any obstruction, you had settled below; just as The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 would be marvellous, on earth, in a living flame. O you, in your little boat, who, longing to hear, have followed my keel, singing on its way, turn to regain your own shores: do not commit to the open sea, since, losing me, perhaps, you would be left adrift. The water I cut was never sailed before: Minerva breathes, Apollo guides, and the nine Muses point me toward the Bears. You other few, who have lifted your mouths, in The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3, towards the bread of Angels, by which life up here is nourished, and from which none of them come away sated, you may truly set your ship to the deep saltwater, following my furrow, in front of the water falling back to its level. The glorious Argonauts who sailed to Colchis, who marvelled when they saw Jason turned ploughman, did not marvel as much as you will. The inborn, perpetual thirst for the divine regions lifted us, almost as swiftly as you see the Heavens move. It seemed to me that a cloud covered us, dense, lucid, firm, and polished, like diamond struck by sunlight. The eternal pearl accepted us into it, as water accepts a ray of light, though still, itself, unbroken. There, what we take, on trust, will be shown us, not demonstrated, but realised in ourselves, like a self-evident truth in which we believe. But tell me what you yourself think about it. The eighth sphere, the Stellar Heaven, shows many lights to you, which can be seen to have diverse appearance, in quantity and quality. If rarity and density alone produced that effect, there would be one quality in all of them, more or less equally distributed. Different qualities must be the result of different formal principles, and on your reasoning, only one could exist. Again, if rarity were the cause of those dark non-reflecting patches you ask about, this planet would be short of matter in one part, right through: or, as a body layers fat and lean, it would have alternate pages in its volume. If the first were true, it would be revealed by solar eclipses, when the light would shine, through the less dense parts, as it does when falling on anything else that is translucent. That is not so: so we must consider the second case, and The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3 I can show this is false also, your idea will have been refuted. If this less dense matter does not go right through, there must be a boundary, beyond which its denser opposite must prevent light travelling on, and from that boundary the rays would be reflected, as coloured light returns from glass that hides lead behind it. Now you will say that the ray is darker here than elsewhere because it is reflected from further back. Experiment can untangle you from that suggestion, if you will try it, which is always the spring that feeds the rivers of your science. Take three mirrors, and set two equidistant from you, and let the third, further away, be visible to your eyes, between the other two. Turn towards them, and have a light behind you, reflected from the three mirrors, back towards you. Though the more distant has a smaller area, you will see it shine as brightly as the others. In the Empyrean, the heaven of divine peace, a body whirls, the Primum Mobile, in whose virtue rests the existence of everything it contains. The Stellar Heaven that follows next, within and below it, which shows many lights, divides this existence among diverse essences, which it separates The Divine Comedy: Paradiso v. 3, and contains. The other seven, lower Heavens circling, dispose the distinct powers they have, in themselves, by various differentiations, to their own seeds and ends. These organs of the universe fall, as you can see, from grade to grade, since they receive from above, and work downwards. Now, note well how I thread this pass, to the truth you long for, so that afterwards you may know how to keep the ford alone. And the Stellar Heaven, that so many lights beautify, takes its imprint from the profound mind, of the Cherubim, that turn it, and from that forms the seal. And as the soul, in your dust, diffuses itself through your different members, and melds to diverse powers, so the Divine Intelligence deploys its goodness, multiplied throughout the stars, still turning round its own unity.
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