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Reading 2 Before Reading 2 Paradiso: Canto XXXIII Share What You Know He prays to thee What do you know about heaven from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alightor grace and stre Translated by John Ciardi or what do you expect it to be? o the all-healing Find Meaning in Context ""O virgin mother, daughter of thy Son, .And 1. who nev . thy sweet benignity flow out humble beyond all creatures and more exalted: he vision mysel . in thee is pity, in thee munificence predestined turning point of God’s intention; add my own pr . dispel the trace of every mortal shadow Thy merit so ennobled human nature enough to mo . that second aureole which shone of every morta forth in Thee that its divine Creator did not scorn and let him se . cleaving my mind in a great flash to make Himself the creature of His creature. of light ?I pray the fu ‘The Love that was rekindled in Thy womb keep whole t Set a Reading Focus sends for the warmth of the eternal peace and of his p Find out how Dante’s visionary within whose ray this flower has come to bloom. journey ends in the last canto of 13 Protect hi Paradiso and the end of the Divine see how Be Comedy. *Here to us, thou art the noon and scope of Love revealed; and among mortal men, clasp rever About the Work the living fountain of eternal hope. " The eyes From Cantos I to XXX of Paradiso, glowed or Dante is guided by Beatrice through ‘Lady, thou art so near God’s reckonings with whic the eight spheres of heaven. that who seeks grace and does not first seek thee According to sources, Beatrice was a would have his wish fly upward without wings. 15 Those real woman to whom Dante became through infatuated when he was nine years of other old. Without ever declaring his love ‘Not only does thy sweet benignity for her, Dante loved her passionately flow out to all who beg, but oftentimes thy charity arrives before the plea. 16 And I all his life. She became his poetic felt m muse and inspiration. In the last three cantos of In thee is pity, in thee munificence, sudde Paradiso, St. Bernard of Clairvaux in thee the tenderest heart, in thee unites takes the place of Beatrice as Dante’s 17 Ber all that creation knows of excellence! guide to the ninth sphere of heaven to lo leading to the Empyrean or the with highest heaven. Canonized in 1174, $Now comes this man who from the final pit St. Bernard was a gifted theologian of the universe up to this height has seen, 18Li and a great spiritual master and writer one by one, the three lives of the spirit. it p of the medieval period. of 108 Unit 1: Classics of the Ancient World: Mirrors of Human Struggles and Conflicts
"He prays to thee in fervent supplication for grace and strength, that he may raise his eyes "What then I saw is more than tongue can say. to the all-healing final revelation. Our human speech is dark before the vision. The ravished memory swoons and falls away. 1And I, who never more desired to see the vision myself that I do that he may see It, "As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find add my own prayer, and pray that it may be the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind- "enough to move you to dispel the trace of every mortal shadow by thy prayers "just such am I, having lost nearly all and let him see revealed the Sum of Grace. the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall. 121 pray the further, all-persuading Queen, "So, in the sun, the footprints fade from snow. keep whole the natural bent of his affections On the wild wind that bore the tumbling leaves and of his powers after his eyes have seen. the Sybil’s oracles were scattered so. "Protect him from the stirrings of man’s clay; 20 Light Supreme who doth Thyself withdraw see how Beatrice and the blessed host so far above man’s mortal understanding, clasp reverent hands to join me as I pray." lend me again some glimpse of what I saw; "The eyes that God reveres and loves the best "make Thou my tongue so eloquent it may glowed on the speaker, making clear the joy of all Thy glory speak a single clue with which true prayer is heard by the most blest. to those who follow me in the world’s day; 15Those eyes turned then to the Eternal Ray, 25for by returning to my memory through which, we must indeed believe, the eyes somewhat, and somewhat sounding in these verses, of others do not find such ready way. Thou shalt show man more of Thy victory. 16And I, who neared the goal of all my nature, 26So dazzling was the splendor of that Ray, felt my soul, at the climax of its yearning, that I must certainly have lost my senses suddenly, as it ought, grow calm with rapture. had I, but for an instant, turned away. 17Bernard then, smiling sweetly, gestured to me "And so it was, as I recall, I could, the better bear to look, until at last, to look up, but I had already become my Vision made one with the Eternal Good. within myself all he would have me be. "Oh grace abounding that had made me fit "Little by little as my vision grew to fix my eyes on the eternal light it penetrated faintly through the aura until my vision was consumed in It! of the high lamp which in Itself is true. Lesson 4: Literature of the Dark and Middle Ages: Gems of Light 109
"I saw within Its depth how It conceives "Within the depthless deep and clear existence all things in a single volume bound by Love, of that abyss of light three circles shown-. of which the universe is the scattered leaves; three in color, one in circumference; 30 substance, accident, and their relation "the second from the first, rainbow from rainbow so fused that all I say could do no more the third, an exhalation of pure fire than yield a glimpse of that bright revelation. equally breathed forth by the other two. 31I think I saw the universal form "But oh how much my words miss my conception that binds these things, for as I speak these words which is itself so far from what I saw I feel my joy swell and my spirits warm. than to call it feeble would be rank deception! 37Twenty-five centuries since Neptune saw "O Light Eternal fixed in Itself alone, the Argo’s keel have not moved all mankind, by Itself alone understood, which from Itself recalling that adventure, to such awe loves and glows, self-knowing and self-known Was I felt in an instant. My tranced being "that second aureole which shone forth in The, stared fixed and motionless upon that vision, conceived as a reflection of the first- even more fervent to see in the act of seeing or which appeared so to my scrutiny- 3Experiencing that Radiance, the spirit "seemed in Itself of Its own coloration is so indrawn it is impossible to be painted with man’s image. I fixed my eyes even to think of ever turning from It. on that alone in rapturous contemplation. "For the good which is the will’s ultimate object "Like a geometer wholly dedicated is all subsumed in It; and, being removed, to squaring the circle, but who cannot find, all is defective which in It is perfect. think as he may, the principle indicated- 36 Now in my recollection of the rest "so did I study the supernal face. I have less power to speak than any infant I yearned to know just how our image merges wetting its tongue yet at its mother’s breast; into that circle, and how it there finds place; "and not because that Living Radiance bore "but mine were not the wings for such a flight more than one semblance, for It is unchanging Yet, as I wished, the truth I wished for came and is forever as it was before; cleaving my mind in a great flash of light. rather, as I grew worthier to see, "Here my powers rest from their high fantasy. the more I looked, the more unchanging semblance but already I could feel my being turned- appeared to change with every change in me. instinct and intellect balanced equally "as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the sun and other stars 110 Unit 1: Classics of the Ancient World: Mirrors of Human Struggles and Conflicts
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