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The Esoterism of Dante Gebundene Ausgabe – 28. Mai 2005

Englisch Ausgabe von Henry Fohr (Autor), Rene Guenon (Autor), James Richard Wetmore (Autor)

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Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimension of their tradition has somehow been lost, and have therefore sought to discover, or create, an 'esoteric' or 'initiatic' Christianity. In the middle of the nineteenth century two scholars, Gabriele Rossetti and Eugène Aroux, pointed to certain esoteric meanings in the work of Dante Alighieri, notably The Divine Comedy. Partly based on their scholarship, Guénon in 1925 published The Esoterism of Dante. From the theses of Rosetti and Aroux, Guénon retains only those elements that prove the existence of such hidden meanings; but he also makes clear that esoterism is not 'heresy' and that a doctrine reserved for an elite can be superimposed on the teaching given the faithful without standing in opposition to it. One of René Guénon's lifelong quests was to discover, or revive, the esoteric, initiatory dimension of the Christian tradition. In the present volume, along with its companion volume Insights into Christian Esoterism (which includes the separate study Saint Bernard), Guénon undertakes to establish that the three parts of The Divine Comedy represent the stages of initiatic realization, exploring the parallels between the symbolism of the Commedia and that of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Christian Hermeticism, and illustrating Dante's knowledge of traditional sciences unknown to the moderns: the sciences of numbers, of cosmic cycles, and of sacred astrology. In these works Guénon also touches on the all-important question of medieval esoterism and discusses the role of sacred languages and the principle of initiation in the Christian tradition, as well as such esoteric Christian themes and organizations as the Holy Grail, the Guardians of the Holy Land, the Sacred Heart, the Fedeli d'Amore and the 'Courts of Love', and the Secret Language of Dante. In addition to Dante, various other paths toward a possible Christian esoterism have been explored by many investigators-the legend of the Holy Grail, the Knights Templars, the tradition of Courtly Love, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Christian Hermeticism-and Guénon deals with all of these in the present volume as well as his Insights into Christian Esoterism. In the latter, one chapter in particular, 'Christianity and Initiation', will be of special interest with regard to the history of the Traditionalist School. When first published as an article, it gave rise to some controversy because Guénon here reaffirmed his denial of the efficacy of the Christian sacraments as rites of initiation, a point of divergence between the teachings of Guénon and those of other key perennialist thinkers. Both The Esoterism of Dante and Insights into Christian Esoterism will be of inestimable value to all who are struggling to come to terms with the fullness of the Christian tradition.

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108 Seiten
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Englisch
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Sophia Perennis
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28. Mai 2005
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15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm
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1597310581
ISBN-13

978-1597310581
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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Sophia Perennis (28. Mai 2005)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Gebundene Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 108 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1597310581
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597310581
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm

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Magisterial Essays on the mediaeval Florentine Master

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This slim volume, filled with precious insights, conveys Rene Guenon's ideas regarding the Christian esoterism which pervades the mediaeval vision of Dante Alighieri: herein the French-Egyptian metaphysician, throughout a series of compact and detailed chapter-essays, examines the esoteric context, symbology and content of the great 13th century Florentine's epic evangelical exposition of Catholic ethics, eschatology, sophiology and soteriology and identifies certain key-themes which he unfolds in a fascinating manner as if guided by the Madonna Intelligenzia herself. Dante's technique of polysemous exegesis and the `Four Senses', crowned by the Anagogic sense is explored, the mysterious tertiary order of the Knights Templar, the `Fede Santa', with which the poet was affiliated is discussed: the possibility of Sufic influences from Akbarian sources, first proposed by Miguel Asin Palacios, is considered and the tripartite cosmology of tradition contemplated. Hermetic, Rosicrucian and Masonic implications are brought into the picture as Guenon traces the salient contours of Dante's mediaeval world-view. In respect of the `Divine Comedy' the Inferno represents the Hell of the fallen, world of profane humanity and its iniquities, the Mountain of Purgatory is the initiatory realm of purifications, trials and expiation rising to the Terrestrial Paradise and Paradiso the transcendent supra-cosmic world of the heavens symbolising the `sciences' or more properly `gnoses' culminating in the vision of the Mystic Rose of Heaven. Guenon shows very clearly how Dante portrays Lucifer locked in the ice of Judecca as the fallen Tamasic element, the `inverse attraction of nature' characterised by obscuration, descent and contraction in the lowest icy circles of Hell and thus denoting `the tendency toward individualisation, with all the limitations inherent within it', rather reminiscent of William Blake`s `Satan the Selfhood` or the Sufic idea of Iblis as the Nafs, the lower passional Ego. Certain dense pages examine the encoded structures of Dante's cantos in the light of complex traditional number-symbolism and the cosmic cycles. Rene Guenon specifically dismisses those fanciful theories typical of the 19th century by which heretical or revolutionary connotations were wishfully projected upon the work of the great Florentine poet and tersely consigns this species of mistaken speculation. In fact the Catholicism of Dante's vision is unimpeachable in its orthodox purity and true Esoterism is never in reality opposed or antithetical to Exoterism in any case but exists as a symbiosis within authentic Tradition. Anybody who appreciates the brilliance of authoritative insight and clarity which characterizes the Guenonian perspective will find this book an invaluable companion when reading the sonorous visionary cantos of Dante's great Christian epic of the Middle Ages which the Florentine master himself said he created as a `Fifth Gospel'. For such a slim work, entirely in keeping with Guenon's exaltation of sacral Quality over profane Quantity, this concise treatise conveys a profundity of understanding in the realm of Dante's Christian esoterism. Very highly recommended.

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A good complement to reading the Divine Comedy. Not especially revealing.

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