Paradiso, Dante Alighieri | John Saly (essay date 1989)
John Saly (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Saly, John. “The Eternal Now: Union with Being” and “Dante, Poet of the Future.” In Dante's Paradiso: The Flowering of the Self: An Interpretation of the Anagogical Meaning, pp. 175-99. New York: Pace University Press, 1989.
[In the following excerpt, Saly explores the third level of meaning of Paradiso, which Dante calls “anagogical” and which theologians, as Saly explains, define as mystical or spiritual.]
THE ETERNAL NOW: UNION WITH BEING
Dentro all' ampiezza di questo reame casual punto non puote aver sito, se non come tristizia, o sete, o fame;
chè per eterna legge è stabilito quantunque vedi, sì che giustamente ci si risponde dall' anello al dito.
[XXXII. 52-57]
(In all the breadth of this kingdom nothing of chance can find a place any more than sorrow or thirst or hunger, for all thou seest is ordained by eternal law, so...
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