Insights Into Christian Esoterism by Rene Guenon

Author:Rene Guenon [Guenon, Rene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780900588396
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Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Published: 2005-05-14T22:00:00+00:00

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1. Il linguaggio segreto di Dante e dei Fidèles d’Amour, vol. II (Discussione e note aggiunte); Roma, Biblioteca di Filosofia e Scienza, Casa éditrice ‘Optima’.

2. Abu’l-Ala al Ma’arri (937–1057), one of the greatest Arab poets, who became blind as a child. Regarding his work Risālat al-Ghufrān [Treatise on Pardon], its treatment of the Nocturnal Journey of the Prophet, and its possible role as a precursor to Dante’s Divine Comedy, see Miguel Asín Palacios, Islam and the Divine Comedy, tr. Harold Sutherland (London: Frank Cass & Company, Ltd., 1968), p55. Ed.

3. Dante is in effect only a contraction of Durante, which was his real name.

4. In the seventeenth grade, that of ‘Knight of the East and West’, one also finds a device formed of seven initials, those of a septenary of divine attributes whose enumeration is drawn from a passage in the Apocalypse.

5. This heart so placed reminds us of the no less remarkable and mysterious figure of the heart of Saint-Denis d’Orques, shown in the center of the planetary and zodiacal circles, a figure that was the subject of a study by Charbonneau-Lassay in Regnabit.

6. On this subject, the reader is referred to what we have said about Dante’s treatise De Monarchia in our Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power.

7. Paradiso, xxvi, 133.

8. The French text here gives the Arabic numeral 4, which is quite likely a misprint as the number four is not under consideration. Ed.

9. Is it merely coincidental that the heart of Saint-Denis d’Orques, which we just mentioned, bears what appears to be a wound in the form of yod? Would there not be some reason to suppose that the depictions of the ‘Sacred Heart’ antedating its ‘official’ adoption by the Church may have had certain links with the doctrine of the Fedeli d’Amore or of their successors?

10. Le origini della letteratura italiana nel pensiero di Dante, Palermo, 1930.

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