Kismet, Way Of The Sword Suit Of Cups Digital Tarot Cards & Booklet. Original UNEDITED DRAFT by Alchemist Publishing LLC

SUIT OF CUPS

BY LONDA R. MARKS

MINOR ARCANA COLOR DIGITAL CARDS & BOOKLET

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WAY OF THE SWORD THE SUIT OF CUPS

KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

“La Folie Ou L’Alchemiste : Madness or Alchemist

DIGITAL COLOR BOOKLET Minor Arcana Cards & Divinations Suit of Cups

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DEDICATION “Kismet, Way Of The Sword, La Folie ou L’Alchimiste : Madness or Alchemist,” is dedicated to Pete Way bass legend and founder of UFO, Fastway, Waysted & Pete Way Band. Pete has also performed with numerous top artists in rock music since 1969. Florence, Italy (Firenze) has been an artistic inspiration since Catholic grade school. Right after relocating my studio to Firenze in 2014 to study the Medici kismet/fate created a detour for me and Rock Legend News magazine was born after one of my first interviews for the magazine with one of rock’s most unique and inspiring artists, Pete Way. Having been involved in art and the rock music industry since 1970s, Florence, Italy art adventure has turned out to be the place where I would put my life’s work together. It is where my art and music interests united and above all has been a good test in what happens when you follow your heart. Now, I am at one with the Renaissance vibrations in Florence, Italy where they are undeniably quite active and certainly become part of your soul - or, maybe soul has returned to the root of its frequency. Shortly after doing the interview with Pete Way, in January 2015, I founded Pete Way Facebook Group and have kept it running every day since. Some of my artwork is included in Pete Way Facebook Group. After building Pete Way Facebook Group for 5 years I discovered that in 2018 David Bowie’s artist had released a tarot deck inspired by the work he did for David. With thirteen tarot decks in my

portfolio, “Lights On!” (as a pun to UFO’s “Lights Out” song). UFO founder Pete Way was standing in the shadows of Kismet who was pointing a finger at me. So, in September 2018, I began a few tarot design ideas. The name of the street where my studio is, Via della Spada, in English means: Way Of The Sword. I expressed to Pete Way a few years earlier that it might be a good name for his new album. He thought it was interesting but would keep the title for his album “Walking On The Edge.” Not until towards the end of 2019 did I conclude that “Way Of The Sword” would be a better title for the new tarot deck dedicated to Pete Way, originally titled: “Kismet, Thunderbird Soul,” since “Way Of The Sword” has been pretty much the way I have lived my life, it has Pete’s last name in the title and, it applies to the way Pete Way who has lived his life by: “Way Of The Sword.” KISMET! —Londa R. Marks

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whilst the muse of music invokes mythological metal-gods cryptographically weaving them into a World of Tarot, by Way Of The Sword.

INTRODUCTION Londa Rae Marks was born February 26, 1952 in Marietta, Ohio, the first settlement in the northwest territory. On her birthday February 26, 2014 in Florence, Italy, by a fluke or by the hand of kismet, Londa acquired her studio on Via della Spada (Way Of The Sword) - that afternoon. Via della Spada — one of a trio of streets shaped like three swords or a Y — with Via delle Belle Donne the right blade, in between is Via del Sole and Via della Spada the left blade. The three streets connect to Via del Morro. Bella Donna happens to be the title of a UFO song. Morro happens to be the name of a street that connected to Calimali (another street nearby in Firenze) the street Londa lived on in Woodland Hills, California, where Hawk was developed. On Via della Spada where her studio is Art, Music & Technology is based on Cryptography; The Art of Writing Codes or Solving Codes; the underlying foundation of Londa R. Marks Studio, Firenze, Italy. The harlequin theme of “Kismet, Way Of The Sword,” is based on a harlequin-esque style that Pete Way has adhered to for stage wear much of his life. His style has been emulated by top rock stars like Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Steve Harris of Iron Maiden. It is the hawk who leads the way for Londa, a co-founder of glam rock band Hawk in Los Angeles CA during the 1980s. The name Hawk was given to the rock band by her ex-husband, Hawk guitarist, Doug Marks who came up with the name one morning while walking in the hills where they lived on Calimali Rd., with vocalist Charles Morrill. Hawk has become a relentless spirit guide offering omens and is seen throughout this deck along with crows and other birds. The band is no longer together but the official Hawk Facebook page founded in 2012 by Londa is still run by her and Doug Marks still sells the Hawk album. Crow’s Magick Tarot is a deck Londa created in 1997 for U.S. Games Systems, Inc., also due to her love

of crows and how she sees them as a messenger from the magickal plane in the universe, always bestowing messages and great thoughts to us mortals. Harlequin role was definitively popularized by the Italian actor Tristano Martinelli in 1584–1585. The Harlequin is characterized by his chequered costume. Alichino is also the name of a demon in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, a guardian of Malebolge — the name derives from Arlecchino, the harlequin. Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” also includes his love of music. Throughout Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso began in 1308 and completed in 1320 in his “Divine Comedy” many parallels to the theatre of rock music and art are found. Born in the year 1265 in the city of Florence, Dante Alighieri has been long considered one of Italy’s first romantic figures and greatest poets. Throughout this deck are images of rock god bass legend Pete Way and visual artist Londa R. Marks, both mostly their youthful years because who you are as youth is still who you are as adult regardless of the human changes that occur. In fact, youthful images are more of a pure depiction of who the person is at soul level. Experience the artists adventure on their journey through World Of Tarot by Way Of The Sword. THE CARDS SCENES Tarot, a symbolic art system/instrument assists the mind, psyche and soul in deeply interpreting the subtle nuances of a reality. Each card in this deck is a theatrical tarot scene highlighted with some of Dante Alighieri’s words and works from his Divine Comedy and Florence, Italy art - Italy arts, images of rock music lifestyles entwined with mythology and theatrical characters resulting in a deeply meaningful cryptography featuring Artists as Music Muse and Rock Star, surrealistically assigned to Kismet, Way Of The Sword.

Kismet, Way Of The Sword Minor Arcana Four Suits Cups - Water P Love, Heart, Empathy - Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio Swords - Air M Mind, Observation, Challenge - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Staves - Fire N Creativity, Action, Spirit - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Dice - Earth O Home, Health, Wealth - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

CUPS Cups in Tarot cards are related to astrological signs of Water - Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio. The very nature of Cups is seductive and elusive. The element of water rules the Cups. Just as water takes on the form in which it is contained, so too does the meaning of the Cups take on the form of the one who is observing them.

Your Desires

Abundance

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DIVINATION A medieval wine goblet holds a radiant Mythical White Hawk from another world of strength and courage. Cæsar in arms, Suetonius says of Cæsar that he was of fair complexion, but had black and piercing eyes. Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri’s teacher, says in his Tesoro, of the hawk here mentioned—the grifagno—that its eyes ‘flame like fire.’ And, ‘cursed hawk, preserve thy distance!’ said He is about to claw me on the skin.’ To claw in turn; together then the two Plunged in the boiling pool. The heat knew full well How to unlock their fierce embraces. From a booklet of magick eleven arcane sigils resembling musical notation bars underline excerpts from La Divina Commedia; Dante Alighieri’s Manuscrito (manuscripts) — 1301-1400, Canto XXXIII of the Paradiso. The number 13 at top right reduces to number 4. Connected with the number 4: 40, 400, 4000, a geometric sequence; infinite series with finite sums. The Ace of Cups brings gains with affections and adoration for the object of desire and sharpens the edges of the hardest of heart through grinding and honing the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch, but above all: intuition, in order to synchronize souls. Heart is planted in the foundation below the cup among emblems from La Divina Commedia; Dante Alighieri’s manuscript, with eternal symbolism. Card upright keywords: Rapacious. Ravenous. A Holy Divine Truth revealed. Card reversed keywords: The strongest love is an unspoken truth.

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C lockwork

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DIVINATION Transitional moments in the Paradiso, the Holy Song of the souls of the Heaven of Venus. These souls have just arrived in the third heaven from the Empyrean: Those divine lights leaving the ride first started in them high Serafini; and within those whom I will appear before it sounded “Hosanna” yes, which unque then I was not disappointed to hear again. A curtain is drawn on a stage where the play is now behind the two becoming one interchanging souls’ energies presenting to spirit, the majesty of white hawks sight and aligning with the seers path through sanctification—making that which is holy, sacred. In the Paradiso descriptions of clockwork in Canto XXIV (lines 13–18), and Thales’ theorem about triangles in Canto XIII (lines 101–102): Although the image in the farthest glass will be of lesser size, there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars. Card upright keywords: One heart, one soul. Ecstacy. Serafini (angels being closest to God.) Card reversed keywords: Timing.

Dante's Sonnet

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DIVINATION Hand notated music of “Sonett von Dante Alighieri” hangs at the doorway above the goddesses, in front of the music god. This music piece is located in Italy. Dante was a contributor. Accompanied by the singing of angels they walk this distance; that of three volleys of arrows, as before with “tre passi” (three steps). In his most important work, the Divine Comedy, Dante shows his passion for music by giving readers symbols and musical metaphors; through music he addresses the main topic of the poem: the Love of God. The division of music into mundana (the harmony of the spheres and the cosmos), humana (the harmony of the human being) and instrumentalis (music performed by the instruments), indicated by the philosopher Boethius. And the sciences of the Quadrivio (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry and music) are the cultural frameworks in which the Divine Comedy unfolds. The Florentine poet conceives the order and proportion of the human being and the universe in perfect harmony but when he speaks of music he leaves the numbers and proportions to give space to sensitivity and feelings. The passion and knowledge of music are also found in another of his works, the Convivio: “Music still draws the human spirits, which they are heart vapors, so that they almost cease from any operation; one is the whole soul when he hears it, and the virtue of all it almost runs to the sensitive spirit that receives the sound.“ The Divine Comedy is a spiritual path that leads from sin to redemption; also the art of sounds follows this path. The infernal noises are “purified” by the melody and harmony to reach the polyphony of Paradise in which the souls cheer with their songs, Dante and Virgil! Card upright keywords: Paradise. It is not a question of harmony, order, nor of music; Simultaneous noises dominate the infernal circles: “tragic resonating of sighs and tears and high troubles.” Three cups hold Dante’s books: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Card reversed keywords: Metamorphosis. A new circle; “And a sweet melody ran for the bright air.”

Priviledged Zone

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DIVINATION Cultural transmission, textual and oral transmission that carries ideas across cultural boundaries: Stazio in Purgatorio 22 in Inferno 4: “Averoìs, che ’l gran comento feo” (Averroes, who made the great Commentary [Inf. 4.144]). Dante thus concludes his roll-call of — the great who are excluded though virtuous — with philosopher and commentator of Aristotle, responsible for the transmission of Aristotle to the Latin West, a form of cultural transmission of enormous value to Dante personally. This canto is reserved for the first circle of Hell, which in Dante’s Hell contains the space that theologians call “Limbo.” Dante’s treatment of Limbo is anomalous in the history of the idea of Limbo. Dante’s treatment of Limbo is in fact radical. The Light of Limbo burns from a radical source. Dante emphasizes the special status of the souls whom he places in his (non-traditional) Limbo. Limbo means “edge.” Limbo was imagined by theologians to be a privileged zone of Hell where the only punishment is deprivation. We have now entered the first circle of Dante’s Hell. Dante the poet goes out of his way to exploit the tension between the special status of the souls of Limbo and the reality that this is the first circle of Hell. Music can shape a world to resemble Limbo and present gifts otherwise not found.

Card upright keywords: A privileged zone of Hell. Card reversed keywords: Punishment is deprivation.

The Gate of Trials

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DIVINATION As Dante grew older and matured, and realized that his love for Beatrice would never be consummated, his love for Beatrice turned more into a love of writing. Due to Dante’s maturity throughout his life his definition of love evolves depending on his location throughout The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, or Paradise. Love is initially mentioned in the first canto of Inferno when Dante the traveller describes the approaching dawn. Dante states, “…when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty” (Inf. I. 40), referring to God creating every living creature on Earth and every object in the universe purely out love and devotion. Dante continues his journey to the gates of Hell, he comes across a sign that states, “…My maker was divine authority, the highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things. Abandon every hope, who enter here” (Inf. III 7-9). Through these gates if one enters where music is found, love, devotion and all trials will be made to those seekers. Card upright keywords: Highest wisdom, and the primal love is the strength not the sorrow. Sometimes we find love where we least expect it. Inevitable breakthrough. Classical eros, as in Vergil’s Eclogue 10, “omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori” (love conquers all, and we too yield to love). Card reversed keywords: Regretting past approaches to love. Blinded by Sorrow. Gate of Trials.

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DIVINATION Dante is quite explicit about the challenge he poses the reader at the beginning of Paradiso 2. He tells the reader to turn back to shore, lest we get lost as we follow him onto the watery deep. Obviously it is a story about Pluto, both in terms of the journey through the underworld and of path that leads from the deepest of all agonies and suffering in hell to the highest states of bliss and union with the Creator. The initial recipient of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was Beatrice, who the writer was in love with. The central point of the poem is the song, where Dante first meets the “perfection.” It’s the 30th song of “purgatory.” 30 is comprised of 3 and 10. If we count from the start, this song is the 64th: 6 + 4 = 10. Before this song there are 63 songs available in the composition (6 + 3 = 9) then 36 (3 + 6 = 9). The poem consists of 145 parts (including the prologue) 1 + 4 + 5 = 10. Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso) with the word “comedy” in the classical sense refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, that results in kismet of an ultimate good. The progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise begins with the pilgrim’s moral confusion and ends with the vision of God. Beatrice’s speeches of Paradiso 1 and 2—both devoted to illuminating the order of the universe—are complementary, book-ends as it were. The speech on the order of the universe in Paradiso 1 illustrates all of creation returning to the One, whereas the speech on the order of the universe in Paradiso 2 illustrates the One emanating into the many. The heavens actualize being—the actualization of being occurs in the ninth heaven. In general, “plot” gets harder and harder to pinpoint. At the same time, if effort is made to look for moments of “plot” in order to orient ourselves in what Dante himself will call, in the next canto, the “pelago” (ocean) of his text. In the opening three lines of the last cantica Dante poses both the borderless unity of the “universe” (whose etymology precisely stresses oneness) and the irreducible reality of difference: The glory of the One who moves all things permeates the universe and glows in one part more and in another less. Card upright keywords: Remember the shore. Contemplate the plot (of D & B - Dante & Beatrice). Mysticism and symbolism of numbers. Kismet, moved by planets. Card reversed keywords: Paradox of symbolism.

Wishes

Your Desires

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DIVINATION As a prelude to Paradiso 8 and 9, let us note that we are now in the heaven of Venus, named after the classical goddess of love and eros. Dante features a typology of many kinds of love in this heaven: You loved me very much, and you had good waves; that if I had been down, I showed you of my love more than the branches. ( Par . 8.55-57) You loved me much and had good cause for that; for had I stayed below, I should have showed you more of my love than the leaves alone. You who ‘ntendendo’ is a poem about conflict, the conflict experienced by the poet between his love for Beatrice — his mystical, spiritual, and poetical interests — and the other chief interests of his life. Paradiso 8.93: How can a bitter fruit come from a sweet seed? Voi that ‘tending’ the third heaven move: We turn with heavenly principles of a turn and a turn and a thirst, to whom you of the world already said: ‘ You who’ moving the third heaven move ‘. . . ( Par . 8.34-37) Card upright keywords: Poetic desires. Wishes. Card reversed keywords: Dante’s treatment of the heaven of Venus: a heaven where love is what we expect, and what we want, but not what we receive.

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DIVINATION The door is closed. Hands are emptied, one last cup lays in front of it as a reminder of being finished. She looks towards a new sound, a new path. I shine here because this planet’s radiance conquered me. But in myself I pardon happily the reason for my fate; I do not grieve and vulgar minds may find this hard to see. (Par. 9.32-36) The next to speak is the troubadour, “The final soul is the brightest star in this heaven focused on Florence and the Vatican.” “God can see all,” I said, “and, blessed spirit, your vision is contained in Him, so that no wish can ever hide itself from you. Your voice has always made the heavens glad as has the singing of the pious fires that make themselves a cowl of their six wings: why then do you not satisfy my longings? I would not have to wait for your request if I could enter you as you do me.” Card upright keywords: “Sail enchanted and together in Merlin’s boat to its highest level, (Purg. 23.116).” Card reversed keywords: This heaven, where the shadow cast by earth comes to a point where the first soul to be taken up triumphed yet ends with despair even as the brightest soul in this sphere.

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DIVINATION Nine cups electrified with red energies between “second stories and iconographics;” and Dante displayed red cards, Florence. On the reverse side of the first wheel: Excelcis (Glory to God) from the mountains infinitas.” The first lines are repeated in reverse for the other side of the wheel. Or you who thirst, you who are light ... Here you have finished the treatise of paradise and the comedy of dances Aligherii of Firenze. I’m grateful. Amen (h. 187v) Initials in red and black. Capitals in blue and red. Iconographic imagery & symbolism outline the story La divina commedia, Divina commedia from Manuscrito of Author Dante Alighieri (12651321). In ermine tails and rabbit furs, black velvet, diamonds and rubies she is well-fashioned and carrying a page of the Divina Commedia for her pass through metamorphosis in order to awaken on the other side - the good side of karma. Card upright keywords: Good karma side of wheel. For happy, death or grief, red for love and passion. Card reversed keywords: Bad karma side of wheel.

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DIVINATION The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is considered one of the greatest poems of Europe’s Medieval Period. It builds on Thomas Aquinas’s Scholasticism, which linked the secular world of philosophy and reason with the religious world of faith and theology. According to Scholasticism you need both reason and faith to reach truth. Within [the Light’s] depths I saw gathered together, Bound by love into a single volume, Pages that lie scattered through the universe Substance and accidents and their relations I saw as though they fused in such a way That what I say is but a gleam of light. The universal pattern of this knot I believe I saw, because in telling this, I feel my gladness growing ever larger. One moment made more slip my memory than Twenty-five centuries robbed from the adventure That awed Neptune with the shadow of the Argo. So my mind, held in absolute suspense, Was staring fixed, intent, and motionless, And by its staring grew the more inflamed. Within that Light a person is so changed It is impossible to give consent Ever to turn from it to other sights Card upright keywords: But by the sight that gathered strength in me as I gazed on, what was One in appearance was altering for me as I was changing. In the profound and shining-clear existence of the deep Light appeared to me three circles. Card reversed keywords: Radiance within that living Light on which I looked.

The Caduceus

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DIVINATION A page from Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia. Foligno (Italy): Johann Neumeister, 1472 reveals that the third cantica of la Commedia by Dante Alighieri of Florence begins called Paradiso Canto VIIII first in that principal author has a problem with the canto invoking poetic science. To Gloria, he says that a need for you penetrates and shines in one part more and less in others of the sky that takes most light. It was I and you laughing who appreciates and defends our deep intellect so much that retro memory cannot. Truly how much of the kingdom in my mind could make theophorus (bearing or carrying a god) now allow me to make my song. The Page Of Cups holds The Caduceus Winged Rod With Twisting Serpents. Practitioners of ancient Egyptian medicine would often use snakes as a symbol of protection in their magical healthcare rituals. In ancient mythology, the Caduceus was wielded by several analogous deities within their respective cultures; Hermes in Greek mythology, Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology, and Mercury in Roman mythology. In every case, this serpentine staff represented negotiation and commerce; the two snakes symbolizing a balance in transactions. Within Egyptian and Greco-Roman culture, the Caduceus itself was not in any way considered a symbol of health or protection. The message he holds is poetic, romantic and healing: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where Mercury returns from the underworld carrying the symbol of medical profession the caduceus, of which guild Dante was a member, and Dante has furthermore dressed up the archangel Michael as Mercury.â&#x20AC;? Card upright keywords: From the celestial spheres Mercury containing the name of a god in whose care the individual entrusted draws from his cup of ancient energies flowing towards the soul. Card reversed keywords: The night was filled with pity for that exceptional desire.

Zephyrus

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DIVINATION The underpinning of the Kinght of Cups message. The Divine Comedy, Dante’s description of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, was written during the last thirteen years of the poet’s life. The Foligno edition, shown here, possessed by the cup, was printed by Johann Neumeister (Florence, Italy 1470-1495), and is one of the two first editions of the Divine Comedy ever published. Thus the Foligno edition was printed only twenty years after the Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1454), which was the first printed European book. This place in the early history of printing is a mark of the great poem’s importance and influence during the Renaissance. This vellum manuscript leaf preserves much of the revelatory and crucial cantos XXXI and XXXII. The manuscrip (message) was printed by one of the printers of the Renaissance, publishing not only classical texts of Dante but also the vernacular works of Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Late in the Purgatory, Beatrice appears, initially rebuking the poet but, Beatrice was the idealized love of Dante’s life. Card upright keywords: Zephyrus, between worlds he breathes life into souls. Then fear was poetically quiet in the heart. Card reversed keywords: The night was filled with pity for that exceptional desire.

Queen of Sheba

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DIVINATION At the beginning that the Commedia verbal forms of cantare are used “to sing” sixty-one different times, and nominal forms of “song” or “singer” (including canto, canzone, cantica, and cantor) fifty-three different times. In addition, note (“notes”) occurs fifteen times; “melody” (melodia, melode), seven times; “hymn” (inno), six times; and “psalm” (salmo/i), four times. At the same time of course, the text repeatedly incorporates quotations from various sung sacred texts (from the Bible, the liturgy, the hymnal, the canon, etc.), which appear with frequency and regularity (c.forty times) in the Purgatorio and the Paradiso. The seventh and final terrace of Mt. Purgatory constitutes the beginning of the key transition from the mountain proper to the Garden of Eden with an extremely important emphasis on singing as penitence on this terrace, as Dante-protagonist is initially attracted by the singing of these penitents: Summae Deus clementiae in the breast to the great ardor then I heard singing which makes me feel no less volger. This key Matins hymn, associated with Saturday night, 4 is explicitly tied to the cleansing power of fire over lust (in the third stanza), while singing as such is stressed in the process (stanzas two and four). This is also, of course, the seventh (and last)

ante recalling the popular legend that Christ’s Cross was formed from the wood of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and The Queen of Sheba to whom it was miraculously revealed that the Savior of the world would some day hang upon this wood refused to set foot on it and warned Solomon of the revelation she had.

Canto XXXII Purg. E vólto al temo (at the face of time)

time that a Beatitude occurs. In terms of song, there are two angels associated here with the Beatitude for the only time on the seven Purgatorial terraces. On every other Terrace there has only been a single angel who speaks the Beatitude. Card upright keywords: Courtly-erotic love. Serves as a guide through the wall of fire. Ascent before the coming of night. Queen of Sheba, named by her grandmother at birth, begins to walk along the river, before she finally pauses, she commands Dante to initiate his experience of the phenomena that will become ultimately the procession. Card reversed keywords: Careful emphasis on the importance of singing, Consider the key role of song in another key transition: the opening presentation of Dante’s vision of the holy procession in the Garden of Eden.

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DIVINATION Music And The Act Of Song In Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ And ‘Paradiso:’ “I seemed to hear... I wrote them down, Spirit or breath becomes voices.” Since Mt. Purgatory is situated on the Earth, it is explicitly linked to earthly time, which is calculated musically. The authority of the temporal monarch flows down into him without any intermediary from the Fountainhead of universal authority; this Fountainhead, though “one of the citadel of its own simplicity of nature” (Sonsol. 4.pr.6.8) flows into many streams from the abundance of its goodness. It is of course a well known critical fact that music plays an important role in Dante’s Commedia starting in Purgatorio 2 and continuing to Parardiso 32. And this key role for music in the Purgatorio and the Paradiso is qualitatively different for each of these two cantiche. In Paradise, on the other hand, narrative time is not meant to be earthly, but celestial, and music thus functions very differently. As of his wanting your angels make sacrifice to you, singing hosanna, so do their men. Osanna indicates the singing associated with the advancing procession. Card upright keywords: Cantando (“singing”). Invocation is overtly generated by song. Justice draws speech from the fount of Wisdome, as does the poet. Paradiso, Canto III: Dante and Beatrice speak to Piccarda and Constance of Sicily. Dante’s Paradiso: Sphere of the Fixed Stars Pt. 3 (Cantos 26-27). Card reversed keywords: His short final journey is a kind of honorary confirmation; but for the later, this exit involves a passage through the wall of fire.

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