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Between Fortune and Providence - Astrology and the Universe in Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
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Between Fortune and Providence - Astrology and the Universe in Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
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In The Divine Comedy Dante tells the story of a pilgrim (himself)
who is guided through the realms of the dead - Hell, Purgatory and
Paradise - and the lessons about fortune and destiny that he learns
along the way. This medieval work is of great interest to modern
astrologers. Although astrologers, along with diviners and
magicians, were placed in Hell, Dante's great poem is full of
astrology; This book offers the reader an understanding of Dante's
vast cosmology within the poem's moral, spiritual and dramatic
contexts; it is an especially valuable resource for those
interested in the intersection of cosmology or astrology and
spirituality. The final section of this book explores Inferno 20
and discusses the relationship of astrological practice to that of
divination, magic, and prophecy. We see that Dante's astrology is
an expression of nature (and super-nature) that is ordered but
subject to change, and, in the earthly realm, subject to decline
and the need for regeneration. There are specifi c philosophical
traditions underpinning The Divine Comedy's astrology - are these
traditions also within modern astrology? We fi nd that astrology
itself, like Dante's great poem, also dwells between the turnings
of personal Fortune and the purposeful universe of Providence.
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