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World card discussion--TDM repro. image
I found this, an interesting addition---the world and a TDM design:
http://thealchemicalegg.com/leotaroN.html
The Leonardo exhibition of drawings in New York is supposed to be spectacular because many worldwide communities and collections of Leonardo were asked for contributions by the Curator of the New York Met...and in many cases, as one of the curators of the Italian collections said, "For the people of New York, I will contribute ___ drawings."
I think this is a kindness from other communities in the world that we all want to remember. And related to the article and also touching on questions of squaring the circle, I had this thought:
Yes, we would like to believe the design on the World card is
an answer to Dante's question at the end of the Divine Comedy--- he was one who wanted to square the circle with equations or reason. But he wrote to us that found that pure, learned reasoning alone wasn't enough. He also needed to be balanced by having faith in higher truths that he did not fully understand with his mind. He had to go through stages until he was able to see the panoramic vision with new eyes, until he understood and was able to form the perfect balance of faith, hope and love.
I think that I like how Angela Collins Dickerman ended her meditations of the 22 trumps with Dante Algheri's last cantos of the Divine Comedy. How Paradiso and the Divine Comedy ended with an enlightened, but gentle tone. Dante himself had passed on two years earlier in service for his last patron, an elder statesman negotiating peace in a perilous time.
His last cantos were found by his son---there was a dream that Dante Algheri came and spoke to his son and in the night, the young man went to the new owner of his father's last home. The new owner and the son found the manuscripts where the son's dream said it would be, behind some plaster and wall decoration--a bag of manuscripts that finished the poem to the exact 100 cantos that we know today.
My hope that it helps to add a little to a glorious group discussion that I enjoy revisiting on the TDM majors....
I found this, an interesting addition---the world and a TDM design:
http://thealchemicalegg.com/leotaroN.html
The Leonardo exhibition of drawings in New York is supposed to be spectacular because many worldwide communities and collections of Leonardo were asked for contributions by the Curator of the New York Met...and in many cases, as one of the curators of the Italian collections said, "For the people of New York, I will contribute ___ drawings."
I think this is a kindness from other communities in the world that we all want to remember. And related to the article and also touching on questions of squaring the circle, I had this thought:
Yes, we would like to believe the design on the World card is
an answer to Dante's question at the end of the Divine Comedy--- he was one who wanted to square the circle with equations or reason. But he wrote to us that found that pure, learned reasoning alone wasn't enough. He also needed to be balanced by having faith in higher truths that he did not fully understand with his mind. He had to go through stages until he was able to see the panoramic vision with new eyes, until he understood and was able to form the perfect balance of faith, hope and love.
I think that I like how Angela Collins Dickerman ended her meditations of the 22 trumps with Dante Algheri's last cantos of the Divine Comedy. How Paradiso and the Divine Comedy ended with an enlightened, but gentle tone. Dante himself had passed on two years earlier in service for his last patron, an elder statesman negotiating peace in a perilous time.
His last cantos were found by his son---there was a dream that Dante Algheri came and spoke to his son and in the night, the young man went to the new owner of his father's last home. The new owner and the son found the manuscripts where the son's dream said it would be, behind some plaster and wall decoration--a bag of manuscripts that finished the poem to the exact 100 cantos that we know today.
My hope that it helps to add a little to a glorious group discussion that I enjoy revisiting on the TDM majors....