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em as contrasted with the secular city of athens he wrote what has athens to do with jerusalem after we become christians we have no need of greek philosophy well somehow paradoxically tertullian s drastic view his outright hostility toward the entanglement of religion and the world has largely been adopted by the left and in general by those who believe in radical separation of church and state jerusalem has nothing to do with athens or america and the west they have a substitute secular vision for the world this substitute vision says voshell is presently called globalism and globalism has a deep interest in supplanting judaism and christianity both of which share the eternal spiritual vision of jerusalem as the holy city whose foundational principles are critical to any society choosing justice and righteousness above power and might the globalist vision is against any particular identification by nation or religion to acknowledge jerusalem is to ratify the cornerstone beliefs of western civilization while the real desire is to allow two competitors for a new world vision to advance their dreams of empire the one is the secularist vision of the e u and the united nations the other is the vision of a global caliphate what is at the heart of the debate over jerusalem is the spiritual foundations of western civilization what is being sought is the extermination of the judeo christian consensus that has animated the west and now increasingly much of the globe ever more gradually over the last five thousand years what is being hoped for is the actualization of an alternate vision be it secular or islamist by assimilating or destroying jerusalem opposing visions cannot tolerate the vision of the holy city but the truth is that jerusalem is like no other city she is not like el dorado the lost city of gold that men vainly sought for attaining wealth and fame nor is she the city where the fountain of youth was sought that men might live forever nor is she like fabled troy city of priam s treasure and the beauteous helen both exquisite but mortal nor is she the mythical city of atlantis powerful and beautiful but sunk forever into the dark seas all of those cities have perished only to become myths the legends of which continue to fade jerusalem is the eternal city allied with eternal truth no one can take her identity from her even though once again as it has for thousands of years a great beast slouches toward bethlehem she remains a light to the world a beacon for the past for the present and for the future jerusalem is the shining city on the hill it s beautiful isn t it what else can i say amen posted by s r piccoli a 1 14 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette history philosophy quote of the day us politics world november 23 2017 happy thanksgiving the first thanksgiving at plymouth 1914 by jennie a brownscombe stedelijk museum de lakenhal leiden netherlands for us christians thanksgiving is an everyday event that begins with a state of mind an attitude that s also why the american thanksgiving day is not a church holiday it s actually a national holiday even though the idea of giving thanks to god is a very christian one in a speech delivered in london at the annual banquet of the american society on thanksgiving day nov 26 1903 a prominent u s politician william jennings bryan stated that on thanksgiving day we acknowledge our dependence in other words to the extent that it is right and good that americans celebrate their independence day as the time when they gained release from tyranny thanksgiving day is precisely the time when they recognize that all of the bounty they have is not merely and perhaps not so much the result of their own efforts and dedication but also a gift to them from their creator that s also the reason why this is one my favorite holidays even though i m not an american citizen but definitely an american by philosophy here are a couple excerpts from the above mentioned speech happy thanksgiving to all of you americans and non americans men and women of goodwill on the fourth of july the eagle seems a little larger than it does on any other day and its scream may grate more harshly on the foreign ear than it does at any other time but on this day we cultivate reverence and express our appreciation of those blessings that have come to our country without the thought or aid of americans we have reason to look with some degree of pride upon the achievement of the united states we contemplate the present with satisfaction and look to the future with hope and yet on this occasion we may well remember that we are but building upon the foundations that have been laid for us we did not create the fertile soil that is the basis of our agricultural greatness the streams that drain and feed our valleys were not channeled by human hands we did not fashion the climate that gives us the white cotton belt of the south the yellow wheat belt of the north and the central corn belt that joins the two and overlaps them both we do not gather up the moisture and fix the date of the early and later rains we did not hide away in the mountains the gold and the silver we did not store in the earth the deposits of copper and of zinc we did not create the measures of coal and the beds of iron all these natural resources which we have but commenced to develop are the gift of him before whom we bow in gratitude tonight we sometimes feel that we have a sort of proprietary interest in the principles of government set forth in the declaration of independence that is a document which we have given to the world and yet the principles set forth therein were not invented by an american thomas jefferson expressed them in felicitous language and put them into permanent form but the principles had been known before the doctrine that all men are created equal that they are endowed with inalienable rights that governments were instituted amongst men to secure these rights and that they derived their just power from the consent of the governed this doctrine which stands four square with all the world was not conceived in the united states it did not spring from the american mind ay it did not come so much from any mind as it was an emanation from the heart and it had been in the hearts of men for ages before columbus turned the prow of his ship toward the west on that eventful voyage before the barons wrested magna charta from king john yes before the roman legions landed on the shores of this island ay before homer sang that sentiment had nestled in the heart of man and nerved him to resist the oppressor that sentiment was not even of human origin our own great lincoln declared that it was god himself who implanted in every human heart the love of liberty posted by s r piccoli a 7 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette america history quote of the day religion us politics november 21 2017 dante and beatrice henry holiday 1839 1927 dante and beatrice walker art gallery liverpool uk as some of you readers know beatrice was the love of dante s life she was a real person and the poet decided to use her as an important character in his masterpiece the divine comedy the tradition that identifies bice di folco portinari the daughter of a banker and wife of simone dei bardi as the beatrice loved by dante is now widely though not unanimously accepted by scholars beatrice whom dante first saw and fell in love with when he was nine years old and a few months older then her probably never had any idea of the depth of the poet s passion for her for the next nine years after he first met her dante remained absolutely besotted with beatrice from that time forward love fully ruled my soul as he later wrote in his vita nuova but he loved her only from a distance and it was only when he was 18 that the young angelic creature spoke to dante to greet him a very rare event indeed in a time when women weren t in the habit of taking any kind of initiative with men as they passed each other in the street this is how dante himself describes the meeting in the vita nuova when so many days had passed that exactly nine years were completed since the appearance of this most gracious being it happened on the last of these days that this marvellous lady appeared to me dressed in the whitest of white between two gracious ladies who were of greater age and passing through a street she turned her eyes to the place where i stood greatly fearful and with her ineffable courtesy she greeted me so virtuously so much so that i saw then to the very end of grace the hour at which her so sweet greeting welcomed me was exactly the ninth of that day and because it was the first time that her words deigned to come to my ears i found such sweetness that i left the crowd as if intoxicated and i returned to the solitude of my own room and fell to thinking of this most gracious one dante is led by beatrice to contemplate the fixed stars libreria marciana venice 14th century venetian school illumination photo credit erich lessing of course dante s love for beatrice is not a secular love at least no more than that which is described in the canticle of canticles with all due distinctions or in the songs of twelfth and thirteenth century troubadours and minnesingers by the way judging from the literature of that period that was a time when love was at the core of everything besides the songs of troubadours and minnesingers and the emergence of the romance among court poets monastic theologians engaged in an intense and extensive dialogue on solomon s song that gave birth to an outpouring of sermons and commentaries on the same topic love was being celebrated as central to human experience extolling its joys and honoring its pains plumbing the depths of its anguish and measuring the heights of its delight the trajectory of this cultural zeitgeist which had its apogee with dante s divine comedy passed through a group of 13th 14th century italian poets mostly florentines and including guido guinizelli guido cavalcanti and dante himself who wrote in what the sommo poeta called the dolce stil nuovo sweet new style they fused troubadour and minnesinger elements dante s worldly view of beatrice as an idealized yet approachable being for one thing is drawn from love à la provençale but their treatment of love was their own to them love purifies the heart as with fire love reflects the divine and leads the spirit back to the supreme source of love itself hence the love of dante for beatrice transcends the physical he wishes to contemplate and to worship in beatrice a revelation of the divine not for nothing she is usually taken to be an allegory of divine grace it is a love of the heart and the intellect the manifestation of a sacred or divine love in the mortal world even though at the same time the lady is not an ethereal unreachable entity of epic overtones but a woman in town someone who is both admirable and visible it follows the description of love by st thomas aquinas called amor amicitiae love of friendship based on spirituality and mysticism which is the exact opposite of amor concupiscentiae love of concupiscence based on physical or sexual lust in other words dante s love for beatrice was never of an adulterous nature nor was it of the unrequited kind that causes mere yearning for a relationship definitely a strange type of love one that you don t see much of in the real world of today as a result of this in the comedy beatrice is an image of absolute perfection and functions as an intermediary in dante s ascent to god beatrice was also the main inspiration of the above mentioned vita nuova which contains the widely celebrated sonetto tanto gentile here is an english translation of the sonnet and the words with which dante himself introduces his poem this most gracious lady of whom i have spoken in the preceding poems came into such widespread favor that when she walked down the street people ran to see her this made me wonderfully happy and when she passed by someone such modesty filled his heart that he did not dare to raise his eyes or to return her greeting many people who have experienced this could testify to it if anyone should not believe me crowned and clothed with humility she would go her way taking no glory from what she heard and saw many would say after she had passed this is no woman this is one of the most beautiful angels of heaven and others would say she is a miracle blessed be the lord who can work so wondrously let me say that she showed such decorum and was possessed of such charming qualities that those who looked at her experienced a pure and sweet delight such that they were unable to describe it and there was no one who could look at her without immediately sighing these and still more marvelous things were the result of her powers thinking about this and wishing to take up again the theme of her praise i decided to write something which would describe her magnificent and beneficent efficacy so that not only those who could see her with their own eyes but others as well might know of her whatever can be said in words and so i wrote this sonnet which begins such sweet decorum such sweet decorum and such gentle grace attend my lady s greeting to mankind that lips can only tremble into silence and eyes dare not attempt to gaze at her untouched by all the praise along her way she moves in goodness clothed in humbleness and seems a creature come from heaven to earth a miracle manifest in reality miraculously gracious to behold her sweetness through the eyes reaches the heart who has not felt this cannot understand and from her lips there seems to move a spirit tender so deeply loving that it glides into the souls of men and whispers sigh to conclude with specific reference to dante s epic poem i want to warn against focusing too one sidedly on the love for beatrice in fact there are many other love stories in the divine comedy there are loves gone wrong but somehow awesome at the same time such as the love between paolo and francesca inferno canto v ulysses s love of knowledge ibidem canto xxvi ugolino s love for his children ibidem canto xxxiii and farinata s love for florence ibidem canto x and there are loves without fault such as the one between dante and virgil that is the relationship of a mentor and a protégé as perhaps no earlier writer dante celebrates such a relationship by calling virgil not only master guide and teacher but also dearest father and by comparing his concern for him to that of a mother for her child or the love of st bernard of clairvaux for the virgin mary hence one of the most beautiful prayers ever written paradiso canto xxxiii not to mention the love that moves the sun and the other stars ibidem that s what is meant when we say that the divine comedy is a love story in the old video below you 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