1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,720 We conclude the Divine Comedy today and to understand the 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,280 Divine Comedy it's very important to put in the context 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,960 of the other great books. OK so in human history there 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:20,960 have been 3 great poets. The first is Homer, sorry Homer. 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,640 The second is Virgil. The third is Dante. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,240 Homework gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey, and by doing so he 7 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:50,480 constructed the basis of Greek civilization, which then became 8 00:00:50,480 --> 00:01:00,080 basis of Western civilization. With Virgil, he will take the 9 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,680 Eliad in Odyssey and reimagine it as the Eniad. 10 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,560 The Eniad will give rise to the Roman Empire and the Catholic 11 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,520 Church, and even though the Roman Empire and the Catholic 12 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,200 Church are two fundamental pillars of Western civilization, 13 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,680 the Eniad will lead to 1000 years, over 1000 years of the 14 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:30,240 Dark Ages when Europe stops being creative. 15 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:39,520 OK, Donnie will end the Dark Ages with the Divine Comedy, and 16 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,520 the Divine Comedy will become the blueprint for the 17 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:52,400 Renaissance, the positive Information, and the Silent 18 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,440 Revolution and modernity itself, OK? 19 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,360 Basically Dante would create the world that we live in today. 20 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,960 So the question then is how this happened? 21 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,280 How's that? Homer would create 22 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:13,720 virtualization, then Virgil would then erode civilization, 23 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:18,520 only be restored by Dante. The difference is in how they 24 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,840 perceive the role of humans or what does it mean to be human in 25 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,800 this world? So for Homer, what it taught us 26 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,400 is that love is the unifying force of the universe. 27 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,560 So remember that Odysseus, he spends 20 years trying to return 28 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:43,200 to his family, Penelope and Tamakis, and that imagination is 29 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,280 the unifying force of the universe, OK. 30 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,400 And what matters is the individual, the individual's 31 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,840 connection to the source or the monad. 32 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:58,840 And if the individual is able to connect to the source, then that 33 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,000 lights the universe. OK. 34 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:08,320 But what Virgil will do, because he serves empire, is he will cut 35 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,360 us off from the source, OK, and say no. 36 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,000 What matters is piety, obedience to authority and be. 37 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,600 And by doing that, we cease to be individuals, we cease to be 38 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,960 imaginative. Civilization stops. 39 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:30,240 So what Donnie has to do is reconnect us back to the source. 40 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,400 And if he does that, OK, then that will restore the 41 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:41,320 imagination as the fundamental animating force of the universe. 42 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,960 We can now be creative, and this will set a new path for 43 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,360 humanity. All right, so throughout human 44 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,960 history, there have been 2 competing countervailing forces, 45 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,360 The force of empire that wants us to, that wants us to obey it 46 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,600 and therefore cut us off from the source. 47 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:04,880 And the force of civilization, of democracy, of love that wants 48 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,640 us to connect back to the source and let's animate the universe 49 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,080 with our imagination. OK, All right. 50 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,720 So the divine company in in other words, it's fundamental 51 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,920 conflict between Virgil and Dante. 52 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,880 So Dante must defeat Virgil in order to restore our humanity. 53 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,640 And previously we've looked at Virgil's ideas, and today I want 54 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:36,880 to look at Donnie's ideas. OK, so we've been through 55 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:41,280 Inferno, we've been through Pro Tory and now we are in paradise. 56 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,560 OK. And so I want to show you the 57 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:51,800 framework for paradise. Now you may think that once 58 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,240 we're in paradise we've come to to the journey's end, but in 59 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,120 fact paradise itself is another journey that is actually more 60 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,760 arduous. And Beatrice will be our guide 61 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:08,600 for the stars as we reach God. OK, So what we will do is ascend 62 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,280 through the 9 Spears in order to meet God. 63 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,120 Why don't we meet God? Because God will let us know who 64 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,400 we truly, fundamentally are. All right, this is another 65 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:24,040 depiction of our journey through the cosmos. 66 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,800 We start off on the moon, OK, And then we'll make our way to 67 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,480 the Mercury. And then we are, we will try to 68 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,520 reach the Imperium where God and his angels are. 69 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,920 And this is the center of the universe. 70 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,360 It is the source. This is our journey's end. 71 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:46,720 All right, so we first start off on the moon, and Beatrice is now 72 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,360 Donnie's guide. And you would think that these 73 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,280 are two lovers, that I'm not seeing each other in decades. 74 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,360 You would think that they'll just be happy hugging each 75 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,360 other, or maybe they'll have a lot of sex. 76 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,880 But in fact, what happens is that they start to engage in the 77 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,880 deepest intellectual discussion. This is deep philosophy. 78 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:16,040 OK, so heaven is fundamentally about debate, dialogue and 79 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,200 philosophy. So in other words, this really 80 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,640 important idea is that we suffered in our world in 81 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,280 infernal and purgatory not to cleanse ourselves of our sins. 82 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:35,960 We suffered not in order to redeem ourselves and to make 83 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,480 ourselves ready for heaven. We suffer in order to gain the 84 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,360 we requisite necessary for higher learning in heaven. 85 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,440 All right, that's that's the purpose of heaven, to discover 86 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,240 the truth of the universe. But we must first undergo 87 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:55,560 infernal and purgatory to prepare our minds for the 88 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,920 challenge, the inevitable challenge of paradise. 89 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,400 OK, so Beatriz and Donnie are having a conversation about the 90 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:09,040 cosmos. And what she says is be thankful 91 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,920 that you're here and here. We will sort of journey into the 92 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,560 truth of the universe. All right. 93 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,080 And what Donnie says is the most devotion I can summon. 94 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,440 I thank him, God for who has brought me far from the mortal 95 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,880 world. But now tell me, OK, I'm here to 96 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,680 learn about the universe. And the first question I have is 97 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,560 what are the dark spots on this planets body that they're below 98 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,760 on Earth shall have made men tell the tale of Cain? 99 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,040 She smiled somewhat and then she said the opinion mortals hold 100 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,840 false in error when the census key cannot unlock the truth. 101 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,640 You should not be struck by the arrows of amazement once you 102 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,760 recognize that reason, even when support the sentence has short 103 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,760 wings. But tell me what you think of it 104 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,320 yourself. And I what seems to us diverse 105 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,880 up here is caused, I think, by matter dance and we're and she. 106 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,320 You certainly will see that your belief is deeply sunk in error 107 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,360 if you listen carefully as I rebutted. 108 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,800 OK, So what was it saying? So the first question that Donna 109 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,000 has for Beatrice is we're on the moon and on the moon at night, 110 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,080 there are some dark spots. OK. 111 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:20,280 And he asked her, how can we explain the fact that there's 112 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:27,480 some dark spots on the moon? And she says, OK, well, the 113 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,360 first thing you need to recognize is that you cannot 114 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,200 figure this out by observation and reason alone. 115 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,200 That will only lead you to error. 116 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:42,600 The true power is your faith, your love, your intuition, your 117 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:44,480 imagination. That's what will lead you, the 118 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,880 truth. But humans are stuck using their 119 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,840 observation and their reason, their science to figure out what 120 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,560 what this is. So you're always going to fall 121 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:57,920 into error, but it's OK. It's OK to make an error. 122 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,320 First tell me what you think is the reason. 123 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:04,640 OK. And then Donna says, well, I 124 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,560 think what most people think, which is that it's because of 125 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:13,520 the density and rarity of the moon. 126 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,720 What this means is that there are some places in the moon 127 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:24,080 which is hollow. OK, If it's hollow, then then 128 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,400 that means that light can just pass through it, right? 129 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,000 For there to be illumination, there has to be reflection. 130 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:34,120 So the light's going to pass through these hollow parts of 131 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,200 the moon and escape into space. And so in other words, the dark 132 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,600 spots are just the most hollow aspects of the moon and every 133 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,360 other place. It's just very dense, OK, which 134 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,480 means light can't pass through as we reflect back. 135 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,320 And that's from observation, from reason, the most logical 136 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,120 explanation. Now, if you're curious as to why 137 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,320 there are dark spots on the moon, what scientists believe is 138 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:07,920 that the moon is not hollow, but there's certain rocks and 139 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:15,160 minerals created by lava that And so the reflective quality of 140 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,440 these minerals is very low. OK, that's a that's a standard 141 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,760 explanation we have, but quite honestly, it's only a guess. 142 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,840 OK, we're not completely sure. All right, so this is a mystery. 143 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:33,280 And what Beatrice is going to do now is explain this can't be 144 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,760 true. And but the way she explains it 145 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,360 is very interesting. She's going to explain to, she's 146 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,680 going to explain it using something, methods, experiments, 147 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,880 observations to show you how this can't be true. 148 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:53,440 OK, so the first thing she points out is that if it is true 149 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,840 that there are certain aspects of the moon, certain parts of 150 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,920 the moon that is hollow, then how to explain a lunar eclipse, 151 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:07,000 a solar eclipse, right? When the moon covers a sign 152 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,200 completely and the sun goes dark? 153 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,360 Well, if in fact there are whole aspects to the moon, it should 154 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,840 not be completely black, right? The light should be able to 155 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,640 breakthrough these whole aspects. 156 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,520 So that shows you that first of all, density and rare does not 157 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,680 make any sense. This is wrong. 158 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,600 OK, that's Part 1. Part 2 is, OK, now you're saying 159 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,240 to yourself that, well, there are the moon is uneven, OK, The 160 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,800 topography is uneven and that there are mountains and 161 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:47,800 crevices, OK. So in other words, the dark are 162 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,600 just really deep cavities in the moon. 163 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,440 And then she says, let's do an experiment and I'll show you 164 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:00,520 that no matter how distant the reflection is, the brightness is 165 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,840 still the same. OK, so So what she's doing is 166 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,880 she's using the scientific method, scientific method to 167 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,720 experiments to show you that your belief is wrong. 168 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,960 And this becomes a basis of the something method. 169 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,240 OK, All right, so let's read it together. 170 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,200 The Ace sphere offers many lights to you, and you can tell 171 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,800 that they in quality are in size are stars with different 172 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,200 visages. If burning that's alone caused 173 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,600 this, and all the stars would share one power, distributing 174 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,040 lesser, greater or equal force. But different powers must be 175 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,680 fruits of different formal principles. 176 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,000 When were you correct? One only would be left, the rest 177 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,160 destroyed and more where rarity the cost? 178 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,680 Didn't spot your question. Then in part this planet would 179 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:50,720 lack matter through and through or else as in a body lean and 180 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,360 fat can alternate. So would this planet alternate 181 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,960 the pages in its volume? OK, so she points out, number 182 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,320 one, that if it is true that density and rarity is what 183 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,680 causes the dark spots on the moon, then it should be the same 184 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,840 for every other celestial body, every other planet, every other 185 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:08,840 star. Density and rarity is what 186 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,600 matters. And she's saying that's not 187 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,320 true. OK. 188 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,600 She's also pointing out that your argument about density and 189 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,840 rarity means that the moon is uneven, right? 190 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:26,680 There are some whole spots to the moon, OK, To that In the 191 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,400 first case in the sun's eclipse, the light would have to show 192 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,720 through, just as when it crosses matter that is slender that is 193 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,280 not so. Therefore we must consider the 194 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,080 latter case event and all that too. 195 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,280 Then European surely is confuted. 196 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,840 OK, So she's using the example, the solar eclipse, to show us 197 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,640 that it's that it can't possibly be true that there are hollow 198 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,920 spots to the moon. OK, There might be some shallow 199 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,400 cavities to the moon, but there are no hollow empty spots to the 200 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,040 moon. OK. 201 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,080 Then she says, if we already does that run through and 202 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,600 through the moon, then there must be a limit where thickness 203 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,120 does not allow the light to pass. 204 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,440 From there the rays of sun would be formed back just as from 205 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,120 glass that hides lead at its back a way of colored light 206 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,400 returns reflected. Now you say that that where ray 207 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,680 has been reflected from a section farther back, that ray 208 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:16,920 will show itself to be more dim. Yet an experiment where to try 209 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:18,680 it could free you from your cabal. 210 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,920 Cabal just means dialed and the source of your art course 211 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,040 springs from experiment. Taking three mirrors, place a 212 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:29,440 pair of them at equal distance from you set the third midway 213 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,680 between those two but farther back. 214 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,120 Then turning toward them at your back half place a light that 215 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,920 Kindles those three mirrors and returns to you, vected by them 216 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:40,560 all. Although the image in the 217 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:44,440 farthest glass will be lesser size there you will see that it 218 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,040 must match the brightness of the rest. 219 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,880 OK, So what you're saying here is OK, so the moon is completely 220 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,560 hollow there might it might be very deep. 221 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,440 OK, so for example, the might be like this, in which case you 222 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:01,320 think that logically speaking, this would be bright, this would 223 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,880 be bright, but this would be dark, OK, Right. 224 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,080 And she's saying that's not true. 225 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,280 If you actually do a science experiment, OK, you will 226 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,200 discover that this is not true. And the science experiment, she 227 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:22,760 says, is this, have three mirrors, OK, One here, one here, 228 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,400 1 here. OK, Just have three mirrors. 229 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,800 And then take a light. This is the light, and then 230 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,920 shine it so that the mirrors reflect. 231 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,240 What she's saying is, like, the furthest mirror might be small, 232 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:44,080 and the two mirrors here may be larger. 233 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,520 OK, The size might be different, but the brightness is still the 234 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,120 same. OK. 235 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,800 If you were to do this, you would discover this is true. 236 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,800 And you're saying, OK, But what's interesting is that you 237 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,680 can also extend this experiment and say, let's go further. 238 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,440 OK, let's just say let's keep on going. 239 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,360 All right? It would still be true. 240 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,720 And in fact, you can go into eternity. 241 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,920 OK, Just go through eternity and it would still be true Infinity. 242 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,680 The light at the end of the universe would still burn as 243 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:24,880 brightly as the original source. OK, That's what you're saying 244 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,320 here. Does that make sense, guys? 245 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:34,600 All right, all right, So what she's done is she's she's shown 246 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:42,240 that through science, through reason, through imagination, 247 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:48,400 she's shown us that the moon has dark spots, not because it's 248 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,400 rare and dense. So then why is that the case? 249 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,800 And so so here she should explain. 250 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,760 Now, just as a sub matter of the snow beneath the blows to the 251 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,880 warm rays is stripped of both its color, former color and it's 252 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,400 cold, so is your mind left fear of error? 253 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,880 I would offer now to to you a new form, light so living that 254 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,920 it trembles in your sight. Within the heaven of the godly 255 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,040 peace revolves a body in whose light lies the being of all 256 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,200 things, that it enfolds the sphere that follows, where so 257 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,200 much is shown to very essences, but Stow that being to stars 258 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,960 distinct and yet contained in it. 259 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,319 The other spheres, in ways diverse, direct the diverse 260 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:30,880 powers they possess, so that these forces can bear fruit, 261 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:33,720 attain their aims. So these organs of the universe 262 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,720 proceed, as you now see, from stage to stage, receiving from 263 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,720 above and acting downward. Now to attend to how I pass by 264 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,120 way of reaching the truth. You want that. 265 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,680 Then you may learn how to cross the for it alone. 266 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,920 The force and motion of the holy Spears must be inspired by the 267 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,920 blessed movers, just as a Smith imparts the hammer's art. 268 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:59,400 OK, and so from the deep mind that makes it wheel, the spear 269 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,320 that many lights adorn receives a stem, of which it then becomes 270 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,120 a seal. And as a soul within your dust 271 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:09,360 is shared by different organs, each must suit it to a different 272 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,760 potency. So does that mind unfold and 273 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,840 multiply its bounty Foo the varied heavens, though that 274 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:20,200 intellect itself evolves upon its unity, the dear body that it 275 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,720 quickens, and with which, as light in you it too is bound. 276 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,360 Each different power forms different compound because of 277 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:30,600 the glad nature of its source. The power mingled with spear 278 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,280 shines forth like gladness through the living people shines 279 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,120 from this and not from the matter of rare or dense derive 280 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,120 the differences from light to light. 281 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,120 This is the forming principle producing conforming which or 282 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,480 the dark, the bright. OK, all right, So what what does 283 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,320 this mean? It means let's go back to the 284 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,000 experiment. What it means is that the 285 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,680 universe is creating a way in that there's one source. 286 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:58,360 OK, the Source, and the Source is emanating light, OK, And this 287 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:05,040 is divine light, and this divine light is the underlying 288 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,240 fundamental principle of the universe. 289 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,040 And if you are bright, it means the Source is glowing brightly 290 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:17,240 in you, OK. And so think of the universe as 291 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,160 your own body, where you have organs, you have hands, you have 292 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,560 eyes, OK, But what is animating your body, what is unifying your 293 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,760 body is your mind, your consciousness, OK? 294 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,560 That is a source. The universe works the same way, 295 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,120 right? I'm moving my arms, I'm looking 296 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,080 at you. My eyes are burning bright 297 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,440 because of my consciousness, because of my mind. 298 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:45,960 And so the universe is connected in the same way, and the light 299 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,280 glows throughout the universe. And our responsibility is to 300 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,360 receive the light. And how do we see the light? 301 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,560 By loving, OK, By opening our hearts to love. 302 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,080 And once we see the light, then we imagine the imagination is 303 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,000 what allows us to grow brightly. OK, Love and imagination is what 304 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,720 allows us to grow brightly. All right. 305 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:16,280 OK, So is this clear, guys? All right, So what she's saying 306 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,800 is you don't look at the world as. 307 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,800 Through the lens of physical principles, that doesn't get you 308 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,680 anywhere. Understand the universe 309 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,280 fundamentally. That's about faith, that's about 310 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,560 consciousness, that's about love and imagination. 311 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:39,800 All right, OK, so now that so this goes on for a long time, 312 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:46,200 where Beatrice is is slowly trying to explain to Dante the 313 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:50,680 fundamental principles of the universe. 314 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:56,600 OK, and we're going to skip ahead to the very ending. 315 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,920 This divine company is something that you cannot read in a week 316 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,680 or a year. It's something that you have to 317 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,480 spend your entire life reading. So the entire point of this 318 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,760 class is is just prepare the groundwork for you to introduce 319 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,160 ideas and principles that will anchor your own reading of 320 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,920 Divine Comedy. OK, but we come to the end. 321 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:21,760 And so they climb all the way up the heavens, and now they are in 322 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,880 the Imperium. And Imperium is the seat of God, 323 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,400 and it's surrounded by angels and light. 324 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,480 OK, And what's going to happen? And this is like really strange 325 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,600 is that first of all, Beatrice will go away, she'll become an 326 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,160 Angel again. And then Bernard will be Donny's 327 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,240 guide in the Imperium. What is Donny's role in 328 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,360 Imperium? Donny's role is to meet God. 329 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:53,040 Why does Donny want to meet God? Because God wants to meet him. 330 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,200 What does God want to meet him? Because there's a fundamental 331 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:01,320 problem in the universe and the and the problem is this. 332 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,200 No one knows what God is. God doesn't know. 333 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:09,560 The angels don't know. No one knows. 334 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,960 Only Dante can know what God is. So Dante has embarked on this 335 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,080 long journey for the cosmos, for Inferno, for purgatory, for 336 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,040 paradise, in order to meet God, to figure out what God is. 337 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,320 And you're like, wait a minute here. 338 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,600 This makes no sense. God knows everything. 339 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,520 No, God is perfect. God is everything, and therefore 340 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,520 God cannot know itself. You understand if you are 341 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,680 perfect, you lack an imagination because you know everything. 342 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,520 Therefore there's no limit to your knowledge. 343 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,160 But imagination means breaking through the boundaries of 344 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,640 knowledge. So this is a really strange 345 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:57,880 situation in that God created humanity to know itself, and 346 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,240 then through the course of time, God picked an individual, and 347 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:06,640 this person is Dante to come to God to let God know what it is 348 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,840 fundamentally to know itself, to complete itself. 349 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,400 That's the great secret of Divine Comedy. 350 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:19,320 OK, But for Dante to figure this out, he wants to spend the rest 351 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,800 of his life using his imagination to try to unpack, 352 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,480 unravel what God is. Because when we first see God, 353 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,680 God's like this, an infinite beam of light. 354 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,240 You're like, what is this? OK, he doesn't know. 355 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,960 So he has to constantly imagine what God is before he can 356 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,480 finally come to the answer. All right, OK, so what's going 357 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,160 to happen? Is this Bernard? 358 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,280 Before he introduces Donnie to God, he's going to pray to Mary 359 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:57,000 the Queen, OK, the Virgin Mother for inspiration to guide Dante. 360 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:07,200 OK, and why is Dante the only person in the world who can let 361 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,080 God know what it is? The answer is because Dante is a 362 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:17,360 human, and a human has two aspects, a soul and a body. 363 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:24,760 A soul connects to the source, OK, to the divine, but the body 364 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:30,040 connects to the material. The body can sin, it can suffer, 365 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,760 it feels pain, it feels pleasure. 366 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,200 Therefore there's a limit to it. Therefore that's an imagination 367 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,480 because there's so many things to it that it's not known. 368 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,880 So when you as a human, when you're able to combine the best 369 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,960 aspect of who you are, both the body and the soul, that gives 370 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,480 you an imagination that is divine, that allows you to 371 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,800 connect back to the sword, but also allows you to expand the 372 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,360 universe. OK? 373 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,560 That's why only Dante can tell God what it is. 374 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,760 Not the angels, not Bernard, not not marry you, OK, only Dante. 375 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,480 All right, so let's read. So this is the final Kanto, OK, 376 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,480 the end of the Vine comedy. We've come to the end. 377 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,920 This is heaven, this is the imperium, this is God. 378 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,240 And so Bernard says to Mary Virgin mother, daughter of your 379 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,400 son, more humble and salon than in a creature fixed gold to 380 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,120 create from all eternity. You're the one who gave to human 381 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,280 nature so much ability that its crater, that disdain has being 382 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,400 made its creature that love whose warm allowed this flower 383 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,680 to bloom within the everlasting. Peace was love we kindled in 384 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,640 your womb for us. Above you are the noonday touch 385 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,520 of charity, and they're below on earth among the mortals, your 386 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,760 living spring of hope. Lady, you are so high, you can 387 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,800 so intercede that he who would have grace but does not seek 388 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,240 your aid may long to fly but has no wings. 389 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,280 OK, So what Bernard is saying is that Dante is on a special 390 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:03,040 mission to help God know itself. So let us remember and celebrate 391 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:10,640 a woman, a mortal woman, who was also, who also who also expanded 392 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,480 the possibility of humanity, OK? Because she was so noble, she 393 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,520 was so generous, she was so loving that in her room she was 394 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,720 able to contain God itself. So God was able to come into our 395 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,800 world through the portal that is Mary, OK? 396 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:33,160 And as such, God is able to reunify with us and to spread 397 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,640 himself to us. OK, right. 398 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,800 So basically Dante is completing another mission that Mary first 399 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,760 started. Your loving kindness does not 400 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,840 only answer the one who asked, but is often ready to answer 401 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,200 freely long before the asking. Your compassion is in you, as 402 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,680 pity in you as generosity in you as ever goodness found in any 403 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,080 creature. This man whom from the deepest 404 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,880 hollow in the universe up to his height, has seen the lives of 405 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,000 spirits one by one, now pleased with you through grace to grant 406 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,360 him so much virtue that he may lift his vision higher still, 407 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,000 may lift it toward the ultimate salvation. 408 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,160 OK, this is really important to understand. 409 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,920 Higher vision still is the imagination. 410 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,160 So if Dante is to see God, if Dante is to know God, he can't 411 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,280 do with his eyes. The vision doesn't matter. 412 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,320 Everyone has eyes. The higher vision is the 413 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,120 imagination. OK, but how do you activate the 414 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,240 imagination? Through virtue, through love, 415 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,200 OK? It is the love that will give 416 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,080 you imagination to see the ultimate salvation, which is 417 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,080 God. And this is how the universe 418 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,680 works, OK? Donnie has been selected because 419 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000 of his imagination and because of his virtue. 420 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,400 What is his virtue? His virtue is his eternal love 421 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,200 for Beatrice, OK? What is his imagination, his 422 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,840 poetry? That is what will enable him to 423 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,160 know God and allow God to know itself. 424 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800 And I who never burned from my own vision more than I burned 425 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,960 from for his to offer you all my prayers and pray that they may 426 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,280 not. I can't see God, I don't know 427 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,600 God. I'm next to God, I live with 428 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,920 God, I'm part of God, but I don't. 429 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,720 I can't see God, only thought he can see God. 430 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,920 Fall short that with your prayers you may disperse all the 431 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:30,520 clouds of immortality. So the highest joy be his to see 432 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,320 this too. O Queen, you can do do what you 433 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,200 would. I ask of you that after such a 434 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,040 vision, his sentence preserve their perseverance. 435 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:45,680 OK, yes, so Darnay will see God. But God so powerful the vision 436 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,600 will be so powerful that it will blow his mind. 437 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,040 OK, it would literally blow his mind. 438 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:57,800 So Dante must use his virtue, his love, his first soul to 439 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:02,200 maintain the shadow of this image, OK? 440 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:08,120 To remember a shocking memory. OK, that is the goal here. 441 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,840 May your protection curb his mortal passions. 442 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,920 See Beatrice? How many Saints with her? 443 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,640 They join my prayers. They clasp their hands to you. 444 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,720 OK, His mortal passions is basically fear and the ego. 445 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,800 To truly understand God, you must abandoned your mortal 446 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,800 passions, your ego and your fear. 447 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,120 You must be completely virtuous. You must be complete 448 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,880 imagination. You must be complete love. 449 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,400 The eyes that are revered and loved by God now fixed upon the 450 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,400 supplicant showed us how welcome such devotions are to her. 451 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,000 Then her eyes turned into the eternal light there. 452 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,160 Do not think that any creature's eyes can find its way as clearly 453 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,960 as her sight. And not I, who now is narrowing 454 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,840 Him who is the end of our desires, as I ought lift my long 455 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,800 into its ardent limit. When I was singling, He smiled 456 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,280 to me to turn my eyes on high. But I already was doing what He 457 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,640 want me to do. Because my sight, becoming pure, 458 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,000 was able to penetrate the way of light more deeply. 459 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,640 God, it's pure light. OK, that that light sublime, 460 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,040 which in itself is true. From that point on, what I could 461 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,840 see was greater than speech can show. 462 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,920 At such a sight it fails. And memory fails when faced with 463 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,560 such excess as one who sees within a dream. 464 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,360 And later the passion that had been imprinted stays, but 465 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,200 nothing of the rest returns to mine. 466 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,640 OK, so he's now looking at God and his mind is blown away. 467 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,240 His mind, his brain can like, comprehend what he's seeing. 468 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,640 OK? It's like a dream where you 469 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,640 dream something and you can't, you can't remember anything but 470 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,080 the impression, the feeling of that dream, OK? 471 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,640 All he remembers is being awestruck by it. 472 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,800 Such am I, for my vision almost fades completely, yet it still 473 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,760 distills within my heart the sweetness that was born of it. 474 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,200 So it's the snow beneath the sun, unsealed and so on. 475 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,400 The light leaves beneath the wind, the oracles, the Sybil 476 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,160 once world were lost. Oh, hights light. 477 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,280 You race so far above the minds of mortals to my memory. 478 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,960 Give back something of your epitome. 479 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,640 OK, so it's almost like the metaphor you choose. 480 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,880 I'm just a flake of snow and now I'm before the sun. 481 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,920 So I just first, OK, there's nothing left. 482 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:18,200 OK, there is a light. OK, So what? 483 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:24,680 So now what's happening is this, he's saying, 20 years ago I had 484 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:29,520 this vision. 20 years later, I'm alone at home. 485 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,000 And I'm, I've been trying for the past 20 years to remember 486 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:38,440 what I saw, to use my imagination to reconstruct what 487 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,040 I saw. OK, so we're now, we now move 488 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,040 forward in time. We're, we, we are now 20 years 489 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,320 ahead. OK, we're 20 years ahead. 490 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,560 And now he's in his room somewhere in Italy, trying to 491 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,960 remember what he saw and make my tongue so powerful that I may 492 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,560 lead to people of the future one gleam the glory that is yours. 493 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,680 For by returning somewhat to my memory and echoing a while 494 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,160 within these lines, your victory will be more understood. 495 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,800 So Donna's mission is not just to understand God, to help God 496 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,920 know itself. Donna's mission is actually to 497 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:18,320 report to us what he saw, OK? To reveal to humanity the true 498 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,680 nature of God so that we we may know ourselves and be better 499 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,280 humans. The living way that I endured 500 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,960 was so acute that I believe I should have gone straight. 501 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,080 How my eyes turned away from it. I can recall that I because of 502 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,560 this was bold and sustaining it until my vision reached infinite 503 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,600 goodness, all grace abounding, through which I presume to set 504 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,520 my eyes on the eternal light. So long I spent all my sight on 505 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,480 it, and it's profoundly I saw and gather and bound my love 506 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,040 into one single volume. What in the universe seems 507 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,760 separate, scattered substance, accidents and dispositions as it 508 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,240 can join in such a way that what I tell is only rudimentary. 509 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,880 So when he saw God, he saw the totality of the universe. 510 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:04,080 Everything was interconnected in some way, OK, God is infinite, 511 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,600 it's eternal, it's everything, it's nothing. 512 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,560 I think I saw the universal shape which take not which that 513 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,440 not takes for speaking this I feel joy that is more ample. 514 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,360 That one moment brings more forgetfulness to me than 25 515 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,120 centuries have brought to the endeavor that startled Neptune, 516 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,440 the Argo shadow. So is my mind completely 517 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,240 wrapped, intent, steadfast and motionless gazing. 518 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,800 And it would go ever more and kindled as it watched. 519 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,320 Whoever sees that light is soon made such that it would be 520 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,320 impossible for him to set that light aside for other sight, 521 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,960 because that good, the object of the will is fully gathered in 522 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,640 that light. Outside that light, What there 523 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,640 is is perfect, is effective. OK, so he's seeing the entirety 524 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,000 of the universe. That's perfect, that's 525 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,520 immutable, that's eternal, right? 526 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,560 What little I recall is to be told from this point on in words 527 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,880 more weak than those of one whose infant tongue still bathes 528 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,440 at the breast. So not only is he trying to 529 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,760 figure out what that thing was, what God is, but he's also 530 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,440 trying to use words to describe that. 531 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:18,800 And he and he and he discovers that this is really silly. 532 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,480 Words can't possibly describe what I just saw. 533 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,800 OK, so he's he's frustrated and not because more than one simple 534 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,199 semblance was in living light at which I gaze for it is always 535 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,360 what it was before, but through my sight, which as I gaze 536 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,239 stronger that sore parents even as I altered seemingly changing 537 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,760 in the deep and bright essence of that exalted light. 3 circles 538 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,520 appeared to me that three different colors, but all of 539 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,280 them were the same dimension. OK, so now he's figured it out. 540 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,280 After 20 years of constantly meditation, he's figured out 541 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,040 what that thing was. And he said that the essence of 542 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,360 God are three circles. They're the same. 543 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,160 OK? They're just three circles. 544 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,080 Different light, but they're the same. 545 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,320 And obviously we know what this is now. 546 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,640 It's a Holy Trinity, right? This is the essence of 547 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,080 Christianity. Christianity teaches us that God 548 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,200 is the Godhead, right? Three aspects, the Holy Spirit, 549 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,160 the Father and the Son. OK, so I looked into God and I 550 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,520 saw the Holy Trinity. This makes sense. 551 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:28,080 All right. One circle seemed reflected by 552 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,880 the second, as rainbow is by rainbow, and the third seemed 553 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,160 fire briefed equally by those two circles. 554 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,720 OK, so they're just reflecting each other. 555 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,160 How incompleted speech and how weak when set against my 556 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,320 thought. And this to what I saw is such. 557 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,480 To call it little is too much eternal life. 558 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,080 You only dwell within yourself and only you know you self 559 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,800 knowing, self known, you love and smile upon yourself. 560 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,280 That circle which begun so appeared in you as like 561 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,040 reflected when my eyes have watched it with attention for 562 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,120 some time within itself and colored like itself to me seem 563 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,400 pain over effigy so that my sight was set on it completely. 564 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,680 OK, there's a problem OK, he's seen the Holy Trinity. 565 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,040 It's 3 concentric circles. That's fine, OK, and they're all 566 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,960 reflecting each other. There's a fire inside them. 567 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,320 But there's a problem with all this, he said like the the 568 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,360 longer I look the more I concentrate, I discover there's 569 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,440 a problem in the Holy Trinity, which is like we're in the 570 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,520 stupid thing. There's an effigy, there's a 571 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:41,200 human likeness inside the Holy Trinity that makes no sense 572 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,920 because God is beyond us, OK? That's why we must obey God, 573 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,920 because God is a mystery. It's because God is so distant 574 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,800 from us. Therefore we must bow to it, be 575 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,240 humble before it. But what Donny is saying is 576 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:01,440 like, I looked into the soul of God and we are inside it, and 577 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,440 it's very hard. This makes absolutely no sense. 578 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,040 All right as the geometry. I'm sorry. 579 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,480 As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he 580 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,840 cannot reach through thought on thought the principle he needs. 581 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,840 So I search a strange site. I wish to see the way in which 582 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,320 our human effigy through the circle and found place in it. 583 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,840 He can't figure it out. This is the greatest paradox in 584 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,400 the universe. Why are we inside God? 585 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,000 Why, my own wings are far too weak for that. 586 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,240 But then my mind was struck by light, that flash, and with this 587 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:37,520 light received what had asked. Here. 588 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,800 Force failed. My high fantasy, but my desire, 589 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,840 my will were moved already, like a will, evolving uniformly. 590 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,600 But the love that moves the sun and the other stars. 591 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,520 OK, I can't figure it out, but I want to figure it out. 592 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:57,960 And I feel as though I'm changed by this process of trying to 593 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,680 figure this out. OK, so that's it. 594 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,880 Divine Comedy. This is how it ends. 595 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,080 There's an end with the answer that ends with a question. 596 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,320 Why are we inside God? What's the meaning of all this? 597 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,800 OK, And this is all very confusing because this is how it 598 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,520 ends and it doesn't give us the answer. 599 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,200 And so the thing I understand about the Divine Comedy is that 600 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:28,000 it's not meant to be the Bible. It's meant to inspire you to to 601 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,680 embark your own journey into the depths of the universe. 602 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,840 OK. And so you need to reread the 603 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,480 Divine Company many, many times throughout your life. 604 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,400 And with each reading, you'll have a deeper understanding of 605 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:50,200 the Divine Comedy. And with each reading, it will 606 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,960 change how you live. It will change how you see 607 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,600 yourself. All right. 608 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,680 OK, So what is the secret here? What's the answer? 609 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:05,960 What is God? OK, well the first thing is what 610 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,080 does this remind us of? Have we seen this before? 611 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,280 3 circles with a human inside of it? 612 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,640 Actually we have. OK, we've seen this before in 613 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,480 this class. OK, so and I'll show you where 614 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:29,120 it is. OK, Sorry, it's going to take 615 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:43,550 some time to get to it, but here it is. 616 00:39:43,750 --> 00:39:49,590 This is God, right? Because Beatrice was telling us 617 00:39:49,590 --> 00:39:53,750 to do the experiment and he says take three mirrors, OK, And then 618 00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:59,790 shine a mirror, shine a candle so that the candle's reflected 619 00:40:00,030 --> 00:40:04,470 in three mirrors and just tell us hold that candle. 620 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:10,600 OK, you're holding the candle, and as a result, not only is a 621 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:15,200 candle reflected inside the mirrors, but you yourself is 622 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,680 just reflected in the mirrors as well. 623 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,120 To all of eternity. What is this? 624 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,000 It's a Godhead that Donny saw in his vision. 625 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:32,520 All right, so what's happening is that Donny is reminding us of 626 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:37,440 this experiment, and it's also reminding us that if you 627 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,080 continue to extend this experiment, it extends into 628 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,480 Infinity. All right? 629 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:51,320 And so this is what God is. God is the candle that burns in 630 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,720 us. We all have a candle inside of 631 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:58,840 us, and it burns and it remind. And because it is the memory of 632 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:03,520 God, it is God in US, Then the question then is, OK, what is 633 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,120 this candle thing called? What is it that burns in US? 634 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:13,440 And the more good we do, the the more intense it burns. 635 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,880 And what is this candle that's able to reflect throughout the 636 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,200 universe that's mirrored in each other? 637 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:27,360 Well, it's love. So this is a great secret, the 638 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,000 universe, God is love. Do you wonder what God is? 639 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:35,840 Love someone And you will feel God because it's a candle 640 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,640 burning inside of you. And how do you know you're truly 641 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,720 in love? Because your imagination will 642 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:45,000 expand. You will see the world in a new 643 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,560 way. You will see the world through 644 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,800 the mind of God. You will you will reunite with 645 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,800 God. OK. 646 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,320 And that's a great secret of the universe. 647 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,760 And once you understand this, the way you see the world will 648 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,880 be completely different. The way you see we, Dante, will 649 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,760 be completely different. OK, So what we're going to do 650 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,680 now is we're going to take this knowledge that we have that God 651 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:17,520 is love, that God is the light, the spark in US that burns and 652 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,080 never extinguishes inside of us. And we're going to reread the 653 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,920 ending and you will see how now we have the higher vision. 654 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,560 Now the universe has been revealed to us. 655 00:42:41,450 --> 00:42:55,350 OK, the ending is this here force filled my high fantasy. 656 00:42:55,350 --> 00:42:58,750 But my design will were moved already like a will evolving 657 00:42:58,750 --> 00:43:03,190 uniformly by the love that moves the sun and the other stars. 658 00:43:04,070 --> 00:43:11,160 OK, so what's happened is I figured out what God is, and I 659 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,880 realized it's that reason that matters, OK? 660 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,320 It's desire and will I feel my whole soul moving by the love 661 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:24,440 that moves the sun and the other stars, OK. 662 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,320 He understands God is love and love is the fundamental, 663 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:35,400 fundamental power that unifies the entire universe. 664 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,720 OK, so you see how you see what they like. 665 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:43,160 Comedy is on your first reading. You can't figure it out. 666 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,520 But the more you read, the more it reveals itself to you. 667 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,680 And the more you read, the secrets start to uncover 668 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,160 themselves. OK, in the first reading, we 669 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:57,200 were left with a question. What did Donnie see? 670 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,440 Now that we understand what Donnie saw, we can see the 671 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,200 universe in the same way that he saw it as well. 672 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,680 So the divine colony is first and foremost a portal into the 673 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,480 mind of God. And that's what a great book is. 674 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:16,320 All right, OK, so enjoy Divine Comedy. 675 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,800 It is the greatest work of literature in the world, and it 676 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,000 will change who you are forever.