This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...forbidden things, as we shall see from the dream, are the sins on the three remaining Terraces. The dream is a morning one, coming near the dawn, 'when dreams Begin to feel the truth and stir of day.' It will, therefore, according to Dante's belief, be fulfilled. 1 Purg. xviil. 141-145. His astronomical ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...forbidden things, as we shall see from the dream, are the sins on the three remaining Terraces. The dream is a morning one, coming near the dawn, 'when dreams Begin to feel the truth and stir of day.' It will, therefore, according to Dante's belief, be fulfilled. 1 Purg. xviil. 141-145. His astronomical description of the hour is meant to suggest something more, perhaps, than a symbolic connection of the stars with his moral state. In the first place, it is the coldest hour of the twenty-four, that in which human vitality is at its lowest ebb. The heat of the day, 'conquered by Earth, or at times by Saturn, ' can no longer warm the coldness of the Moon, --all three being regarded as naturally frigid.1 It is, therefore, the hour of all others when Sloth finds us its easiest prey. The second note of time is much more difficult to understand. It is the hour When geomants their Greater Fortune See in the orient, before the dawn. Rise by a way that short time stays dark for it.2 Geomancy pretended to predict future events by means of figures indicated by certain points, taken at random on the earth's surface. The common explanation of the passage before us is that the particular figure known as Fortuna Major was taken from the last stars of Aquarius and the first of Pisces, which at that hour were on the eastern horizon. There is no reason for questioning this, yet the feeling remains that Dante had some deeper meaning in his mind. The mention of Saturn is at least suggestive. For Saturn is the Greater Infortune of the old system of astrology, and is by universal experience acknowledged to be the most potent, evil, and malignant of all the planets.' Is it not possible that Dante meant to say that at this moment good and evil stars were contending for the
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