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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA - Dante Alighieri - IN QUEST OF PARADISE: An Afternoon with Anne Maria Clarke 29th Sept 2019

8/16/2019

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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA - Dante Alighieri - IN QUEST OF PARADISE
An Afternoon
 with
 Anne Maria Clarke
29TH September 2019
2pm/6pm
www.rockbank.co.uk

“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
―Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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 A masterpiece of medieval literature!
 Ground-breakingly written in Italian not Latin.
 Beloved of the people.
 A political satire of the day exposing corruption in Church & State.
 But most of all a love story to equal that of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet & the tale of an archetypal journey into the darkest realms of the psyche in quest of freedom & spiritual illumination.
 Join us as we peer into the mystery of Dante’s greatest work.
 
All Welcome

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Other Dates: 
Societa' Dante Alighieri
Evening Presentation
21st May 2020 Loughborogh UK
https://danteloughborough.vpweb.co.uk/

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The Assumption of the Virgin 15th August Reflections: Anne Maria Clarke

8/15/2019

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The Assumption of the Virgin
Reflections: Anne Maria Clarke
Featuring the painting: The Dornination & the Assumption of the Virgin by Fra Angelico
& music: Ave Maria: by Ashana

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Today is the day 15th August, when still in numerous Catholic countries around the world, the moment of the Virgin's Assumption and her Coronation as Queen of Heaven is celebrated, and her statues are born aloft through the streets strewn with flowers.
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It is a moment brim full of symbolism & significance: a moment long acknowledged and believed a spiritual truth as these gorgeous pre-renaissance paintings lovingly created by Fra Angelico show clearly but not one that was acknowledged by the church until 1954!

Whether we are religious or not, the moment has meaning for us all and most particularly for women, for it heralds the loosening of the grip of the great patriarchies and their long-time banishment from canon and creed of female deity. Remember Eve, and all the trouble she inadvertently stepped into to by eating the apple?

Well to cut a long an utterly fascinating story short - there’s a very real sense in which the Assumed Virgin is a far, far distant granddaughter of Eve being welcomed back to Paradise and regaining her lost divinity - for you see Eve was not just any girl, she was in her turn the granddaughter of countless classical and pre-classical goddesses from ancient times who over the centuries had gradually been stripped and dis - possessed of their power.

So you see 1954 was a momentous moment in time - and its why the 15th August really is worth celebrating. 

 The symbolism is immeasurably important and perhaps, as the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung has suggested,
 
‘the most significant event of the twentieth century.’   

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I have re-posted a video below from ASHANA who with her hauntingly beautiful voice and singing bowls has created the loveliest rendition of Ave Maria that I listen to often and which sooths my soul.   

Much love
Anne Maria Clarke
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Reference:
Ann Baring & Jules Cashford : Myth of the Goddess
The Dormination & Assumption of the Virgin: Fra Angelico
Ashana: Ave Maria

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Anne Maria Clarke
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​
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