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Cipher, however, announces a coming golden age:
1) DXV as 1315, the awaited year of renewal;
2) DXV as the sixth epoch of Christ;
3) DXV as a future, undetermined time such as Apocalypses or
eternal life.
Thoughts and ideas that invoke multiform arbitrary11 or intentional12 dimensions: 515 as a sum, as the proper Latin and Greek numerals DXV and ΦΙΕ, and as the Eastern Orthodox Christogram, ICXC.13 They affirm Dante’s aesthetics of imagination and its endless crystalline mosaics. As Hermes’ astute disciples, we shall first journey towards far-off Olympus, and, once there, loitering amidst its dreamy and decadent flowers, ask why Dante, a Medieval Prometheus, selects a theosophical trinity that readily triggers the six hundred and sixty-six (666) of John’s Apocalypse (13:18),14 the hunting desert-wolf of Jeremiah 5:6,15 and the Hound of Virgil’s Aeneid (1.278-296).16 There, amidst its enchanting streams, if sufficiently blessed, we shall hear too why Dante neglects, let’s say, 313, 616, 717 or any other possible cryptogram series. Should Olympus, however, not cede to our demands, we shall instantly set forth towards higher Helikon and speak of such things to Apollo and the Muses. Should their silence prevail, we shall keep on ascending and, at some mysterious intersection of spirit and intellect, we shall hope for Dante’s wings so as to seek loftier paradises, forms and spheres.
Spheres of three-dimensional poesies, of ecliptic prophecies, of philosophical verities revealing Dante’s genius and why he needed to recur to an
11 Some later readers object to letter swapping and feel DUX is arbitrary. They claim that if Dante had wanted DUX, he could have perfectly written it that way. Wilson argues that there are many instances in the Commedia where Dante plays and reverses numbers. Wilson. Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia. 117. The following sources expand on the subject. MOORE, Symbolism, p. 257; A.C. Mastrobuono, The Powerful Enigma, “Lectura Dantis Newberryana,” I, 1988, pp. 153-198: 162-164; WIS, p. 586.
12 To some critics, the single instance of the ‘cinque’ rhyme in the Commedia supports its significance. Hence, it should not be changed flippantly. MASTROBUONO, p. 164, following MOORE, Symbolism, pp. 263-283.
13 ICXC, Greek abbreviation for the first and last letters of “Jesus Christ” or ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ — written IHCOYC XPICTOC with a transliteration of the lunate sigma common in medieval Greek as "C". Sometimes it is rendered ICXC NIKA meaning "Jesus Christ Conquers.”
14 E.G. see S. BELLOMO, Canto XXXIII, in LDT II, pp. 503-515: 507. Noted in Wilson’s Dante’s Prophecies. 115.
15 “Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.” Jeremiah 5:6
16 This Virgilian prophetic gesture has Jupiter proclaiming the founding of Rome under Aeneas’ command. This suggests a possible imperial connection to Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia.
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