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possibilities, instead of risking obsolesce by attaching it too clearly to any individual time scale.”20
Blossoms.
Prophecy blooming towards Pentad, Monad and Decad: theosophies and emblems of Christ and those historical Moseses, Davids and Constantines that pre-figure and post-figure Christ. Prophecy blossoming towards divine justice, the Last Judgment and Christ’s Second Advent. “Were the prophecies to foretell the coming of a temporal leader,” Wilson suggests, “they would naturally foretell a second future event which will be the fulfilment of the figura which that temporal saviour is; that is, each prophecy foretells the Second Coming of Christ.”21
Quintessential Christology sublimated in Dante’s Commedia by the Hound’s tripartite virtues, the felt’s lowly cloth or heaven, the biblical beauty of shepherding hounds and the consonance amidst the One in the Many, the Many in the One, and the Monad in the Decad and Decad in the Monad. Christology singing too of sacred Pentads and Sextads dancing along philosophical and biblical versifications of 5:15, never neglecting those theosophical beauties within the breathless 55 nor the most potent and magic of numbers and symbols in the Commedia: the five and the Eagle.
THE VELTRO OR HOUND PROPHECY
She couples, a mate to many a creature,
and will so with more, till at last there comes
the hunting hound that deals her death and pain.
He will not feed on dross or cash or gelt, but thrive in wisdom, virtue and pure love born he shall be between the felt and felt
Beatrice to Dante In Paradiso Terrestre
Inf., I: 100-105
Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia, e più saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro verrà, che la farà morir con doglia.
Questi non ciberà terra né peltro, ma sapienza, amore e virtute,
e sua nazion sarà tra feltro e feltro
Beatrice to Dante In Paradiso Terrestre Inf., I: 100-105
20 See COHN, pp. 108-113. He describes the movement after Joachim, which prophesied the Second Coming as 1260 and Frederick II as the Last Emperor. Frederick’s death in 1250 undermined this and the world did not end in 1260. Note 24 in Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia. . 215.
21 For more details, Wilson recommends to see HOLLANDER, Allegory, pp. 182-183. See too chapter 4, note 102 above. (On Henry as a typus Christi, and the concept generally, see G.R. SAROLLI, Prolegomena alla Divina commedia, Florence, Olschki, 1971, pp. 88-90, 253-259, 324-331. Wilson. Prophecies and Prophecy in Dante’s Commedia. 215
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