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THE CINQUECENTO DIECE E CINQUE 500105
515
DXV OR ΦIE PROPHECY
I see with certainty, and therefore say that stars, secure from obstacle or bar, are drawing near to give to us the hour
In which will come five hundred ten and five as messenger of God to slay that thief
the giant, too, whom she makes mischief with.
Beatrice to Dante In Paradiso Terrestre Pur., XXXIII: 31-
45
Ch’io veggio certamente, e però il narro, a darne tempo già stele propinque,
secure d’ogn’ intoppo e d’ogne sbarro,
nel quale un cinquecento diece e cinque, messo di Dio, anciderà la fuia
con quell gigante che con lei delinque.
Beatrice to Dante In Paradiso Terrestre Pur., XXXIII, 31-45
Christ as Hound.
Dante’s Hound shares Christ’s three cherished virtues, Wisdom, Virtue and Pure Love, which mirror two of the three divine virtues of Power, Wisdom and Love inscribed over the Gate of Hell.22 Christ is the wisdom of God and Judge of the world.23 Christ guards the Christian flock just as precious Old Testament shepherd hounds guard theirs.24 To further relate this triad to the Trinity, as Hopper proposes in the following table,25 assigning Power to the Father of Inferno,26 Wisdom to the Son of Pugatorio,27 and Love to the Holy
22 Inf. 3, 1-10
23 See commentary by KIRKPATRICK, Dante’s Inferno, pp 408-409.
24 “For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.” Psalms: 22:16
25 Foster Hopper. Medieva Number Symbolism. Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression. The Occult. USA: Dover Publications, 2011.
26 Hopper says, “Nowhere certainly is the Power of the Father more graphically felt than in the Inferno, where Christ is never named, there where the OT saints were forced to dwell, ‘Till pleased the Word of God condescend.’” (from Par. VII, 30).
27 The justice of Purgatorio, then, may be understood as an expression of the Wisdom of the Son. Functionally, it corresponds to the Word in making possible the salvation of man. Temporally, its institution was connected
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