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proclaiming a divine rather than secular redeemer as close to the Sphinx83 as Anubis to Christ.
Just as the Commedia is figured is terza rimas and thirty-three grand Cantos to a Cantica,84 the 500 10 5 is properly expressed in a trinity of odd, masculine,85 finite numbers, suggesting a divine male redeemer. 500 and 5 are sustained by the even, feminine Decad (Beatrice as Christ),86 and by the Monad (God) in its 515 expression.
Ten as Christ: a Christ manifested in the feminine, luminous Beatrice, Lady Justice and Lady Philosophy87 and the living word of Dante: Beatrice of Paradiso Terrestre and of the celestial spheres, Beatrice of the atemporal and aspatial stillness of the Empyrean. Once upon a medieval time in the Vita Nuova, a mortal Beatrice riddled by sufferable nines, now, in Paradiso, an immortal Beatrice blessed by tens. A Beatrice derived at the beginning, like all beings and things, from the One, then from the unstable duad, marching the procession of even, feminine88 numbers. Even numbers that signified ill omen,89 the very omen of her death that grieved Dante’s being,90 the very omen Christ felt about his own death. Feminine, even numbers, thus, delegated to the chthonic gods.91 Gods who could not resist Dante’s capricious spin to resurrect and beatify his mortal Beatrice, then lady of Eros, to the infinity of light, the beauty of the One, and the divinity of Agape. Astounded Gods who saw Dante’s beloved resurrected from the Vita Nuova’s ‘nines’ to Paradiso’s ‘tens’ from death’s acrid labyrinth to the Empyrean heavens, only to have her, in three glories, save him in
83 Recent theories postulate that The Sphinx of Egypt is a representation of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead.
84 Dante wrote 33 cantos to a Cantica initially. To complete and elevate his Commedia to divine perfection, he added an extra canto in Purgatorio totalling 34 cantos. This insertion allows the three Canticas to add up to 100 Cantos, a multiple of the sacred decad.
85 Furthermore, the odd number is always master, because odd and even mixed (added) produce always odd. An even plus an even never produces an odd number, but odd numbers produce even ones. 40 Plutarch.
86 In the Vita Nuova Beatrice is seen in relation to Christ. “In certo modo, sia come ‘segno’ di lui, sia come ‘via’ verso lui.” She represents beatitude and love. Look now on the face that most resembles Christ, for nothing but its brightness can make you fit to look on Christ.' Par. 32, 85-87
87 Moev. The Metaphysics of Dante. 85-86
88 Feminine numbers were considered weaker than odd because they were empty in the centre: they even out. Whereas odd, masculine numbers, when divided, a residue or middle is always left. Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, VIII, 4; Capella, op. cit., VII.
89 Plato. Laws V. Trans. By Jowett. 100.
90 Dante. Vita Nuova.
91 FN 42 Plutarch, Life of Numa, 14.
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