Open My Lips

 

In Song

 

Let us go early to the vineyards

to see if the vines have budded

if their blossoms have opened, 

and if the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give you my love.

The Book of Psalms

Not Alone Never Alone

 

🔷  ⚜️  🔷

With Thee

Alpha X Omega

 

. . .

 

Divine Teaching

Bosch's

Christ Being Mocked 

The National Gallery

. . .

 

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) : "The Divine Comedy"

     

      My will on will to climb above was such

that at each step I took I felt the force

within my wings was growing for the flight.

      When all the staircase lay beneath us and 

we'd reached the highest step, then Virgil set

his eyes insistently on me and said:

      "My son, you've seen the temporary fire

and the eternal fire; you have reached

the place past which my powers cannot see.

      I've brought you here through intellect and art;

from now on, let your pleasure be your guide;

you're past the steep and past the narrow paths.   

      Look at the sun that shines upon your brow;

look at the grasses, flowers, and the shrubs

born here, spontaneously, of the earth.

      Among them, you can rest or walk until

the coming of the glad and lovely eyes -

those eyes that, weeping, sent me to your side.

      Await no further word or sign from me:

your will is free, erect, and whole - to act

against that will would be to err: therefore

      I crown and miter you over yourself."

From "The Divine Comedy"

Purgatory, Canto XXVII
Everyman's Library
The Divine Comedy

Translation Allen Mandelbaum (1926 - 2011)