Tag: Vision

Hildegard of Bingen, the Sibyl of the Rhine

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In the decline of a world ruled by men only, an intrepid nun with a warrior spirit does not hesitate to lash the consciences of popes and emperors. Mystic and prophetess, theologian and philosopher, leader and preacher, composer and doctor, that of Hildegard of Bingen is one of the most original voices of the twelfth century. Let's retrace the adventurous events together.

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William Butler Yeats, navigator of the Great Memory

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Going upstream in the opposite direction, WB Yeats became a bard in an age that had banned all poems, forgotten Arcadia, denied and ridiculed the knowledge of the ancient Druids. His entire work - and even before that his entire existence - was consecrated to a Vision, founded on the so-called "Great Memory", a sort of Anima mundi of the Neoplatonists, "reservoir of souls and images and a meeting point between the living and the dead", which the Seer must access to fill theirremediable distance between the ideal and the real, between the divine and the human.

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WB Yeats, William Blake and the sacred power of the imagination

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Although they lived one century after the other, in the biographies of Blake and Yeats it is possible to glimpse two parallel lives, based on some specular guiding ideas that guided their artistic and literary activity: the ideal of " religion of art ”, the saving mission of the artist, the emphasis placed on the imaginative faculty for the purposes of the process of self-realization and the announcement of the advent of a new era to come.

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