The Anti-Gravity of Love: Ascending with Dante Through the Wounds of Beauty
When the soul is full of Light, it flies.
Beauty wounds. Just like no man can look at the sun and live, no mortal can look in the face of perfect Love and live.
“No man can see my face and live.” (Exodus 33:20)
When we look at Ultimate Beauty, we turn our eyes away. The direct gaze of Love is too hard to bear. That’s why when the fellowship of the Ring stood before Lady Galadriel in…
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