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- Title
THE PERISHING BEING IN INITIATION JOURNEYS -- THE JOURNEY BEYOND THE VEIL.
- Authors
CONSTANTINESCU, Tamara
- Abstract
During time, man has been preoccupied with the topics of initiation journeys, of journeys beyond the veil, of Heaven and Hell. According to Jacques Le Goff, stories about journeys beyond the veil follow three traditions. One known Irish legend tells of St. Patrick, who visited the Inferno and the Purgatory. In twelve-century England, priest Adam Ros portrayed, in a poem, the journey of St. Paul to Hell. The myth of Orpheus also deals with this topic. Among the rare descendings to Hell mentioned by the Greek mythology, that of Orpheus becomes the most popular. Ulysses' journey in Homer's Odyssey can be also interpreted as an initiation journey, a form of knowledge of the world, but also a form of self-knowledge, a central path. The world beyond the veil appears as a universe outside time. The reason for the journey can be the knowledge of the world beyond the veil, a journey to the Lord in order to receive recompense or a journey for being given advice. Initiation journeys can also be followed in Virgil's Aeneid or Dante's Divine Comedy. Aeneas's wish is that of descending into the Inferno to meet his father. A symbolical descending done to learn and to receive some advice. Dante's Divine Comedy represents an allegorical view of the other world, as a path to salvation. The other world is an allegory and an image of this world; it is the history and the mystery of the soul. The Divine Comedy thus appears as a story of the soul, which, from form to form, identifies itself with God, pure intelligence, pure love, and pure act.
- Subjects
VOYAGES to the otherworld; PATRICK, Saint, ca. 373-ca. 463; PAUL, the Apostle, Saint; GREEK mythology; LITERATURE
- Publication
International Journal of Communication Research, 2014, Vol 4, Issue 3, p233
- ISSN
2246-9265
- Publication type
Article