From Medieval Art and Design, Dover Books
Re: The Wheel of Fortune
#22Nice image. The caption is unconvincing. One would not change social class from merchant to King to noble to Knight. One might go up & down within a social class, and have personal ups and downs, but there wasn't social mobility between social classes like that. A King might fall but he's not going to end up as a merchant. I think there must be a different message in the image.
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#23I agree with you Debra.
Boethius is spoken to by Philosophy
Then she said: "Do you think that this world is run by accidental and irregular chance, or do you believe that somehow it is ruled by reason?"
"I could," said I, "by no means believe that what is so certain and predictable could be run by irregular chance; I know that God the Creator presides over His work; and the day will never come that I will abandon this judgment as untrue."
There is reason in God's plan for you to be where you are.
Boethius is spoken to by Philosophy
Then she said: "Do you think that this world is run by accidental and irregular chance, or do you believe that somehow it is ruled by reason?"
"I could," said I, "by no means believe that what is so certain and predictable could be run by irregular chance; I know that God the Creator presides over His work; and the day will never come that I will abandon this judgment as untrue."
There is reason in God's plan for you to be where you are.
The Universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts
Re: The Wheel of Fortune
#25I think it has been stopped by wise Prudence; Boethius's hands and eyes show his consideration of the question. Is the position of everyone accident, chance, or divine reason?
The Universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts
Re: The Wheel of Fortune
#26Ah ha. Sort of like the idea of being reincarnated into exactly the right position for your soul's next lesson.
Very different from the contemporary divinatory meaning.
Very different from the contemporary divinatory meaning.
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#27X
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What a Circe is Fortune
to turn us into beasts
and wheel us through our seasons
as Time upon us feasts.
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What a Circe is Fortune
to turn us into beasts
and wheel us through our seasons
as Time upon us feasts.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
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#28Yesterday I re-read the 7th Canto of Dante's Divine Comedy and greatly enjoyed Virgil's beautiful description of Fortune.
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#29Lovely. And it's good to see you, Marco.
Pen
Pen
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy...
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#30Thanks very much Marco (and yes, it really is nice to see you!). I appreciate it especially because I've come to form an opinion of Fortune as a "negative" force, and align her with inconstancy in Giotto, for instance, and therefore as a "vice". This is a really different take on her, and it makes me question how sound my earlier assumptions are.
cheers,
robert
cheers,
robert
The Tarot will lose all its vitality for one who allows himself to be side-tracked by its pedantry. - Aleister Crowley