Dusting Off Don Quixote: The Unconquerable Catholicism of Cervantes
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2022
- "The foolishness of God is wiser than men…" -1 Corinthians 1:25
For most today who recognize his name, Don Quixote stands as merely an archetype of foolish futility. His creator, Miguel de Cervantes, has been reduced by modern scholars to a deeply cynical and romantic figure, a serious injustice to this great Catholic author. Sean Fitzpatrick joins the ICC to reclaim this literary masterpiece for Christ.
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Sean Fitzpatrick serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy, a boarding school for boys in Pennsylvania, where he teaches humanities. His writings on education, literature, and culture have appeared in a number of journals including Crisis Magazine, Catholic World Report, The Epoch Times, and the Imaginative Conservative. He lives in Scranton with his wife and their seven children.
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Awesome topic. I've been intending to read Don Quixote as my first Spanish book and needed the motivation. Greetings from a fellow Scrantonian!
29:36 I don't think Cervantes parodied chivalric novels merely to mock them, more so to shows the power of said fiction. Many are quick to dismiss Amadís, Orlando, Tirant lo Blanc or Palmerin of England despite the fact Cervantes himself praised them (although indeed he considered several to be derivative, such as Esplandián).
Le sens profond de l'oeuvre de Cervantes est enfin révélé dans un livre qui vient de sortir aux éditions BEYA : "Cervantes et la Cabale chrétienne". Je le recommande.
Question - In the quotation you read from the book, Don Quixote states he is seeking "Eternal Renown." You also mentioned several times the presence of absence of glory and/or recognition in Cervantes's life. Isn't the pursuit of individual glory a result of pride, which is a cardinal sin? If so how can we square both Don Quixote and Cervantes as "Catholic warriors?"
Could eternal renown possibly refer to the wish to receive that praise of, "Good and faithful servant" from God at our judgement?
@@Aurora99363 oh that's a lovely thought!
Dusting off Don Quixote: The Unconquerable Catholicism of Cervantes
The DQ is set in Spain, as this is a Catholic country, but it is not written by a Spaniard, not by Cervantes..het sold his name to survive, he was a figurehead. The DQ was conceived by the Englishman, Francis Bacon, an Anglican in name with the cooperation of 4 members of the Sireniacal Gentlemen: Ben Jonson (=SP), John Donne (wrote the poems) and ‘the two friends’, Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher. ( Cide Hamete Benengeli - Miguel de Cervantes = Siren: Avellaneda - I Saavedra= Siren II, two or too.. so also written by the Sireniacals..)
The DQ is like it's a funny book for everyone and also for many a study book (e.g. religion, law, medicine), but what really matters is that it is an initiation story; Don Quixote is on the path of initiation.
‘…what sciences have you heard? That of Knight Errantry (quoth Don Quixote) which is as good as your Poetry… Tis a Science …that contains in it all… he that professes it must be skilfull in the Lawes, …He must be a Divine, …Hee must bee a Physician.’
Of course, the initiation is mentioned backwards as so many situations in the DQ: 3-Laws, the King, then 2- the divine is the theologian, the Priest, and 1- the Physician, the philosopher from “Hermes the Thrice-Greatest. Body, mind and soul; from all learned doctors familiar with nature and herbs, the best were chosen. An echelon higher is the Priest; from all priests the best were chosen and then - another step up. From all kings, who tried to understand the divine, the supreme was chosen: Hermes.
The kabbalah is the secret teachings of Hermes, yet different from the esoteric initiations of the brotherhoods, a revelation given by higher orders. These initiations were written down in the book of Splendor, the Zohar, Jewish mystical thought. The doctrine provides a map for the development of consciousness through the tree of life that has 10 paths. That's one way to try to explain how God manifests himself in the physical world: those 10 sefiroth are 22 ways to get enlightenment, symbolised by the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are interconnected.
So the DQ is about The Man on the Path, an initiation story: go the way to overcome yourself: body, mind and soul. Here we have to know the degrees or ceremonies on being made a Freemason: apprentice-fellow-master. A) he is beaten and lying on a donkey, and under cover of darkness returns to his village, physically broken: That's why the DQI is about the physical setbacks, trials he must overcome. The apprentice must first of all control and put into perspective his lowest instincts; sex, food, material desires: at the entrance to the inn there are those two lovely ladies, but Don Quixote doesn’t pay attention.
I can explain more than 88 codes in the DQ, but who is interested?
...who is interested? No one. Keep taking your pills.