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'If I in-thee'd myself as thou dost in-me thyself.' This is one of Dante's most concise and most intense sayings, and one of the most significant. ... Something of [true union and communion] is known, on occasion, in the life of lovers; not, perhaps, in many; not, certainly often. There is some kind of experience which can only be expressed ...

I thank God that he has given us literature, which stokes the imagination and even returns refreshing fervor and dimension to theology. The Inclings met again last night and continued our study of Dante together, by reading chapter XI "The Paradiso" from The Figure of Beatrice by Charles Williams, who is stylistically quite different from Dorothy Sayers and every bit ...