{"id":15253,"date":"2021-11-18T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=15253"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:49:17","slug":"eternal-life-is-seeing-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=15253","title":{"rendered":"Eternal Life is Seeing God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Petrarch and Laura\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura-90x71.jpg 90w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/PetrarchAndLaura.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Petrarch was an initiate into the Fedeli d&#8217;Amore. He wrote a few hundred sonnets mostly to Laura, his secret love. The initiatic theme of Sonnet 191 is revealed by the comparison of &#8220;seeing God&#8221; to seeing his &#8220;lady&#8221;. She satiates his longing, his Sehnsucht, for God. The very sight of her is reflected in his Heart; knowing her is Knowledge of the Heart. She makes his thoughts taste sweet, satisfying all his other hopes and wishes. She is his secret love.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"commentary\"><p>\nJust as eternal life is seeing God,<br \/>\nlonging for nothing greater, no longer longing,<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m made happy, my lady, by seeing you<br \/>\nin this brief and fragile life of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I never saw you as lovely as today,<br \/>\nif my eyes truly reflect my heart:<br \/>\nsweet in my thought the hour, and blessed,<br \/>\novercoming every other hope and wish.<\/p>\n<p>And if its flight were not so fast,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d ask no more: if there are creatures<br \/>\nthat live only on air, and such things believed,<\/p>\n<p>others on water or fire, their taste and touch<br \/>\nsated by things deprived of sweetness,<br \/>\nthen why not I on the dear sight of you?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as eternal life is seeing God,<br \/>\nlonging for nothing greater, no longer longing,<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m made happy, my lady, by seeing you<br \/>\nin this brief and fragile life of mine. <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=15253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1353],"class_list":["post-15253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-petrarch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16877,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions\/16877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}