Title	Jeremy Naydler, ‘The Inner Beloved’
Date	Sat 20 Feb
Event	CAE Open Lecture
Time	6:15pm - 7:45pm
Venue	Laud, Lg16
Contact	artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk or Tel: 01227 922994
Price	Standard Adult - £5.00

This talk will be an exploration of the numinous inner figure, to whom Dante gave the name Beatrice, or “the bringer of blessings”. Like Rumi and Ibn Arabi before him, Dante knew the Inner Beloved both as a real human being and also as an archetypal power mediating the divine presence. Although needing to be encountered in the flesh in order fully to be experienced, ultimately the Inner Beloved dwells in the innermost recesses of the soul, there commanding our most ardent devotion and stimulating our deepest creative energies.

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