{"id":4916,"date":"2026-02-22T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:54:07","slug":"adam-as-the-original-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/2026\/02\/22\/adam-as-the-original-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam as the Original Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/2026\/02\/22\/adam-as-the-original-communion\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4928\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ce22ae6f-5c8e-480e-ba51-c157b5dde5f5.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the sustained discernment of Faith, Hope and Love in the Sphere of the Fixed Stars, the fourth light of Adam suddenly emerges for the Pilgrim. And this is not only Adam as the first human being, but it is also representing something internally in the Reader, the very deep of one&#8217;s own soul in its original state.<\/p>\n<p>Dante&#8217;s argument is in some ways quite straight forward and shocking: every person already knows what the union and communion with God is, the direct experience of knowing and of contact, in the deep of one&#8217;s souls own memory. Even the staunchest secular-materialist or even atheist, has an Adam inside, in the roots and source of their own souls. And this root knew God at the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The four questions to Adam can thus be translated seen in this light:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How long ago was this state of the soul?<\/li>\n<li>How long did the Theosis last, as Gazing at GOD with Love?<\/li>\n<li>What was the real reason it broke (The Fall)?<\/li>\n<li>What was the nature of it (which &#8220;language&#8221; was it in)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metaphorically the first two questions read as that it happened a long time ago, and it was very brief. But it was delightful in the gazing at God in Love.<\/p>\n<p>Then the communion breaks because of transgression, when the souls started moving away from pure spirit, pure being, and replacing the sense of Reality with constructs and internal Towers of Babel.<\/p>\n<p>And the nature of the Theosis, it seems to be implied, is in a &#8220;language&#8221; long forgotten in the past. This might imply that the earliest forms of Theosis are not possible to re-enter in the same form, but that is also not something that would be natural either. The mature soul, the rebirthed soul after straying, the expanded soul after the spheres of Paradise, is in a very different state and with very different capacities than the first original first soul at the root of one&#8217;s own existence and being. Adam seems to be saying; do not search for this, use the &#8220;language&#8221; that is the one developed now for your own soul, the spiritual level of patterns you have access to, the overall depth and enrichment you can be, as you enter the union and theosis again.<\/p>\n<p>Another description might be how these experiences now (for the Pilgrim, and the Reader) will likely be brief, but recurring, in changing forms every time, and with the peaks of pure love as flowing from the gaze at God and the full alignment of the Motion of LOVE as participating in God&#8217;s Infinite Spirit and Glory.<\/p>\n<p>So in short; at this point there are seven cantos left, and the stated goal of the Comedy is the experience of Union and Theosis for the Reader. So we are receiving the Keys of the Virtues, and then a practical description of what to expect. But perhaps even more so, we are given a reminder that we already HAVE experienced this communion with God, at the very outset and creation of our own being, in God&#8217;s Image. It is not something impossible or a mysticism form of aspiration per se. It is a natural state of the soul, that each person already has done, and already has experienced and memories of, deep inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the sustained discernment of Faith, Hope and Love in the Sphere of the Fixed Stars, the fourth light of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paradiso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/paradiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}