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Opening Canto XIII
Beautifully clear opening.. On the top of the stairs, the first stage completed. Then seeing how this is a smaller round, and then starting to “see” the first elements: the path and the bank, in dark blue-black stone. And the … Continue reading
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Towards completion of Terrace One
After the deeper dive into twelve examples of the dynamics of distortions, the pilgrim reaches a point of a new and somewhat repaired outlook and deeper cosmology. The examples give experience and are also structured into three parts – a … Continue reading
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From general Superbia into Specifics
In the verse lines 52-57, Dante changes the focus somewhat from overall to more into the specifics of healing and transforming Superbia. Virgil, as reason, has already asked about how to quicken and ease the process, and the response that … Continue reading
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Staying with the Process, over time
After Reason wondered about how to find the fastest and easiest way through the healing and repair of superbia, the beginning of the answer comes from an unclear place: ma fu detto: «A man destra per la riva con noi … Continue reading
Reason starts to analyze the Purgation
After looking at the distortions and their process (as being crushed/transformed under the big boulders), Virgil’s starts speaking with a question about how one might quicken or ease the whole process to reach beyond it. The passage is: «Deh, se … Continue reading
The Purgation Process
After the opening prayer of Canto XI Dante briefly describes the overall process of purgation as similar to how one sometimes dreams of the boulders – likely referring to the sense of old distortions disappearing and healing in a sort … Continue reading
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The Daily Bread
After the circulation of the Divine and Creation, and the right ordering of receiving and engaging, Dante moves on to the idea of alignment of the Will, in gratitude. Come del suo voler li angeli tuoi fan sacrificio a te, … Continue reading
The Call and Response – and Circulation
After the lifting of sights up to the Heavens, and to the Love that overflows for the first effects (souls and angels), the second tercet returns this outpouring of love, with a praising up from the whole of creation: laudato … Continue reading
Purg XI:1-3, Analysis
Here is the full analysis with the method. Note especially the Result section at the end: “This tercet is the pivot from the foundational architecture of the spiritual life (Purgatorio X) to the spiritual life itself as lived relationship with … Continue reading
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Opening Purgatory XI
After the discernment and reflection on Purgatory X, one might wonder: what comes naturally next after this? After the full outline of the spiritual life and removal of Superbia? And the first tercet of Purgatory XI shows us. «O Padre … Continue reading
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