{"id":5006,"date":"2026-06-21T06:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:51:32","slug":"the-connection-described","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/06\/21\/the-connection-described\/","title":{"rendered":"The Connection Described"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The beginning and end of the spiritual path: how to receive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the first ~40 lines, the confirmation comes in Purgatory X:40-45, that this is indeed the key or the technique, for how to connect with the Heavens.<\/p>\n<p>And the words from the engraving are &#8220;\u2018<em>Ecce ancilla Dei<\/em>\u2019, or &#8220;<em>here is the handmaid of God<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This is in many ways the main message of the entire Divine Comedy, and the first substance lesson as we enter the Purgatory Gate. Connect and Receive. This is the whole point. And it will also come back in its fullest form at the very end of Paradiso, when the reader has been transformed and built capacities over the whole journey. One can read the passages there already, but one cannot experience them in their fullness yet.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth and the keys, are right here. The connection with God comes from the &#8220;side&#8221;, and it will be through receiving. That is the nature of the relationship with the infinite and eternal spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning and end of the spiritual path: how to receive. After the first ~40 lines, the confirmation comes in Purgatory X:40-45, that this is indeed the key or the technique, for how to connect with the Heavens. And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/06\/21\/the-connection-described\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}