{"id":5650,"date":"2026-08-04T20:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/?p=5650"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:01:16","slug":"the-purgation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/08\/04\/the-purgation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purgation Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/07\/28\/the-daily-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opening prayer<\/a> of Canto XI Dante briefly describes the overall process of purgation as similar to how one sometimes dreams of the boulders &#8211; likely referring to the sense of old distortions disappearing and healing in a sort of dreamlike state.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cos\u00ec a s\u00e9 e noi buona ramogna\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>quell\u2019ombre orando, andavan sotto \u2018l pondo,\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>simile a quel che tal volta si sogna,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roughly: <em>&#8220;Like this to themselves and to us, these shades were singing good prayers, walking under the boulder, similar to that which one sometimes dreams of.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<em>pondo<\/em>&#8221; as stone\/boulder thus becomes a symbol of the whole terrace, and the whole central transition in a life as well &#8211; removing the distortions, healing, and opening up to fuller reality and a categorically different experience and participation in Being.<\/p>\n<p>The elements within oneself, slowly being crushed, the faculties gradually rebuilding healthy and aligned assumptions and elements of a new cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>This process itself is really something of a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; likely referring to the sense of old distortions disappearing and healing in a sort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/08\/04\/the-purgation-process\/\">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":[1,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","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=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}