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213 - The Divine Comedy: Love in Heaven and in Hell

The Symbolic World

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Dante was part of a brotherhood of poets that were focused on the notion of love. Love can be seen as the animating force behind everything that dante talks about. The people in hell, they rush into hell themselves. They want to be there. And for us as modern people, that is a very strange thing to think,. To think that the world exists through love.

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