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

The Symbolic World

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Love Is the True Seed of Every Merit in You

Dante's guide, virgil, gives him a speech on love in purgatory. He says that natural love may never fall to error but can give rise sinful pleasure when it turns to evil or shows more zeal than it ought for what is good. "Love alone is the true seed of every merit in you and all acts for which you must atone"

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