Dante, awakening, and erotic love
Dante's Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy and the Return of Dante
Dante celebrates how that is known intimately throughout the whole of life as well as with this more expansive vision he also interestingly meets Adam the Aboriginal human and Adam tells him about what you might call the original way in which human beings participated in the life of God when first created in Eden they were made we were made to know God without mediation directly without hindrance. Dante famously experiences himself turning perfectly as if a perfectly balanced wheel with the love that moves the Sun and the other stars at the culmination of the Divine Comedy.
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