Word: loving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Purgatorio'," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "is instinctive with the spirit of love and the redemption of man." It opens with a beautiful description of dawn, illustrative of the hope in Dante's breast, arising from the consciousness of a definite aim,--a pilgrimage for the attainment of the liberty of the soul...
Three steps lead up to the gate of Purgatory--the white step, symbolic of the innocence and beauties in life, the black step, symbolic of life blasted by sin, and the red step, symbolic of the spirit of sacrificing love for ridding one's self of a sinful past...
...mitre, symbolic of self-mastery, and the crown, the symbol of freedom of his soul. The pilgrim then bathes in the river Lethe and forgets all that is evil--symbolic of the forgiveness of sins. With renewed soul and spirit he is now, ready for Heaven and for the love and presence...
...Inferno," said Bishop Boyd-Carpenter, "is a revelation of the ugliness of sin; it means self-discovery." We must endure Hell in order to understand Heaven. The "Inferno' 'is the only way to Heaven and Love...
...certain of the punishments. But he is merely trying to express his opinion that some sinners are so base that they should suffer the fullness of their punishments. In the instance of the punishment of the lovers, Francesca di Rimini and Paolo, however, Dante pronounces his verdict on love in the somewhat later form. "I could not love thee half so much, loved I not honor more." And, yet, Dante adds to this his belief that hearts that are once joined in true love can never be rent asunder...