Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...seven cornices on the mountain of Purgatory, up which the pilgrim must climb, are the sins of pride, envy, anger, gloomy indifference, avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...
...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
...Inferno," said the Bishop, "teacher us the lesson of self-discovery; its purpose is to impress upon us the necessity of knowing ourselves...
...greatest calamity for him." The infinite is not a concrete thing which man can acquire and add to his possessions; he can never find Brahma, for Brahma himself is everywhere; what he must do is to free himself from the confinement of the life of the self and by daily worship seek not to acquire God but to surrender himself...