The Divine Comedy & its Dissolutions
“The soul gravitates after death to the story appropriate to its relative density, there to digest & assimilate the whole meaning of its past life. When the lesson has been learned, it returns to the world, to prepare itself for the next degree of experience. Thus, gradually it makes its way through all the levels of life-value until it has broken past the confines of the cosmic-egg. Dante’s Divina Commedia is an exhaustive review of the stages:
INFERNO:
The misery of the spirit bound to the prides & actions of the flesh.
PURGATORIO:
The process of transmuting fleshly into spiritual experience.
PARAISO:
The degrees of spiritual realization.
Text: The Hero with a thousand faces, Joseph Campbell pg 318
Images: Gustav Dore, Divine Comedy
