In today’s reading, we come at last to the end of the journey. Dante has experienced “the three lives of the spirit.” Having passed through the torments of Inferno and Purgatory and seen literally everything between Heaven and Hell, Dante is at last prepared for his final vision. In this ecstatic world of dizzying heights, he beholds Father, Son, and Spirit as a vast circle of one circumference and differing lights. But language breaks down here. With a humble prayer he turns his thoughts to things eternal: the lights of the stars.
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In My End is My Beginning
In My End is My Beginning
Dante's "Paradiso," Canto 33
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