1/15/2024 0 Comments Limbo hell heavenBy starting Dante the Pilgrim’s journey here, Dante the Poet is aligning Dante the Pilgrim not with Heaven and Paradise, but with the hopelessness of Hell. The Inferno begins with Dante the Pilgrim straying from the path of God: “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray/from the straight road and woke to find myself/alone in a dark wood.” (Dante, The Inferno, trans. I argue that Limbo is fundamentally different from the other levels of Hell, and through Dante the Poet’s description of the afterlife, we can extrapolate that despite concluding that he will go to Paradise, Dante the Poet’s description of Dante the Pilgrim’s experiences advocates for Limbo. My argument is that despite this surface-level reading, what Dante actually shows us is that the sameness of becoming one with God in heaven is boring, and that the best place to land oneself in the afterlife is in Limbo. If Heaven is a state of supernatural happiness and union with God, and Hell is understood as a state of torture and separation from God then, in this view, the Limbo of Infants, although technically part of hell (the outermost part, "limbo" meaning "outer edge" or "hem") is seen as a sort of intermediate state.Dante’s Divine Comedy – part treatise on death, life and religion, part self-insert fanfiction – ostensibly argues that, of the different paths through life, the most important is the straight path toward God and toward Paradise. They had died believing in God and not renouncing their faith, but were not altogether clean in that they had "venial sin" (as contrasted with "mortal sin") stuck to their account. But the souls in Purgatory were saved already, they were destined for heaven. The difference between Limbo and Purgatory is that Limbo is permanent, as the philosopher Socrates would be there as his eternal destiny. ![]() The resulting effect on the mental state can be difficult to overcome. As a result of the extreme time dilation in the plane, people in limbo can experience years in a minimal amount of time. The time scale in limbo is stretched out to a much higher extent than in other afterlives since it is not a level of purgatory or other realms, but a separate plane. Limbo itself has appearances that mirrors earthly locations such as forests, objects, and even landscapes like small towns and houses although they appear to be in ruin and decrepit. There is not one single ounce of natural color in the world of Limbo which is said to signify the eternal loneliness and depression that a soul feels upon realizing that they will never receive any form of contact from God or their loved ones in Heaven. When entering Limbo, the environment changes drastically appearing as a dark, grayscale landscape and with minimalist ambient sounds, creating an eerie, haunting environment shrouded in mists. For some Limbo was also the home of major figures from the Hebrew Bible, who, according to Christian theology, were "liberated" by Jesus following his crucifixion. Thus its inhabitants include many of the great heroes, thinkers, and creative minds of ancient Greece and Rome as well as such medieval non-Christians as Saladin, Sultan of Egypt in the late twelfth century, and the great Islamic philosophers Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroës (Ibn Rushd). Limbo is also said to be technically the first circle of hell-includes virtuous non-Christian adults in addition to unbaptized infants. In addition, the Beast was cast out along with the Tree and slumbers beneath its roots, eventually becoming one with it, as such, it is regarded as the "seedling" of the Tree of Knowledge with Immanuel stating that its appearance is a physical manifestation of the fundamental concepts of good and evil which the Tree holds. As a result, Limbo became the desolate wasteland of withered forestry it is now due to the spreading of the Tree's dark roots. Limbo is revealed to be where the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was thrown after the Fall of Man. ![]() Memories from the deceased can also alter reality in Limbo, as rooms that contained strong memories may still appear as lively and illuminated as those in the real world, yet they may suddenly change into other rooms contained in the memories of those they belonged to. Limbo is a place or state of the souls of the just who, although purified from sin, were not allowed to enter either Heaven or Hell or to the permanent place or state of those unbaptized children and others who, dying without grievous personal sin, are excluded from the beatific vision on account of original sin alone. Limbo is also known to be the "edge of Hell" for it is closer to Hell than Heaven. Limbo, also known as the Further, is the border between Heaven, Earth, and Hell, however, it is different from Purgatory.
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