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Jupiter hell dante station6/13/2023 ![]() "A loved one's trinket you should save." - This island is in a diamond shape, with the next portal on a smaller island in its center. "A spot to mark where your flesh dries." - This island is in the shape of a plus-sign or X, with the next portal at the top. "A winding path to your demise." - This island is in the shape of a reversed S, with the portal to the next island on the other side of it. Each one gives you another red message as you progress: Each one has enemies but only the final one, accessible after you've beaten all seven islands, has loot or ammo. If you don't take it you instead take a series of seven portals to seven different islands. You have an option to leave through a portal at the entrance. When you first arrive, you get a red message: "Welcome to the end of your journey. To open the portal to this level you must kill all enemies on Dante level 2. Because of his Faith and good works, God awarded him the graces necessary for justification.Dante Inferno is a special level on Moon 4: Dante. He was introduced to the Faith by God's mercy and grace and was baptized by the three cardinal virtues. Upon his second death, he ascended to the Sphere of Jupiter.Īlthough he was born before the advent of Christianity, Ripheus was a believer. God resurrected Trajan who then converted to Christianity. He prayed to God to save Trajan from the pains of hell. According to the Eagle, Pope Gregory the Great was moved by the stories of Trajan's acts of justice and mercy. Upon his death, he descended into the first circle of the Inferno among the virtuous pagans. His sense of justice and virtue led him to help a lowly widow in her time of need. Trajan was a Roman emperor who reigned between 97 and 117 AD. While speaking with the souls forming the Eagle's eye, Dante deepens his knowledge of God's mercy, and explores the mystery of predestination: In the eye, Dante sees Trajan and Ripheus, two pagans born before the advent of Christianity. He tells Dante that there is a fixed number of elect known solely to God and that even the blessed of the Heaven do not know who will be saved. ![]() The final “m” in Terram transforms into the shape of a giant eagle which speaks to Dante about predestination and God's salvific will. In the heavens, the souls arrange themselves into the Latin sentence “Diligite Iustitiam Qui Iudicatis Terram” which means “cherish justice, you who judge the earth”. The Sphere of Jupiter is home to souls who dedicated themselves to the pursuit of justice. However, most Danteists agree that she represents the beauty and purity of Terrestrial Paradise. Others believe she is the Countess Matilde of Canossa or the medieval mystic St. Her real identity is a mystery to Dante scholars and some have suggested that the character is based on the greek goddesses Persephone and Venus. She guides Dante to the Lethe and Eunoe and describes to him the origin of the two rivers. In the distance he sees Matelda, a beautiful woman who is gathering flowers in a field. Īfter passing through the purifying flames at the top of Mount Purgatory, Dante enters Terrestrial Paradise, the home of Adam and Eve before original sin. The former for the deliverance of theirįatherland did not recoil from the shadows of death the latter, in order to set the worldĪ fire with love of freedom, showed the value of freedom when he preferred to die aįree man rather than remain alive without freedom.Īt the Final Judgement, Cato, along with all of the remaining penitents of Purgatory, will ascend into Heaven and be counted among the blessed. ![]() Most stern guardian of liberty, Marcus Cato. Worthy of them but as best he can and that sacrifice (words cannot express it) of the Now add to their number those most holy victims, the Decii, who laid down their livesĭedicated to the salvation of the community, as Livy relates to their glory, not in terms In the Monarchia, Dante explains that Cato's suicide was an act of extreme moral strength, done in the pursuit of freedom: Rather than submit to Caesar’s unjust and tyrannical rule, Cato chose to end his life. ![]() Dante's admiration for the Roman may be explained by the fact that Cato ended his life out of a desire to preserve his moral freedom and virtue, and not out of weakness or of pride. At first glance, it may seem odd that Dante should give such importance to a pagan who committed suicide. In the Divine Comedy, Cato, a Roman statesman and politician who lived before the time of Christ, guards Mount Purgatory.
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