Great Books #12: Dante in Paradise

We concluded the line comedy today and To understand the line comedy. It's very important to put in the context of the other great books. Okay, so In human history, there have been three great poets. The first is Homer Homer the second is Virgil the third is Dante Dante Homer gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey and By doing so he constructed the basis of Greek civilization Which then became basis of Western civilization which Virgil he will take the Iliad and Odyssey and we imagine it as the Iliad The Iliad will give rise to the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church And even though the Roman Empire and Catholic Church are two fundamental pillars of Western civilization The Iliad will lead to a thousand years at over a thousand years of the Dark Ages when Europe Stops being creative. Okay, Donnie will end the Dark Ages with the divine comedy and The divine comedy will become the blueprint for the Renaissance the Protestant Reformation and the Sino -Revolution and Modernity itself.

Okay, basically Donnie would create the world that we live in today. So the question then is How does this happen? How is that Homer would create Greek civilization then Virgil Would then Erode civilization only be restored by Dante the difference is in how they perceive the role of humans or What does it mean to be human in this world? old so for Homer what he taught us is that love is the unifying force of the universe so remember that Odysseus he spends 20 years trying to return to his family Penelope and Timarchus and that imagination is the unifying force of the universe okay and what matters is the individual the individual's connection to the source or the monad in the individual is able to connect to the source then that lights the universe okay but what Virgil will do because

he serves empire is he will cut us off in the source okay and say no what matters is piety obedience to authority and and by doing that we cease to be individuals we cease to be creatures and backwards cease to be imaginative civilization stops so what donna has to do is reconnect us back to the source and if he does that okay then that will restore the imagination as the fundamental unanimating force of the universe we can now be creative and this will set a new path for humanity all right so for our human history there have been two competing countervailing forces the force of empire that wants us to that wants us to obey it and therefore cut us off from the source and the force of civilization of democracy of love that wants us to connect back to the source and thus animate the universe with our imagination okay all right so um

the divine comedy in in other words it's fundamentally a conflict between virgil and dante so dante must defeat virgil in order to restore our humanity and previously we've looked at virgil's ideas and today i want to look at dante's ideas okay so um we've been through inferno we've been through pro tori and now we are in paradise okay and so i want to show you the framework for um paradise now you may think that once we're in paradise we've come to the journey's end but in fact paradise itself is another journey that is actually more arduous and beatrice will be our guide through the stars as we reach god okay so what we will do is ascend through the nine spears in order to meet god why do we meet god because god will let us know who we truly fundamentally are all right this is another depicted even more highly deducted form of the

universe so let's move on to paradise depiction of our journey through the cosmos we start off on the moon okay and then we'll make our way to the mercury and then we are we will try to reach the imperium where god and his angels are this is the center of the universe it is a source this is our journey's end all right so we first start off on the moon and beatrice is now donnie's guide and you would think that these are two lovers that I'm not seeing each other in decades you would think that they'll just be happy hugging each other or maybe they have a lot of sex but in fact what happens is that they start to engage in the deepest insights with discussion this is deep philosophy okay so heaven is fundamentally about debate dialogue and philosophy so other words this really important idea is that we suffered in our world

in inferno and purgatory not to cleanse ourselves of our sins we suffered not in order to redeem ourselves and to make ourselves ready for heaven we suffer in order to gain the knowledge we requisite necessary for higher learning in heaven all right that's the purpose of heaven to discover the truth of the universe but we must first undergo inferno and purgatory to prepare our minds for the challenge the intellectual challenge of Paradise okay so Beatrice and Donnie are having a conversation about the cosmos and what she says is be thankful that you're here and here we will start a journey into the truth of the universe all right and what Donnie says is the most devotion I can summon I thank him God for who has brought me far from the mortal world but now tell me okay I'm here to learn about the universe and the first person I have is one of the

dark spots on this planet's body that they're below on Earth shall have made men tell the tale of Cain she smiled somewhat and then she said the opinion mortals hold false and error when the senses key cannot unlock the truth you should not be struck by the arrows of amazement once you recognize that reason even when support the sentence has short wings but tell me what you think of it yourself and I what seems to us the verse up here is caused I think by matter dense and rare and she you certainly will see that your belief is deeply sunk in error if you listen carefully as I rebutted okay so what was it saying so the first question that Donnie has for Beatrice is we're on the moon and on the moon at night there are some dark spots okay and he asked her how can we explain the fact that there are some

dark spots on the moon and she says okay well the first thing you need to recognize is that you cannot figure this out by observation and reason alone that will only lead you to error the true power is your faith your love your intuition your imagination that's what will lead you to the truth but humans are stuck using their observation in their reason their science to figure out what what this is so you're always going to fall into error but it's okay it's okay make an error first tell me what you think is the reason okay and then Donnie says well I think what most people think which is that it's because of the um density and Rarity of the moon what this means is that there are some places in the moon which is hollow okay it's hollow then that means that light can just pass through it right for there to be illumination

there has to be reflection so the lights are passed through these hollow parts of the moon and escape into space and so in other words the dark spots are just the most hollow aspects of the moon and every other place it's just very dense okay which means light can pass through as we reflect back and that's from observation from reason the most logical explanation now if you're curious is as to why there are dark spots on the moon what scientists believe is that the moon is not hollow but there are certain um rocks and minerals created by lava that and so the reflective quality of these minerals is very low okay that's it that's a standard explanation we have but quite honestly it's only a guess okay we're not completely sure all right so this is a mystery and um what Beatrice is going to do now is explain this can't be true and the

way she explains it is very interesting she's going to explain to she's going to explain it using scientific methods experiments observations to show you how this can't be true okay so the first thing she points out is that if it is true that there are certain aspects of the moon certain parts of the moon that is hollow and how to explain a lunar Eclipse a solar Eclipse right when the moon covers the sign completely and the sun goes dark well if in fact there are whole aspects to the moon it should not be completely black right there's the light should be able to break through this these whole aspects so that shows you that first of all density and wear does not make any sense this is wrong okay that's part two is okay now you're saying yourself that well there are the moon is uneven okay the topography is uneven and that there are

mountains and crevices okay so in other words um the dark are just really deep cavities in the moon and then she says let's do an experiment and I'll show you that no matter how distant uh the reflection is the brightness is still the same okay so so what she's doing is she's using the scientific method scientific method to experiments to show you that your belief is wrong and this becomes a basis of the scientific method okay all right so let's read it together the eighth spirit offers many lights to you and you can tell that they in quality are in size are stars with different visages if very indecency alone caused this and all the stars would share one power they should be in lesser greater or in equal force but different powers must be fruits of different formal principles when were you correct one only would be left the rest destroyed and more or

rarity the cause of this watch you question then in part this planet would lack matter through and through or else as in a body lean and fat can alternate so with this planet alternate the pages in its volume okay so she points out number one that if it is true that density and rarity is what causes the dark spots then it should be the same for every other celestial body every other planet every other star density and rarity is what matters and she's saying that's not true okay uh she's also pointing out that your argument about density and rarity means that the moon is uneven right there are some whole spots to the moon okay to validate the first case in the sun's Eclipse the light would have to show through just as when it crosses matter that is slender that is not so therefore we consider the latter case event and all that too

then European surely is confused okay so she's using the example the solar eclipse to show us that it's not it can't possibly be true that there are hollow spots to the moon okay there might be some shallow cavities to the moon but there are no hollow empty spots to the moon okay then she says if rarity does not run through and through the moon then there must be a limit where thickness does not allow the light to pass from there the rays of sun would be formed back just as from glass that hides lead at its back a way of colored light returns reflected now you say that that where a ray has been reflected from her section farther back that ray will show itself to be more dim yet an experiment where to try it could for you from your cabal because that just means doubt and the source of your art course springs

from experiment taking three mirrors place a pair of them at equal distance from you set the third midway between those two but farther back then turning toward them at your back place a light that kindles those three mirrors and returns to you affected by them all although the image in the farthest glass will be lesser size there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest okay so what you're saying here is okay so the moon is not completely hollow there might it might be very deep okay so for example the moon might be like this in which case you think that largely speaking this would be bright this would be bright but this would be dark right and she's saying that's not true if you actually do a science experiment okay you will discover that this is not true and the science experience she says is this have three mirrors okay

um one here one here one here okay just have three mirrors and then take a light this is the light and then shine it so that the mirrors reflect what she's saying is like the furthest mirror might be small and the two mirrors here may be larger okay a size might be different but the brightness is still the same okay if you were to do this you would discover this is true and saying okay but what's interesting is that you can also extend this experiment and say let's go further okay let's just say let's keep on going all right it would still be true and in fact you can go into to eternity okay just go for eternity and it would still be true Infinity the light at the end of the universe would still burn as brightly as the original source okay that's what she's saying here does that make sense guys all right

all right so what she's done is she's so she's shown that through science through reason um through imagination she's shown us that that the moon has dark spots not because it's rare and dense so then why is that the case and so so here's what you should explain now just as a sub matter of the snow beneath the blows the worm rays is stripped of both its color former color and it's cold so it's your mind left fear of error I would offer now to you a new form light so living that it trembles in your sight within the heaven of the godly peace revolves a body in whose light lies the being of all the world all things that it enfolds. The sphere that follows, where so much is shown to very essences, bestows that being to stars distinct and yet contained in it. The other spheres, in ways diverse, direct the diverse powers they possess so that these forces can bear fruit, attain their aims.

So these organs of the universe proceed as you now see from stage to stage, receiving from above and acting downward. Now do attend to how I pass by way of reaching the truth you want that. Then you may learn how to cross the fort alone. The force and motion of the holy spheres must be inspired by the blessed movers, just as a smith imparts the hammer's art, okay? And so, from the deep mind that makes it wheel, the sphere that many lights adorn receives a stamp of which it then becomes a seal. And as the soul within your dust is sheared by different organs, each must suit it to a different potency so that that mind unfold and multiply its bounty fruit. And so, through the very heavens, though that intellect itself revolves upon its unity, with the dear body that it quickens

and with which as light in you it too is bound, each different power forms a different compound. Because of the glad nature of its source, the power mingled with the sphere shines forth, as gladness through the living people shines. From this, and not from the matter rare or dense, derive the differences from light to light. This is the forming principle, producing, conforming with the earth, the dark, the bright. So what does this mean? It means, let's go back to the experiment. What it means is that the universe is created in a way in that there's one source, okay? The source. And the source is emanating light. Okay, and this is divine light. And this divine light is the underlying fundamental principle of the universe. And if you are bright, it means the source is glowing brightly in you, okay? And so, think of this as a light. Think of the universe as your own body, where you have organs, you have hands, you have eyes, okay?

But what is animating your body, what is unifying your body is your mind, your consciousness, okay? That is a source. The universe works the same way, right? I'm moving my arms. I'm looking at you. My eyes are burning bright because of my consciousness, because of my mind. And so the universe is connected in the same way. And the light, it glows throughout the universe. And our responsibility is to receive the light. And how do we receive the light? By loving, okay? By opening our hearts to love. And once we receive the light, then we imagine. And the imagination is what allows us to grow brightly, okay? Love and imagination is what allows us to grow brightly. All right? Okay, so is this clear, guys? All right? So what she's saying is you don't look at the world as through the lens of physical principles.

That doesn't get you anywhere. Understand the universe fundamentally as about faith, as about consciousness, as about love and imagination. All right, okay. So now that, so this goes on for a long time where Beatrice is slowly trying to explain to Dante the fundamental principles of the universe, okay? And we're going to skip ahead to the very ending. This Divine Comedy is something that you cannot read in a week or a year. It's something that you have to spend your entire life reading. So the entire point of this class is just to prepare the groundwork for you, to introduce ideas and principles that will anchor your own reading of Divine Comedy, okay? But we come to the end. And so they've climbed all the way up the heavens, and now they are in the Imperium. And the Imperium is the seat of God. And it's surrounded by angels and light, okay? And what's going to happen, and this is like really strange, is that first of all, Beatrice will go away.

She'll become an angel again. And then Bernard will be Dante's guide in the Imperium. What is Dante's role in the Imperium? Dante's role is to meet God. Why does Dante want to meet God? Because God wants to meet him. Why does God want to meet him? Because there's a fundamental problem in the universe. And the problem is this. No one knows what God is. God doesn't know. The angels don't know. No one knows. Only Dante can know what God is. So Dante has embarked on this long journey through the cosmos, through inferno, through purgatory, through paradise, in order to meet God, to figure out what God is. And you're like, wait a minute here. This makes no sense. God knows everything. No, God is perfect. God is everything. And therefore, God cannot know itself. You understand? If you are perfect, you lack an imagination.

Because you know everything. Therefore, there's no limit to your knowledge. But imagination means breaking through the boundaries of knowledge. So this is a really strange situation. In that, God created humanity to know itself. And then, through the course of time, God picked an individual, and this person is Dante, to come to God, to let God know what it is fundamentally. To know itself. To complete itself. That's the great secret of divine comedy, okay? But for Dante to figure this out, he wants to spend the rest of his life using his imagination, to try to figure out what God is. Because when you first see God, God is like this, an infinite beam of light. You're like, what is this, okay? He doesn't know. So he has to constantly imagine what God is before he can finally come to the answer, all right? Okay, so what's gonna happen is this. Bernard, before

he introduces Dante to God, he's gonna pray to Mary, the queen, okay, the virgin mother, for inspiration. He's gonna pray to Mary to guide Dante, okay? And why is Dante the only person in the world who can let God know what it is? The answer is because Dante is a human. And a human has two aspects, a soul and a body. A soul connects to the source, okay? To the divine. But the body connects to the material. The body can sin. It can suffer. It feels pain. It feels pleasure. Therefore, there's a limit to it. Therefore, it has an imagination. Because there are so many things to it that it's not known. So when you as a human, when you're able to combine the best aspect of who you are, both the body and the soul, that gives you an imagination that is divine, that allows you to connect back to the source, but also allows you to expand the universe, okay?

And that's why only Dante, Dante can tell God what it is. Not the angels, not Bernard, not Mary, okay? Only Dante. All right, so let's read. So this is the final canto, okay? The end of divine comedy. We've come to the end. This is heaven. This is the imperium. This is God. And so Bernard says to Mary, "'Virgin mother, daughter of your son, "'more humble and sullen than any creature, "'fixed gold to creep from all eternity. "'You are the one who gave to human nature "'so much nobility that it's created. "'That the stain of his being made its creature. "'That love whose warmth allowed this flower to bloom "'within the everlasting peace "'was love rekindled in your womb. "'For as above, you are the noonday touch of charity, "'and there below on earth among the mortals, "'you are a living spring of hope. "'Lady, you are so high,

you can so intercede, "'that he who would have grace but does not seek, "'your aid may long to fly but has no wings.'" Okay, so what Bernard is saying is that Dante, Dante is on a special mission to help God know itself. So let us remember and celebrate a woman, a mortal woman, who also expanded the possibilities of humanity. Okay, because she was so noble, she was so generous, she was so loving, that in her womb, she was able to contain God itself. So God was able to come into our world through the portal that is mortal. Mary, okay? And as such, God is able to reunify with us and to spread himself to us, okay? All right, so basically, Dante is completing another mission that Mary first started. "'Your loving kindness does not only answer the one who asks, "'but is often ready to answer freely "'long before the asking. "'Your compassion is, in you is pity, "'in you is generosity, in you is ever goodness "'found in any creature.

"'This man, whom from the deepest hollow in the universe "'up to this height has seen the lives of spirits, "'one by one now pleads with you "'through grace to grant him so much virtue "'that he may lift his vision higher still, "'may lift it toward the ultimate salvation.'" Okay, this is really important to understand. Higher vision, still, is the imagination. So, if Dante is to see God, if Dante is to know God, he can't do it with his eyes. The vision doesn't matter, everyone has eyes. The higher vision is the imagination, okay? But how do you activate the imagination? Through virtue, through love, okay? It is the love that will give you the imagination to see the ultimate salvation, which is God. And this is how the universe works, okay? Dante has been selected because of his imagination and because of his virtue.

What is his virtue? His virtue is his eternal love for Beatrice, okay? What is his imagination? His poetry. That is what will enable him to know God. And allow God to know itself. "'And I, who never burn for my own vision "'more than I burn for his, "'do offer you all my prayers and pray that they may not.'" I can't see God! I don't know God! I'm next to God, I live with God. I'm part of God, but I can't see God. Only Dante can see God, okay? "'Far short, that with your prayers "'you may disperse all the clouds of immortality, "'so that the highest joy be his to see.'" This too, oh queen, you can do what you would. I ask of you, that after such a vision, he sometimes preserve their perseverance, okay? Yes, so Dante will see God, but God is so powerful, the vision will be so powerful that it will blow his mind, okay, it will literally blow his mind.

So Dante must use his virtue, his love, his first soul to maintain the shadow, of this image, okay? To remember a shocking memory, okay? That is the goal here. "'May your protection curb his mortal passions. "'See, Beatrice, how many saints with her, "'they join my prayers, they clasp their hands to you.'" Okay, his mortal passions is basically fear and the ego. To truly understand God, you must abandon your mortal passions, your ego and your fear. You must be completely virtuous, you must be complete imagination, you must be complete love. "'The eyes that are revered and loved by God, "'now fixed upon the supplicant, "'showed us how welcome such devotions are to her. "'Then her eyes turned to the eternal light. "'There, do not think that any creature's eyes "'can find its way as clearly as her sight. "'And I, who now

is narrowing him, "'who is the end of all desires as I ought, "'lift my longing to its ardent limit. "'Bernard was singling, he smiled to me "'to turn my eyes on high, "'but I already was doing what he wanted me to do, "'because my sight, becoming pure, "'was able to penetrate the ray of light more deeply. "'God is pure light, okay? "'That light sublime, which in itself is true. "'From that point on, what I could see "'was greater than speech can show. "'At such a sight, it fails, "'and memory fails when faced with such excess. "'As one who sees within a dream, "'and later, the passion that had been imprinted stays, "'but nothing of the rest returns to mind.'" Okay, so he's now looking at God, and his mind is blown away. His mind, his brain cannot comprehend what he's seeing. Okay, it's like a dream where you dream something, and you can't remember anything but the impression, the feeling of that dream.

Okay, all he remembers is being awestruck by it. "'Such am I, for my vision almost fades completely, "'yet it still distills within my heart "'the sweetness that was born of it. "'So is the snow beneath the sun unsealed, "'and so on the light leaves beneath the wind, "'the oracles the civil once wrote were lost. "'Oh highest light, you, raised so far above "'the minds of mortals to my memory, "'give back something of your epiphany.'" Okay, so it's almost like, the metaphor you see is, I'm just a flake of snow, and now I'm before the sun, so I just burst, okay? There's nothing left, okay? There is a light, okay? So what, so now what's happening is this. He's saying, 20 years ago, I had this vision. 20 years later, I'm alone at home, and I've been trying for the past 20 years to remember what I saw, to use my imagination, to reconstruct what I saw, okay?

So we've now moved forward in time, we are now 20 years ahead, okay? We're 20 years ahead, and now he's in his room, somewhere in Italy, trying to remember what he saw. "'And make my tongue so powerful "'that I may leave to people of the future "'one gleam of glory that is yours, "'for by returning somewhat to my memory "'and echoing a while within these lines, "'your victory will be more understood.'" So, Donny's mission is not just to understand God, to help God know itself, Donny's mission is actually to report to us what he saw, okay? To reveal to humanity the true nature of God, so that we may know ourselves, and be better humans. The living way that I endured was so acute that I believe I should have gone astray, had my eyes turned away from it. I can recall that I, because of this, was bold in sustaining it until my, vision reached infinite goodness.

"'Oh, grace abounding through which I presume "'to set my eyes on the eternal light, "'so long as I spend all my sight on it, "'and its profoundly I saw, ingathered and bound by love "'into one single volume. "'What in the universe seems separate, scattered? "'Substance, accidents, and dispositions "'as they conjoin in such a way "'that what I tell is only rudimentary." So, when he saw God, he saw the totality of the universe. Everything was interconnected in some way, okay? God is infinite, it's eternal, it's everything, it's nothing. I think I saw the universal shape which that knot takes. For speaking this, I feel a joy that is more ample. That one moment brings more forgetfulness to me than twenty -five centuries have brought to the endeavor that startled Neptune with the Argo's shadow. So is my mind, completely rapt, intent, steadfast, and motionless, gazing in it wither more enkindled as it watched.

Whoever sees that light is soon made such that it would be impossible for him to set that light aside for other sight, because that good, the object of the will, is fully gathered in that light, outside that light. What there is, is perfect, is effective. So he's seeing the entirety of the universe that's perfect, that's immutable, that's eternal. What little I recall is to be told from this point on in words more weak than those of one whose infant tongue still bathes at the breast. So not only is he trying to figure out what that thing was, what God is, but he's also trying to use words to describe that. And he discovers that this is really silly. Words can't possibly describe what I just saw. So he's frustrated. And not because more than one simple semblance was in living light at which I gaze,

for it is always what it was before, but through my sight, which as I gaze stronger, that sore appearance, even as I altered, seemingly changing, in the deep and bright essence of that exalted light, three circles appeared to me, they had three different colors, but all of them were of the same dimension. Okay, so now he's figured it out. After 20 years of constantly meditation, he's figured out what that thing was. And he says that the essence of God are three circles. They're the same, okay? They're just three circles, different lights, but they're the same. And obviously, we know that. We know what this is now. It's the Holy Trinity, right? This is the essence of Christianity. Christianity teaches us that God is the Godhead, right? Three aspects, the Holy Spirit, the Father, and the Son, okay? So I looked into God, and I saw the Holy Trinity. This makes sense, right? One circle seemed

reflected by the second, as rainbow is by rainbow, and the third seemed fire breathed equally by those two circles. Okay, so they're just reflecting each other. How incomplete is speech and how weak when set against my thought, and this to what I saw is such, to call it little is too much. Eternal light, you only dwell within yourself, and only you know you, self -knowing, self -known, you love and smile upon yourself. That circle which begotten so appeared in you as light reflected when my eyes have watched it with attention for some time, within itself and colored like itself, to me seemed paint over effigy, so that my sight was set on it completely. Okay, there's a problem, okay, he's seen the Holy Trinity, it's three concentric circles, that's fine, okay? And they're all reflecting each other, there's a fire inside them. But there's a problem with all this. He said like, the longer I

look, the more I concentrate, I discover there's a problem in the Holy Trinity, which is like, we're in the stupid thing, there's an effigy, there's a human likeness inside the Holy Trinity. Okay? Holy Trinity, that makes no sense, because God is beyond us, okay? That's why we must obey God, because God is a mystery, it's because God is so distant from us. Therefore, we must bow to it, be humble before it. But what Don is saying is like, I looked into the soul of God, and we are inside it, and it's very hard. This makes absolutely no sense, all right? As the geometry, I'm sorry. As the geometer intently... Intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought, on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched a strange site. I wished to see the way in which our human effigy stood a circle and found place in it. He can't figure it out.

This is the greatest paradox in the universe. Why are we inside God? Why? My own wings are far too weak for that, but then my mind was struck by light that flashed, and with this light received what it had asked. Here a force fell on my high fantasy, but my desire and my will were moved already, like a wheel revolving uniformly, by the love that moves the sun and the other stars. Okay, I can't figure it out, but I want to figure it out, and I feel as though I'm changed by this process of trying to figure this out, okay? So that's it, Divine Comedy, this is how it ends. It doesn't end with the answer, it ends with a question. Why are we inside God? What's the meaning of all this? Okay? And this is all very confusing, because this is how it ends, and he doesn't give us the answer. And

so the thing to understand about Divine Comedy is that it's not meant to be the Bible. It's meant to inspire you to embark on your own journey into the depths of the universe. Okay? And so you need to reread Divine Comedy many, many times throughout your life. And with each reading, you'll have a deeper understanding of the Divine Comedy. And with each reading, it will change how you live, it will change how you see yourself. All right? Okay, so what is the secret here? What's the answer? What is God? Okay, well, the first thing is, what does this remind us of? Have we seen this before? Three circles with a human inside of it. Actually, we have. Okay? We've seen this before. In this class. Okay? And I'll show you where it is. Okay? Sorry, it's going to take some time to get to it. But here it is. This is God. All right? Because Beatrice was telling us to do the experiment.

She says, take three mirrors, okay, and then shine a mirror, shine a candle, so that the candle is reflected in three mirrors. And she tells us, hold that candle. Okay? You're holding the candle. And as a result, not only is the candle reflected inside the mirrors, but you yourself is reflected in the mirrors as well. To all of eternity. What is this? It's a Godhead that Donny saw in his vision. All right? So, what's happening is that Donny is reminding us of this experiment, and he's also reminding us that if you continue to extend this experiment. It extends into infinity. All right? And so, this is what God is. God is the candle that burns in us. We all have a candle inside of us, and it burns. And it reminds... And because it is the memory of God. It is God in us. Then the question then is, okay, what is this candle thing called?

What is it that burns in us? And the more good we do, the... The... The... The spark in us that burns, and never extinguishes inside of us. And we're going to reread the ending. And you will see how now we have the higher vision. Now the universe has revealed to us. Okay. Okay. The ending is this. Here, force filled my high fantasy but my design will were moved already. Like a wheel revolving uniformly by the love that moves the sun and the other stars. Okay? So, what happened is. I figured out what God is and I realized it's that reason that matters okay it's desire and will I feel my whole soul moving by the love that moves the Sun and the other stars okay he understands God is love and love is the fundamental fundamental power that unifies the entire universe okay so you see

how you see what what would it like comedy is on your first reading you can't figure it out but the more you read the more it reveals itself to you and the more you read the secrets start to uncover themselves okay in the first reading we were left with question what did Donnie see now that we understand what Donnie saw we can see the universe in the same way that he saw it as well so the vine economy is first and foremost a portal into the mind of God okay and that's what a great book is all right okay so enjoy divine comedy it is the greatest work of literature in the world and it will change who you are forever