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Jiang explains the next Purgatorio scene as an ascent checkpoint: when a soul finally clears all seven terraces, the mountain shakes like an earthquake to announce that the soul is about to ascend.
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Ascent
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Natural thirst that can never be quenched except by water that gives grace. The drought, the simple woman of Samaria sought, tormented me. Haste..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Natural thirst that can never be quenched except by water that gives grace. The drought, the simple woman of Samaria sought, tormented me. Haste..."
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The newly liberated shade is confused that Dante still needs guidance this high on the mountain, because souls who reach this zone are normally supposed to be moving upward toward heaven as quickly as possible.
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The quoted scene defines the upper mountain as a realm not governed by ordinary perturbations; its only true tremor comes when a soul has been cleansed enough to rise.
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Jiang glosses the mountain-shake as a visible sign that a soul has completed cleansing and is ready to move upward.
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The quoted shade says his soul wanted to ascend earlier, but that motion was opposed by a divinely just desire to continue penance before climbing.
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"Natural thirst that can never be quenched except by water that gives grace. The drought, the simple woman of Samaria sought, tormented me. Haste..."
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"Okay. So what's happening here is that Virgil and Dante are making their way up the mountain. Okay. And there's seven terraces and a..."
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"...we move forward quickly, if God's not deems you worthy of ascent, who's guided you so far along the stairs. If you observe the..."
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"So the soul is confused because, um, if you reach this point in a mountain, then you're going to heaven. So you should be..."
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"His question threaded. So the needle's eye of my desire, that just the hope alone of knowing left my thirst more satisfied. The other..."
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"For it only trembles here when some soul feels it's cleansed, so that it rises or stirs to climb on high, and that shall..."
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"Okay, so the mountain only moves if a soul has been cleansed, okay?"
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"Soul had the will to climb before, but that will was opposed by longing to do penance as ones to sin, instilled by divine..."
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"And I, who have lain in the suffering five hundred years in war, just now have felt my free will for a better threshold...."
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"...inborn, the power that counsels, keeper of the threshold of your ascent. This is the principle on which your merit may be judged, for..."
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"...trade deficit is a natural consequence of um China's manufacturing uh ascent okay why because the purpose is to force China to buy more..."
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"...so that's the first thing second thing is how smooth his Ascent is when Facebook went public like more than 10 years ago and..."
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