The text confirms that Dante's bodily shadow becomes news inside Purgatory: messengers are sent back to tell the others that this figure is flesh.
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Messengers
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Students supply the standard picture of angels as dead souls, divine messengers, virtue, and perfection.
The Quranic Allah passages establish the monad: God is the universe, everything, and divine, while Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad are messengers.
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"on going and two of them serving as messengers hurried to meet us and those two inquired please tell us something more of what..."
"They represent like dead people, like your soul goes up to heaven, you become an angel to me."
"Why the messages of God? What do they represent when you think of an angel like like like how do you imagine the angel..."
"...say that Jesus is divine, it's all superstitious. They're all just messengers of the one true God. Like Moses, and like Moses before him,..."
"With him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them except he. And he knows everything on land and in the sea. Not..."
"This is establishing the monad, right? That's God. The monad is the universe. The monad is everything. It's divine, okay? Stop saying Jesus is..."
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