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Beatrice's criterion for judging the spheres correctly: interior virtue or power, not visible extension.
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power within
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...most so that if you put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...most so that if you put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you..."
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The quoted solution says one must measure the spheres by the power within them rather than by the visible semblance of the angelic circles, and then the correspondence between cosmos and intelligence becomes clear.
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"...most so that if you put draw your measure around the power within and not the semblance of the angels that appear to you..."
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"if your fingers are not enough for such a knot it is not wonderful so much so as not to try it is done..."
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"...and so maybe it's a reference that it has to grow within you and you can't seek out the finished plant and then another..."
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"...of hell this so they're not that serious okay and then within this um there's heresy violence fraud and then treachery okay and these..."
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"...add on to that, I feel like for these different layers within Purgatory, it's also separated by no love at the bottom, which is..."
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"...envy stirs the bellows of your sighs. But if the love within the highest sphere should turn your longings heavenward, the fear inhabiting your..."
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"...if I'd held my tongue before. I host a deeper doubt within my mind. How can a good that's shared by more possessors enable..."
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"...is like Virgil is a projection of Dante, right? Virgil exists within Dante's larger imagination. But what we're doing is we're reading the divine..."
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"...yeah okay so the idea is that god is with is within us and we are within god does that make sense that's a..."
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"is within us when you and we are the universe when you draw you would collapse it into two"
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"...fractal fractal is just a reflection of the universe right so within you is the universe itself and but you're also a part of..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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