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Students first suggest that exact geography matters because the mountain is the earthly place closest to heaven or because travelers need signs and orientation in a real climb.
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Signs
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Beatrice’s answer, as Jiang frames it, is that the celestial spheres are a metaphorical presentation for human minds: souls are all in the Empyrean, but appear in lower spheres as signs of relative blessedness.
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"writing the poem because he's gonna like teach all of these to the people uh yes you could know where"
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"...well you're hiking right so um try to memorize all the signs"
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"...you here, not because this is their sphere, but as a sign for you that in the Empyrean their place is lowest."
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"Okay. So this is a really important idea to keep in mind. Okay. This is a metaphorical representation of the heavens. Okay. In the..."
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"Such signs are suited to your mind. Since from the senses only can it apprehend what then becomes fit for the intellect."
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"...eyes to find my master's eyes. At this, with a glad sign, he ratified what I had asked for with my eager eyes. When..."
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"If you observe the signs the angel traced upon this man, my teacher said, you'll see plainly he's meant to reign with all the..."
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"...he answered every word you speak to me is a dear sign of love indeed true causes are concealed we often face deceptive reasoning..."
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"...blood made the just judgment of the stars to send with signs. So strange and plain that your successor has to feel its terror..."
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"a sign to sadness their lament is not an outcry but a sigh there i am with the infant innocence those whom the teeth..."
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"...there's a place below that only shadows not torments have a sign to sadness their lament is not an outcry but aside there i..."
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"the sight that you desired the sun that high sign the high sun i was late in recognizing so in a way he now..."
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