So Dante has lost the "straight path", or "straightforward path", which in metaphor describes alienation from God, a medieval Christian God that is, why? to what did he presuppose to step off this beaten trail, this trail of moral goodness and excellence, of walking towards mountains high, where Icarus would be seen falling with burning wing? Was it arrogance? Was it seeking knowledge? does God want his people, his believers, to "seek" knowledge? knowledge of Him? for this is exactly what Dante does, he finds himself, still alive, but searching the depths of the afterlife, in three sections per medieval Christian belief, ie: Catholicism...Vatican Right. What strayed him from his diritta via? Apparently is also metaphor for the state of moral, political, societal and spiritual matters in his present day Italy, his as commentation.
Apparently the she-wolf was the worst to bear, worst to face and remove, concupiscence or lustful havings--of the flesh and bodily warmth, orgasm indeed, she scoured him the most.
Dante asks and begs for the "high genius" the Muses themselves to assist him in the recollection of, and writing down of his experiences...divine memory it is
Dante compares himself to two figures that also were given chances to achieve a physical manifestation in afterworlds: ie: Underworld and Heaven, so what makes him so special? Had anyone in the literature visited Purgatorio in the past? Before Dante's work? Or was Dante the first to envision it so, and so deeply?
Peter as Father of the Church, Dante believed that Rome paved the way, set the course for Christianity's rise, and even God willed the setting of its hearth in Italy, in Rome (now Vatican City) but God also seems to have moved on into Islam, and spoke to Calvin and Luther, whose also versions spread as well, God's will as seen in the spread, influence and practice of ideas, if anything you could as well say that tis work of the Devil, for ultimate knowledge of God could be seen as individual recognition or enlightenment, this is also a cultural idea, yet, biologically read physically, we cannot share innate knowledge verbatim, and this is the succulent world of God, the unconscious but bleeding into our everyday waking lives knowledge...
Cowardice befalls those who face trials burdened, "which many times a man encumber so", says Virgil. He also states that he was "among those...who are in suspense." read Purgatorio. Virgil from Mantua. Perhaps God is immortal, and, having fashioned Adam and Eve upon himself, makes us too, want the immortal, like God, who just is immortal, we strive to become like His existence, which is good and pure and immortal, but as the belief goes on, we attain this after death, when we are joined again with Him. Tis the struggle of man, but what of those whose legacy keeps them immortal in life, in the World, does God want this as well? Jesus will ever be immortal, his legacy, as will Dante and Virgil, in the World, God keeps to them? As His highest? What of those who rose then were forgotten? It is easy to attribute ones own ideas onto something like another idea, God. What would God do? Think? What does He do, how does He work? Does He work at all?
