Dante

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Dantes Inferno

• An exciting journey through
• all the circles of Hell

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth
without any limits. - Isaiah 514
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Three Days in Hell

• Stephens three-day retreat mirrors other
  Biblical and Mythological journeys.
• Old Testament A disobedient Jonah is confined
  within the belly of a whale. After three days
  and a humble repentance, he is spewed out.
• New Testament Jesus descends into Hell for three
  days. He returns with the keys of Hell and
  Death, as well as large contingent of virtuous
  heathens.

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The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas)

• Lust
• Gluttony
• Avarice
• Sloth
• Anger
• Envy
• Pride

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Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri)

• Incontinence (Level 1)
• Lack of self control
• Violence (Level 2)
• Conscious violation of Gods will
• Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3)
• Using reason and intellect as a weapon

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• VESTIBULE Neutrals and Opportunists,
  indecisive, no real beliefs, those who dont
  choose sides
• CIRCLE 1LIMBO Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized
  Babies
• CIRCLE 2 Carnal and Lustful
• CIRCLE 3 Gluttons
• CIRCLE 4 Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE 5
  Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful

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The First Circle

• Limbo
• Virtuous pagans unbaptized infants
• Homer, Socrates and Plato
• Only so far afflicted that without hope they
  live in desire (4.42)

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The Second Circle

• The Lustful
• Minos sits in judgment
• Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in
  life, they were blown about by the winds of
  passion

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Paolo and Francescalust and the false God
of LoveCircle Two
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The Third Circle
The Gluttons
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The Third Circle

• Guarded by Cerberus
• Wallow in mud and muck
• Besieged by hail filthy water

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The avaricious and the prodigal
The Fourth Circle

• Avaricious (greedy)
• Prodigal (wasteful)
• Useless Labor

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The Fifth Circle

• The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful
• Attacking one another

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City of Dis Boundary between upper and lower
Hell.
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• CIRCLE 6 Heretics
• CIRCLE 7.1 Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE
  7.2 Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the
  Suicides)
• CIRCLE 7.3.1 Violence Against God CIRCLE
  7.3.2 Violence Against Nature (Homosexuals)
• CIRCLE 7.3.3 Violence Against Art
• MALABOLGIA

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Descent into lower HellCircle
6Heresyatheists Non-believersin the
afterlife
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Circle 7Violenceagainst God, his
creations,and self
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ViolenceAgainstSelf
Piero delle vigne
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Forest of the suicides
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The Sodomites violence against nature male
homosexuality
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Violence
Ugolino and Ruggieri
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• The Malbolge
• Bad Pockets
• Entry to lowest levels of Hell for those who
  use their God-given intellect to distort the
  truth
• Fraud
• Treachery

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• Circle 8 Fraud
• CIRCLE 8.1 Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
• CIRCLE 8.2 Flatterers
• CIRCLE 8.3 Simonists (Users of the Church)
• CIRCLE 8.4 Fortunetellers and Soothsayers
• CIRCLE 8.5 Grafters
• CIRCLE 8.6 Hypocrites
• CIRCLE 8.7 Thieves
• CIRCLE 8.8 Evil Counselors and Deceivers
• CIRCLE 8.9 Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism
• CIRCLE 8.10 Falsifiers

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CIRCLE 8.1 Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
panderer n. 1. A sexual procurer. 2. One who caters to or exploits the lower tastes and desires of others.
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CIRCLE 8.2 Flatterers
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CIRCLE 8.3
The Simonists
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CIRCLE 8.4 Fortunetellers and Soothsayers
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• CIRCLE 8.5 Grafters

the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest
or questionable ways also illegal or unfair
gain
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• CIRCLE 8.6 Hypocrites

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• CIRCLE 8.7 Thieves

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CIRCLE 8.8 Evil Counselors and Deceivers
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CIRCLE 8.9 Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism
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• CIRCLE 8.10 Falsifiers

Ulysses
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traitors
Cassius
Brutus
Judas
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• CIRCLE 9.1 - CAINA Treachery to Kindred
• CIRCLE 9.2 - ANTENORA Treachery to Country
  or Political Party
• CIRCLE 9.3 - TOLOMEA Treachery to Guests
• CIRCLE 9.4 - JUDECCA Treachery to Lords or
  Superiors
• LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL The worst of those who
  betrayed their benefactors
• Satan, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius
  (Macbeth?)

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Stephen in a Hell of his own making
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