Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. Today’s video dives into the celestial spheres of Heaven as they are depicted in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.
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The Divine Comedy is a monumental epic poem from the 14th century penned by Italian author Dante Alighieri. Comprising three components: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, it charts an allegorical journey through the afterlife – Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven – offering reflections on human morality, sin, and absolution.
Our protagonist, Dante, finds himself astray in a gloomy forest, a metaphor for spiritual bewilderment. Guided through Hell and Purgatory by the Roman poet Virgil and later through Heaven by his beloved Beatrice, Dante’s voyage examines the assorted rewards and punishments souls receive contingent on their earthly deeds and spiritual development.
In Paradiso, the last part of the poem, Dante and Beatrice journey through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. Dante encounters various saints and scholars, exploring the nature of divine love, wisdom, and the celestial hierarchy.
The nine celestial spheres, as depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy, represent a hierarchical structure of Heaven based on the Christian cosmology and the teachings of the Catholic Church. Each sphere is associated with a celestial body (such as the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, and the Primum Mobile).
The structure of the spheres is such that it reflects the spiritual progression of souls from lesser to greater states of blessedness and closer proximity to God. The journey through the spheres begins with the First Sphere of the Moon, inhabited by those who were faithful but inconsistent in their vows. As Dante ascends through the spheres, he encounters souls that have achieved higher states of virtue and understanding during their earthly lives. The ascent culminates with the Primum Mobile, or the “First Moved,” which symbolizes the pure love and will of God that drives all creation. Beyond the ninth sphere lies the Empyrean, the realm of pure light and divine presence, where God resides. The celestial spheres, therefore, provide a structured, hierarchical framework for understanding the various levels of spiritual attainment and divine proximity in Dante’s interpretation of Heaven.
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Nice I like heaven
Do the Key of David
3rd!
In name of the father,in name of the son,in name of the holy spirit AMEN
Jesus is the answer
I’ve always felt the 9 has to do with the upset limit of individual consciousness (8D). 9D gets pretty dark and higher than that you can start reversing time.
Hence the introduction of gender plurals: 2 Souls – 1 man & 1 woman
The combo of the two together can really work miracles out of thin air. Their combined consciousness can get up to an honorary 16D if they specialize in destruction. Honorary cause there’s only 15D just destruction can Nancy Drew what came before by snooping around everyone’s skeletons.
You can’t silence the dead.
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i wonder if people will become aware that space is a lie and earth is flat in my lifetime.
Thanks for the information, but i don't have to learn about it since I'll never go to either realm😂
What was Dante's poems called BEFORE it was labelled a comedy?
I remember it was changed to "comedy" to make it less scary.
Dante could write a story!
Pure fiction.
How many realms on the tree of life in Norse Mythology….?
In Gnosticism there are 365 Heavens
Dante was writing fanfictions before they were even a thing.
Also, he was a simp
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Basing divine events on a video game… who is dante? lol. The 1st to the 9th heaven is the abode of angels and Archangels inclusive of paradise and purgatory (3rd heaven) the 10th heaven is the begining of divinity ( the abode of God and beyond) that is beyond any human comprehension to ever exist and is yet to exist. You know nothing about the world you live in but you think you have the knowledge of the divine world above? recieve wisdom hence your soul is consumed in hell
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I can hear that bullshit from a mile away.
9 planets!
You wrong and I stopped I
Could you please look into the legend/myth of Cartaphilus? He is a character in an anime that I enjoy, and I would like to learn where that character originated from if possible.
Great video.
God: "I shall make souls out of light, that they can be just like me!"
Also god: "I will burn their souls in a lake of fire if I'm not happy with them."
Fire makes light, so how the hell…pun intended…does it burn a soul? Looks like the 2000+ year old goat humpers didn't quite realize that they two were the basically same thing. Funny how their god doesn't know this either. It's almost as if they made up the god and his backstory and just played the idea to the maximum of their knowledge. Which wasn't much.
but hey! It's got literally BILLIONS brainwashed into believing their stupidity, and lots and lots of con men are getting rich as bloody bandit off of it.
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