Here are the 14 essays that give a new and more anagogical (spiritual) reading of the Garden of Eden in Canto 28-31 of Dante’s Purgatorio, focusing primarily on the Soul’s Journey to God.
- Beatrice’s eyes – and smile
- Dual Perception of the Soul
- Full confession, and cleansing the Meta-mistake
- Restoring the Spiritual Life
- A new relationship: God and Soul
- Beatrice – Love as the deeper Reality
- Opening the channel to God
- The Chariot in the Night Sky
- The Chariot – the Deepest of Reality
- Gaining more eyes to see
- Receptivity as key for the Soul’s relationship to God
- Discovering the “bank” between the Spiritual and Earthly
- The Soul as Reflecting Divine Light
- Garden of Eden (Start here)
They all successively build on the ones before – so starting at the beginning will give a much better and more clear understanding the first time. This overall reading and hermeneutical (interpretative) frame will also provide the foundation for the reading of the aftermath in the Garden of Eden (Canto 32 and 33), and for the ascent into the Heavens, in Paradiso.