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.
- Garden of Eden
- The Soul as Reflecting Divine Light
- Discovering the “bank” between the Spiritual and Earthly
- Receptivity as key for the Soul’s relationship to God
- Gaining more eyes to see
- The Chariot – the Deepest of Reality
- The Chariot in the Night Sky
- Opening the channel to God
- Beatrice – Love as the deeper Reality
- A new relationship: God and Soul
- Restoring the Spiritual Life
- Full confession, and cleansing the Meta-mistake
- Dual Perception of the Soul
- Beatrice’s eyes – and smile
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.