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Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Inferno. An exciting journey through all the circles of Hell. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. “Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.” - Isaiah 5:14. The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas). Lust Gluttony Avarice Sloth Anger Envy

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Dante’s Inferno

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  1. Dante’s Inferno An exciting journey through all the circles of Hell

  2. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here “Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.” - Isaiah 5:14

  3. The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas) • Lust • Gluttony • Avarice • Sloth • Anger • Envy • Pride

  4. Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri) • Incontinence (Level 1) • Lack of self control • Violence (Level 2) • Conscious violation of God’s will • Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3) • Using reason and intellect as a weapon

  5. VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides • CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: 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

  6. 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)

  7. 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

  8. Paolo and Francescalust and the false God of LoveCircle Two

  9. The Third Circle The Gluttons

  10. The Third Circle Guarded by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck Besieged by hail & filthy water

  11. The Fourth Circle The avaricious and the prodigal Avaricious (greedy) Prodigal (wasteful) Useless Labor

  12. The Fifth Circle • The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful • Attacking one another

  13. City of Dis Boundary between upper and lower Hell.

  14. 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

  15. Descent into lower Hell:Circle 6:Heresyatheists & Non-believersin the afterlife

  16. Circle 7:Violenceagainst God, his creations,and self

  17. ViolenceAgainstSelf Piero delle vigne

  18. Forest of the suicides

  19. The Sodomites violence against nature male homosexuality

  20. Violence Ugolino and Ruggieri

  21. Mmmm… (smack) (slurp) Deee-licious!

  22. The Malbolge • “Bad Pockets” • Entry to lowest levels of Hell – for those who use their God-given intellect to distort the truth: • Fraud • Treachery

  23. 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

  24. CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers

  25. CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers

  26. CIRCLE #8.3: The Simonists

  27. CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers

  28. CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters “the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways; also: illegal or unfair gain”

  29. CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites

  30. CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves

  31. CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers

  32. CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism

  33. CIRCLE #8.10:Falsifiers Ulysses

  34. traitors Cassius Brutus Judas

  35. 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?)

  36. Stephen in a Hell of his own making

  37. Where do you fit in? • http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv • Take the test and find out…if you DARE

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