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salvation.14 This passage to the otherness of the other, this transhumanization, becomes ever more ineffable the higher Dante the pilgrim ascends, mirroring the cloven tongues of fire that descended unto the apostles on Pentecost (Acts 2) by which they spoke in tongues.
Throughout Dante’s rite of passage, he always casts a shadow of exile, whether against the fires of Inferno or against the sun-lit days of Purgatorio. This shadow is the otherness of the other: exile and pilgrim. He is always ‘splitting’ and dividing sunlight (Pur. 3, 96). He also stresses the connection between mind-body-spirit and his journey towards peace and the New Jerusalem. The journey from otherness of the other, fraught with anxiety, fear and premonition can only be unified and be restored in the presence of the divine mirror.
Navigations.
“Truly, I have been a ship without sail or rudder, brought to different ports, inlets, and shores by the dry wind that painful poverty blows”
(Convivio 3)
There are no loftier similes and allegories to transitions from exile to homecoming, from Inferno to Paradiso, than those of sea voyages and harbours. Images flow from tempestuous to flowing seas, from tarry rivers to rivers of light. In Inferno 1, 24, Dante,
14 Baptism in the Holy Spirit can be defined as: at the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit places a believer into permanent union with Christ and with other believers in the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:13 and Romans 6:1-4 are the central passages in the Bible where we find this
doctrine. 1 Corinthians 12:13 states, "For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink." Romans 6:1-4 says, "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." http://www.allaboutgod.com/baptism-in-the-holy-spirit.htm
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