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Find Your Position In Purgatory
Purgatory is the "cleansing" point between Heaven and Hell which holds the souls of those who sinned, but not badly enough to warrant immediate entrance into Hell. Here the souls are subjected to a ritual cleansing (torture), which could extend for any number of years, in order to prepare and purify them for entrance into Heaven. It is described in Dante's The Divine Comedy as an island mountain just beyond the realm of Hell.
Ante-purgatory:
Late - repentant
excommunicates
i first spur:
late - repentant through negligence
ii second spur:
late - repentant who died deaths of violence
valley of the rulers:
national leaders who were late - repentant
gates of purgatory
i pride:
the prideful
the examples of humility and punished pride
ii envy:
the envious
the examples of punished envy
iii wrath:
the wrathful
the examples of gentleness
iv sloth:
the slothful
the examples of punished sloth
v avarice:
the greedy and the prodigal
th examples of poverty and generosity
the examples of punished greed
vi gluttony:
the gluttonous
the examples of temperance
vii lust:
The Lustful
the examples of chastity
threshold of the earthly paradise
the divine forest
the stream of lethe
adam's tree of knowledge
the heavenly ascent - entrance to heaven