LIMBO
"Ye who make entrance, every hope resign"
I began to say: ‘Master, what sound can this be that I hear, And who the folk thus whelmed in misery?
He responds that although these "didn't turn their backs on God, "...selfish ends [they did] pursue.Therefore, "Heaven hurled them forth, lest they her beauty stained; Received they are not by the nether hell, [nor] triumph."
Today, we call this "neither-hell-nor-triumph" phase of the afterlife, purgatory, or limbo. My master advises me, "Speak we not of them: glance, and pass them by."
He responds that although these "didn't turn their backs on God, "...selfish ends [they did] pursue.Therefore, "Heaven hurled them forth, lest they her beauty stained; Received they are not by the nether hell, [nor] triumph."
Today, we call this "neither-hell-nor-triumph" phase of the afterlife, purgatory, or limbo. My master advises me, "Speak we not of them: glance, and pass them by."