Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

The law of Dante’s Hell is the law of symbolic retribution.

there is an Evil upon which man must not look if he is to be saved.

R12112161552 What could this "Evil" be? It is certainly not the Jungian-Petersonian shadow.

When he had finished, the thief—to his disgrace—raised his hands with both fists making figs, and cried: “Here, God! I throw them in your face!”

R12112232237 Not unlike Cain.

“You are still too far back in the dark to make out clearly what you think you see; it is natural that you should miss the mark:

R12112251612 When one knows little to nothing about the ideal to which they intend to aspire, any lesser objective becomes almost as folly. Hence: whether or not they accomplish that lesser objective, they will "miss the mark" just as surely. Endeavour first to identify an ideal—or the ideal—and then one becomes knowledgeable enough to improve albeit incrementally toward that objective.