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2nd Circle – Mercury - 192 Laws - (361)

The Carnal - Lust


There in the second circle Dante finds Minos the semi-bestial judge whom the souls of the deceased come before. The souls of the deceased confess all to him and he then decides which place in hell the soul is to go to. Minos then curls his tail around himself a number of times, where the number of turns is the region the soul must descend to.




Hurricane Like Winds

As Dante and Virgil move through the second circle they encounter terrifying hurricane like winds which sweep up, spin and drive the souls without the minimum rest through the airs of the second circle. The souls swept by the tempest like winds are also black with passion.

The souls are punished in this way for having abandoned their reason to the tempest of their carnal passions. So they are swept up and driven here and there by the tempests of the second circle.


Lust

Lust is the major characteristic of the second circle. In this region are all the souls who lost themselves in their passions and in the pleasures of their senses. There are also those who were adulterous, Dante even calls and speaks with an adulterous couple (Paolo and Francesca) and seeing their pain he faints.


Punishment

Here the souls are punished for the various types of sins of incontinence (indulgence of the senses) which was represented by the she-wolf in the dark forest. The murky air in this region is symbolic of the clouding or abandoning of reason to the senses and the hurricane like winds are symbolic of their lust.


Summary

Master Samael says that within the human being is the fight between sex and brain and when sex wins there is the abandon of reason.

“The original sin is definitely fornication, and this is the foundation of the involutionary waves of the infernal worlds”.

“Clearly, inhabitants of the subterranean regions are never free of lust and suffer frightfully. We must specify, however, as does Virgil’s disciple, that certain defects that we carry within us are more evident in particular circles or infra-dimensions.”

End (361).

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