Purgatorial awareness
The feet follow where the mind leads. For the medievals, the afterlife was not always a place, but a state to be in. Not a place of timelessness, but an existential frame of mind.
If Hell is all about evil colonising the mind and Heaven about the self transcending all possible notions, language and affection, then Purgatory is about perfect awareness, a …
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