1. An exciting journey through all the circles of Hell
Dante’s Inferno
An exciting journey through
all the circles of Hell

2. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
“Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.”
- Isaiah 5:14

3. Three Days in Hell
Stephen’s three-day retreat mirrors other Biblical and Mythological journeys.
Old Testament: A disobedient Jonah is confined within the belly of a whale. After three days and a humble repentance, he is spewed out.
New Testament: Jesus descends into Hell for three days. He returns with the keys of Hell and Death, as well as large contingent of “virtuous heathens.”

5. The Seven Deadly Sins (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Lust
Gluttony
Avarice
Sloth
Anger
Envy
Pride

6. Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri)
Incontinence (Level 1)
Lack of self control
Violence (Level 2)
Conscious violation of God’s will
Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3)
Using reason and intellect as a weapon

8. VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides
CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Babies
CIRCLE #2: Carnal and Lustful
CIRCLE #3: Gluttons
CIRCLE #4: Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE #5: Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful

9. The First Circle Limbo Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants
Homer, Socrates and Plato
“Only so far afflicted that without hope” they “live in desire” (4.42)

10. The Second Circle The Lustful Minos sits in judgment
Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion

12. Paolo and Francesca lust and the false God of Love Circle Two

13. The Third Circle
The Gluttons

14. The Third Circle Guarded by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck
Besieged by hail & filthy water

15. The avaricious and the prodigal
The Fourth Circle
The avaricious and the prodigal
Avaricious (greedy)
Prodigal (wasteful)
Useless Labor

16. The Fifth Circle The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful
Attacking one another

17. City of Dis
Boundary between upper and lower Hell.

18. CIRCLE #6: Heretics
CIRCLE #7.1: Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE #7.2: Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the Suicides)
CIRCLE #7.3.1: Violence Against God CIRCLE #7.3.2: Violence Against Nature (Homosexuals)
CIRCLE #7.3.3: Violence Against Art
MALABOLGIA

19. Descent into lower Hell: Circle 6: Heresy atheists & Non-believers in the afterlife

20. Circle 7: Violence against God, his creations, and self

21. Violence Against Self
Piero delle vigne

22. Forest of the suicides

23. The
Sodomites
violence against nature
male homosexuality

24. Violence
Ugolino and Ruggieri

25. Mmmm…
(smack) (slurp)
Deee-licious!

27. The Malbolge
“Bad Pockets”
Entry to lowest levels of Hell – for those who use their God-given intellect to distort the truth:
Fraud
Treachery

28. Circle 8: Fraud
CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers
CIRCLE #8.3: Simonists (Users of the Church)
CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers
CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters
CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites
CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves
CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers
CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism
CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers

29. CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers
pan·der·er n.
1. A sexual procurer.
2. One who caters to or exploits the lower tastes and desires of others.

30. CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers

31. CIRCLE #8.3:
The Simonists

32. CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers

33. CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters
“the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways; also: illegal or unfair gain”

34. CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites

35. CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves

36. CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers

37. CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism

38. CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers
Ulysses

41. traitors
Cassius
Brutus
Judas

42. CIRCLE #9.1 - CAINA: Treachery to Kindred
CIRCLE #9.2 - ANTENORA: Treachery to Country or Political Party
CIRCLE #9.3 - TOLOMEA: Treachery to Guests
CIRCLE #9.4 - JUDECCA: Treachery to Lords or Superiors
LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL: The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors
~Satan, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius (Macbeth?)

43. Stephen in a Hell of his own making

44. Where do you fit in?
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