Wondering

[free]

We know what Dante Alighieri, in his LA DIVINA COMEDIA, imagined what was written above the hell's entrance... I wonder if anyone, today, imagines what is written above its exit.... :)

[bounty]

free, did you mean to use the word "exit" at the end of your post?

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting question. In my faith, that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we have a progression that starts in the pre-mortal world and continues: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/true-to-the-faith/plan-of-salvation?lang=eng

I poem I wrote some time ago using a prompt from a LitNet Poem Games challenge October 2015:



Through Spiritual Eyes

In my pre-mortal days in spirit
I beheld one-third of Heaven waste
Their folly to outer darkness' call

I pondered then multitudes of stars
The natural man in willful strife
Yet judged to receive immortal life

I imagined still a higher plane
Where the moon doth shine as bright as day
My reflective mind did trow (take) me there

Impressed with feelings of love and grace
Through morceau melodic canto lays
I then beheld His pure countenance

He condescended to counsel with me:

Aspire to yet a greater glory -
Yea, the fulness of our Father

10/13/2015 revised since

* Note 2/2/2016: L8 incorporates a line from "'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play' or 'Boys and Girls

Back to Dante:


To the poet’s astonishment, Virgil is able to pass down below Lucifer. Dante follows, and the pair climb down the devil’s legs where they find a channel to the centre of the earth that will lead them out of Hell to Mount Purgatory. It is there that Dante will finally be reunited with Beatrice in Purgatorio. Emerging on the other side of the world, Dante’s journey through the underworld, and the Inferno, has come to an end before the dawn on Easter Sunday: “Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.”... https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/10/dantes-inferno-is-a-journey-to-hell-and-back

Hence this is also a progression by the poet (Dante), Virgil, and Beatrice.

I love the alerts that inundate this wikipedia page, but it has a wonderful graphic of the Plan of Salvation and some useful historical and scriptural information about my faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_salvation_in_Mormonism

From a favorite scripture of mine... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88?lang=eng:

Doctrine and Covenants 88;
11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;

12 Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—

13 The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.

So, what would a proper exit sign state ? Perhaps: Enter into the Light... I'll give it some more thought :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[free]

free, did you mean to use the word "exit" at the end of your post?

Sorry, I do not understand why do you ask this.


noun
a way out of a building, room, or passenger vehicle.

synonyms: way out, door, egress, passage out, escape route, doorway, gate, gateway, portal, outlet

If the 3 dots after the word exit confuse, well... I use them just to give the sentence some kind of impression of thinking, instead of "hmmm".:smile5:

[free]

Thanks, tailor. Beautiful poem and thoughts.

[free]

"Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" was added later, in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy")."

"Red and Black" by Stendhal, according to my opinion, is a methaphorical title of the rulers of this world: materialistic and spiritual. They seem to be opposites. enimical; instead of collaborative. Like this it seems a bit schizophrenic.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDW3DqE3joYl0sNTnefu27xsg0T-cvPp04zOEpMuPSwIkd-NR7RxcZGn-M1g&s

[bounty]

I just wanted to be sure that's what you meant because I didn't want to start a train a thought with that word and have you say "oops, I meant to say entrance.

so with that said free----why/how would hell have an exit?

[free]

so with that said free----why/how would hell have an exit?


I don't know, just wondering... Maybe in modern times something might have changed... For instance: if we think about it metaphorically, allegorically, illustratively...