From Phenomena to Hidden Reality: How Dante Leads Us to The Point

When we stop at the level of the visible, we miss The Point.

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In Dante’s Paradiso, God is described as a point — “Punctum.” It is a point of light, a singularity that is both infinitesimally small and infinitely powerful. From this point, all creation and all being flow out. The saints and Virgin Mary sit in a vast Celestial Rose as if in a theater, contemplating The Point.

God is The Point of life. In …