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During his ascent through the heavens, Dante’s knowledge of God has gradually grown stronger. This is symbolized by Dante’s capacity to look toward the heavens or, more often, to gaze at Beatrice’s radiant beauty (since Beatrice stands for indirect revelation of God). A breakthrough in Dante’s capacity occurs when he and Beatrice reach the level of the fixed stars, which is the last of the material spheres (the remaining ones existing beyond space and time).
When Dante gazes into the stars here, he experiences a fleeting glimpse of Christ, which he describes as resembling a lightning strike in its dazzling…