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At the top of Mount Purgatory is the [[Garden of Eden]], commonly referred to in this context as the Earthly Paradise. Here, Dante is reunited with Beatrice amid an elaborate pageant. She rebukes him for his sins and readies him for their journey through Heaven, while Virgil departs.<ref> [[The Divine Comedy]], By Dante Alighieri, Translated by Charles Singleton, Bollingen Series 80, Vol 2: Purgatorio. Copyright 1973 by Princeton University Press.</ref>

At the top of Mount Purgatory is the [[Garden of Eden]], commonly referred to in this context as the Earthly Paradise. Here, Dante is reunited with Beatrice amid an elaborate pageant. She rebukes him for his sins and readies him for their journey through Heaven, while Virgil departs.<ref> [[The Divine Comedy]], By Dante Alighieri, Translated by Charles Singleton, Bollingen Series 80, Vol 2: Purgatorio. Copyright 1973 by Princeton University Press.</ref>

[[Image:Paradiso Canto 31.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Dante enters the Empyrean, the outer part of Heaven]]

[[Image:Paradiso Canto 31.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Dante beholds the nine angelic choirs: ''There wheeled about the point a circle of fire / More rapid than the motion which surrounds, / Speediest, the world.'']]

 

===Heaven===

===Heaven===

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{{Main|Dante's Paradiso}}