The Vision of Dante is not in vain: Thus transformed, the holy edifice

M. Gustave Dore
Dante’s prophetic vision of the whore along side giant seated in the chariot representing the usurpation of the Divinely Ordained Authority of the Holy Roman Emperor by the envy of the papacy (whore) and secular man-made authority (giant)



Thus transformed, the holy edifice
put forth heads on all its parts,
three on the shaft and one at every corner--
the first three bore horns like oxen, the others
had a single horn upon their foreheads--
such a monster as never seen before.
Secure, like a fortress on a towering mountain,
I saw a disheveled harlot sitting there,
casting provocative glances this way and that.
I saw a giant who stood beside her,
perhaps to prevent her being taken from him.
They kissed each other again and again.
But because she turned on me
her lustful, roving eye, that savage lover
thrashed her body from head to foot.
Then, full of suspicion and cruel in his rage,
he unhitched the monster and dragged it through the wood
so far that the wood itself now screened
the harlot and the strange brute from my sight.

Purgatory xxxii


Thus transformed, the holy edifice is the attempt by the Papacy to transform the Divinely Ordained Authority of the Holy Roman Emperor into its own creation. The Papacy will interfere in Temporal affairs and will cause considerable harm to the commonweal. This will be accomplished by creating a true world political authority called for by Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical Caritas in Veritate. This papal created true world political authority will usurp the Divinely Ordained Authority of the Holy Roman Emperor. This is the Vision of Dante and this is the correct reading of ‘Thus transformed, the holy edifice’ It has begun with paragraph 67.

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