"As it nears / Its goal of longing in the realms above / The pilgrim spirit sees a vision" Dante 'borrowed' heavily from mystic traditions, sometimes without f

"As it nears / Its goal of longing in the realms above / The pilgrim spirit sees a vision" Dante 'borrowed' heavily from mystic traditions, sometimes without fully understanding the material. This much is clear given his sectarian tendencies in the choices of his assignments in his work, that his vision, in fact, was incomplete and partly in error. Regrettably his occluded vision deeply impressed itself upon the Western soul with the consequences that we see today: a rather 'mixed' record ..