These states are also impermanent and subjective to change with the growth of one's awareness. There is no eternal damnation in Tibetan Buddhism, though the Hell Bardo may feel like eternity. Dante's vision, as beautiful in texture and metaphor as it is, concretizes the afterdeath state in a cultural model resting largely on his own particular Italian Christian, Neoplatonic Renaissance worldview. The largest difference between Dante's perspective and the Tibetan Buddhist perspective in my opinion, is the notion of emptiness. I would like to think we have a little more room to move both up and down Jacobs Ladder.
Language gives pattern and form to the void.
As lofty as the logos may be, its rests on the silence. But I don't have a lot more to say about him. I'm still interested in the idea of the changing image of heroes. Gandhi might be an example. The movie Altered States would almost make a 'frontiers of experience' heroic epic, if the ending didn't backpeddle so badly.