GC1FFKC Purgatory #1 - Pride (Traditional Cache) in Västra Götaland, Sweden created by McB and Ninjatummen

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McB.: Tack till alla som loggade denna och övriga cacher i serien. Nu är det dags att lämna lite utrymme till nya cacher.

/Ninjatummen och McB

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A cache by McB and Ninjatummen Message this owner

Hidden : 9/2/2008

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Purgatory #1 - Pride

This cache represents the first terrace of Purgatory. You need to visit all terraces before you are allowed into Paradise.

While I was joying in seeing the images, of such great humility, precious to look at, for their Maker’s sake, the poet murmured: ‘See, here, many people, but their steps are few: they will send us on to the high stairs.’ My eyes, that were intent on gazing to find new things, willingly, were not slow in turning towards him. Reader, I would not wish you to be scared away from a good intention, by hearing how God wills that the debt is paid. Pay no attention to the form of the suffering: think of what follows it: think that, at worst, it cannot last beyond the great Judgement. I began: ‘Master, those whom I see coming towards us do not seem like persons, but I do not know what they look like, my sight errs so much.’ And he to me: ‘The heavy weight of their punishment, doubles them to the ground, so that my eyes, at first, were troubled by them. But look steadily there, and disentangle with your sight what is coming beneath those stones: you can see, already, how each one beats his breast.’ O proud Christians, weary and wretched, who, infirm in the mind’s vision, put your trust in downward steps: do you not see that we are caterpillars, born to form the angelic butterfly, that flies to judgement without defence? Why does your mind soar to the heights, since you are defective insects, even as the caterpillar is, in which the form is lacking? As a figure, with knees joined to chest, is sometimes seen, carved as a corbel, to support a ceiling or a roof, which though unreal, creates a real discomfort in those who see it, even so, I saw these, when I paid attention. Truly, they were more or less bent down, depending as to whether they were weighted more or less, and the one who had most patience in its bearing, seemed to say, weeping: ‘I can no more.’

The cache contains the following items:

Logbook
Stash note
Air cades keychain
Netbeans sticker
Swedish Army sticker
BadVista sticker

This cache is a part of the Purgatory series. The other caches in this series are:

Purgatory #2 - Envy
Purgatory #3 - Wrath
Purgatory #4 - Sloth
Purgatory #5 - Greed
Purgatory #6 - Gluttony
Purgatory #7 - Lust

A new clue to the final was placed at 2008-10-12. All of those who have logged the cache during the time the clue was missing are welcome to email us and have the clue sent to them by email.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ab cnexvat

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)