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“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight path and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”(I,1) “Led by my guide and his truth, I leave the gall and go for the sweet apples of delight, but first I must descend to the center of all,”(XVI,61-3) says the pilgrim, Dante. Dante [pilgrim] symbolizes the common sinner emerging from the “Dark” Ages, stranded in “the Dark Woods” (I,3) of vices bound to Hell. The U-turn in his journey to the “sweet apples of delight”(XVI,62) in heaven, extends to the potential enlightenment of all others. In the pilgrim’s journey, Christian-Humanist, Dante advocates the importance of God’s “Divine Illumination” in humanity’s self- fulfillment or salvation and enlightenment. God placed the gift of choice into man’s hands and so man is responsible for his own fate, as is his achieving own salvation or lack thereof. To Dante, there are three steps towards reform and salvation, three to reach enlightenment; recognition of sin, renunciation of sin and penance.