Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Stichwörter: love justice mercy
Soft as the early morning breeze of May,
which heralds dawn, rich with the grass and flowers,
spreading in waves their breathing fragrances,
I felt a breeze strike soft upon my brow:
I felt a wing caress it, I am sure,
I sensed the sweetness of ambrosia.
If you, free as you are of every weight
had stayed below, then that would be as strange
as living flame on earth remaining still."
And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.
Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.
Dante AlighieriThat which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
Dante AlighieriAt grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
Dante AlighieriFate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Dante AlighieriStichwörter: fate
Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,
that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings.
O grace abounding and allowing me to dare
to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light,
so deep my vision was consumed in it!
I saw how it contains within its depths
all things bound in a single book by love
of which creation is the scattered leaves:
how substance, accident, and their relation
were fused in such a way that what I now
describe is but a glimmer of that Light.
Stichwörter: theophany beatific-vision
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