PARS TERTIA, cap. I
The City and the Mountain of Light
A great squared city appears with a lofty white mountain in its eastern region, crowned by a brilliant mirror in which a dove is seen, and from which a radiance pours forth filled with mysteries and varied forms.
And again I saw, as it were, a kind of great city — a squared structure, encircled here and there by a kind of brightness and by certain dark areas like a wall, and even adorned as if with certain mountains and images. I also saw in the middle of its eastern region, as it were, a great and lofty mountain of hard, white stone — like the one from which fire is thrown forth — having the form of it. At its summit there shone like a mirror of such great clarity and purity that it seemed to surpass the brightness of the sun, and in it there also appeared, as it were, a dove with wings spread wide, as if poised to fly. The same mirror, holding within itself very many hidden wonders, cast out from itself a certain radiance of great breadth and height, in which many mysteries and a great variety of forms of different images appeared.
The Cloud of Angels and the Judgment Wind
A cloud appears above the southern region with a multitude of angels, and a divine wind sends fire into the dark mass of the cloud, burning it and hurling it northward into a bottomless depth.
For in that same radiance, toward the southern region, there appeared a cloud — white on top but dark underneath — above which, as it were, a very great multitude of angels shone. Some of them looked like fire, some were bright, and some appeared as stars. They were all moved by a certain wind, like burning lamps flying about, and the whole scene was full of voices that sounded like the roar of the sea. And the same wind spread its voices out in its fervor, and through it sent fire into the dark mass of the aforementioned cloud. Because of this, that cloud burned into darkness without flame; but soon the wind blew into it and made it vanish and collapse like thick smoke. In this way too, it hurled that cloud — now collapsing — from the south, above the mountain already mentioned, toward the north into a certain bottomless depth, so that it could no longer raise itself up from that point forward, except that it sometimes sends a mist over the earth.
The Fallen Mighty One and the Triumphant Wind
Trumpets cry from heaven over the fall of the mighty one, and the bright part of the cloud shines more clearly as the irresistible wind completes its victory.
And I heard, as it were, trumpets crying out from heaven: 'What is this — that the mighty one has fallen in his strength?' And so the bright part of the aforementioned cloud shone more clearly than it had before, and no one could any longer resist the wind that had cast down the dark mass of the cloud by the three modes of its voices.
A New Voice from Heaven
A voice from heaven is heard again, introducing a new revelation.
And again I heard a voice from heaven saying:
Read the original Latin
Et iterum vidi quasi cujusdam magnae civitatis, instrumentum quadratum, velut quodam splendore et quibusdam tenebris quasi muro hinc et hinc circumdatum, ac etiam quemadmodum quibusdam montibus et imaginibus exornatum. Vidi quoque in medio orientalis plagae ejus, quasi montem magnum et excelsum, duri albique lapidis, sicut ejus, de quo ignis ejicitur, formam habentem, in cujus summitate velut speculum tantae claritatis et puritatis resplenduit, ut etiam splendorem solis excellere videretur, in quo etiam velut columba expansis alis apparuit, quasi ad volandum praeparata. Idem quoque speculum quamplurima occulta miracula in se habens, quemdam splendorem magnae latitudinis et altitudinis de se emittebat, in quo multa mysteria et plurimae formae diversarum imaginum apparebant. Nam in eodem splendore ad australem plagam, quemadmodum nubes superius candida, subterius autem nigra apparebat, supra quam velut plurima multitudo angelorum fulgebat, quorum quidam ignei, quidam clari, quidam ut stellae videbantur, qui et omnes a quodam vento ut ardentes lampades volante movebantur, qui etiam plenus vocum erat, quae ut sonus maris sonabant. Et ventus idem voces suas in zelo suo extendebat, atque per ipsum in praefatam nigredinem praedictae nubis ignem misit; unde illa in nigredinem sine flamma exarsit; sed et mox in illam flavit, eamque ut densum fumum evanescere et corruere fecit. Sic quoque illam corruentem ab austro supra dictum montem ad aquilonem in quamdam infinitam profunditatem projecit, ita ut se deinceps erigere non valeret, praeter quod nebulam quamdam aliquando super terram mittit. Audivique quasi tubas de coelo vociferantes: Quid est hoc quod fortis in viribus suis cecidit? Et sic candida pars praefatae nubis clarior effulsit quam prius fecisset, nec vento, qui tribus modis vocum suarum praedictae nubis nigredinem dejecerat, ullus amodo resistere potuit.
Iterumque audivi vocem de coelo dicentem:
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