Prooemium visionis (Pars 3)
Prooemium visionis (Pars 3)
As he looked toward the north and the east, the man turned himself to the north, so that he could see both the north and the east. Both the winds and the air, along with the greenness of the waters that are under the firmament of heaven, were present, in which the same man was from his thighs down to his knees, and for him, from his thighs to his knees, there was a kind of clothing, and the mist and the light of the air were like garments for him. But from the marrow of his bones, the essence of the elements flowed out, and again it returned into those same bones, just as a man exhales his breath and then draws it back in. The elements of the world were in turmoil. And I heard a great voice from the elements of the world saying to the man: "We cannot complete our journey, as we are set under our teacher." For people, through their wicked deeds, subvert us like a millstone. Therefore, we will stink of pestilence and famine in all justice.
Read the original Latin
DE VIBO AD SEPTENTRIONEM ET AD ORIENTEM ASPICIENTE») r vjdi quod praedictus vir ad Septentrio5m se vertebat, ita quod et Septentrionem et rientem aspexit.
Et venti et aer ac viriditas undi, quae sub firmamento coeli sunt, in quiis et idem vir a femoribus usque ad genua la erat, eidem viro a femoribus suis usque genua sua quasi pro vestimento fuerunt, et nis et lux aeris eisdem vestimentis pro oritu erant.
Sed et de medulla coxarum ejus res olementorum exsudabant, et iterum in easdem medullas redibant, velut homo halitum suum emittit, et iterum ad se retrahit.
Qiierela Elementorum.
Et audivi vocem magnam ex elementis mundi ad ipsum virum dicentem: Currere, et iter nostrum perficere non possumus, sicut de praeceptore nostro * posita sumus.
Nam homines pravis operibus suis velut molendinum subvertunt nos.
Unde pestilentia et fame omnis justitiae foetemus.»
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