XVI. Reaponsum Concordiae.

XVI. Reaponsum Concordiae.

And again I heard a voice from the troubled cloud speaking to this image, saying: 'You, dreadful and accursed one, what are you saying?' Can you destroy heaven and its instruments? In no way. But you can’t do that. But if you were to bring forth all kinds of quarrels through your words, you wouldn't be able to harm anyone with them. But if you were to hurl a thousand insults at the destruction of some city, you wouldn't be able to harm it with those words. Can you conquer the sun and the stars? No. For the dust of the sun's brightness crushes you. As soon as you began to fight, you were thrown into hell, and you do no more than you see in creation. For in that, you serve as a bull to your master. Every masculine thing has strength, like the sun, which has the firmament, and like the other lights, which are subject to the feminine kind. But you are worth nothing in any respect; rather, you are useless in everything because you scandalize the works of God. For that is nothing, which lacks all good. If any creature were to despise God, just as you look down on it, yet its power would not be diminished, because it holds authority over you, over hell, over darkness, and over everything that exists within them. > 24. Then I saw to the left of the man I had mentioned an image that seemed to have a human form, with a fiery circle on its head, from which fiery tongues were coming forth, and its face was sending out dazzling flashes. But I couldn't see any other form in it, because it was wrapped in a marble cloak. But these things also cried out against those vices that have been mentioned, saying: