XLVI. De planctu et symphonia animae.

XLVI. De planctu et symphonia animae.

Therefore, I who have made all things say: You who wish to be partakers of the heavenly Jerusalem, praise your Creator in the sound of faith, which resounds in a commendable tone through the understanding of reason in all the works of God, so that each good thing may give praise to God. Rationality is like a trumpet with a living voice, which has its own duties beneath it and dispenses through various arts into creatures, so that those same creatures may assist in this way, to produce good and harmonious sound, because rationality makes those that do not have living sound resonate with it. For it holds within itself the mode of jubilation from the first inspiration with which God breathed life into man. Therefore, I praise God in pure and fitting knowledge, which prepares a creature consonant with itself, and in sweet and profound wisdom, which wisely arranges all things according to just dispensation, namely, when the human mind discerningly perceives heavenly matters and gently feels earthly ones. But the soul of man has a harmony within itself, and it is in harmony, from which it often brings forth a lament when it hears that harmony, because it remembers being sent from its homeland into exile. These things have been said about the souls of the penitent, who are being purified and saved; they are faithful, and let the faithful pay attention to these, and let them compose in memory of good knowledge. I also saw other spirits of the same multitude, whom I heard here crying out: 'Who or what God is, we do not know.' But what we see and know is limited. And these people lead others into lethargy, and they urge them to be lukewarm in everything.