XXXI. De claritate beatorum.
XXXI. De claritate beatorum.
But even in that clarity, I felt an even greater and more infinite brightness. As I tried to understand it, I realized that the brilliance of its light contained the beauty of all adornments, the delights of delights, and the joys of joys of the entire blessedness that exists in it; yet neither eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, while it remains in fragile and corruptible flesh. Therefore, there is also a certain seal set against me, through which much greater and more numerous joys are hidden from me than I had seen before. And so, that same vision was reflected in me. And through the living Spirit, I saw and understood these things.
Read the original Latin
Sed et in praedicta claritate, etiam multo majorem inflnitamque claritatem sentiebam.
Quam dum intendere vellem, splendor fulgoris ejus tantum decorem omnium ornamentorura, tantasque delicias deliciarum, tantaque gaudia gaudiorum totius beatitudinis in ea esse intelligebam, quod nec oculus vidit, nec auris audivit, nec in cor hominis ascendit, dum in fragili et corruptibili corpore manet; unde etiam quoddam sigillum mihi oppositum est^ per quod multo plura multoque majora gaudia mihi occultata sunt, quam prius vidissem.
Sicque idem visus in me reverberatus est.
Et per viventem Spiritum vidi et intellexi haec.
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