4 The singing and the revolving completed each its measure, and heed to us gave those holy lights, 30 making themselves happy from care to care. The silence broke among those concordant divinities then the light within which the marvellous life 33 of the poor man of God had been narrated to me, and said: “Since one straw is threshed, since its seed is now garnered, 36 to beat out the other sweet love invites me. Thou believest that into the breast, wherefrom the rib was drawn to form the beautiful cheek of her 39 whose palate costs dear to all the world, and into that which, pierced by the lance, both before and after made such satisfaction 42 that of all sin it overcomes the balance, whatever to human nature it is allowed to have of light was all infused 45 by that Power which made one and the other; and therefore thou wonderest at that which I said above, when I told that had no second 48 the good which in the fifth light is inclosed. Now open thine eyes to that which I to thee answer, and thou wilt see thy belief and my speech 51 in the truth become as the centre in a circle. That which dies not and that which can die are naught but the splendor of that idea 54 which brings to birth in His love our Sire;
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