10 Not because more than one simple semblance was in the Living Light wherein I was gazing, 111 which such is always as it was before; but through my sight, which was growing strong in me as I looked, one sole appearance, 114 as I myself changed, to me itself was altering. Within the profound and clear subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles 117 of three colors and of one dimension: and one by the other, as Iris by Iris, seemed reflected, and the third seemed fire which 120 from the one and from the other is equally breathed forth. O how inadequate is speech, and how feeble toward my conception! and this toward what I saw 123 is such that it suffices not to call it little. O Light Eternal, that sole in Thyself abidest, sole Thyself understandest, and, by Thyself understood 126 and understanding, on Thyself lovest and smilest! That circle, which appeared generated in Thee as a reflected light, 129 by my eyes awhile being surveyed, within itself, of its own very color to me seemed depicted with our effigy; 132 wherefore my sight upon it wholly was set. As is the geometer who wholly applies himself to measure the circle, and finds not 135 by thinking that principle of which he is in need,
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