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and in her place he finds an old man -the sainty Bernard of Clairvaux. Many things are now taught to Dante and the moment comes when be gazes direct upon the Light Eternal, and his countenance becomes even blended with the Glory Infinite. And this is what he tells us that Light revealed to him:

"I saw that in its depth far down is lying,

Bound up with love together in one volume

What through the universe in leaves is scattered."

And as Dante still gazes at the High Light, there appear to him three circles within it, and he beholds the Human Image:

"Within itself, of its own very color Seemed to me painted with our effigy,

Whereof my sight was all absorbed therein.'

(Par. xxxiii-130-132)

This was the deepest revelation of High Heaven itself. This is the interpretation that Dante brings to us -the Eternal Humanity as part of God, as one with God himself. How the image conformed to the circle, how Humanity is indeed a very part of God, this Dante tells us, the wings of his own thought were not enough for. A flash of lightning came and revealed it to him. But he cannot tell it to us. He can only give us the last lines of his wondrous song:

"Here vigor failed the lofty fantasy:

But now was turning my desire and will,

Even as a wheel that equally is moved,

The Love which moves the sun and the other stars."

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