• From the Crystalline Heaven to the Empyrean. Dante, Convito , II 15, makes the Empyrean the symbol of Theology, the Divine Science:⁠— “The Empyrean Heaven, by its peace, resembles the Divine Science, which is full of all peace; and which suffers no strife of opinions or sophistical arguments, because of the exceeding certitude of its subject, which is God. And of this he says to his disciples, ‘My peace I give unto you; my peace I leave you’; giving and leaving them his doctrine, which is this science of which I speak. Of this Solomon says: ‘There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number; my dove, my undefiled, is but one.’ All sciences he calls queens and paramours and virgins; and this he calls a dove, because it is without blemish of strife; and this he calls perfect, because it makes us perfectly to see the truth in which our soul has rest.” ↩
• Philippians 4:7:⁠— “The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.” ↩
• The Angels and the souls of the saints. ↩