“Though Reason cannot through Faith’s mysteries see, It sees that there and such they be; Leads to heaven’s door, and there does humbly keep, And there through chinks and keyholes peep; Though it, like Moses, by a sad command Must not come into the Holy Land, Yet thither it infallibly does guide, And from afar ’tis all descried.”

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Nothing unusual ever disturbs the religio loci , the sacredness of the mountain. ↩

This happens only when the soul, that came from heaven, is received back into heaven; not from any natural causes affecting earth or air. ↩

The gate of Purgatory, which is also the gate of Heaven. ↩