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- Dante finds that he and Beatrice have ascended into the First Sphere, that of the moon, and they are inside the moon itself. Dante takes the opportunity to ask the explanation for the spots on the moon which can be seen from earth. Beatrice shows the errors of his earthly understanding, rebutting his ideas with scientific analysis.
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Dante and Beatrice enter the Empyrean, which is where God, the saints, and the angels reside; it is above the nine heavenly spheres, but beyond both space and time.
After ascending through the sphere of fire believed to exist in the earth's upper atmosphere (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven, to the Empyrean, which is the abode of God.
Where Dante expects to see Beatrice, there appears instead a new guide for the final stage of the celestial voyage. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-53), a gentle father figure who directs Dante's sight to illustrious occupants of the rose (including Beatrice, now returned to her place), is assigned this role primarily for his special devotion to the ...
Leaving the material spheres behind, Beatrice and Dante enter the Empyrean, where God, the angels, and the saints reside beyond space and time. Beatrice instructs Dante to drink from a river of light so that his intellect will be able to grasp what he sees here.
The pilgrim is swathed by a living light that gives him a power beyond his own (49-51), kindling in him the ability to see the Empyrean in a phantasmagoric sequence of dissolving images. He sees light in the form of a river whose banks are clothed in gemlike flowers, and whose effulgence emits living sparks coursing between its shores and its ...
Dante and Beatrice enter the Eighth Sphere of Heaven or Fixed Stars in the constellation of Gemini. Here, the poet and his guide see the Virgin Mary and other Biblical saints including the apostles of Peter, John and James who test Dante on faith, love and hope.
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Paradiso Canto XXX:1-45 Dante and Beatrice enter the Empyrean Noon blazes, perhaps six thousand miles from us, and this world’s shadows already slope to a level field, when the centre of Heaven, high above, begins to alter, so that, here and there, a star lacks the power to shine to this depth: and as the brightest handmaiden of the sun ...
