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understanding of the images they form according to their semblance.
For those stars that are named are all figured in the sky
and encompassed by images, all having different
types of being. And each has its own form and name, of which forty-seven
are principally known within the firmament. And of these,
twelve of them are the most worthy, and these are
called the twelve signs. They make a circle all around
the seven planets where the planets make their round. We
are marvelously far away from the sky. And everyone
knows that the person who dies in mortal sin will never
arrive there. But the happy soul that has
left his body in good state
will arrive there immediately despite the long distance, that is, in less than an hour,
reaching as far as the highest point in front of the sovereign judge
who sits at the right had of God the Father in His blessed
paradise. So full is that place of all delights, all glory,
and all consolation that there is no man living in this
world who knows or could know how to
imagine or think of the joy and the glory into which
that happy soul enters. And there is no man who can
imagine so much or can think of the size and greatness