Already, my eyes had been fixed again on the face of my Lady, and, with them, 
my spirit which had been diverted from any other object. 

She did not laugh, but she says to me:
 "If I laughed, you would become similar to Semele, when she was reduced to ashes, because my beauty, 
which, as you saw it my soft Marco, ignites more and more as one goes up; its glare would be
 unbearable to you if it were not veiled to your glance of mortal, like to feed the carnal desire in you. 
We have climbed up to the seventh splendour, fixes your spirit there, where carries your eyes, 
and make of them, a mirror to the figure which will appear to you in this mirror." 

Who could describe this carnal food, which my glance perceived in this blessed face, 
at the moment when my thoughts wandered, would understand how much it was pleasant for me 
to obey to my celestial Lover, but not knowing anymore to which of the two pleasures dedicate myself.
I then saw a ladder, of the color of gold which is striken by a sunbeam, and which rose so high 
that my glances could not follow it. I saw going down by the degrees so many splendours, 
that I thought that all the lights that one sees over the sky, had become animated at this only place. 
Thus appeared to me, these spirits comes from elsewhere, such as a swarm of birds perched,
and which  flies away to the least noise,  then comes back to rest motionless, 
or continue to whirl above seeking to rest themselves on the degrees. 

One of them  immobilized  herself close to us, and, she became so luminous that I said to myself: 
"I feel in me, all the love that you show me."

 But I awaited from Whom who guides me, that she indicates to me the manner and the moment to speak 
or to keep silent, but she remained motionless without saying nothing. 
Also I kept silent and did not dare asking, in spite of my deep desire; she who saw in me 
as Whom who sees everything, said to me: 
"Speak to Her Marco, and thus, appease the ardour of your desire 
of knowing everything, like that of loving me!" 

I started as follows: 
"I am not worthy that you answer me, but in the name of whom who authorizes me 
to question you, blessed soul who hold yourself hidden in your joyfulness, let me know
the reason  which made you approach me, and tell me why I do not hear any more, in this sphere, 
the soft symphony of the Heavens, which still resounds in the other spheres." 

She answered to me: 
"Your hearing, like your sight, is that of a mortal; here one does not sing for this same reason which
 prevents Jeanne from laughing. I am descended so low by the degrees of this holy ladder, to satisfy you 
of my only words, and by the light of which I dress myself, but not to appease your dark desires. 
It is not only the attraction nor love, which had made me so prompt to let myself be allure by you, 
because there is up there, all the love that we need, as  shows it to you, our scintillating ardour. 
But it is the sublime charity which makes of me, the assiduous maidservant of the supreme Council, 
and gives to each one of us, his role besides the mortals like you."

 I answered then:
 "I see very well, sacred splendour, how a free love is enough in this court to fill the desires 
of the eternal God; but I do not manage to understand, why you were the one, 
the only one among your companions, predestined to listen to my dark desires."

Hardly I had pronounced the last word, that this light made of her middle an axis, 
and started to turn around on herself like a dervish. 
Then, all the love which was in her answered: 
"A divine clearness goes down on me,  penetrating that of which I wrap myself, and his virtue, 
united to my vision, raises me so much above myself that I see the supreme Essence
from which it emanates. From there comes the joy from which I blaze, because I equalize 
the clearness of my flame to the clearness of my vision. But the soul which receives in heaven
the most light, the Seraphin who fixes more deeply its glances at God, could not satisfy your request, 
because what you want to know is so deeply inserted in the abyss of the eternal intentions,
that it escapes from the sight of any created being. And when you will return  in the world of the mortals, 
bring this answer that I gave you, so that whoever does not suppose any more, to direct his steps
 towards such a goal. The spirit which shone here, is on earth, darkened by smoke: 
see then how it could do over there what it cannot do here, although the heaven accomodates it." 

Her words put so well an end to my desire that I gave up my question 
and limited myself to humbly ask her  whom she was: 
"I was pupil of the King, each one of us was one also, as beautiful as you see us, 
and devoted to serve you and to populate this  earth so sad and so rude, 
and we knew how to animate it from our charms, and made it easier to support, 
and allowed it to grow, that it exists, that it loves and that it gives birth."

To this voice, I saw thousand of flames coming down from degree to degree and to whirl, 
and at each turn they became more beautiful; they came around the first one and stopped there, 
and they pushed an acute  and so powerful cry that nothing could be compared to it here below;
 I did not understood it then , so much its  noise overpowered me.