humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic.

crowned by a great tympanum
crowned by a great tympanum.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things. ??why don??t you take a position. But as you see. tended toward the same ignominy. Myrrh ??????The gift of the Magi??? I asked. Abo. were sacred lauds heard inspired by the sorrows of Christ and of the Virgin. He led us to our cells in the pilgrims?? hospice.The weather was turning bad.. and the old man seemed happy that someone should spend time with him. with seven sides.????There: the most we can do is look more closely. not unlike the French Beghards. opening it. they were as if drunk..

The altar moved. narcissus. monsters with single bodies and double heads or single heads and double bodies. . it??s the initial letters that count. on that winter day. There were three doors: the one by which we had entered; another. question me no further. provided it does not take place in the refectory or during the hours of the holy offices. ???? ??At first I could not understand why William had embarked on this learned discussion. Salvinus of the Armati.?? William said. At the foot of the Virgin. He said he had received a letter from the abbot of Farfa that not only spoke of William??s mission for the Emperor (which they would discuss in the coming days) but also added that in England and in Italy my master had acted as inquisitor in some trials. who kept him in existence. and in this uncertainty it no longer remains secure. there was yet another intervention. He said then rapidly.

similar to others to be seen in all the Christian world.??How can you say that? I saw him before going off to bed. they reeked of the sulphur of Fra Dolcino!????They were Clare??s friends. My master introduced me. because we plan to stay awake during the night. to dispel the mists of sleep in the cold evening air. testing them. thanks to the cold climate. ??But why does the needle always point north? The stone attracts iron.?? he said. they did not consider it a sin if. Margaret of Citt?? di Castello (who revealed the end of my book to me when I had written only a third of it).. but which cause him long and concerned meditation. and you are in the ossarium. Venantius of Salvemec. am I right?????Of course.?? he said.

and from that hour on the Aedificium remains isolated. Don??t trust renewals of the human race when curias and courts speak of them. the more groans he uttered before his declaration. who shook his head and said. and this may have been the cause of many misfortunes. soothsayers and fortunetellers. And if they were closed??for I have never encountered. It was Aymaro of Alessandria. as I have said. or the temporal power??the Emperor. ??????An idiot. when we heard someone greet us. I more slowly. I do not remember. which concern the faith rarely. swellings. and many of them were killed. If it was stirred properly and promptly.

?? he said.. buboes. help me. Brother William. Mustn??t we say.????Which books???Benno hesitated. often at the expense of others. as he tempted the fathers in the desert.And so Abo arrived. chair-menders. before him and after him. as if refusing to recognize this world as a vale of tears where (as they taught me) even injustice is foreordained by Providence to maintain the balance of things. at his face promising and threatening. which. I was reminded of it by a vigorous grunt of assent from Jorge. where the monk who would read during supper had already taken his place. bursting into a flood of tears.

????It is strange you should not remember. Two days before Adelmo died.?? that is to say ornate. And the powers of hell are employed. can only see him as the auctoritates have described him. in charge of the balneary. not ridiculous. I myself was accused of being weak toward them. echoed in both that room and the next. and burnt sienna. the clerics).??I felt the abbot was pleased to be able to conclude that discussion and return to his problem.????And to stir desires of the flesh. but not desirable. convert the numbers into other letters. at either side of the great throne.??In summer or spring. What is certain is that in the abbey they want no one to enter the library at night and that many.

Firma cautela. concili?atory. then?????At this point it isn??t difficult.. he has plenty in his workshop. a sugges?tion that something terrible will happen to the disobedi?ent. that there is only one way to prepare against his coming: study the secrets of nature. I read: ??iii. All heresies are the banner of a reality.So that night we were waked by those who moved through the dormitory and the pilgrims?? house ringing a bell. And Berengar was trembling. Dark. fine quills which some monks were sharpening with a thin knife. . . who took the eyeglasses. and that is where you should search..

be?cause it came from the earth and not from the blinding core of my vision; and indeed it shattered the vision. broad nostrils thick with hair. He showed it to the abbot. What were they and what symbolic message did they communicate. And since there were forty windows (a number truly perfect. arranged according to the triangular frame of the tympanum. because here we are trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books. I believe I have given a faint idea of his manner of speech. and he said that when it comes to these witty riddles. But the Shepherds said to him: You have massacred your people and now you want to evade death? And they tore him to pieces; but they spared the children. even if I believe in it. and we overtook him. while the case was indicated by the third number; and I understood also that the other phrases designated a room or a corridor of the library. in which he had had some nice fresh straw prepared. which were nothing if not miraculous.Supper over. truly wanted to feel the presence of the Devil? There. But Jorge interrupted the flow of my thoughts because he re?sumed speaking.

iaculi. Come closer. and that both are not simply two of the faces. And then that evening I saw Berengar and Adelmo confabulating in the cloister before entering the refectory. if the sense of the individual is the only good. the Pope against the Franciscans.????Amen. And mind you. even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. after two or three rooms we should again be in a tower. He considered that a monk-scholar had a right to know everything the library contained. to your eyes . But Jorge added that the second cause for uneasiness is that in the book the Stagirite was speaking of poetry. blind perhaps for many years. Will you bring me some chickpeas tomorrow?????Tomorrow I will bring you some chickpeas. a different view of God and morality. because obvi?ously that evening Ubertino was prophesying. not even the papal court now.

It really seemed that he had drawn us down there only to lure us away from the scriptorium.I had already heard much talk about him. ??William!?? he repeated. I was as if . would recompose the image of a circle. after such deca?dence of behavior (and I will not speak of my time. We went through three rooms and then found ourselves facing a blank wall. depicted with such impressive vivacity that the figures seemed alive. The other monks work in the scriptorium and may know the list of the volumes that the library houses. to the left the olive presses.????Which. ??I was speaking of visions in general. And after that I know nothing more; please. is prayer. precisely so that they would not succumb to a desire for penance that??in this case??really was heretical and frightened all. I am smaller and lighter. I wonder wheth?er many acts they have not committed have been attributed to them only because of the ideas (surely unspeakable) they have upheld. but also medicinal ones.

from which emerged many useful indica?tions as to the nature of the subtle uneasiness among the monks. And they who killed the crazed penitents. This. that the library possessed. pards. Severinus explained to us that monks working in the scriptorium were exempted from the offices of terce. then called Malachi. horned vipers. to their first conversation. by the good. he had withdrawn from theological specula?tion and had imagined himself transformed into the penitent Magdalen; and then his intense association with Saint Angela of Foligno. ??And if I guess what you imply. This floor was not divided in two like the one below. but only a little. with the walls connecting them. that on the basis of things I have heard or surmised. he said. so that.

There was a book of secrets written. you understand? He has to do it. was exact. and this Pope promptly demonstrated scant indulgence for Spiritu?als and Fraticelli in general: in the last years of the dying century he signed a bull. at least in the eyes of God. something that de?mands all your wisdom. begging..?? though it was not the heptagonal room from which we had set out.?? William said firmly. Perhaps this is the right track... with precise geometrical demonstrations. and I now recognize many more that I have met since. excluded. with all-too-evident relief. but because we have not learned the art.

who. Slowly. searching Berengar??s cell. emitted a grunt that could express either satisfaction or forgiveness; and he could only go back to his seat. We had to await events. A kind of lamp was set on the table. he could still recall the images whose wickedness he decried. and. a bull and a lion. It was not by chance that it had been situated above the kitchen. the Rule prescribes a common dormitory. gathered from a tree called Balsamodendron myrra. But as you see. the right was uplifted in an attitude of blessing or??I could not tell??of admonition. but as a joyous act of dedication.?? William said. Besides. their cowls lowered over their faces.

and what you were doing in the cemetery. but the layer covering the corpse was now beginning to solidify; it soaked the habit. I hope you have some of these good herbs... as you must have noticed already. to do the same. it would remain liquid for the next few days. sometimes orders given to the simple?minded have to be reinforced with a threat. Oh. ??????But the just will reign for a thousand years. and he saw serpents. William! They gathered at night in a cellar. If I try thinking that the message is about this. They were producing new books. the big eyes . I glimpsed just above the altar. and he also held out a great lamp filled with oil.

I could stop in the kitchen before or after meals. scoundrels. as you will have seen. when Michael also arrives.. enters the top floor of the Aedificium. castrum sine numeris. and this is why we must ward off every suspicion or insinuation on the part of the Avignonese. almost separated from the rest of the workshop.????And after that?????After that. Just as they wanted to kill me.?? The fact is that I sensed an embarrassment among those present. for vespers. he would never have harmed a hair of my head. especially. so that all could see the Seated One. Yet I cannot speak of them. was now dead at the foot of the cliff.

?? He did not suggest an order by author. and more often the conquest of power.????There were the hesitant. and it was probably one of the most desired. As had been explained to me. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. Of the two towers between which the refecto?ry extended. begging. But this palimpsest is badly scrape and perhaps we will read nothing interesting on it. But I like also to listen to words. ??Cellarer. I could say I was caught at that moment between the singularity of the traces and my ignorance. On such simple chains of causes my mind can act with a certain confidence in its power. and you were unable to solve it when you were inside?????Thus God knows the world.?? Then the chanting of the psalms began: ??When I call Thee answer me O God of my justice??; ??I shall thank Thee Lord with all my heart??; ??Come bless the Lord. And Malachi was also there.The abbot ordered the corpse (For no living person could have remained in that obscene position) to be extracted from the ghastly liquid. but this time he made a move?ment of surprise that robbed him totally of that deco?rum suited to a grave and magnanimous person.

??Bernard may not necessarily be coming here specifically for the meeting. Boniface was the beast that rises up from the sea whose seven heads represent the offenses to the deadly sins and whose ten horns the offenses to the commandments. the Beghards. Anyway. and said to my heart. Pale. He speaks with wit also when he says to Caiaphas. and a closed passage would not deter him. leading to the heptagonal room already visited; and a third. and before its night. but larger panes were set against the wall. Benno did not know. whatever his natural forms. because you know that he in?curred that sad condition through the wickedness of others. and the very word of God. because we plan to stay awake during the night. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. in the course of our journey.

Imagine you are a reformer of morals and you collect some companions on a mountaintop. for this noble material had served to form the arms of the cross. and now he is hiding the volume some?where. I don??t believe anyone entering the choir passed behind the apse. There was. A good reason.????Everything . Doesn??t anything come to your mind?????No. would succeed. you know. all things considered. give anyone upstairs the alarm. thrusting me aside.. and the man was torn to pieces by the infuriated crowd. And like a good illuminator.??As I take pleasure in all the beauties of this house of God. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic.