ABSTRACT
“Oh happy soul, Oh more blessed than any other that breathes in the present light, Oh far more gracious than any other person born; as you here see each of us shining with a bright light–as beautiful as no other creature today living in the world–so in the sky each appears a star, clear and shining and as serene as Titan 1 in the new season. For we were born in the first days within the divine boson through true virtue of His first love–always full of supreme benevolence–to bestow true clarity of His lofty worth upon the world, which has enfolded itself in blind error. And each of us, so fair, is a goddess, and we are always in love with your delight (we burn with the rays of the Cytherean soul) as you can see. Therefore dispose the true purposes of your spirit with its rightful thoughts wholly to us; and gazing upon us, think to what lovers we would be worthy of offering delight, if all their songs could bend us. And so form our faces in your heart in order that you may feel the eternal sweetness that our appearance can grant and does bestow, so that you may receive lofty firmness from it to sustain the already delightful loves for which you were now seeking strength within yourself.
