In today’s reading, Dante is given a vision of God himself, surrounded by his nine choirs of angels. God is pure, radiant light, and the angels surround him like Saturn’s rings, each ring moving faster the closer it is to the center. Beatrice explains the divine physics at work: the closer we are to God, the more alive with His love we become.

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