(106) Now being drawn together, it looks like Azure or Sky-colour blue, but when the Light or Flash rises up therein, then it looks like the precious Jaspis, or Jasper Stone, or as I may call it in my Language, a glassy Sea, on which the Sun shines, and that very clear and bright.

(20) there seemeth to be a blue or azure Sphere above the Stars, whereby the Place of this World is closed and shut out from the holy Heaven, as Men have thought hitherto; yet it is not so, but it is the superior Water of Nature, which is much brighter than the Water below the Moon. And now when the Sun shines through the Deep, then it is as it were of a light-blue or azure Colour.

(2) Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree, And crown myself thereafter with those leaves Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy. So seldom, Father, do we gather them For triumph or of Caesar or of Poet, (The fault and shame of human inclinations,) That the Peneian foliage should bring forth Joy to the joyous Delphic deity, When any one it makes to thirst for it. A little spark is followed by great flame; Perchance with better voices after me Shall prayer be made that Cyrrha may respond! To mortal men by passages diverse Uprises the world's lamp; but by that one Which circles four uniteth with three crosses, With better course and with a better star Conjoined it issues, and the mundane wax Tempers and stamps more after its own fashion. Almost that passage had made morning there And evening here, and there was wholly white That hemisphere, and black the other part, When Beatrice towards the left-hand side I saw turned round, and gazing at the sun; Never did eagle fasten so upon it!

(85) Before Thy burning throne the angels wait, Much-working, charged to do all things, for men. Thy young Spring shines, all prank'd with purple flowers; Thy Winter with its chilling clouds assails; Three Autumn noisy Bacchus distributes."

(111) Behold now, when the Mercurius or Tone in this Nature-Heaven rises up, there the divine and angelical Joyfulness rises up, for therein rise up Forms, Imaginings, Colours, and angelical Fruits, which blossom curiously, grow, spring, flourish, and stand in Perfection, as to all Manner of Bearing or Fruit Trees, Plants and springing Growths, of a gracious, comely, lovely, amiable, blessed Prospect, Vision or Sight to be looked upon, with a most delicious, lovely, pleasant Smell and Taste.