“When however the Lord is seen in the midst of heaven, which is often the case, He is not seen encompassed with the Sun, but in the form of an angel, yet distinguished from angels by the Divine beaming through the face; for He is not there in person, since in person the Lord is constantly encompassed with the Sun, but is in presence by His look. For in heaven it is a common thing for persons to be seen as present where their look is fixed, or terminated, although this be very far from the place where they really are. This presence is called the presence of internal sight, of which we shall speak again. I have also seen the Lord out of the Sun, in the form of an angel, a little below the Sun in its altitude; and again near by, in like form, with beaming face. Once too He was seen in the midst of angels, as a flame-like radiance. The sun of the world appears to the angels as something dark opposite to the Sun of heaven, and the