And what is laughter but a flashing of the soul, that is, a light appearing externally as it is within. - Dante Alighieri

«¡Virgen y madre, la hija de tu hijo, alta y humilde como no hay criatura, del acuerdo eternal término fijo! »Tú ennobleciste la humanal natura, tanto, que en su grandeza el hacedor no desdeñó encarnar su propia hechura. »Se reanimó en tu vientre el santo amor, y a su calor, en paz eternamente, ha germinado esta divina flor. »Tú eres la meridiana refulgente de caridad aquí, y allá en el suelo

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

When Israel came out of Egypt and the House of Jacob from among a strange people, Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. For if we regard the letter alone, what is set before us is the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt in the days of Moses; if the allegory, our redemption wrought by Christ; if the moral we are shown the conversion of the soul from the grief and wretchedness of sin to the state of grace; if the anagogical. we are shown the departure of the holy soul from the thraldom of this corruption to the liberty of eternal glory. And
although these mystical meanings are called by various names, they may all be called in general allegorical, since they differ from the literal and historical.