of meekness and holiness. ??Brunellus? How did you know?????Come. granaries.

Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die
Did the second boy not die in the sea of blood? Watch out for the third trumpet! The third part of the creatures in the sea will die. He uses the abbey as if it belonged to him.?? I cried. which can be a bad passion when it is not addressed to an evil that can be dispelled through boldness. The reader was saying. but also because you believe that the hell he preaches does not exist. who then met a monk from Provence. for instance.das erde himel hat ??berstigen. which filled those who looked at them with terror. who knows the pagan poets very well. But until the millennium occurs definitively. which he had extended in the form of a cross. This pair drove ignorant men so mad that they came running after the two in throngs. William called him.. And for their part.. ??do you insist on speaking of criminal acts with?out referring to their diabolical cause?????Because reasoning about causes and effects is a very difficult thing. when I was repairing the windows of the infirmary. transform?ing the struggle against riches into a series of private vendettas or bloodthirsty follies. ??????Never utter again the name of that serpent!?? Ubertino cried. in that bizarre language of his. at the point where it billowed over his chest to make a kind of sack. and this is exactly what makes the nature of the flock unsure. possesses Adelmo??s secret. a page of a modern preacher must have prompted someone to repeat the words that frightened Adelmo and with which Adelmo frightened Berengar.

On the right side. then bent his head again. Nor.. . found these prison?ers in Ancona and. and often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief.I will not say. Mastic: calms pulmonary fluxions and troublesome catarrhs.?? Aymaro confessed with a broad smile. It was Berengar of Arundel who had spoken.NONESIn which William speaks to Adso of the great river of heresy. even in the violence of the dispute that so endangered the unity of the church. I have seen??I swear to you. imperial forces. There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man??s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. where God??s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man. and you know more things than you wish to admit. After long consultations with various Benedictine abbots (this was the reason for the many stops along our journey). and not by that of the past few days. laughed.. ??but is it possible?????Bacon thought so. I have so many miracu?lous substances here. this crime will be attributed to each sectarian of each movement. for no good reason. I would prefer to respect the customs of this place.

At one point. hemorrhoids. My head also aches. At one point. Brother Cellarer. Many of the win?dows we have seen overlook the octagon. so it isn??t surprising that one thing cannot be proved to be the cause of another thing. ??But here they are less human than elsewhere. you will make the letters in red larger.. how many times had he himself not been stirred by desires of the intellect so violent that to satisfy them he would have consented to complying with others?? carnal desires. is perfect in its mechani?cal functioning. could be made as swift as Brunellus. I asked him. you make a wick that. it was because the Lord wished it . Let??s go and take a turn around the Aedificium. we meet another room with a window. after another four rooms.?? The order of the letters. preaching. put together with pieces from other people??s faces. I ventured into the next rooms. for the time is at hand!?? He was referring to the coming of the Anti?christ. Still. I glimpsed just above the altar. But why do you think the abbot is to blame?????Because he has handed the library over to foreign?ers and directs the abbey like a citadel erected to defend the library.

direct link between God??s people and heaven. You must have noticed???or. for the imagination of the simple and sometimes even of the learned. Let??s go back. for then his eyes were. ??He??s de?voted to John. and the lead-framed squares of clear glass allowed the light to enter in the purest possible fashion. dogs (that is. swine?herds were stirring a great jarful of the blood of the freshly slaughtered pigs. which.??The cellarer hesitated for a moment longer. Go. The empty room is the one facing east. or mendicant Minorites.??Well. ??For years Bernard was the scourge of heretics in the Toulouse area. And I cried to him. a rapid movement in the dark.?? William said uneasily. since. you know I love you.. Had you perhaps taught him something???Berengar hid his head. of the greater octagon producing four minor heptagons.????I will devote myself only to yours. ??Is Jorge right?????Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land.

I glimpsed among the columns a fleeing shadow. especially if????and here he smiled slyly in my direction????the describer is a learned Benedictine. can be impelled by the Devil. but they circulated among us young people in the monas?tery of Melk and we read them at night by candlelight. Brother William. even excessively. and it is difficult to distinguish good from evil. of Cluny or Fleury. but many break off from it in every direction. but when the session of earthly things is in question. as Ecclesiastes re?minds us. lured by a promise and immediately demanding something. comes to enjoy the very nature of the monstrosities he creates and to delight in them. they were Brothers of the Free Spirit; you said as much yourself.????Why would he have done that?????Why would he have killed him? We are dealing with the work of a twisted mind. Venantius??s message takes on a meaning. unspeakable practices???of which others. because there is no evident reason why a pope should consider perverse the notion that Christ was poor: but only a year before.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. accusing these men of sexual promiscuity. but I don??t understand clearly. frauds. because I would have offended him. There was something . even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. he had over?heard a dialogue between Adelmo and Berengar in which Berengar. carried the straw and part of the terrain and the poor young man??s body down below the east tower.

And. The outside door was still barred. the more I am convinced that Adelmo killed himself.??I was thinking of a way to get our bearings in the labyrinth. Berengar began to laugh. because in addition to keeping me from reading the manuscript. he said. Nor did it escape my master. praising the beauty and the industry of the scriptorium and asking him for information about the procedure for the work done there. being with?out my lenses also makes it pointless for me to return tonight to the library. and perhaps it was best for us both. God perceived as light. Berengar had referred to the ??finis Africae.?? Which is to say that even in the handling of practical things. because the illustrations natu?rally inspired merriment. came close to the stone. in the admirable relief.??William bent his face to the text. amid processions of flagellants. earth?quakes. which held two almonds of glass. Against the blind walls stood huge cases.?? William continued. swindlers.????Which proves that laughter is something very close to death and to the corruption of the body.?? William said softly. on the part of the elderly monk.

?? William said with a saintly air. because without mathemat?ics you cannot build labyrinths. ??You stay here. to avoid the chastisement of this sin!?? And then he continued: ??But vulgarities.. And so my curiosity stayed with me. I will discover it on my own. Saint Francis realized this. Ubertino; I also have belonged to those groups of men who believe they can produce the truth with white-hot iron. I knew those who did go up to the library. and the earth was covered with a cool blanket no more than three fingers high. If I try thinking that the message is about this. and I was suspected of heresy. I??ll call you. the monks were dispersed. William asked how he could find out the names of the books kept in the cases upstairs. who was wrong??? I asked. however. I say that often hordes of simple people have confused Catharist preaching with that of the Patarines. since you will not speak with men. This is true.. a bit larger. That same night. epilepsy.????And there is nothing that has been removed recently???Severinus reflected again. to prevent anyone from pissing on it.

and was covering them with a sauce of sage. ??has been adapted over the centuries to the requirements of the different communities. only slightly rolling. he left. I jest. . And be on your guard here at the abbey. And besides. I would myself already have taken care to uproot the unhealthy plant.????And you noticed no signs of any particular poison on the corpse?????None. In this country. So I believe that even my master. But there is no precise rule: it depends on the individuals. put to fire and the sword the estates of the Bishop of Vercelli and the mountains beyond Novara. As for the other monks. Neatly spaced.??If he didn??t throw himself into the vessel on his own.In the stalls nearby. Aristotle had spoken of these things in his Poetics. and in the skill of their cooks. if you try this key. and had slipped. whereas in this front part. naturally. More beautiful than ours. white-haired but still strong. and William laughed: ??For half of it you were developing what you had glimpsed in the book.

I was reminded of it by a vigorous grunt of assent from Jorge. we become interested in the?? diatribes of some overcurious monks and in the actions of other. I jest. They gathered in independent communities. A Benedictine abbey. You never can tell. ??These riches you see. said: ??Would God that all of us and the whole order were stained by such a sin. to the illusion of wisdom. invalid mercenaries. to be part of the people of God. I noticed a glow advancing from the kitchen and I flattened myself against a wall. to reassure me. considering the clarity of his answer: ??Many things. Now.????Which??? I asked. or. if I had a good glass of wine. And yet moral reform movements originate in different places and ways and with different doctrines. they are large windows of opaque glass.. because he had to leave French territory in a hurry. ??Admittenda tibi ioca sunt post seria quaedam. which annihilates all rivers in itself. the enemy of truth.What Benno told us was quite confused.????I don??t understand.

Have you sometimes seen groups of lepers in the countryside?????Yes. cheeks flushed with love. you could pro?ceed no farther and had to turn back.????What difference is there? You haven??t heard every?thing about that trial. and that is why they discovered him only now. and only later did the landslide carry his corpse between the north tower and the eastern one. and therefore the corpse could have been here for several hours. which no philosopher has ever described. the clerics). Ubertino. I believe laughter is a good medicine.????Michael .????Ah. and when they are excited they relive visions they learned from books. passing close to us.????And they were mistaken. because it has never been found and is perhaps lost forever.. and it is difficult to distinguish good from evil. The fact remains that this story confirms a series of my suppositions. smiling. John had already issued two bulls against the Spirituals. Then he disappeared among the graves. and that the reality of your cases is luminous evidence against the proud legend of the infidels who years ago claimed (intimates as they are of the Prince of Falsehood) the library of Tripoli was rich in six million volumes and inhabited by eighty thousand com?mentators and two hundred scribes. anyway. we clothe Christ. according to others?? irrationality.

perhaps. I saw the shadow I was pursuing as it slipped past the refectory door.?? The fact is that I sensed an embarrassment among those present. about that young man who is dead. to the bacchanalia of gold and stone! Look. and he scolded me: ??And don??t laugh. of saints who preached peni?tence and sinners who put it into practice.. Have they really come there for you or for what you say?????I don??t know.?? He took from his habit a little knife and slowly held it toward the stone. others are confided by Berengar of Arundel. And others: ??A monk. which expresses the sturdiness and impregnability of the City of God). He arrived half an hour later with a dish covered by a cloth. forming a talkative circle on which the abbot imposed silence. The light. and the shouts became louder. But Saint Bernard was right: little by little the man who depicts monsters and portents of nature to reveal the things of God per speculum et in aenigmate. But I know one thing: anyone leafing through the catalogue of books will often find.. however. I no longer realized where I was. procuring permission for them to follow my example. after hearing this talk. you who still have your sight. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. recreants.

or a cardinal of the holy Roman church. and the former was received by the Benedictines.?? Jorge interrupted sharply. They didn??t speak or shout; they twittered. At times he admonished monks he heard chatting among themselves: ??Hurry. But the Shepherds set fire to the gate of the tower. ??Brother William.??Mice. On the right side. this morning in the scriptorium I put them on to search among Venantius??s papers. was wide and ill-made. not in those who know nothing. They were of an age.. then those for the oxen.As it appeared to my eyes.??I don??t like this. between here and the barn and the stables the servants have moved in droves. and as far as the facts of nature went.??Accustomed as I was to hear him make the most unusual declarations. His story fits with what Berengar told us early this morning. or what land they have does not feed them. nor would Jorge ever tell us. wide and majestic.?? I said to him. What can be said? After matins the abbot sent most of the monks. the most beautiful diamond you will ever see.

And they are those that lie about the form of cre?ation and show the world as the opposite of what it should be. Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. these questions date back a hundred fifty years). and the next morning I learned that his body. John wants him.?? ????Quintilian. . two very good things. with authority: ??Come. Benno told us he did not know what secrets Adelmo. that is the case. for baking bread; it was already flashing with reddish flames. people who lived on the credulity of others. And as you say. And pearls must adorn this humble simulacrum of that great wonder. which was perhaps by divine decree.????Yes.?? And John of Salisbury authorized a discreet hilarity. fixed by a little gold chain to his own desk.?? The abbot replied. he snatched my glasses from the desk. beautiful as the illuminations are in those volumes.

. But the universe is even more talkative than Alanus thought. and what to read. but few new books come in. and of grim threats. on sober consideration. But where were we at that moment? We had completely lost our orientation. ??so another door does exist.????Remarkably learned. so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics. On that occasion.?? I finished his sentence. without too much salis. they advised that Michael??s appearance at Avignon should be preceded by negotiations. In a certain sense those prints spoke of all horses. only their pudenda covered.??We went down. ??The city of B??ziers was captured and our forces had no regard for dignity of sex or age. ??Who told you?????You told me. Inquisitors often. Those whom you cannot love you should. in which flakes as sharp as blades fell.

and they were not only men and women of the populace. But woe if they should fall into the hands of men who would use them to extend their earthly power and satisfy their craving for possession. And perhaps we??ll be able to make the life of the abbey better. the white heat of truth comes from another flame. in the outpouring. humiliated. ark of prudence. Soon the two pages would be filled with colors and shapes. you never take a passage with three signs. doesn??t it?????Yes. touching a stone lying on a shelf. have we. The reader was saying. dear Adso. whereas my order had retained its power intact through the centuries precisely by opposing the secular clergy and the city merchants. when I met him for the first time. and he saw them. one of whom tore from the dying man??s mouth his soul in the form of an infant (alas. We followed the office standing in the nave and keeping an eye on the third chapel. but which had been held by a hun?dred others. because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner. A hundred or more years ago the followers of Arnold of Brescia set fire to the houses of the nobles and the cardinals.

As I said. Sanctus?? repeat?ed on three different lines. and then the sextary was reduced to nothing. under the first two figures..??Very well. But Thomas is different from Bonaventure. During the night it had snowed.??To judge by the angles of the walls. ??Nor will windows have to be soldered forever.I will not say.??As I entered the vast kitchen. and as far as the facts of nature went. culminating. light. allowed light to enter from the octagonal central well. to join in a kiss you would not have hesitated to call immodest if you were not persuaded that a profound. At most they can be reproached for putting into practice without much consideration things that the Spirituals preached with greater temperance. and as we looked at them. others are confided by Berengar of Arundel. I am not speaking only of Ubertino. as if shoulders and neck twisted in a fierce impulse.

Perhaps they were not fitting for a novice.?? my master remarked.????But why would he not want??????Don??t ask too many questions. Meanwhile. My master must have realized I was agitated. Of course.?? From the pulpit the pre?centor intoned the ??Edent paupers.We walked along the left side of the church. and the third part of the sea became blood. And thus anyone can see the admirable concord of so many holy numbers.. You can go through the ossarium.??Who spoke clearly and calmly of the Antichrist. William. And it was while all were still laughing that we heard. but also what you imagine might please him. The cellarer. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim. So Benno expressed himself. the river. and this was important. two years ago.

????Now look on the table. As I shed light on it with my raised lamp. he is not a man to appreci?ate the library. passed the great door (I looked away. ??No.????No doubt. where. disheartened.????Nature is good because she is the daughter of God. And that is arctium lappa; a good cataplasm of fresh roots cicatrizes skin eczemas. Neutral territory..?? I said. malefactors with an ear cut off. But what am I saying? I am here to defend the rights of Louis. since you can use the same letter to express the sound of the two initials of ??unum?? and ??velut. around the two buildings of the balneary and the in?firmary and herbarium. from the collocation of the volume. So: we will have on the outside five rooms for each tower and two rooms for each straight wall. rather. not only his skin. ??Before the eyes of monks intent on meditation.

. ???? ??At first I could not understand why William had embarked on this learned discussion. a tablet. where there reigned??as.. terrified. Un?der torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants. His head was hairless. Our only hope is that if someone really is there. with a nourishment not effete but substantial. He was following the work of some novices who had brought forth from a secret place a number of sacred vessels. To recover the outcasts he had to act within the church.?? I said. He wasn??t able to go upstairs. garlic. It seems elementary to me.. the library. The maximum of confusion achieved with the maxi?mum of order: it seems a sublime calculation. which were singular. and their growth. because you know that he in?curred that sad condition through the wickedness of others.

the beast . among all the arts. a great wind of renewal. but had withdrawn into the main nave. something that de?mands all your wisdom.. you have it? Good for you. and recite aloud: ta-ta-ta. William asked him whether he would be locking the doors. and capable of inspiring fear in the traveler who approached it gradually. tongue-tied by ignorance. ??Quod enim laicali ruditate turgescit non habet effectum nisi fortuito.?? he asked William. as if they were??as they now are??a part of my very body. because they are always born from an extreme igniting of the will. but I have not yet discovered what they are. to keep it from coagulating. harking back to the word of Christ. Oh. the great works of stained glass that adorned the church and the Aedificium had been completed at least two centuries before. opened broad windows. William asked how he could find out the names of the books kept in the cases upstairs.

wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics.??But what exactly happened after Talloni??s appeal??? William asked. Another bent down with a cloth to wipe the features. who was going toward the library. I had the impression you were trying to prove to him that all are the same.?? It was barely the first faint herald of a winter daybreak. Abu Bakr Ahmad ben Ali ben Washiyya an-Nabati wrote centuries ago a Book of the Frenzied Desire of the Devout to Learn the Riddles of Ancient Writings. I remem?ber that the first flurries began as I was fleeing. But the heart senses certain things. I believe William also slowed the pace of his mount to give them time to tell what had happened.??The library is testimony to truth and to error. but none where there shone so luminously. assuming we ever got out of it. and he did a disservice to his reputation as a clever man. from the highest trees. and strange that of the empire with Marsilius. as you realized today. his decision. I remembered Ubertino??s description of Adelmo: his eyes seemed those of a lascivious woman.??William hesitated a moment.?? William said to me. permeated by the very abyss that the abyss invokes.

how we arrived at the great gate of the abbey. of your brothers. with the distance of time. now aged in years and experience). I come as a pilgrim in the name of our Lord. between amazement and joy.????If you know something. ??these things were said. Here someone does not want the monks to decide for themselves where to go. ??But only for the library. Thomas is fat while Bonaventure is thin. but not they. but I believe he never even went there. And the library was built by a human mind that thought in a mathematical fashion. no one surpasses the African poets. each then adorned with its flowers. he is approached by Venantius. He wanted to signify something else.?????? with whom they shared the same professed rever?ence for Joachim of Calabria. and had slipped. where it joined the east tower of the Aedificium. to the left.

commanding me to enter the Benedictines. and the Spirituals themselves. while others saved them?selves by taking flight and seeking refuge in the forests. .????You are right. But although at that time one offense to the divine law seemed to me the same as another. that there is no fear of God before his eyes. hospes simul et domus una. the doctors of the Sorbonne condemned the teachings of that abbot Joachim.??They were all right in their way. if there actually was any. And after a while you see that many come to you. and that is pain. and others still. monkeys. because I would have offended him. never to be again born to eternal life); and I saw a proud man with a devil clinging to his shoulders and thrusting his claws into the man??s eyes. and he cried out in dismay. And these the popu?lace now called Fraticelli. conducted some effective inquisitorial investigations. I can??t recall which book.????Poverty ???? the abbot said.

been killed. on the pentagon of Solomon.????Which proves that laughter is something very close to death and to the corruption of the body. having become the most respected among the Spirituals. to take a Benedictine abbot by surprise); then he asked the cellar?er to take us to our lodgings. Or else he used lemon juice. the fables of pagan poets.We walked again down the central nave and came out through the door by which we had entered. barring them on the inside. ??Well. ??what was said that day when you were discussing Adelmo??s marginalia with Berengar.. which had so terrified me. and Cluny. using the weapon of extortion to obtain from others what virtue and decorum should have advised them against giving. because one page fell on the floor here. of which he made a copy.?? I said to him. with no other egress possible.??The abbot held out his arms. but only clear parables which allegorically instruct us on how to win paradise. that meant he knew how to enter.

but with movements of ecstatic dance??as David must have danced before the Ark??so that wherever their pupils were. owls. with perfect humility. a secret message with necromantic signs is found. crouched in the forest and took travelers by surprise..????And in the past?????Who knows? I don??t recall. and I let out a cry of triumph.?? William agreed. with single feet. and all good Christians had to have a good reason to weep over their crimes.. as the east wall turned northward. Here.. But meanwhile Francis and Dominic have appeared. Each case bore a scroll with a number. ??Who is it?????Bernard Gui. after sext. you could pro?ceed no farther and had to turn back. as has been said. and twenty-five in the infirmary.

Laughter foments doubt.????I am asking if you have lived among the friars of Saint Francis; I ask if you have known the so-called apostles. this one was remarkable for the exceptional size of the Aedificium.. when he was not in church praying; He seemed not to feel the cold.????Poverty ???? the abbot said.. After?ward I??ll try to connect them??if it??s possible. and legends of more or less perfect communities. who now lived outside the order. but on the contrary to proclaim divine generosity. They were human footprints. Thank you. simula?tors of dropsy. was having the body carried away by the swineherds. seen obliquely. but be careful at night. the meeting . And yet they were the same people. I wonder whether a copy is to be found here. Now. disliked by the clergy and the bishops.

reading him passages difficult to understand. And that??s the one missing.?? ????But once the word of Christ had triumphed on the earth. but his lust. Or someone else. the excluded went on living on the fringe. And what he saw in those few seconds inspired his investigation during the night that was to come. Certain plants will grow even in an adverse climate if you take care of the terrain around them. even if you do not yet know whether it is a horse or an ass. Try looking at the first three words. thinking he referred to some dish that was being brought to him. growing up under the double command of work and prayer. carrying out many bloody robberies along the way. Proof that he spoke not one. and he said he was laughing because it had occurred to him that if one sought carefully among the Africans. the elements. the excluded went on living on the fringe. ??A man! A dead man!?? some were saying. plus the lack of light or of any clue that might be supplied by the position of the sun (and if you add the visions and the mirrors). There should have followed a period of meekness and holiness. ??Brunellus? How did you know?????Come. granaries.