while the greatest prophets were there with him: to show that prayer is the promoter of that blessed vision, and that we might learn that through nearness to God in virtue and through union with him in mind, that radiance grows in us and is revealed, given to all and seen by those who strive without ceasing for God, through sincere good works and pure prayer. For “true and loveable beauty,” as someone has said, “which can only be contemplated by one purified in mind, is what surrounds the divine