emmerich -3

I saw spreading out before me...

a boundless [grenzeloos], resplendent [schitterend] space, above which floated a globe of light shining like a sun. I felt that It was the Unity of the Trinity. In my own mind, I named It the 'One Voice', and I watched It producing Its effects. 

Below the globe of light arose concentric circles of radiant choirs of spirits, wondrously bright, and strong and beautiful. This second world of light floated like a sun under that higher Sun.These choirs came forth from the higher Sun, as if born of love. 

Suddenly, I saw some of them pause... 

rapt [opgetogen] in the contemplation of their own beauty. They took complacency [zelfgenoegzaamheid] in self, they sought the highest beauty in self, they thought but of self, they existed but in self.

At first all were lost in contemplation out of self, but soon some of them rested in self. At that instant, I saw this part of the glittering choirs hurled down, their beauty sunk in darkness, while the others, thronging quickly together, filled up their vacant places. 

And now the good angels occupied a smaller space. I did not see them leaving their places to pursue and combat the fallen choirs. The bad angels rested in self and fell away, while those that did not follow their example thronged into their vacant places. 

All this was instantaneous.

~bron~