37. the seventh center is in the order of concord. It concerns peace through universal conciliation. It is the field of the theologian who considers how the world made by God can be returned to Him. Although it deals with the works of creation, it is principally concerned with the works of reconciliation. 37. Septimum medium est concordiae universali conciliatione pacatum. De quo theologus agit, qui considerat quomodo mundus factus a Deo reducatur ad Deum. Licet enim agat de operibus conditionis, principaliter agit tamen de operibus reconciliationis.
38. Christ is this Center in eternal beatitude. The theologian deals with the salvation of the soul, how it starts with faith, moves forward through the virtues, and is consummated in the gifts. Hence in the Apocalypse: They shall neither hunger nor thirst any more, neither shall the sun strike them nor any heat. For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will guide them to the fountains of the waters of life. The Lamb in the midst of the waters is the Son of God, the Son I mean who is the central Person, and from whom all happiness comes forth. John, indeed, beheld a river ... in the midst of the city streets... coming forth from the throne of God and of the Lamb. For the Lamb of God leads us, so that seeing the body and the soul and the divinity, we may find pastures either by going in or by going out. Here the beatifying Center sheds its light on body and soul. There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God, that is, the one coming forth from the throne of God and of the Lamb, the Holy Spirit. And there will be no inner defect, since they shall neither hunger nor thirst through lack of sustainment by which life is lost; neither shall the sun strike them through any external harm. 38. Hoc medium est Christus in sempiterna beatificatione. Agit enim theologus de salute animae, quomodo inchoatur in fide, promo- vetur in virtutibus, consummatur in dotibus. Unde in Apocalypsi: Non esurient neque sitient amplius, nec cadet super illos sol neque ullus aestus; quoniam Agnus, qui in medio throni est, reget illos et deducet eos ad vitae fontes aquarum . Agnus in medio aquarum est Filius Dei, Filius, dico, qui est media persona, a qua omnis beatitudo. Vidit enim Ioannes fluvium in medio platearum procedentem a sede Dei et Agni . Agnus enim Dei deducet nos, ut, videntes corpus et animam et Divinitatem, pascua inveniamus sive ingrediendo, sive egrediendo. Hic lucet super corpus et animam, medium beatificans. In Psalmo: Fluminis impetus laetificat civitatem Dei , scilicet procedens a sede Dei et Agni, Spiritus sanctus. Et nullus defectus interior erit, quia non esurient neque sitient per defectum pabuli, per quod deficit vita; neque cadet super illos sol, per extrinsecam perturbationem.
39. These Centers are the seven golden lamp-stands, and Christ in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, which are the seven illuminations of wisdom described above, that is, the metaphysical, the natural, and so forth. These are the seven eyes of the Lamb, and the seven facets of the stone mentioned by Zachary, and the seven days that followed upon the first light. 39. Ista media sunt septem candelabra aurea, sive Christus in medio candelabrorum , quae sunt septem illuminationes sapientia^ praedictae, scilicet metaphysica, naturalis etc. Isti sunt septem oculi Agni et septem oculi super unum lapidem , ut dicit Zacharias, et septem dies, quos fecit prima lux .