Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves (Matthew 17,1).
There is nothing inconvenient but to talk about Paradise: the human language of him who talks, the human understanding of him who hears. The human language is altogether powerful: of all, it gives an idea: of death, of Hell etc. etc. Here, the most bodied eloquence, the most alive word is lost. And the reason is because man speaks by imaginations: but Paradise is something that does not leave any image in the mind because it is superior to the mind.
We can narrate the greatest happiness: we can describe the most sublime joy: I will put all the emphasis: you multiply in your spirit all the impressions, and in the end when it seems that I have said much, and you to have formed a high concept, we will conclude that we have formed not an idea of Paradise, but of the shadow of Paradise.
Peter saw a glimpse of it in the Transfiguration: And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And so he said: Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. And this is how it appeared to John in the Apocalypse: And I saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And St. Paul expresses in the same way: Those things which no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him.
St. Hannibal Mary Di Francia
