Commentary Par XXX 118-123

For a concise statement of the 'resemblant difference' of the Empyrean, its way of not relating and yet totally relating to the literally underlying realms of the created universe, see Moevs (Moev.2005.1), p. 82: 'The Empyrean is out of space-time, untouched by physical law; it is a dimensionless point, in which all is immediately present, a "space" of consciousness, in which the "sight" of awareness "takes" (prendeva) as itself all it sees, all that exists.'

As we will discover, Dante is allowed to see with a new sense of dimension, which abrogates spatial perspective and makes all things equidistant one from another (see [Par XXXI 73-78]).  This passage prepares for that one, and both offer further evidence of the poet's extraordinarily vivid and inventive scientific imagination.