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654 CITY OF GOD
He himself comprehends and encompasses all things. The
saints do not see God with corporal eyes, but with those
of the soul ;
but as they see Him in some certain location
(in order to adapt ourselves to our terrestrial and material
ways of thinking and speaking) we say that He is upon
the royal throne of the most blessed Trinity, though in
reality He has his glory within Himself and communicates
it to his saints. But I do not wish to deny, that the most
sacred humanity of Christ our Savior and of his most
blessed Mother holds a place supereminent over all the
saints; and that among the blessed, who are in heaven
with body and soul, there will be some kind of order in
their relative position nearer or farther from Christ our
Lord and the Queen but here is not the
; place to inquire
into the manner into which this arrangement shall be
made in heaven.
776. We call that the throne of the Divinity, from
which God manifests Himself to the saints as the prin
cipal cause of their glory and as the infinite, eternal God,
independent of all things and on whose will all creatures
depend, from which He manifests Himself as the Lord,
as the King, as the Judge and Master of all that is in
existence. This dignity Christ the Redeemer possesses,
in as far as He is God, essentially, and as far as He is
man, through the hypostatic union, by which He com
municates his Godhead to the humanity. Hence in heaven
He is the King, the Lord and supreme Judge; and the
saints, though their glory exceeds all human calculation,
are as servants and inferiors of this inaccessible Majesty.
In this the most holy Mary participates in a degree next
inferior and in a manner otherwise ineffable and propor
tionate to a mere creature so closely related to the Godman;
and therefore She assists forever at the right hand
of her Son as Queen (Ps. 44, 10), Lady and Mistress of
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