The beauty in the Garden of Eden is at times breath-taking, and one of the examples of this is the gradual entrance of the Pageant that appears on the other side of Lethe in the beginning.
The twenty-four elders are walking slowly into the sight of the Pilgrim, symbolically the twenty-four books of the Old Testament, and allegorically meaning that the Pilgrim is now being spiritually merged and introduced to the spiritual wisdom and timeless truths from the old and new Biblical Stories.
Then rises a hundred angels showering the air with rains of flowers, before Beatrice descends from above. And her very first word as she starts to speak is: “Dante”. And this is the only time his name is being used directly in the whole trilogy of the Divine Comedy.