The Star in the West

144 THE STAR IN THE WEST That flies to the House of Fire , The Rose of Honey -in - Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future , a dream of the day , When athwart the dim glades Of the forest a ray Ofsunlight shall flash and the dew die away! Rose of the World , Rose of the Uttermost Abode of Glory , Rose of the High Host Of Heaven , mystic , rapturous Rose ! The extreme passion glows Deep in this breast ; thou knowest (and love knows ). ? Thus we end our chapter which we have called “ The Mother .” And as Diana , Luna , and Hecate are one , so Rosa Mundi , Rosa Coeli , Rosa Inferni, unite Triformis in one great trinity in unity . And as the Moon kisses the Sea , so does Diana embrace the wave-born Aphrodite , as she rises from the blue foam , star of the Deep ; she who pours back into the ocean of Eternity the pure waters of inexhaustible chastity mingled with the never -dying flames of inextinguish able love . At last she has been disclosed to us , she concerning whom it was prophesied in the beginning of Time ; and as the hollow sobs of the dying years have rolled back sonorous , rumbling , and echoing , into the sound less depths of æonial infinity , she who was promised has at length been revealed ; she who will crush the head of that old serpent , who has so long bruised the heel of the children of men who were born in the knowledge of good and of evil . I Rosa Mundi , vol. iii, pp . 51-55 .