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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
.