The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 313 Act ! Nor for faith nor folly turn ! The hour is nigh when man and wife , Knowing , shall worship face to face , Beget and bear the royal race. ' This is the divine union of the active with the passive 17177 formulating Tetragrammaton , and of the w descending upon the 1717 ' formulating Christ . It is the old story of Dévaki or of Mary , in which the aspirant falling into an ecstatic state , is visited by the divine essence ; in the one case under the form of Mahadeva , in the other under that of the Holy Spirit ; and losing consciousness of all worldliness , in a boundless bliss the divine child is conceived . So has it been with all those who have realized their divine self . St. Augustine symbolizes it under a divine act of copulation .' What is it, then , that I love when I love my God ? What is he whom my soul feels above itself ? I have tried to grasp it in my own intelligence , above all images of things , but at the moment when I reach that seat of being I cannot fix my gaze , and I fall back helpless into the common thoughts . I have carried away nothing from this vision but a memory full of love , and as it were a regretful longing for things whose perfume is felt but which are out of reach . What is it, then , that I love , O my God when I love you ? It is not 1 2 Gargoyles , vol . iii, pp . 85 , 86 . Similarly with one voice Eckart and Tauler , Ruysbroek and Suso exclaim : “ Arise , O man ! realize the end of thy being : make room for God within thy soul , that he may bring forth his Son within thee ." - VAUGHAN , Hours with the Mystics , p . 300 . 3 Curious to say in the case of women ( e.g. , Schwester Katrei and Nun Gertrude ), illumination and ecstasy at once symbolize themselves under the forms of neurosis , as in the East generally the illuminati symbolize divine union under the grossest forms of sexual pathology . The Christian saints ( celibates ), also in dulged in the same system of symbolization .