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
.