. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ses of Yesterday flower. The garden of King Midas, who turned allto gold that he touched, was filled with Roses of sixtypetals; the Peruvian Eve of the Garden of Edensinned not for plucking an apple but a Rose; andthe Mexican Eve also gathered a Rose. Into the beautiful symbolic his-tory of the Cross I willnot enter. It is a hiero-gram of even greaterantiquity than the persons of sensi-bility, as the old novel-writers said, have acurious and persistentinte
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . ses of Yesterday flower. The garden of King Midas, who turned allto gold that he touched, was filled with Roses of sixtypetals; the Peruvian Eve of the Garden of Edensinned not for plucking an apple but a Rose; andthe Mexican Eve also gathered a Rose. Into the beautiful symbolic his-tory of the Cross I willnot enter. It is a hiero-gram of even greaterantiquity than the persons of sensi-bility, as the old novel-writers said, have acurious and persistentinterest in Rosicrucian-ism, when once theyknow of it; or at leasta persistent course I believe thatthis is also part of themysterious influence ofthe Rose, — an influ-ence which exists,though, like all magic,inexplicable, whetherthis magic be that ofthe ancient rehgious mysteries or the simple charmof beauty. We feel this magic of the Rose as weare sensible of the quality entitled fascination inour friends; the old Puritan, Cotton Mather, wroteof it, Of Fascination Man hath more Comprehen-sion than Sun-dial at Talbot, near Bourne-mouth, England. The Roslcrucians 373 A strongly backed derivation of the word Rosi-crucian is Roed and Crux, cross, which I wholly rejectthrough sentiment, and because all the beauty of thestory — the hundreds of allusions to the Rose —is thereby lost; the emblematic significance of theRose as Silence in this most silent of societies, too,cannot be given up. Rosicrucianism had a unique, an almost comichistory in France. The name appeared there in1623, through a short and mysterious placard whichsuddenly was in every street in Paris. The nameRosy Cross was as speedily in every mouth. Theseplacards stated that deputies of the Rosy Cross SocietyMasters were in the city, and were prepared to wel-come and teach recruits, but no place was given wherethey could be seen; no indication of burning curiosity was
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