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Give me joy to live
That is not yet there.
… That perhaps is not yet there.
A sharp sound cracks the darkness. Light is reborn. A priest
returns a single candle to the stand. The candle symbolizes each
individual’s magnificent sun, the knowledge of God that dispels the
darkness of ignorance and despair. All then leave the Church in silence.
Sufism identifies the state of Luminous Night with mystical
poverty, described as poor in spirit. People in this stage have nothing
with which to be, they cannot be sufficient unto themselves in order to be
what they have to be. It is the in-essence of their essence. The Sufi
philosopher Semnani said that passing from the Luminous Night to the
brilliance of emerald vision is a sign of the completed growth of the
subtle organism, the resurrection body hidden in the visible physical
body. 937
The initiated know this experience as the happy gate of blackness
… which art the passage to this so glorious change. 938 It is the gate of
Saturn. Apuleius describes his experience of Luminous Night with the
mysterious words:
At midnight, I saw the sun shining brightly with a splendid light.
Installed master freemasons will know what he means.
Red, the color of ardent pure fire, is the sign of vitality of spiritual
energy, signifying the power to actualize. The importance of the color
green is that it is the color of the heart and the sign of life of the heart. It
is the color of resurrection, the celestial pole and the highest light of the
Mystery. 939 It is the color of Mohammed. 940 It is also associated with the
Great Mother Goddess in her Egyptian aspect as Isis, the Lady of Nature.
Sohrawardi said in his Recital of the Exile: 941
Green is the color that outlasts the others. From this color
emanate flashing, sparkling rays. This green may be absolutely
pure or it may become tarnished. Its purity proclaims the
dominant note of the divine light; its dullness results from a
return to the darkness of nature.
Goethe was a practical alchemist and he studied the Aurea Catena
Homeri or Golden Chain of Homer by Anton Joseph Kirchweger and
Opus magocabbalisticum et theosophicum by Georg von Welling. Much
of his interest in alchemy comes through in his opera Faust: 942
If the polarity of yellow and blue has truly been grasped, if in
particular their intensification into red has been well noted and it
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