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tell you, if it could be lawfully told; you should know it, if it was
lawful for you to hear it. But both ears and the tongue are guilty
of rash curiosity. Nevertheless, I will not keep you in suspense
with religious desire, nor torment you with long-continued
anxiety. Hear, therefore, but believe what is true. I approached to
the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of
Proserpine, I returned from it, being carried through all the
elements. At midnight, I saw the sun shining with a splendid light;
and I manifestly drew near to the Gods beneath, and the Gods
above, and proximately adored them. Behold, I have narrated to
you things, of which, though heard, it is nevertheless necessary
that you should be ignorant. I will, therefore, only relate that
which may be enunciated to the understanding of the profane
without a crime.
An elegantly beautiful depiction of rose logic dates from the three
thousand BCE Sumerian settlement at Ur of the Chaldees. 976 There a
jeweler modeled two golden rams in white shell and Lapis Lazuli. They
stand on their hind legs and are bound with silver chains to a tall golden
thorn bush, which has produced a golden rose.
The identical use of rose logic occurs at Abraham's sacrifice of
Isaac: 977
The angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven 'Abraham!
Abraham!' He replied 'Here I am.' 'Do not lay a hand on the
boy. Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God
because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.'
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by
its horns. He went over, took the ram, and sacrificed it as a burnt
offering instead of his son.
The ram is the sacrificial son-lover of the Goddess, the bush is the
symbol of the Goddess Wisdom who tangles the lover to embrace him
and the dog rose is the symbol of the womb of transformation that will
produce the resurrected son. Dog roses peculiarly fruit by self-seeding to
reproduce without cross-pollination from a mate.
The sign of the ram µ is equivalent to the Tau-cross on which the
sacrificial king met his death. It is also the traditional sign of a Master of
the Mysteries. In the Druidicalphabet, the Tau-cross is the symbol for a
holy man. The Druids show it as a "Y" because it depicts a man standing
erect with his hands raised in grand and royal adoration to receive the
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