THE EQUINOX
but I will to become mother, and my son will teach you
to love me.”
O Eve! Salutation and adoration in thy fall!
O Mary! Blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and
in thy glory!
Crucified and holy one who didst survive thy God that
thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of
the divine revelation!
Moses called God “Lord”; Jesus called Him “My
Father,” and we, thinking of thee, may say to Providence,
“You are our mother.”
Children of woman, let us forgive fallen woman!
Children of woman, let us adore regenerate woman |!
Children of woman, who have slept upon her breast, been
cradled in her arms, and consoled by her caresses, let us love
her, and let us love each other!
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THE TERNARY
Tue Ternary is the number of creation.
God creates Himself eternally, and the infinite which He
fills with His works is an incessant and infinite creation.
Supreme love contemplates itself in beauty as in a mirror,
and It essays all forms as adornments, for It is the lover
of life.
Man also affirms himself and creates himself; he adorns
himself with his trophies of victory, he enlightens himself
with his own conceptions, he clothes himself with his works
as with a wedding garment.
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