HISTORY OF THE #ROSICRUCIANS Thread #🧵 on #Cary’s #translation of The #Divine #Comedy , #Paradiso #CantoXXX , which later #writers including Rosicrucian authors loved to #appropriate
In fashion as a snow-white Rose lay then Before my view the saintly multitude, Which in his own blood Christ espoused. Meanwhile That other host that soar aloft to gaze And celebrate His glory whom they love, Hovered around, and like a troop of bees Amid the vernal sweets alighting now, Now clustering where their fragrant labour glows, Flew downward to the mighty flower ; a rose From the redundant petals streaming back Unto the steadfast dwelling of their joy. Faces had they of flame, and wings of gold : The rest was whiter than the driven snow. And as they flitted down into the flower, From range to range fanning their plumy loins, Whispered the peace and ardour which they won From that soft winnowing. Shadow none, the vast Interposition of such numerous flights Cast from above, upon the flower, or view Obstructed aught. For through the Universe Wherever merited, Celestial Light Glides freely, and no obstacle prevents. #CARY's #DANTE, "The Paradise," xxx., xi t without astonishment will it be discovered," c Lévi, " that the Roman de la Rose and the Divi
