Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII THK TRANSFORMING UNION: OR MYSTICAL MARRIAGE His pale, wound-worn limbs Fell from Prometheus, and the azure night Grew radiant with the glory of that form Which lives unchanged within, and his voice fell Like music which makes giddy the dim brain, Faint with intoxication of keen joy. "Sister of her whose footsteps pave the world With loveliness--more fair than aught but her Whose shadow thou art--lift thine eyes on me." I lifted them: the overpowering light Of that immortal shape was shadowed o'er By love; which, from his soft and flowing limbs And passion-parted lips, and keen, faint eyes Steamed forth like vaporous fire, an atmosphere Which wrapped me in its all-dissolving power, As the warm osther of the morning sun Wraps ere it drinks some cloud of wandering dew. I saw not, heard not, moved not, only felt His presence flow and mingle with my blood Till it became his life, and his grew mine, And I was thus absorbed, until it passed, And like the vapours when the sun sinks down, GaOiering again in drops upon the pines, And tremulous as they, in the deep night My being was condensed. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act II., sc. I. Jam hiems transiit, imber abiit el recessit. Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra: vox turturis audita est. Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni. Dilectus mens mihi, et ego illi, qui pascitur inter lilia. El resurrexit. Ego vivo, sedjam non ego, sed vivit in me Christus. Not immediately on emerging from the darkness of the seeond night is the happy soul introduced into the fulness of blazing light which is that final stage known as the mystical or spiritual marriage or as the transforming union. The rays of the divine Sun are tempered to its weakness by the mystical Betrothal. This betrothal differs...
