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BROKEN LOVE.
to become memory. The number seven signifies that of
spiritual, not corporeal manifestation. With fears and tears
the selfhood of the man builds tombs for these loves, the
tombs being dogmas. If alive they would have needed no
tomb. The higher mysticism is not communicated by dogma,
but by interchange of unspoken but keenly vital thought.
. Two more groups of seven loves perform by night and by
day the function of the seven eyes of Grod in " Milton," and
give the man consciousness of his sleeping body.
. A third seven crowning the head with vine, indicate to
the mind the great symbol of growing nature as a mute
sacrament of brotherhood (Christ, the "vine of eternity