"Through The Rose" means going in through the heart center to find your divinity, your wisdom, your peace, and your joy. Jesus said "The kingdom of God is within you." The rose is the symbol of the Divine Feminine, and has for many centuries stood for both Jesus's mother Mary, and Mary Magdalen. The wild rose has five petals, corresponding to the very ancient earth-based symbol of the divine feminine, the five pointed star. Going Through The Rose will lead us to our own inner wisdom which lights the way to creating a more loving, peaceful and joyful community on Mother Earth.
- Rev. Jennifer Donaldson, Through the Rose Transformational Ministry
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Eve was a thorn, wounding, bringing death to all; in Mary we see a rose, soothing everybody's hurts, giving the destiny of salvation back to all. Mary was a rose, white for maidenhood, red for love; white in body, red in soul; white in her seeking after virtue, red in treading down vice; white in cleansing her affections, red in mortifying her flesh; white in her love of God, red in compassion for her neighbor.
-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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I will let fall from heaven a shower of roses.
--From "Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux.
- St. Therese of Lisieux (also known as The Little Flower)
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Mary is the most beautiful flower that ever was seen in the spiritual world. It is by the power of God's grace that from this barren and desolate earth there have ever sprung up at all flowers of holiness and glory. And Mary is the Queen of them. She is the Queen of spiritual flowers; and therefore she is called the Rose, for the rose is fitly called of all flowers the most beautiful.But moreover, she is the Mystical, or hidden Rose; for mystical means hidden. How is she now "hidden" from us more than are other saints? What means this singular appellation, which we apply to her specially? The answer to this question introduces us to a third reason for believing in the reunion of her sacred body to her soul, and its assumption into heaven soon after her death, instead of its lingering in the grave until the General Resurrection at the last day…Why then do we hear nothing of the Blessed Virgin's body and its separate relics? Why is she thus the hidden Rose? Is it conceivable that they who had been so reverent and careful of the bodies of the Saints and Martyrs should neglect her—her who was the Queen of Martyrs and the Queen of Saints, who was the very Mother of our Lord? It is impossible. Why then is she thus the hidden Rose? Plainly because that sacred body is in heaven, not on earth.
- Cardinal Newman
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ROSA MYSTICA
by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
`The Rose is a mystery'- where is it found?
Is it anything true? Does it grow on the ground?
It was made of the earth's mould, but it went from men's eyes,
And its place is a secret, and shut in the skies.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
Find me a place by thee, Mother of mine.
But where was it formerly? Which is the spot
That was blest in it once, though now it is not?
It is Galilee's growth; it grew at God's will
and broke into bloom upon Nazareth Hill.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
I shall look on thy loveliness, Mother of mine.
What was its season, then? How long ago?
When was the summer that saw the Bud blow?
Two thousands of years are near upon past
Since its birth, and its bloom, and its breathing its last.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
I shall keep time with thee, Mother of mine.
Tell me the name now, tell me its name:
The heart guesses easily, is it the same?
Mary, the Virgin, well the heart knows,
She is the Mystery, she is that Rose.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
I shall come home to thee, Mother of mine.
Is Mary that Rose, then? Mary, the Tree?
But the Blossom, the Blossom there, who can it be?
Who can her Rose be? It could be but One:
Christ Jesus, our Lord - her God and her Son.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
Shew me thy son, Mother, Mother of mine.
What was the colour of that Blossom bright?
White to begin with, immaculate white.
But what a wild flush on the flakes of it stood,
When the Rose ran in crimsonings down the Cross-wood.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
I shall worship the Wounds with thee, Mother of mine.
How many leaves had it? Five they were then,
Five like the senses, and members of men;
Five is the number by nature, but now
They multiply, multiply, who can tell how.
In the Gardens of God, in the daylight divine
Make me a leaf in thee, Mother of mine.
Does it smell sweet, too, in that holy place?
Sweet unto God, and the sweetness is grace;
The breath of it bathes the great heaven above,
In grace that is charity, grace that is love.
To thy breast, to thy rest, to thy glory divine
Draw me by charity, Mother of mine.
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A stunning photo of a white rose along with some of the meanings attributed to and groups affiliated with the white rose can be found by clicking here.
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Order of the White Rose -- Founded by esotericist Charles Fremont Grumbine in Chicago in the 1890s. Get details here.
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Message from Alonya (a spirit guide) channeled by Eileen Smith. Text in boldface was selected by editor.
"The Order of The White Rose is an actual spiritual hierarchy. I (Alonya) am connected to, and work with this set of High Masters. Some of you are called upon by this Spiritual Hierarchy to do important work within this world, and will be given the White Rose as a symbol of this call in dreams, visions, meditations or continuously see it in your waking life.
"This order is linked to The White Brotherhood, but seems to be the feminine aspect of it, or feminine energy, essence and workings of it. It also involves the Blessed Mother Mary, who's symbol is also the White Rose, and her essence is directly involved with this group.
"When the White Rose appears in your life in such a way, it is a message that very, very high spiritual work will be done with you and through you, and that you have been touched and blessed by the very highest of beings that work within our Universe.
"The Path of the White Rose is when one is walking this particular path with this Ascended Soul Group. The type of work we do is hard to decribe in limited earthly language, but to simpify it, it combines with the wisdom, the love and healing of the Mother Earth, the Nature Realm and its energies, elements and nature beings; Interdemensional and Extraterrestrial beings of Light; combined with the God the Creator, Mother Mary, and the true essence of spirituality: love and compassion. The promise to us that it is our birthright to be one with that rose, to smell it, touch it , feel it, teach it, be it, walk it."
"The White Rose is the symbol used for Highest Grace, Truth, Honor, Purity of Heart, and of Spirit's healing power and love made manifest on Earth through us, all of us. The White Rose is the "Calling Card" of the Ascended Masters.
" Usually, those who are of angelic, extraterrestrial or interdimensional origin, who have special or unusual abilities (unusual even in regards to those who have psychic abilities) and who have agreed to come to the Earth to assist it and all beings on it, will be "awakened" by this High Order."
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In 1942 the White Rose Society released anti-Nazi brochures. You can read the complete texts here.
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Everything in creation speaks, but human beings have never learned to listen; they don't know how to listen to the sun or the trees, the rocks or lakes or mountains; they don't know how to listen to the birds or, even, to their own inner voice which is constantly speaking to them. . . .
Look at this rose: it is very small, but it is very big within me, because it reveals a great many things to me; that is why I love it. It is happy; it is smiling at me and I return its smile and look at it with love so that it may enter into me and awaken other roses in my heart and soul....
The spirits of roses are entities from the planet Venus, who have agreed to incarnate on earth in order to help human beintgs. But people know nothing about the mission of roses; they use them simply to ornament their gardens or their houses, to attract a man or seduce a woman. The truth is taht roses are on earth to reveal to men the way to a higher perfection, the way of true love, of love which, instead of being a prison for man, liberates him. This is the role and message of the rose. If it is the queen of flowers, it is because it teaches us what true loe is. When human beings understand, at last, what a tremendous sacrifice the rose has made in coming amongst them and begin to open themselves to its message, perhaps they will also begin to resemble it: wherever they go they will perfume the air with a sweet fragrance.
- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The Book Of Divine Magic pp. 103-104
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