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THE TAIUUMAN AE-ASHWAQ (XLVl) 133

2. ‘ Dark-lipped and swart is slie ’ : lie refers to one of the
Div'ino Ideas, whom he describes as having dark Jiiis on
account of the mysteries which she contains.
‘ Tha evidence of the bees ’ : he mentions the bees because
they have immediate experience of the inspiration which the
hearts of gnostics desire.
3. ‘ Full-ankled,’ i.e. mighty and teiTible, with reference to
j-L) ^ (Ivor. I.xviii, 42) and to Ivor. Ixxv, 29.
‘ A darkness o’er a moon,’ i.e. she is hidden .save to the eye
of contemplation.
'A bough growing on hills,’ refei-ring to the quality
of .self-subsistence which is revealed in Divine
manifestations.
4. ‘ Ornaments,' i.e. the Divine Names.
‘ Not wedded,' i.e. no human being has ever known her.
‘ Teeth like hailstones,’ referring to the purity of her
manifestation.
5. ‘ She keeps aloof in earnest,’ i.e. she is reallj" inaccessible.
‘ Death,’ i.e. aniruish for those who love her.
G. ‘ Never did the night darken,’ etc., i.e. every esoteric
mystery has its corre.sponding exoteric manifestation; God is
Jboth the Inward and the Outward.
7. ‘ The East winds,’ i.e. the spiritual influences of Divine
manifestation.
' Meadows,’ i.e. hearts.
‘ Coy virgias,’ etc., i.e. subtle forms of Divine wisdom and
towards those who subsist in phenomena.
sensuous knowledge derived from the station of shame and
beauty.
8. ‘ They bend the branches,’ i.e. the Self-subsistcnt inclines

11. ‘ No country in particular,’ etc., i.e. they do not r-emain
in any one state, referring to settlement in the .station of
change ^ which theosophists consider
to be the most exalted of all the stations.
13. The h/m tree sugge.sts hayn (separation), and the
(jhuruh tree ghurhaf (exile).