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celebrate the Cult around of its old trunk. For it they constructed a stone altar composed by
two columns and a transversal paving stone, whereon the Perennial Lamp was placed: that
immortal fire represented the Goddess and the Apple-tree the path to follow. While the Priests
were teaching, the Creator God wrote the Cult in the seed of the apple-tree, the tree was just a
part of the required message to the destiny of man; the flower, for example, was equivalent to
the heart of man, the seat of the Soul, and its form, and its color, expressed the Promise of the
Goddess; but other part of the message was written in the rosebush and the Promise of the
Goddess also gleamed on its flower, on its form and color; the apple-tree and the rosebush were
not only plants of the same family but they really consisted in just one plant: was the Promise
of the Goddess what divided the seed of the apple-tree to produce many different flowers,
flowers that would reveal the path of the perfection to those men who consecrate to Her and
embrace her Cult.
Of course, the myth that described the Cult would be only revealed by the Priests to
those who they considered to be prepared for the initiation in the Priesthood, that's to say, to
those who would be also Priests. The meaning, the secret, of the Promise would be this: the
apple-tree and the rosebush corresponded to two states or phases in the life of a man, as the
childhood and the adulthood, for example; when he was «as a child», man had his heart similar
to a flower of the apple-tree, which was externally white and rosy, and widely unfolded; when
he would be «as an adult», that is, initiated as a Priest of the Cult or when he could be capable
to officiate as a Priest, he would have the heart as the flower of the rosebush, which color was
as the Fire of the Goddess and was never completely unfolded, except to die; for this reason
existed in the world just one apple-tree and many rosebushes: because many would be the
perfections that the man who began the priesthood of the Goddess would be able to reach; the
story of the apple-tree was already written, otherwise, the story of the rosebush was always
being written; and the best part was not written yet: would come to the world, someday, men
with a such perfect heart, that then would come the most beautiful rosebushes, as never had
been seen before in the Earth.
With this explanation, will be understood why the Priests had permitted that an old
climbing «pitiminí 'miniature'» rosebush would have rolled as a serpent on the apple-tree trunk
of Tharsis: undoubtedly, such disposition of the two trees was necessary to represent the secret
meaning of the Cult. The ritual obeyed to worship the Fire of the Goddess and to admire the
flower of the apple-tree, intensely wishing that the Goddess comply her Promise and make turn
the heart of the Priest as the flower of the rosebush. But the population, who usually ignored
this interpretation of the Cult, came from every part to the Apple-tree of Tharsis to realize the
offerings before the Fire Altar of the Goddess.
When my ancestors acquired the rights of the Seigniory of Tharsis, which in that time
was very reduced and devastated by the recent war against the Phoenicians, they took naturally
the responsibility of the local Cult, although they didn't have the Perennial Lamp. Practically,
they not introduced reforms in what referred to the Promise because they accepted as a fact
that the heart was related with the flower of the apple-tree and that the worship to the
Goddess would produce an analogous transformation to the flower of the rosebush. Only in
what treated about the Fire was appreciated the first visible effect that the familiar mission was
acting in the Lords of Tharsis; they added to the title of the Goddess the word «Cold», that's to
say, that Belisana was now «The Goddess of the Cold Fire». They explained that change as a

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