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Rose 2
Rose 2. (c) Rita Shumaker. All rights reserved. No part of this image may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the artist.

“In the history of symbols, certain images have a cumulative significance as did the rose in the middle ages: in the great rose windows of Chartres and Notre Dame, in the walled gardens of alchemy, and the rose of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Like the Grail, the rose became a symbol of completion, at once the mystic center, the lapis, Mary Queen of Heaven, and the goal of the quest.”

—Joseph Campbell


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