What Did the Lily Queen Say to Sensa?

Mabel Collins · Mystic Verse and Insights Series · 2 pages

Two pages carrying a single speech from The Idyll of the White Lotus, book I chapter 11, with footnotes pointing to the full text in the site's Black versus White Magic Series and warning that it is not to be confused with "The Legend of the Blue Lotus" in the Higher Ethics and Devotion Series.

The speech is addressed by the Lily Queen to the boy Sensa as he lies in water, and it works entirely by the distinction between two waters. The water he lies in now comes from the place where her flowers, the lotus blossoms, dwell in their glory — but he would die were he to lie in the water where they themselves dwell, because what drops from them has little of their life in it and has given up its own to them. When the time comes that he must plunge into the water of the lotus tank, she tells him, he will be strong as the eagle and eager as the newborn. The rest is instruction. He is told to be strong, not to listen to the flattery which confuses him but only to the truth she keeps in the sunlight, and not to let phantoms delude him, since the life of lives awaits him and the pure flower of knowledge and love is ready to be plucked. The sharpest question in the passage is whether he would be content to be a tool, a mere instrument in the hands of those who desire only for themselves — answered with a flat no, and the alternative of acquiring knowledge and growing strong so as to become a giver of sunshine to the world. It closes with her hand held out: rise in confidence, for this water will support thee, kneel upon it and drink of the sunshine, and address thyself to the light of all life that it may illumine thee.

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