Mystical Rose

HISTORY

In the winter of 1966 Elayne was on a temporary investigative retail assignment in Allentown PA and rented a room on the third floor of a house on a steep hill week to week. It had a single bed, dresser, cardboard table and chair, and a closet. Because of the nature of the assignment being temporary and her living arrangement, she ate all her meals out and didn't associate outside work with other employees. Her best friends were reading materials she took to restaurants and the reflections and meditations she did when she returned to her room.

AN UNUSUAL OCCURENCE

One night after work when Elayne was sitting on her bed and leaning against the wall facing the cardboard table, she heard a voice that said, "Go out and get some watercolors." Having had disaterous results in elementary school when her watercolors ran into each other, Elayne laughed and couldn't stop laughing because she thought it was so outrageous. The voice repeated itself another night and, again, Elayne laughed. But, the third time, known by mystics as the unwritten Golden Rule, it had to be done. So on the third night, Elayne said, "Okay, I will do it!"

WHAT EVOLVED

Elayne purchased the least expensive tin pan of primary watercolors and a pad of watercolor paper, slapped them on the table, sat back on her bed and said, "It better be symbolic!" Then she sat on her bed until she was moved to get a cup of water from the second floor bathroom. What happened next was amazing! She began to draw a red rose surrounded with a background of light blue. The rose had a stem with several green leaves and a plain brown stem with thorns was positioned across it horizontally forming a cross.  There were two teardrop shapes of red, and  a black nail poked through the end of the rose's stem with what looked like a drop of blood. The only area where the colors ran was under a leaf but not big puddles like Elayne's drawings in elementary school.

CONTEMPLATION ON THE WATERCOLOR

Every night after Elayne came home from eating out after work, she sat on her bed looking at the watercolor that she positioned upright on the table leaning against its wall.  She noticed that the painting was in the shape of a cross and the red petals looked like they could be blood. The  black nail at the end of the rose stem reminded Elayne of Jesus nailed to the cross. The blue was a beautiful compliment for the background and could represent the sky or something more mystical. This painting began working on both Elayne's conscious and subconscious minds and she started to have dreams and revelations, which she may detail in a book at a later date. 

HOW IT PROPHESIED ELAYNE'S SPIRITUAL PATH

Many year's later Elayne joined the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, an ancient mystical order that goes back to the old Egyptian mystery schools at the time of Tutmose III. Its symbol is a rosy cross. A 1629 drawing by Robert Fludd shows a rosy cross similar to Elayne's but without the petals and nail and with bees buzzing around the rose.