The ninth and the last “memorial stone” which the soul picks out of the river of death to make a garland or a Gilgal (circle) around the Tabernacle of her heart is the amethyst. Its shade is purple violet, a color which is a mixture of green, blue and red.  It is thus how the divine predestination reveals the fullness of the stature in Christ – the Christification – in the assimilation of the soul to her Royal Image of Glory, her Archetype. The green color is the color of God the Father and the blue of the Son.
   Thus God choose to reveal His glory by the glory of His Beloved Son manifested in human hearts in the glory of His Holy Spirit. The red color refers to the passion of His Beloved Son which is also the deepest expression of burning love of the Father which He gives His children of light participation in when they follow His precepts. By His sufferings on the Sacrificial Hill of the Cross Jesus revealed the  amethyst as the stature of His fullness.
 
In the Old Covenant the amethyst belonged to the tribe of Benjamin who was the youngest among the tribes which walked in the Tetramorph in the order of their birth as was stated above (Med. 14). The name Benjamin means the “son of the right hand,” that is, refers to a soul who has been marked or sealed with the character of the Morning Star in the purity of her heart (Med. 61), the Seal of Glory in the fullness of the Beatitudes. The tribe of Benjamin is thus a token of souls “seated on his throne of glory” (Mt 19. 28) after the baptismal grace has been restored once and for all. Thus Jesus own words are fulfilled,


In the inscrutability of the Tetramorph we end where we began. When the soul experienced the rising of the Morning Star it was the rising dawn “which means the morning . . . The morning light is not clear, as was said, but as night at the time of the rising dawn.” [2] Now this star shines in all its brightness above the mercy seat and fills all of the three power of the soul “with boundless delight” (Mt 2. 10) as the three sages from the east seeing the star.

When the spirit is enraptured into the Holy of holies in its flight as a spiritual nightingale when the curtain is swept away it discerns the unspeakable splendor of God’s glory with its glorified eye resting above the mercy seat in the astounding beautiful workmanship of the ark of the covenant. God’s prescripts regarding its making were clear and Moses followed them utterly as he realized that its precious message was intended for “future generations” (Ps 48. 15) in the Life of Glory,


Again we encounter the same details as at the altar of burnt offerings, golden table of loaves and at the golden altar. This is in full accordance with God’s intentional plan: to reveal the fullness of the stature of Christ (Ep 4. 13) in the Mystery of the Tetramorph as it loud in the ancient doxology, “Glory be to the Father, through the Son, in Holy spirit.“ This is the economy of the Holy Trinity in accordance with the “Law of the Spirit” (Rm 8. 2) and it is through the Beatitudes of this Spirit of Life that God gives revelations “for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the depths of God” (1 Cor 2. 10). The Uncreated Light of Glory shone in all its might above the golden plate of the ark or the mercy seat,


This Uncreated Light is the love of the charity and immeasurable and in its effect as infinite as God Himself. The two cherubim who covered the mercy seat by their outstretched wings in utter humility of eternal staring reveal that this love of the charity is persevered by charitable knowledge as the prince of the theologians, Thomas Aquinas, pointed to,


How universal is not this ignoble and demonic knowledge in contemporary times compatible with mortal sin, knowledge without charity. A knowledge which in the minds of ambiguous and impertinent men becomes a lethal weapon of injustice in the hands of a death culture having no pity “for the fruit of the womb, or mercy in their eyes for children” (Is 13. 18). A death culture of military power which snaps the bread from the mouth of millions of children in the third world. A death culture which truly is a manifestation of demonic power on earth in human hearts.

In the radiant splendor of the humility of the amethyst, this jewel is given the bride and with it she receives LIGHT, TRUTH AND LOVE not given to devils, the fallen angels, as “the diabolic sin was pride, and the motive of pride is eminence in nature.” [4] In her assimilation to the Blessed Virgin the bride has become “full of grace” (Lk 1. 29) and grace is “a midway term between nature and glory.” [5] Thus she responds as the Blessed Virgin in her  involuntarily impulse of love (Med. 50) and receives “ultimate bliss which is beyond all natural capacity” [6] in the same natural love as these holy Cherubim above the mercy seat posses in their eternal staring and is filled with glory.

This glory flows from the Spirit of Glory as a pure action in God and as Tauler said “this Light is God Himself. Therefore, if we would truly know God, it must be by God and with God, in God and by God. As the prophet says: “Lord, in thy light we shall see light,” that is a “supernatural light.” [7] The bride has pierced the cloud of unknowing,


The ark prefigured the seventh and last of the sacraments: The sacrament of Matrimony. It is here where His Majesty consumes the spiritual matrimony with His beloved bride in this radiance of His own glory,


In this glory “God comes out in the full flower of His joy and glory, as He is Himself” as Meister Eckhart said [8] and shines in the inmost essence of the spirit as a Seven days sun,

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