CENTURIA V · QUATRAIN XXXI
The Rose Of The World
Par terre Attique chef de la sapience,
Qui de present est la rose du monde:
Pont ruine & sa grand pre-eminence,
Sera subdite & naufrage des undes.
Through the Attic land, chief of wisdom,
which at present is the rose of the world:
the bridge ruined and its great pre-eminence
will be made subject and wrecked upon the waves.
THE MASTER SAYS…
He says that this quatrain relates to the final fall of the Catholic Church. When it collapses, it will collapse completely, and no trace of it will remain. It will be as if swallowed by waves. He says that this is because, unfortunately, the structure of the church has been rotting from within for quite a long time. When it finally collapses, it will have no visible strength to withstand. He says that the source of Western civilization and knowledge comes from Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and that part of the world, although the Catholic Church denies it. This region was called the “rose” because it was the center of science and civilization. The Catholic Church likes to present itself as the torch of Western civilization.