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From deep mud toward heaven - just like humans grow from dirty hell on earth back home to God. Lotus flowers develop purest colors, heavenly sweet fragrance and purity inside and outside. The greater the obstacle, the more powerful your love and self developed divinity has to be to overcome all odds on earth and find your way home to God.
The darker the darkness the larger your hunger for God's love and thus the more powerful your desire to make it home. Take an example in God's nature and act accordingly. Lotus flowers have but one one goal in life - to grow from deep down toward heaven. Mankind however often has too many goals and all forces are shattered into pieces with each vector force remaining too small to reach any spiritual goal at all. One single goal - "God and love" is the only goal you can achieve in a single life time. This one single goal is the only goal worth to live and to die for.
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I went to a girl's high school in South Yorkshire and in those bygone days it was quite usual for us to call each other 'flower', in a friendly, matey kind of a way.
I, of course, was Gillyflower (with a hard G), which I had never really thought about in horticultural terms until recently. While looking into all things Tudor for the imminent Hampton Court Show, I came across several references to gillyflowers in gardens of that time and decided to find out exactly what they were.
My research was confusing - it seems to have been a name that was applied to a whole group of fragrant flowers in the 14th-16th centuries. One definition says that the name means 'July flowers', derived from the French, juillet , (so maybe it should be pronounced jillyflowers ?) This would make sense as French was the language of the court and was widely spoken. Lots of flowers that bloom in July, like stocks, pinks, carnations, sweet Williams and sweet rocket were called gillyflowers. Wall flowers are also mentioned, but I think that must be a reference to wall Germander (Teucrium chamaedrys) or wall Valerian (Centranthus ruber), because the plants we know as wallflowers, Cheiranthus, are over by July.
The plants that are most usually called gillyflowers seem to be carnations and pinks, they were very significant flowers in Tudor times and were used symbolically in art. The 'clove gillyflower' was Dianthus caryophyllus, which was introduced from the Turkish court and had a lovely clovey-nutmeg scent, very popular in nosegays. These were the ancestors of our modern carnations and legends tell how they first appeared on earth when Christ carried the cross. As she walked behind Him, the Virgin's tears dropped on the ground and carnations sprang up where they fell - because of this they came to symbolise undying love.
There is a famous painting by Raphael in the National Gallery, called Madonna of the Pinks It shows Mary and the infant Jesus both holding pinks - it's beautiful and symbolises her love and betrothal, as a bride of Christ, and his imminent death. On a lighter note there is another gorgeous painting by Holbein, that shows a young man seated beside a vase of pinks, signifying the fact that he is already betrothed. Must have been a very useful device in the Tudor dating world.
Pinks were called pinks simply because of their colour and it delighted me to discover that pinking shears were so called because they created the frilly effect seen on the petals of pinks.
In spite of all my research I'm still not quite sure about the identity of gillyflowers. I like the romantic symbolism of the Dianthus family - the July /jilly flowers explanation is neat, but having been mistakenly called Jilly all my life, I'm not so keen on that one. For clarification I'm looking forward to the show, where I'll see some Tudor gardens and hopefully talk to some real experts.
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