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40 to become memory. The number seven signifies that of spiritual, not corporeal manifestation. With fears and tears the selfhood of the man builds tombs for these loves, the tombs being dogmas. If alive they would have needed no tomb. The higher mysticism is not communicated by dogma, but by interchange of unspoken but keenly vital thought. . Two more groups of seven loves perform by night and by day the function of the seven eyes of Grod in " Milton," and give the man consciousness of his sleeping body. . A third seven crowning the head with vine, indicate to the mind the great symbol of growing nature as a mute sacrament of brotherhood (Christ, the "vine of eternity