[797]. Spielrein’s patient (Jahrbuch, III, p. 345) speaks in connection with the significance of the communion of “the water mixed with childishness; spermatic water, blood and wine.” P. 368 she says: “The souls fallen into the water are saved by God, they fall into the deep abyss—The souls were saved by the son of God.”
[798]. The φάρμακον ἀθανασίας, the drink of Soma, the Haoma of the Persians, might have been made from Ephedra vulgaris. Spiegel: “Erân. Altertumskunde,” I, p. 433.
[799]. Like the heavenly city in Hauptmann’s “Hannele”:
“Salvation is a wonderful city,
Where peace and joy never end,
Its houses are marble, its roofs are gold,
But wine flows in silver fountains,
Flowers are strewed upon the white, white streets,
Continually from the towers sound the wedding bells.
Green as May are the battlements, shining with the light of early morning.