Judith von Halle:
He who, beyond his everyday intellect, that is, in the annihilation of his own ego, with a purified heart, is able to open his higher Spirit to this symbol, to him many of these mysteries can be revealed.
In order to become an earthly being, man, whose seed was placed in God, descended to the earth, which had condensed into his new abode. He could subjugate all four regions of the world of his new sphere of activity to himself as the field of his higher evolution. Thus man, in his perishable body, spread out over the perishable part of the earth in all directions, like the Word made man, who once lay on the cross as on a torture bench.
But just as the body is finally adorned with fragrant flowers in memory of the worthy fulfillment of its task of having brought its immortal Lord to Earth, by whom it was imbued with strength and raised up, so finally the cross of man's suffering and death is surrounded by an ever-renewing circle of blooming roses, which sprout from the divine seed of the Spirit dwelling in him, as a sign of the victory of the progress he himself has achieved in love and knowledge. As the roses wind in a circle around the cross, all earthly pain is burned away in the human soul, kindled by the flaming ardour of the heart and the fire of the heavenly Spirit, for from now on it is able to love and revere its inhospitable home, the Earth, as the blessed place of its transformation into a higher existence. And to its spiritual understanding the cross now shines in the luminous garment of a white burning light, testifying to the awakening of all that is perishable to eternal immortality. Thus the flowery circle shows in image the one divine Spirit, living and eternal, which pervades and renews everything with its creative force, yes, the very origin of all evolution, which is expressed in the transformation of the cross of suffering into the cross of redemption, that is, in the divinization of man.
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