Surely we cannot read the above passages without thinking of the Song of Solomon, where the bridegroom is compared to “bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.” There is another such song in praise of Amen-Ra:-- “Praise to Amen-Ra, To the bull of Heliopolis, to the chief of all the gods, To the beautiful and beloved god, Who giveth life by all manner of warmth, By all manner of fair cattle. * * * * * Amen, bull fair of face, Beloved in Thebes; He fashioneth earth, the silver and the gold, Real lapis lazuli for those who love him.” The same imagery is used by the Buddhists. When Buddha sat under the Bo-tree on his throne of knowledge, all truths were revealed to him. To symbolise this we are told that he saw the great white cosmic umbrella, and also the Fields of Lapis Lazuli, where all the preceding Buddhas dwelt in ecstasy:-- “He hath overthrown the flag of pride, He hath obtained the triple knowledge. * * * * * The King of Physicians With his heavenly Amrita[16] Will dull all human pain And lead all flesh to Nirvana. Having entered the City of Omniscience, And become one with the Buddhas, He is now indivisible.” [16] Amrita, bread of life. This last word gives us the key to the whole situation that in the Fields of Lapis Lazuli there dwell the pure spirits who have become the soul of Truth, inseparable from Divine Truth, indivisible from the Spirit of God. When we consider the Greeks we remember that Homer always speaks of Pallas, the Goddess of Wisdom, as “the blue-eyed maid” for is she not the goddess who teaches the will of Zeus and the truths of Zeus? The heroine of almost every fairy tale in the world is blue-eyed, as a sign that she is the true, good, and lovable maiden who is the object and reward of the quest and labour of the prince. In the epic of the Finns, Ilmater is invoked in these words:-- “Rise up, O water-mother, Raise thy blue cap from the billows.” And this makes us think of Venus rising from the blue ocean. We must recollect that blue was the colour of the robes of the Druidic bards. The bards were men who had been “ovates” and had worn the green. They were still to retain in themselves all that was meant by the green, but blue is symbolically a higher colour, even as it is physically.