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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: his metaphysical difficulties about Nirvana, for he fancies he has
found it, one long Lotus afternoon.
And then last, but in some sort first, since it has been taken for
the imperial insignia, comes the chrysanthemum. The symmetry of its
shape well fits it to symbolize the completeness of perfection which
the Mikado, the son of heaven, mundanely represents. It typifies,
too, the fullness of the year; for it marks, as it were, the golden
wedding of the spring, the reminiscence in November of the nuptials
of the May. Its own color, however, is not confined to gold.
It may be of almost any hue and within the general limits of a circle
of any form. Now it is a chariot wheel with petals for spokes; now
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