_The Plant "Haemony"_ (Vol. ii. p. 88. and p. 141.).--The mystical
meaning of "Haemony" is evolved by Coleridge in a passage which occurs
in his _Statesman's Manual_, appendix B., and which cannot fail to
interest the readers of _Comus_.
"It is found in the study of the Old and New Testament, if only
it be combined with a spiritual partaking of the Redeemer's
blood, of which, mysterious as the symbol may be, the
sacramental wine is no mere or arbitrary _memento_. This is the
only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all
debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek:
haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton has
beautifully allegorised in a passage strangely overlooked by all
his commentators. Bear in mind, reader! the character of a
militant Christian, and the results (in this life and in the
next) of the redemption by the blood of Christ, and so peruse
the passage."