Brian Rhodespsychological alchemy prologue stanza 8
January 5th 2007 10:48
Stanza 8
Here is a strange world
Blended with an earth and sky
Transuniverse dimensions are so apt to always go askew
After the beginning
Here I am twisting in the nothing/chaos/void
To leave my home entombed within a sacred bleeding Caer
Here to create a child with mind, body and soul
Whose world will be constantly mutated to create a psychic storm?
See the breathing pulse of life all filled with the sacred word
That all the living creatures were created to echo their song across the universes
Then from my mortal form the pulse so faint began to spread
As unto the twisting earth
Three mortal drops are left to flow
Two are white
One is red
Virganic milk as pure as pure can be
Sulphur in another guise
Seminal fluid flowing from the sacred tree
Mercury to blind your eyes
The menstrual blood turning inwardly outward things those others cannot touch
And salt to turn the fool to wise
See them all Mixing with the clay
Then mingling with the mud
The journey it is slow
And in its immortal form combine
Like a precious little jewel full of incandescent light
It turns
It glows
It dances
Showering its light in a thousand different directions
And then in a flash all of eternal present is multiplied
These three single elements that have whole histories of sacredness
Even in the depths of winter
They turn and echo
Vibrating in the growing light
To flow and wash into the virgin soil
Oh so swiftly out of mortal sight
It lays there for countless millennia
Then look the earth begins to shift
It is taking another shape and form
As a bolt of lightning struck
It ignited the spark and from the elements is born
An androgynous mortal rising gives homage to the daylight
As we develop and grow our resources of self awareness we can find ourselves unsure of where and what we are doing, it all seems so vast and mind-blowing. Here we are getting to some of the gritty nuts and bolts of alchemy, and we start to see the power that is inherent within each and every one of us. The three ingredients are essential, they are the building blocks of the entire alchemical process, and in symbolic terms they are the most powerful of originating energies. The three ingredients mentioned are also calculated in the fact that Mercury is the male energy, the active positive principle; it’s the semen, because it provides the spark of life in the egg and stimulates the creative forces of the universe. Salt is the female energy, the negative principle; it’s the menstrual blood, because it contains the blueprint of life, life in potentia, (but it needs the spark to kick it into action). Sulphur is the neutral principle; it’s the Virganic milk, because it is the blending energy, it contains both the male and the female in one, it is also the hermaphrodite, that throughout the magnum opus we are going to encounter. But of course it must be said the three elements are useless unless a fourth is added, and this has to be the individual’s energy and being. For although the three are very powerful both singly and united it needs the individual consciousness to enter into the mix, for it is the individual energy that allows for growth and change to occur. Most of us are waiting for the right time to be born and reborn, although as all the great spiritual teachers have told us, in the universe of metaphysics there is no past or future, everything is and only can be done in the now. Even though the power of this presence needs to be nurtured and cultivated the more work spent in this stage is of the utmost importance, as we need the soil to be as close to pure as possible.
Exercise # 8……. If you can do it I want you to obtain physically some menstrual blood, some seminal fluid and some virgin’s milk (this is milk produced by a non-pregnant but lactating virgin). You may also obtain if you wish some Mercury to represent the male energy, some Salt to represent the female energy, and some Sulphur for the hermaphroditic energy. If this is a bit squeamish you can substitute with some coloured dyes, one red, one cream and one white, even candles can be used as long as they are of the appropriate colours. You are to mix the three ingredients, colours, wax or whatever you have that represents the elements involved. As they are stirring and mixing I want you to imagine a fourth energy emanating from you and as well mixing with the other three sources? As for the fourth energy (this could be your own personal sweat) your energy enters into the dynamics, I want you to imagine that the whole process changes and becomes a breathing, conscious and aware pool of light and energy.
Here is a strange world
Blended with an earth and sky
Transuniverse dimensions are so apt to always go askew
After the beginning
Here I am twisting in the nothing/chaos/void
To leave my home entombed within a sacred bleeding Caer
Here to create a child with mind, body and soul
Whose world will be constantly mutated to create a psychic storm?
See the breathing pulse of life all filled with the sacred word
That all the living creatures were created to echo their song across the universes
Then from my mortal form the pulse so faint began to spread
Three mortal drops are left to flow
Two are white
One is red
Virganic milk as pure as pure can be
Sulphur in another guise
Seminal fluid flowing from the sacred tree
Mercury to blind your eyes
The menstrual blood turning inwardly outward things those others cannot touch
And salt to turn the fool to wise
See them all Mixing with the clay
Then mingling with the mud
The journey it is slow
And in its immortal form combine
Like a precious little jewel full of incandescent light
It turns
It glows
It dances
Showering its light in a thousand different directions
And then in a flash all of eternal present is multiplied
These three single elements that have whole histories of sacredness
Even in the depths of winter
They turn and echo
Vibrating in the growing light
To flow and wash into the virgin soil
Oh so swiftly out of mortal sight
It lays there for countless millennia
Then look the earth begins to shift
It is taking another shape and form
As a bolt of lightning struck
It ignited the spark and from the elements is born
As we develop and grow our resources of self awareness we can find ourselves unsure of where and what we are doing, it all seems so vast and mind-blowing. Here we are getting to some of the gritty nuts and bolts of alchemy, and we start to see the power that is inherent within each and every one of us. The three ingredients are essential, they are the building blocks of the entire alchemical process, and in symbolic terms they are the most powerful of originating energies. The three ingredients mentioned are also calculated in the fact that Mercury is the male energy, the active positive principle; it’s the semen, because it provides the spark of life in the egg and stimulates the creative forces of the universe. Salt is the female energy, the negative principle; it’s the menstrual blood, because it contains the blueprint of life, life in potentia, (but it needs the spark to kick it into action). Sulphur is the neutral principle; it’s the Virganic milk, because it is the blending energy, it contains both the male and the female in one, it is also the hermaphrodite, that throughout the magnum opus we are going to encounter. But of course it must be said the three elements are useless unless a fourth is added, and this has to be the individual’s energy and being. For although the three are very powerful both singly and united it needs the individual consciousness to enter into the mix, for it is the individual energy that allows for growth and change to occur. Most of us are waiting for the right time to be born and reborn, although as all the great spiritual teachers have told us, in the universe of metaphysics there is no past or future, everything is and only can be done in the now. Even though the power of this presence needs to be nurtured and cultivated the more work spent in this stage is of the utmost importance, as we need the soil to be as close to pure as possible.
Exercise # 8……. If you can do it I want you to obtain physically some menstrual blood, some seminal fluid and some virgin’s milk (this is milk produced by a non-pregnant but lactating virgin). You may also obtain if you wish some Mercury to represent the male energy, some Salt to represent the female energy, and some Sulphur for the hermaphroditic energy. If this is a bit squeamish you can substitute with some coloured dyes, one red, one cream and one white, even candles can be used as long as they are of the appropriate colours. You are to mix the three ingredients, colours, wax or whatever you have that represents the elements involved. As they are stirring and mixing I want you to imagine a fourth energy emanating from you and as well mixing with the other three sources? As for the fourth energy (this could be your own personal sweat) your energy enters into the dynamics, I want you to imagine that the whole process changes and becomes a breathing, conscious and aware pool of light and energy.
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