Philosophic Magic

Philosophy:
Philo= love of, Oph= serpent, Sophia= wisdom.

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The Gnostic Ophites worshipped the Serpent in the 

Garden, as Christ defying the old judgmental God,

the Demiurge, Yahweh.

Philosophic Magic

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Awaiting inSpiration from the Seed,

activation of life's Magic Bean;

the "True Vine" grows the Homunculus,

from the soil, Salt of the Earth.

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The unconscious Ocean evaporated,

leaves behind white crystallization;

water into alchemical albedo,

saltpetre of our lesser stone.

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Magic Dragon now comes into play,

to hone the Pearl of the eternal Day;

mercurial Creature of volatility,

fire-forges the Orb from the sea.

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Mercury is our Hermes, Magician,

with his rod, Caduceus shining;

Magic Wand of reconciliation,

symbol of metallic transmutation.

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Two snakes healed by cooperation,

rising up by way of sublimation;

unto the Moon, Earth's green ending,

the beginning of the Lion, winged.

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Sulphurous Sun, born of Luna,

golden Soul from Spirit's fire;

Magic Lantern projecting Light,

with all the stories of our life.

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On the stage of Earth they run,

the dramas of mythology spun;

process of immanence unfolding,

until The End of painful growing.

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Behold the SunFlower of the mind,

transcendent Fruit of withered Vine;

golden Apple of the Hesperides,

the Serpent wise did tempt to eat.

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Epilogue:

My rendition of the Ouroboros. 

The sulphurous Sun rises from the

mercurous Moon-waters, evaporated

and distilled by the World Serpent

from the Salt of the Earth.

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The night and day World Serpent, blackened by its own

fiery breath of pneumatic consciousness, self-devours,

digesting knowledge good and evil, imprinted in its own

instinctual tail (the id). Its head (ego conscience) distils

life's essence of the 4 elements into the silvery Grail-Dish

of the crescent Moon. Salt of the Earth thus becomes the 

Moon (Mercury), containing the Holy Blood of Jesus and 

John's sacrifice; the Rubedo or Holy Wine of the "Word",

Quintessence, the 5th eleMental Nectar of immortality.

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From this Grail-Dish, the goddess, Luna, gives birth to the

sulphurous Sun, the Grail-Stone of the One; the eternal

Soul, "born of water and fire". "Lapis elevatus cum vento",

the Stone uplifted by the Wind on high.

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