The Accident of EnLightenment!

 

Explosion in the Alchemist’s Laboratory, by Justus Gustav van Bentum (1670 – 1722).

"The old legend is that when an Alchemist discovered the true nature of the Universe/Cosmos [usually trying to transform leaden thoughts into a golden new mind], he would achieve a certain flash/explosion of understanding and go screaming into the wilderness only to disappear from this plane of existence."

The Accident of EnLightenment

(waiting to happen, just so!)

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The mercurial Dragon of my Spirit,

fire-forges the Soul-Pearl it gestates;

but who can tame their volatile emotions,

heating-up in alchemical Solification.

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Fiery Spirit baptizes itself into Soul,

cleansed of matter into shining Gold;

burning away all earthly identification,

if only I can bear this disintegration.

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Into the vacuum chamber of the flask,

the meditational mind in emptiness basks;

nature's abhorrence for a void is used,

to draw up immanent Spirit into view.

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The volatility of consciousness ignites,

blows my mind with a deep insight;

Light rapidly expands everywhere at once,

Spirit explodes in a puff of holy smoke.

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Begin with the Seed-Word of prima materia,

concentrate the fiery potency of this Scintilla;

until the detonation of a quantum Accident:

the ignition point~wave of enLightenment!

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Bliss~wavicles of efflorescence in the mind,

the reUnion of two kingdoms finally collide;

the reconciliation of Earth and Heaven,

green-Dragon sheds into a Soul resplendent.

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(from Splendor Solis, 16th century.)

The mercurial Dragon-Spirit undergoes nigredo,

albedo, and rubedo, in the sealed mind, as it fire-forges

and crowns forth itself into the Light of the Soul.

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