The Sky Ankhor

 "Ra, merged with Horus, blesses a Pharaoh with an ankh, 

as if transferring him the divine power of the Sun/light."

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The ankh started out as a simple cross representing

the 4 elements, as the fire circulates it becomes the loop or

Ru, the rising Serpent-Sun or Ouroboros. The Pharaoh

or God would blow his blessing or healing breath/

spirit through the Ru; hence the Jewish term for the 

spirit, Ruach Elohim, "Spirit of God" (Ru-ankh). In

alchemy the Moon is the perfected earth, and "Luna gives

birth to the Sun". So if we replace earth with the crescent 

Moon we get the anchor. (crescent, Latin to grow).  

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A Coptic Cross based on the Ankh.

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Whilst doing the alchemical work of processing or

sublimating the Spirit of immanence, I need to be grounded

 on earth; but once this is completed then I need to be 

anchored in Heaven. This "sky hook" is a symbolic device

that performs the function of grounding consciousness

in the transcendent Sky, in the Ba and Akh of the eternal Soul.

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Gnostic Cross (codex Brucianus)

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The Anchorite and the
Magic Sky Ankhor, by J. Cordery.
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"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, 
firm and secure, which enters the Presence behind the veil, 
where Jesus has entered." Hebrews 6:19
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The spiralling Wave of life and death in immanence,
pitches at the focal convergence Point of transcendence, 
escaping the Ocean or flood of unconsciousness, born of
Thoth's Moon-boat, into the Sky of Solar consciousness.
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The Byzantine/Russian cross could be a take on the 
Globus cruciger. I only came across it a few weeks after writing 
this poem. In alchemy the Moon is a chariot to the Sun.
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Ark of the Moon, and
the Magic Sky Ankhor.

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Upon a time the seas seemed calm,
I set course to sail into a storm;
Heaven's heave stirred-up the Ocean,
inSpired me with death's trepidation.
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My pen is lifted, flows its want,

feathered inSpiration from the font;

brush to quill to pencil evolved,

lead, to my present implement, gold.

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"Word" expressed in so many words,

the Holy Ghost "no ear has heard";

great Silence of the empty Page,

without which my ideas have no stage.

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And so from the Matrix, Mother void,

all things are born into making noise;

a seeming blank space, Spirit vellum,

inSpires me to write down my feelings.

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So much to process, so much to say,

cacophony down the corridor of history;

the "talking cure" tries to heal the rift,

schizophrenic split in consciousness.

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Which brings me to this very point,

the quantum now outside of time;

the focal convergence of the wave,

invisible centre of the cyclonic nave.

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The Ankh of eternal Life, realized,
Cross of rebirth and sacrifice,
through it the Wind blows its blessing,
lifts-up the Stone into the Heavens.
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Unconscious depths rise to the surface,

pointing and waving as I confess;

dotting the i's of the undulating line,

breaking the tension into sky of mind.

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Even in the battle of the sexes,
quantum mechanics here perplexes;
men like to make rational points,
women, emotional waves in response.
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And so the old animal skin is shed,

served its purpose to reach the end;

all stories have a particular pitch,

hence this penultimate verse exists.

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Blue ink drawn from the wellspring,

gets to the meaning of its thinking;

the power and peace of the "Word",

penetrates the Ocean, Pearl unearthed.

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"When you go down into Egypt
and bring back the one pearl
that lies in the middle of the sea
and is guarded by the snorting serpent,
you will be heir in our kingdom."
"I remembered the pearl.
And in my royal robe of brilliant colours,
I arrayed myself, wholly."

(The Song of the Pearl, Acts of Thomas.)

Ruby Heart of Gold

"The wolf as prima materia, devouring the dead king.

In the background: sublimation of the prima materia

and rebirth of the king. Maier, Scrutinium chymicum (1687)"
(Jung, Psychology and Alchemy).

Ruby Heart of Gold.

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The gap between two thoughts

is the entrance point;

down the quantum wormhole,

where lies alchemical Gold!

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At first it's a black hole,

called putrefying "Nigredo";

where the ego now decays,

returns back to the grave.

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Then comes the white light,

at the end of the night;

where all colours recombine,

from the prism of split time.

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"Albedo's" whiteness reunifies,

ready for the final sacrifice;

the wrath of God's wine-press

extracts the fifth Quintessence.

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Four spirits into Holy Blood,

earth, water, air, forge fired;

alchemical "Rubedo" coagulates,

into the Stone or quantum Solid.

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The Ruby Heart of Gold,

two colours into One behold;

"new wine" in a "new skin" tight,

sealed by a Crown all abright!

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Raven (nigredo), Dove (albedo), and

Phoenix (rubedo), reacting and processing

the Spirit in a crown sealed and heated flask.

From Splendour Solis, 1535.
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"Luna gives birth to the Red King,
the sum of all perfection, the Stone
itself, whose golden orb and sceptre,
robe of royal purple and golden aura
proclaim his absolute majesty."
Francis Melville.

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The Second Coming in the 20th Century

Mass sightings of divine chariots in the sky

announce the second coming from the Heavens.

The Second Coming in the 20th Century.

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Two mighty mythological events in the fifties,

set the scene for the flowering sixties:

the Alien invasion of our earth began; and

the atomic Godzilla, return of the Leviathan.

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Now the Alien must ascend unto SpAce,

having distilled the Wine of human essence;

for God awaits the sacramental libation,

the return of the "Word" of the Holy Spiration.

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Having been cast into unconscious waters,

God sent his Pet, God-zilla, to save all of us;

a Saurian Creature from the depths,

the instinctual id rising up to the surface.

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Devouring this world as his eucharistic feast,

the Alien-Christ is a real Wonder-Beast;

wise Serpent with his alchemical fire,

turns leaden thoughts into a golden desire.

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There he is, before my very own eyes!...

the Sun now sealed in my void-like mind;

born in the fifties from an atomic breath,

behold, the Solarization of consciousness.

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"When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them." Acts 2.

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The Death Master

The King devours his son, from

The Book of Lambspring.
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"God is a man-eater. So people are sacrificed to him."

(Gospel of Philip, Nag Hammadi library)

The Death Master.

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Holy Wine, Spirit of quintessence,

distilled from lust into love's Presence;

white waters changed into Rubedo's Wine,

the libidinal libation of self-sacrifice.

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The Gods cannot resist a Eucharist,

risen Soul-Bread and fiery Spirit;

like humans who dine on animal meat,

the next Kingdom sees us as a juicy feast!

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But do not despair of the Gods on high,

for they are really us, in disguise;

they are the Crown of the Ouroboros,

we are the tail of unconsciousness.

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And so it seems we lose our lives,

in order that a higher Being can survive;

but in truth, Christ's flesh and blood,

is the secret way to the Heavens above.

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The Tree of sacrifice under the Sun,

from the "Seed of Word" now in bloom,

flowers forth divine our human potential,

sheds the "old skin" for a life eternal.

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The final stage of alchemical distillation,

Rubedo, the reddening of the situation,

depicts our ability "to let go and let God",

green wheat dies into a golden Head.

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Celestial Ouroboros (1702).
The shed and crowned Ouroboros reveals the

countenance of the starry Soul in the "Cloud

of Unknowing." This skeletal Ouroboros is the
dragon, flayed by its own fiery breath of pneumatic
consciousness; fire-baptized and self-sacrificed,
blackened unto the white bones of albedo; revealing
the rubedo of holy wine, the serpent-distilled
quintessence of alchemy.

"Be seekers of death. Death will teach you about being chosen."

(Jesus, the Secret Book of James, Nag Hammadi library.)

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E= Quantum Solid

Flaming winged Byzantium Seraph ("burning ones") with Halo of quantum Light.

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"I have come to bring fire on the earth." Jesus, (Luke 12:49)

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"I baptize you with water. But after me will come one who is more

powerful than I. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." 

Matt 3:11

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E=Quantum Solid

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How to create a quantum memBrane,
new Skin for holy fire to contain;
sulphurous Soul, Alchemy's Solification,
a Stone that is not a stone conundrum?
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The id boils down to energy,

eternal but changeable plasticity;

energy cannot be seen directly,

but cannot not be seen manifestly.

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Matter is composed of this power,

including these ideas that now flower;

id energy wells up from below,

instinctual libido begins to flow.

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Thought bubbles of human creation,

self-define identity out of notions;

who I think I am is a start,

but thoughts forever cannot last.

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For if not sealed inside a Soul,

the energy drains as we get old;

de-ments back down into the waters, 

the id reservoir of life aborted.

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A second baptism is thus required,

Jesus came with Spirit of fire;

to inflate a "new skin" for evermore,

the Halo of salvation forged.
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And so bright ideas all discursive,

must change their tune, up an octave;

a baptism of holy fire transforms,

thoughts into a thoughtless Bubble born.

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InSpiration heats-up energy's operation,

being "on fire" is a fitting idiom;

the Spirit works in mysterious ways,

burns like the Phoenix, to rise again.

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Mortido's death-wish blackens life,

its secret flame mind purifies;

if only I can bear it through,

as it deflates the ego I once knew.

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I hit "rock bottom", all is void,

except for one thing fire-forged:

alchemical Stone, "Rock of Ages",

a quantum Solid, energy blazes!
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Death's blow inflates my Soul,
it cannot die, never ages old;
opens the Eye of singularity,
sees itSelf unto depths of eternity.

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"The Father's Mind forth-bubbled, conceiving,
with His Will in all its Prime, Ideas that take upon
themselves all forms... Thoughts from the Paternal
Source that pluck unto their full the Flower of Fire at
height of sleepless Time." Chaldean Oracles, 2nd century.

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"It is death for the Soul to become like water.

This cosmos is and will be an eternal fire. 

The Soul is an exhalation that perceives, it is different from

the body, and always flowing." Heraclitus, 535-475 BC.

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Caduceus and Ankh (pts 1 and 2)

Caduceus (pt 1)

The Hermetic Magic-Wand of Self Reappearance.

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The shift in consciousness occurs again,

the Sun dawns real from a sleeping dream;

awakens my mind to a higher vision,

time becomes timeless, no more division.

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How strange this Oneness of remembrance,

everywhere to be found but also hidden;

the "Stone that is not a stone" shining,

a quantum Light now all-surrounding.

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How did the Truth disappear long ago,

to be replaced by the separate ego;

Hermes thus forged his Magic Wand,

to reappear the winged Orb long forgotten.

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This healing Caduceus of reconciliation,

dispels the spell of dualistic separation;

two snakes, male and female entwine,

a Serpent raised on the staff of spine.

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Magical Dragon flame-forges its Pearl,

Hermetic alchemy of the mind unveiled;

animal-Spirit of the id sublimed,

leaden earth, through fire gold-crowned!
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Magus Wand of four elements into One,
the fifth divine Energy eternal born;
quantum Solid, Ra and risen Uraeus,
Serpent~Sun of Sol with Moon goddess. 

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Caduceus, by James Muir.

The crowned and winged goddess of nature

emerges from the World (Orphic) Egg.

Two Serpents of fire and water, rise from the
earth Seed on airy wings, and bloom forth
into the Flower of the golden Mind.

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Ankh, symbolic Key to eternal Life. The loop is called the
Ru, as in Ruach, the Hebrew word for "wind" or "spirit." 
Pharaoh receives the breath of eternal life from Horus.

The Ankh was the original cross of resurrection or resuscitation.
It represents the Sun, Ra, rising above the horizon. The cross
symbolizes the 4 elemental energies fused into one eternal Light.
The Ankh is the anchor or skyhook that grounds the Spirit in
the oceanic space of Heaven, in the Soul or Solar barque.   

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The Soul is an exhalation that perceives, it is different from

the body, and always flowing." Heraclitus, 535-475 BC.

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Ankh (pt 2)
Raising the Dead.
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Id, Latin "it", the instincts and energies in the unconscious

mind that underlie all psychological impulses. 

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The RU inflates, loops into the Halo,
our second skin or memBrane aglow;
Ra, solarization of consciousness dawns,
Uraeus, rebirths the pneumatic Soul.
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Jesus had the power of life and death,
libido and mortido, Serpents on Caduceus;
could "lay down his life," old skin to rest,
and "take it up again," new skin blessed.
~John 10:17~
A secret Fire is in the "Breath of Life,"
Spirit blown through the Ankh-Cross divine;
magical Pneuma, the Air of Heaven,
Holy Spiration of the Orb all shining.
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Pneumatic energy begins as latent id,
stuck in the Earth, unconsciously dormant;
stirs into e-motion as libidinal desire,
searching and climbing higher and higher.
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Life's Watery flow of libido inSpires,
energizes all things from plants to mind;
inflates ideas, thought-bubbles bright,
the creativity of thinking self-defines.
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Into an ego identity Spirit forms,
ideation rises above the animal world;
beliefs and concepts create an entity,
the personality born from collectivity.
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But our material skin is not strong enough,
will live a lifetime but eventually burst;
I lose my marbles to gain the One ideal,
Dragon disgorges the immaculate Pearl.
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Ouroboros devours her own children,
the ego eggs of human ideation;
extracting their essence for a holy Child,
the Individual Self reborn from the wild.
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And so the ego must be deflated,
by way of mortido, death devoured;
Jonah's Leviathan resurfaces spouting,
inflates a thoughtless Bubble everlasting.
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Dying symbolically releases our Spirit,
to be reused and wrought indefinite;
resurrecting life into a new memBrane,
an eternal Halo the Soul to contain.
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"The Wind blows wherever it pleases,"
on wings of desire Self-resuscitated;
fire-forged by the Dragon's breath,
the ideal Word, from ocean re-birthed.
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The RU of the rising Sun and Moon,
Ra and Uraeus above the horizon,
water-Snake seals in the Wine refined,
fire-Serpent burns into a golden Mind.
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Coptic Cross based on the Ankh.
The 4 aspects of consciousness: visceral, emotional,
rational, and intuitional energies, are balanced, and
transcend the world as the 5th Orb of enLightenment.
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Image of the Brazen Serpent (Illustrated Bible Dictionary) 1897.
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My interpretation: Uraeus, the Serpent, Spirit of life
in immanence, rises above the horizon as the transcendent
Soul of Ra, the Sun/Star of eternal Life. The Serpent sacrifices
the "old skin" of human ignorance, and loops into the RU of
the reconciled opposites: Ra and Uraeus, Sun and Moon, Fire
and Water, Male and Female, Soul and Spirit. The self-devouring
Ouroboros consumes itself in the flames of holy fire, rebirthing
through the wormhole (Ru) as the Light everlasting.
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The Biscione Serpent.
Either devouring a human child or re-birthing the divine Child. 
"And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters."
Deut 28:53