The Bones of a God (parts 1, 2 & 3)

“God became man so that man might become a god.” 
― Saint Athanasius the Great.
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Salt, Wine, and Bread; the Manna of Heaven.

Fleshing-out the Bones of the Archetypal Self Image.
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Kingdoms devour kingdoms all the way up!

We eat animals and the gods consume us.

But do not despair about this human Feast;

it is your transubstantiational Eucharist.

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The elemental ego must be digested,
into a trinity of delicious Metalloids;
refined Salt, mercurial Wine, golden Bread,
the Manna of Heaven for your inner god.
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And so the four elements are compounded:
earth and water become Salt crystallized;
water and air coagulated into New Wine;
air and fire into fixed Sulfur made divine.
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An Archetype is a Pattern, Bones of an Image,
that we must flesh-out, our Self to finish;
by formulating the Manna of salvation,
higher Mind, Spirit, and Soul integration.
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Refined Salt is the New Skin memBrane,
crystalline Lucidity finally awakened;
Spirit of Mercury, Moon-Blood Fluidity;
Soul of Sulfur, Light-Body of Solidity.
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Four lower elements of immanence squared,
three transcendent Metals begin to emerge;
Salt, Wine of Mercury, Sulfur of Bread;
higher ingredients for a heavenly World.
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By "secret fire" my elements are cooked,
a "burnt meal" for my own god prepared;
the ego sacrificed to the Sun in the sky;
my very own Star, Imago Dei on high.
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"The sun will be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood before the coming of 

the great and glorious day of the Lord." Acts 2:20

Tria Prima: the three metalloid compounds of the higher Self.

"Mercury is the Spirit, Sulfur is the Soul, Salt the Body." (Paracelsus).

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A photo-shopped yet intriguing image. Jung started out wanting to
be an archaeologist, but ended up excavating the depths of the mind.
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"The Word became flesh among us." (John 1:4)
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Bones of a God.
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An Archetype or god is only a Skeleton,
the Pattern of the Self's primordial Bones;
that we must flesh-out in order to shine,
and live forever in a New-Skin memBrane.
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Earth and water compound crystalline Salt,
Lucidity, higher Manas, a Bubble without thought;
instinct and emotion together sublimated sublime;
a psychic Grail to fill with New Wine. 
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Water and airy thinking combine as Mercury,
fluidity, Buddhi, the wisdom of our journey;
Leaven to baptize the Imago Dei image;
Spirit as Blood when the Moon is eclipsed.
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Air and fire compound Sulfur bright,
solidity, Atma, a Soul made of Light;
creative intuition of symbolic imagination,
bakes golden Bread, Flesh of our salvation.
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And so the elemental ego is devoured up,
as a eucharistic Feast for our god above;
the higher Self Archetype of our Executive,
digesting the ego as a Moon and Sun sacrifice.
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The heavenly marriage of Luna and Sol joined,
Self-define the Monad with a golden crown;
the Skeleton is dressed-up with Metals ashine,
one eternal Image conjured-up in Mind.
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The Tria Prima develops as a trinity,
so Self can see itSelf in holographic Lucidity;
leavening Spirit inflates a radiant Soul,
the gilded Child of the dragon's Pearl. 
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John Dee's symbol for the Monad.
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Homunculus, the golden divine Child bathing in alchemical Wine,
Quintessence, in the vacuum of the sealed and higher Mind.
The Ravens of Nigredo tend to the secret fire. 
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Vivification of the Homunculus.
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Refined Salt.
Watch your thoughts so they don't arise,
co-create the Vessel with pneumatic fire;
crystallize clear Salt and seal the hole,
an hermetic vacuum will suffocate the ego!
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Mercury.
How to bring to life the eternal Sprite?
Distil out Wine of mercurial Spirit!
Blood Moon baptizes the god-Self Icon,
the Leaven for eternal Solarization.   

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Sulfur.
Airy intuition compounds Sulfur's gold,
green Pan blackens into shining Sol;
the dragon's breath fire-forges a Pearl,
from metallic ashes rebirths a Sun-Child.
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And so thought-wave oscillations collapse!..
into the higher Wave of Quintessence;
the Observer's Grail  fills with Mercury,
the fluidity for the Stone of Philosophy.
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The drunken lucidity of libidinal Wine,
from water distilled, sublimated sublime,
intoxicates the Soul with dragon's Blood,
the Potion that wakens our inner god.
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