Eye of Dragon

The Ripley Scroll (15th century)

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Id, Latin "it", the instincts and energies in the unconscious

mind that underlie all psychological impulses. (Collins)

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Eye of Dragon.

(my secret alchemical recipe)
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Earthy salt to be crystallized,

id into a glassy Sphere of mind;

water pressure, libido, sublimates, 

before airy ideas can inflate.

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Thought-bubbles magically appear,
conjured-up by thinking power;
energy-filled boundaries conceived
from pneumatic ether all around.
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Breathe up air into secret fire,

focally converge libido's desire;

into the void by way of mortido,

animal Spirit becomes Ideal Soul.

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Bridge of ego-identity burns,

cross of sacrifice into Self reborn;

Dragon fire-forges between my ears

its Pearl of Wisdom now appeared.

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Wadjet, Spirit of the Serpent,
a play on words by the ancients,
also means the Eye of the Sun,
the Sol like Soul of insight open.
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Square the circle, chaos divide,

into its four languages devise;

then the fifth Quintessence distils,

eternal Nectar the Cup to fill.

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Black-hole in a spacey void;

white rock-crystal begins to form;

red fire-Stone, our Wine aglow;

golden Orb by Dragon honed.
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Betwixt mine ears an inner Eye,
opening up to Heaven's sky;
a transcendent vision pure,
my Soul to see for ever-more.

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In Stoic philosophy pneuma is the concept of the "breath of life," a mixture of the elements air (in motion) and fire. Originating among Greek medical writers who locate human vitality in the breath, pneuma for the Stoics is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the cosmos. In its highest form, the pneuma constitutes the human soul (psychê), which is a fragment of the pneuma that is the Soul of God (Zeus). As a force that structures matter, it exists even in inanimate objects.
(Wikipedia)