Magical Reappearance of the Winged Sun!

The Alchemist distils and refines the 4 elements

into Quintessence, the Nectar of immortality.

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"Quintessence is a thing that is spiritual,

penetrating, tinging, and incorruptible,

which emerges anew from the 4 elements

when they are bound to each other." 

(Isaac Newton.)

The Magical Reappearance of the Winged Sun.

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Take the Seed of the human, our stone unrefined,

and separate it into four parts of the mind;

once each is sublimated sublime and realized,

they mix back together into Quintessence divine.

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Two Serpent-Spirits, male and female essence,

conduct this instinctual process of immanence;

chthonic earth sprouts airy wings of desire,

chaotic water will be heated into holy fire.

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Visceral earth, the dexterity of the sensations,

is the practical skill for grounding the operations;

without it the mind becomes spacey with conceit,

premature transcendence before the work is complete.

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Emotional waters swirl in the libidinal Seed,

planted in earth the Spirit-Vine must grow free;

unconscious churning of so many charged feelings,

positive and negative needs, in need of healing.

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Rational air gives a taste of the transcendent,

aloof, clear-minded, a vision over the horizon;

it lifts-up the mind from the muddy waters,

gives space for the flowering of the golden Lotus.

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Intuitional fire forges the Stone of Light,

by blackening and whitening the Seed calcines;

through fiery death the Phoenix is reborn,

into blissful fusion the four are restored.

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"New Wine" of reddening Quintessence now refined,

needs a "New Skin" of the heavenly kind;

into the golden Cup of the sol-like Soul,

the Spirit-Serpent sheds into a Sun behold!

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The Egyptian winged Serpent-Sun of enLightenment,

a symbol of the Soul and its eternity.

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The Magic-Wand or Caduceus of the Egyptian

magician, Hermes; two reconciling Serpents

entwine up the staff of the spine, forging the

winged Orb of enLightenment.

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