The Alchemist

Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium – 1760 
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(Psyche, Greek: breath, soul.)
"Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from 
heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting." Acts 2:2
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The Alchemist.

(Taming the Dragon to get the Pearl)

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The Alchemist invokes his magic dragon,

the animal-totem of his imagination;

all have this instinctual creature inside,

the serpent-Spirit must be sublimated sublime.

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And so this Ouroboros in churning motion,

circulates libido in alchemical distillation;

unconscious waters into Wine of Quintessence,

the magical Nectar for the Soul's remembrance.

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The Freudian id is the instinctive dragon,

in need of taming its thoughtless reactions;

it must come under human determination,

in order to birth its Pearl in gestation.
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Heaven heaves, "blowing a violent wind",
with psychic energy inflating the mind;
id into ideas, self-defining an ego identity,
thought-bubbles molded from mental plasticity.

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A temporary ego is therefore acquired,

the separated-out "thinker" we call "I";

it mediates the natural force of Spirit,

contains its fiery and electrical leakage.

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Now a thoughtless Bubble is required,
filled with pneuma, the breath expired;
mortido deflates ideas, denudes content,
and energizes a Soul-Boundary instead.
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Thus fire slowly transforms into Light,

serpent raised on the staff of spine;

inSpiration rouses the beast from the deep,

the Leviathan "sent by God" to incubate.

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Fire electrifies up the magic Star-Wand,

the Caduceus of Hermes, Egyptian Magician;

into the winged Orb of enLightenment sealed,

the eternal Soul of the Pearl revealed.

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Id: the primitive instincts and energies in the unconscious mind

that underlie all psychological impulses. Latin it. (Collins).

Instinct: inborn tendencies of a person or animal. Latin instinctus roused.
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The snakes can represent the ida and pingala nadis or energy channels:
ida: female, creative energy or libido,
pingala: male, destructive energy or mortido. 
The winged Orb of the Sun is the fusion of opposites: male and female,
life and death, good and evil, etc; the Solarization of consciousness. 
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