The Bread of Consciousness (parts 1, 2 and 3)

The Bread of Consciousness.

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Solarization is yet to dawn,

I'm stuck is darkness all alone;

the Black Sun awaiting gold,

Sol Niger of my bloodless Soul.

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Life leaves a husk in the earth,

water grows unto aged death;

how to vivify the Homunculus,

bring to fruit my eternal wish.

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Salt of lucidity is not enough,

being awake without a Self;

Mercurial Wine I must distil,

soak in Bread from Sulfur milled.

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Water and air compounded red,

emotionally charged ideas shed;

rubedo coagulates Quintessence,

holy Wine from broken skins.

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Airy fire of ego immolation,

burning black a deep depression;

a grave of resurrection ashes:

behold the Bread of consciousness.

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So this is the kiss of madness,

undoing of all that went amiss;

holy psychosis is a disintegration,

elements reforged into Solarization.

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Sublimation, from The Crowning of Nature, 1718.
My interpretation: the Sun of Light emerges from
the fire of ouroboric transformation, the serpent-fire 
of kundalini, sublimed into the Solarization of consciousness
in the vacuum of the sealed mind.
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Prima Materia.
The "Mother" of Elements, Metals and
the Bread of Consciousness.
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Deepression equals the Deep of Nun,
the Mother of the elements and Metals;
the Prima Materia underlying the All,
Spirit becoming One as an individual.
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Nun gives birth to Heh, the eternal,
the rising Sun of a golden Soul;
darkness of a Womb creating light,
primordial Matrix of potential night.
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She is the Chaos of the elemental four,
the lower light of this human fall;
and also the Light of the Tria Prima,
the higher Metals that last forever.
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Her deepression is the grave of rebirth,
the first baptism of elemental earth;
by the miracle of sublimation divine,
she compounds the Metals that ever shine.
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Thus the elemental languages of ego,
once developed must be dissolved;
back into the watery Womb of Nun,
who fashions them into a gilded Crown.
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This primordial Serpent of the Spirit
is the Mother of all we inherit;
the Moon gives birth to her Sun,
the Pearl of truth from Dragon born.
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And now, at last, I know the first,
Mother lode of All and One recast:
her Earth of elemental immanence;
her Moon, Tria Prima of transcendence.
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The holy Spirit descends into earthen immanence,
and rises back up as the Dragon (Kundalini), 
forging the Sun (Sulfur) and Moon (Mercury)
of eternal and transcendent consciousness.
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Mercury and the Golden Triangle.
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Having tested my metallic Salt,
I now need Mercury distilled;
to vivify the Homunculus child,
bring to life my higher Self.
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How to turn libidinal water red,
id into Ideal Wine of Blood;
coagulate Quintessence of the Moon,
universal Love in the Grail Stone?
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The hermetic vacuum in my mind,
seals me off from humankind;
suffocates the elements unto death,
into the Prima Materia for rebirth!
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The "Mother" of All creates the One,
compounds elements into holy Wine;
fills the Grail of crystalline Salt,
via rubedo, with Serpent's Blood.
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Thus the rising Spirit, Kundalini,
is the fire of libido's dreaming;
intuition forging symbolic thought,
eternal Ideas from nature wrought.
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Fire is the envoy to the gods,
the sacrifice or libation offered;
transfers the Spirit up to Luna,
turning red for Lady Alchemia.
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So the Pearl of the white Stone,
is also called the Blood Moon;
the Grail receives Earth's sacrifice,
refined Salt with Love of Christ.
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Brought to Life the Sun dawns,
born of Luna a shining Crown;
the Head emerges, Heh eternal,
atop the cross a golden TriAngel.
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"I AM DARK AND BRIGHT; 
I SPRING FROM THE EARTH AND I COME OUT OF HEAVEN.
 I AM WELL KNOWN AND YET A MERE NOTHING.
 ALL COLOURS SHINE IN ME AND ALL METALS BY THE BEAMS OF THE SUN.
 I AM THE CARBUNCLE OF THE SUN." 
-THOMAS VAUGHAN, COELUM TERRAE.

The Clach Dearg or Red Stone of the Stewarts:

a pure white rock crystal set in silver. Its ability to focus

 the rays of the sun gives it the name red or fire-stone. 

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