The Icarus Mistake

Icarus failed to appreciate that real transcendence

is gained through immanence.

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The three metalloid compounds of the higher Self.

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

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The Icarus Mistake.

How to Fly into the Sun.

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The Earth and Sun are incompatible,

so the elements must be transformed;

waxy flesh falls into unconsciousness,

drowns in the reservoir of id instincts.

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Icarus should have flown via the Moon,

to coat his wings with a silver glow;

seal them with Mercury's fluid unction,

so the Sun can see its own reflection.

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The wedding of Sol and Luna unites,

their marriage is a play of opposites;

transcendence and immanence sublime,

joined forever by their Child divine.

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Four elements of the material world

must be transmuted into metalloids;

Salt, Mercury, and Sulfur on high,

the Tria Prima of the eternal Eye.

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White-silvery Salt of crystal lucidity,

awakens the dreamer from his sleep;

Mercury is a shape-shifting Spirit,

flowing and beading like a watery Solid.

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Sulfur of the Soul burns all before it,

except the Salamander of id awareness;

Salt is a new Body that cannot die,

id energy can only change its mind.

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Fire of Sol is the prelude to Light,

Falcon of Horus and Child of Christ;

solidified Sulfur fixes id into Gold,

solarization of an Ideal Image honed.

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The way to awaken the golden Dawn,

is to become lucid inside the dream;

myths are powerful spells believed,

cast upon us to fulfil our destiny.

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Surya the Sun and his charioteer Aruna.

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