Alchemical Transformation

Splendor Solis (16th century)
from Adam McLean's Alchemy website.
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"Sublimation is part of the royal art where the true gold is made.
Sublimation is a great mystery." (Jung)

Alchemical Transformation.

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A libidinal myth story-line:
the marriage of opposites divine;
queen of immanence unveils,
joins with her transcendent male.
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Lust into Love's full fusion,
satisfies the quest for Union;
passion's flame burns into bliss,
the Solarization of consciousness.
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Water into fire into Light,

is life's basic sacramental rite;

 four baptisms to undergo,

before the Light begins to glow.

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Green unconsciousness planted,

in the swamp of day and night;

muddy water of subconscious earth,

incubates the "Seed of Word".

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In this watery prism state,

the light refracts and separates;

each colour to be defined;

the iridescence of the mind.
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Green frog is kissed a Prince
by the spirit of immanence;
jumps with airy excitation,
into the void of suffocation.

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Then the colours must be fused,

joined back into One anew;

another baptism is required,

consciousness must be forge-fired.

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Libidinal life can be raised,

from dampness into a fiery blaze;

but who can bear this immolation,

in the flames of sublimation?

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Fire is the prelude to Light,

from murky waters the Lotus shines;

Salamander is crowned a King,

emerges from unconscious dreams.
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A mysterious and sacramental process
sublimates sublime the animal spirit;
hungry heat in the belly's furnace,
births forth the Corona of Awareness.

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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 
(alchemical Solification) in the vacuum of the sealed mind.  

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Happy to Burn.
My Self portrait: meditation and self immolation in 
the baptismal and holy fire of Kundalini rising,
leading to the Solarization of consciousness.

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(part 2)

Kundalini Forges the Pearl of the Sun.

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Earth, intelligence of animal instinct;

water, emotional intelligence felt;

airy intellect of rational ideas;

fiery intuition, god intelligence.

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The dragon has reached my egoic mind,

by climbing the ladder of the spine;

for ten months of libidinal celibacy,

a serpent upon the good and evil Tree.

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Branches strung with pearls of wisdom,

kept me going to the end of time;

stolen fire returns home to heaven,

Prometheus, Fore-thought, is unchained.

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The creature of a thousand years,

earthen instincts buried out of fear,

repressed by my civilized ego,

is now released from its prison below.

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Kundalini roars its flaming breath,

upon watery emotions and airy thoughts;

my ego is voided by atomization,

elements compounded by immolation.

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Leaden earth is forged into Gold;

airy ideas baked into risen Bread;

watery lust distils Wine of Spirit,

fills the Grail, baptizes Light.

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Ego is blackened unto white bones,

the primordial pattern of who I Am;

fleshed out with Manna of salvation;

devourment by Christ the serpent.

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Stolen fire burns to be born again,

by way of death and resurrection;

my mind is gutted by fiery pneuma,

metamorphosing into the Tria Prima.

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Self sacrifice to the higher Mind;

drowning in water turning to Wine;

airy suffocation of my lower ego;

baptism by fire forging Imago.

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Apotheosis into an Image of God,

fiery Forethought, Pronoia of Light;

uplifted on flaming wings of a seraph,

Prometheus freed from rock of earth. 

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"I, John, asked, 'Lord, did not the serpent teach them to eat?'

The saviour smiled and said, 'It was I who caused them to eat.'"

The Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi Library.

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