Temperance XIV The Alchemy of Life
14 - Alchemy
This card stresses the importance of entirely integrating all aspects of our being: waking/dreaming, receptive/aggressive, masculine/feminine. In so doing, we achieve a rhythmic balance rather than a static state. Cooperation and compromise are effective assets to bring on your journey.
Saturn as Father Time The melancholy humour when it is stirred up, burns and stirs up a madness conducing to knowledge and divination, especially if it is helped by any celestial influx, particularly of Saturn … By melancholy, says Aristotle,…
Read more…"I behooveth him who would enter into this art and secret wisdom to repel the vice of arrogancy from him, and to become virtuous and honest and profound in reason, courteous unto men, merry and pleasant of countenance, patient and a concealer of…
Read more…Some fragmentary thoughts... Eros ~ appreciation for eternal beauty, life energy, the bright warm force within, passion for living, desire for immortality, libido, will to live, psychic relatedness (from Jung) - that is, interconnection and…
Read more…This is a very long article, but really interesting. It links Alchemy across many traditions. The article is a bit dense and wordy in some parts (I found), but if one skips along lightly through certain bits there is plenty of interesting…
Read more…Ardhanarisvara and alchemy: union of male and female, of Shiva and Shakti excerpted from OM, baby! a pilgrimage to the eternal self, by Jack Haas For one to arrive at the empty core from which all…
Read more…''He who wants to get insight and enlightenment in all truth, think of God’s birth in himself, in the depth of his soul.'' ~ Meister Eckhart This is my own musing on this...so not authoritative. The lead is those shadow parts of our personality,…
Read more…Nigel Hamilton is a UK based Sufi teacher of long standing. This is the introduction and summary of Four Stage version of transformation as contained in a PDF found here ~ http://www.sufismus.ch/assets/files/omega_dream/alchemy_e.pdf…
Read more…Edited Extracts from a lovely article found here ~ http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-sacred-art-of-alchemy/ “I had very soon seen that analytical psychology coincided in a most curious way with alchemy. The experiences of the…
Read more…Edited Extracts from an Article found here ~ http://www.levity.com/alchemy/roscom.html Rosarium Philosophorum ~ Published in 1550 ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary_of_the_Philosophers The text is based around the interpretation of 20 esoteric…
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(painting by Jung) Quotes BY Jung....from ''Psychology and Alchemy'' "When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver (mercury), but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit concealed or imprisoned in matter.…
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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
- Carl Jung
Temenos..enclosed sacred space, a magical circle for confronting the psyche.
Temenos ...hermetically sealed vessel. A sanctum wherein the opposites can transform.