If this light follows the trail of something, is reflected or revolves around something, it reminds me of one of the few times Plato talks about light and he does so when telling the myth of Er. Plato talks about “pillars of light” connecting sky and earth…
In Republic (Resp. 614b-621d), Plato narrates the strange story of Er: “After a four-day walk, Er sees a light straight like a column that crosses the earth and the entire sky. It is this column of light that holds the sky together and, similar to the hawsers of ships, holds its circumference together, that is, joins its extreme points. ”
Could the “pillar of light” described by Plato in the myth of Er be understood as the Axis Mundi, the axis of the world?
Indeed, Plato’s description of the pillar of light has been read as a world axis whose lower part faces south and whose upper part faces north.
But then Plato’s pillar of light, the axis of the world, ends in a complex rotating device…
Plato places this axis of the world in a complex rotating apparatus called the “spindle of Ananke”: “… according to a rotary motion caused by a spindle that rotates on Ananke’s knee ”.
And then Plato’s pillars of light conclude their action in the world of sound.
True. Ending the above excerpt in Republic (Resp. 614b-621d) we find: “… this external circle includes seven other circles inside which move according to a rotary motion caused by a spindle that rotates on Ananke’s knees, while on each circle there is a mermaid who sings a single note on a single tone”. Analyzing Plato’s words, one wonders whether the pillar of Er could really be photonic light, because the light we know does not emit notes. Or, as far as we know, does not cause them in the air.
Olympiodorus of Thebes wrote a commentary on Platoʼs Phaedo
and said: “For the soul to descend, it must stabilize an image of
itself in the body, and subsequently sympathize with its own image.
And this can occur because of the similarity of form”.
This sentence represents the Alpha and Omega of Theurgy, rather
than of the simple Alchemy of metals. The meaning must be
intuited because it is difficult to explain in the symbolic language of
the time in which it was written.
This sentence also represents the Alpha and Omega of Alchemy: Metals build their tomb and are reborn from their tomb.