Could the idea of
It is said that Alchemy just eats, but that’s the first step. “Eating” and “swallowing” belong to the transmutative category. Greek mythology starts the creation of the world from the moment Zeus decided to swallow Phanes. He was no longer Zeus, he wasn’t Phanes yet, he was a middle in between. Alchemists would say that they both took on the attributes of the other to form a new substance.
In theurgy, they would say that “middle in between” is an intermediate and connecting substance between the two…
Even in Alchemy, the only difference is the texture. The food offered to the deities must be substantial, not just philosophical.
So it must be a real meal, not a metaphorical one.
In Alchemy, they say that there must be a right bait. We’ve already talked about it. The bait metaphor is scalable to the star magnet metaphor. And the star magnet par excellence is the Mercurius extracted from raw material, since the Spirit of the World precipitates deep into matter.
And then what happens, that the star fish eats the bait?
Ultimately, “nourishment” was a kind of banquet with the deities, in which the cosmos was obliged to participate, and from which chaos could not escape. Alchemical symbolism also describes the transmuting – because dissolving – power of Mercurius with the symbol of “swallowing”.
So “eating the bait” is also a metaphor for dissolving/transmuting?
In alchemical symbolism, the dissolving agent performs the act of swallowing. This is also true in a non-metaphorical sense, because the active and passive substances constitute a third substance. But this is also obvious in chemistry.
Could the idea of
Greek mythology tells us that when a deity wanted to assume the “power” of someone or something, he swallowed it. Even alchemical symbolism describes the transmuting (because it dissolves) power of Mercurius with the symbol of “swallowing”.
Could the idea of
Ultimately, “nourishment” was a kind of banquet with the deities, in which the cosmos was obliged to participate, and from which chaos could not escape.
Did the ancient concept of “amplification” also have to do with the idea of
Strange as it may seem, the ancient concept of “amplification” also had to do with the idea of
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