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the Mother. Venus and Aphrodite in Greek mythology are depicted as having sprung from the sea.
There is another series of correspondence which identifies Venus with the occult cohesive influence
joining Chokmah to Binah, the interior Father imago to the Mother, Wisdom to Understanding. As such
she must represent the love of the one for the other. And she represents as the higher love which is
understanding, the means of entry into the interior Supernal life. We have here an adumbration of a
religious or mystical technique of devotion. Bhakta or love is, according to many schools of mysticism,
the supreme and ineffable means of divine union - that is to say of integration. Since Binah also is
Shekinah, the Holy Spirit; the manifestation of which is always described in the symbolism of fire and
light, such symbolism also pertains therefore to Venus, as the text itself advises. Love and fire and the
means of integration have thus a necessary and categorical connection.
In Egyptian symbolism, Osiris was not only the husband but the brother of the heavenly Isis. From
their marriage the divine child Horus was born. The text repeats the desirability of such an incestuous
relationship, referring to the newly arisen as Venus brother and that nothing could be better or more
venerable than that they should be conjoined.
From the practical point of view, the analysand, after having achieved a certain degree of
integration through a union with his own instinctive and emotional processes, may well consider
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analysis and the process of development at an end. His too urgent emotional demands have become
quiescent because understood, and his neurotic symptoms have subsided. But a higher principle still
remains concealed and latent within. Mrs. Atwood's footnote to this verse is: And when she (Venus)
appears, the artist is rejoiced, and thinks perhaps his work is finished, and that he has the treasure of the
world in hand; but it is not so; for if he tries it the light still will be found imperfect, alone, and
transient, without the masculine tincture to fix it in manifestation.
6. The attainment becomes fixed, as a permanent possibility by a further union. just as the first
stage comprised a unification of consciousness with its instinctual basis to form a united whole, so now
the psyche must open itself to the Light and wisdom and understanding of the Supernals or to the
primordial archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. Such a union completes its nature, rendering it
capable of enduring and persisting, since it has achieved a conscious union with its own eternal and
immortal essence.
In occult symbolism, a male force is spoken of as a sudden, sharp, and abrupt force, powerful yet
without the ability to persist. A female force on the contrary is slow, stable, receptive, and enduring.
The one is the throne or seat of activity of the other, and the best results, so far as lasting effects are
concerned, are obtained by uniting the two types of force. Hermes implies a similar union. For though
the freed psyche, the king, is crowned and adorned with the diadem, it is only by being chained to the
arms and breast of his mother - to Venus, his sister and wife, the higher soul - that his substance keeps
together. The love of Venus acts as a cohesive force, for otherwise the power of the king s attainment
would soon be dissipated, and the virtue would soon depart from consciousness, which would thus exist
without a firm foundation.
8. The simplest elemental attribution, discussed on a former page, helps a little here. Binah is the
Great Sea, the element of Water, and is therefore blue, but because of its Saturnine attribution is also
indigo or black. Chokmah is Wisdom, and the element of Fire, red in colour. Whilst Keser is the spirit
of Life, the source of all things, circulating in all things, and is referred to the element of Air, and its
colour is yellow.
The verse recalls Mrs. Atwood s definition of the Hermetic Art. Alchemy is philosophy; it is the
philosophy, the seeking out of The Sophia in the mind.
Hermes says, Behold I have obscured the matter treated of by circumlocution, depriving it of light.
I have termed this dissolved and this joined, this nearest I have termed furthest off. The Hermetic
authors indulged freely in circumlocution and every artifice of cunning in order to deceive the unwary
and those they considered unworthy of their art. It is this that has made the study of alchemy so
difficult.
Elsewhere, the crow has been defined as the Bird of Hermes. It signifies thereby the animal soul,
brain, or body consciousness itself. On the other hand we would do well to consider every
correspondence or association that the word calls up. As a black bird, the colour is significant. Black is
the colour of death, of evil, of impurity. Uniting the two concepts, it is evident that from several points
of view consciousness is considered black or evil in its natural state, because it is precisely that which
blinds our eyes to God as the alchemists would put it, or which prevents us from perceiving the true
nature of life. The mind is the slayer of reality , another mystical book observes, counselling the
disciple therefore to slay the slayer . This evokes that difference between Occidental and Oriental [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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the Mother. Venus and Aphrodite in Greek mythology are depicted as having sprung from the sea.
There is another series of correspondence which identifies Venus with the occult cohesive influence
joining Chokmah to Binah, the interior Father imago to the Mother, Wisdom to Understanding. As such
she must represent the love of the one for the other. And she represents as the higher love which is
understanding, the means of entry into the interior Supernal life. We have here an adumbration of a
religious or mystical technique of devotion. Bhakta or love is, according to many schools of mysticism,
the supreme and ineffable means of divine union - that is to say of integration. Since Binah also is
Shekinah, the Holy Spirit; the manifestation of which is always described in the symbolism of fire and
light, such symbolism also pertains therefore to Venus, as the text itself advises. Love and fire and the
means of integration have thus a necessary and categorical connection.
In Egyptian symbolism, Osiris was not only the husband but the brother of the heavenly Isis. From
their marriage the divine child Horus was born. The text repeats the desirability of such an incestuous
relationship, referring to the newly arisen as Venus brother and that nothing could be better or more
venerable than that they should be conjoined.
From the practical point of view, the analysand, after having achieved a certain degree of
integration through a union with his own instinctive and emotional processes, may well consider
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analysis and the process of development at an end. His too urgent emotional demands have become
quiescent because understood, and his neurotic symptoms have subsided. But a higher principle still
remains concealed and latent within. Mrs. Atwood's footnote to this verse is: And when she (Venus)
appears, the artist is rejoiced, and thinks perhaps his work is finished, and that he has the treasure of the
world in hand; but it is not so; for if he tries it the light still will be found imperfect, alone, and
transient, without the masculine tincture to fix it in manifestation.
6. The attainment becomes fixed, as a permanent possibility by a further union. just as the first
stage comprised a unification of consciousness with its instinctual basis to form a united whole, so now
the psyche must open itself to the Light and wisdom and understanding of the Supernals or to the
primordial archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. Such a union completes its nature, rendering it
capable of enduring and persisting, since it has achieved a conscious union with its own eternal and
immortal essence.
In occult symbolism, a male force is spoken of as a sudden, sharp, and abrupt force, powerful yet
without the ability to persist. A female force on the contrary is slow, stable, receptive, and enduring.
The one is the throne or seat of activity of the other, and the best results, so far as lasting effects are
concerned, are obtained by uniting the two types of force. Hermes implies a similar union. For though
the freed psyche, the king, is crowned and adorned with the diadem, it is only by being chained to the
arms and breast of his mother - to Venus, his sister and wife, the higher soul - that his substance keeps
together. The love of Venus acts as a cohesive force, for otherwise the power of the king s attainment
would soon be dissipated, and the virtue would soon depart from consciousness, which would thus exist
without a firm foundation.
8. The simplest elemental attribution, discussed on a former page, helps a little here. Binah is the
Great Sea, the element of Water, and is therefore blue, but because of its Saturnine attribution is also
indigo or black. Chokmah is Wisdom, and the element of Fire, red in colour. Whilst Keser is the spirit
of Life, the source of all things, circulating in all things, and is referred to the element of Air, and its
colour is yellow.
The verse recalls Mrs. Atwood s definition of the Hermetic Art. Alchemy is philosophy; it is the
philosophy, the seeking out of The Sophia in the mind.
Hermes says, Behold I have obscured the matter treated of by circumlocution, depriving it of light.
I have termed this dissolved and this joined, this nearest I have termed furthest off. The Hermetic
authors indulged freely in circumlocution and every artifice of cunning in order to deceive the unwary
and those they considered unworthy of their art. It is this that has made the study of alchemy so
difficult.
Elsewhere, the crow has been defined as the Bird of Hermes. It signifies thereby the animal soul,
brain, or body consciousness itself. On the other hand we would do well to consider every
correspondence or association that the word calls up. As a black bird, the colour is significant. Black is
the colour of death, of evil, of impurity. Uniting the two concepts, it is evident that from several points
of view consciousness is considered black or evil in its natural state, because it is precisely that which
blinds our eyes to God as the alchemists would put it, or which prevents us from perceiving the true
nature of life. The mind is the slayer of reality , another mystical book observes, counselling the
disciple therefore to slay the slayer . This evokes that difference between Occidental and Oriental [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]