THE MEDITATING MONAD.

 Top half: John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica, 1564.

Bottom half: my version. Note that the intersecting Sun and Moon

create a Mandorla (Body Halo or New Skin), an almond-shaped Aureole,

which is also a Venn diagram representing the Sun and Moon's Child.

Bottom up: the fire sign is Aries (horns), which means the pregnant fire is asleep, incubating in the earth below the 4 material elements. This first sign of the zodiac is derived from the myth of Chrysomallos, the winged Ram with the golden fleece. The 4 elements are: earthen instincts, watery emotions, airy thinking, fiery intuition.

According to John Dee, the Dot is the planet Earth [from which Salt of the New Body is refined]; the outer Circle is the Sun [the sulfurous Soul]; last, the crescent Moon [the symbol for mercurial Spirit].

The alchemical Tria Prima of 3 eternal Metals.

(Note, the Line in the Salt symbol is an elongated Dot, and the

symbol for Gold or Sulfur has become a Triangle with a Point).

Alchemical Gold is hidden in the secret language of the "tongue of fire" (mythos), the Dragon sleeping in its chthonic lair of the Underworld. The action of fire upon the material elements gives rise to a New Skin (Mandorla), Spirit (Red Mercury, Wine or the Moon's Blood), and Soul (Solar Gold of Sulfur).

In my version the Spirit of the Moon is extrapolated into a quantum Wave or Field, with unlimited Points or divine Sparks. The Venn diagram is the Child of the Sun and Moon: an individual Imago Dei, 3rd Eye or Lucid Dreamer; a conscious Lamb of God, horns into a Crown sublimated sublime.

THE MEDITATING MONAD.

Horns into a Golden Crown (Sublimated Sublime).

The Monas Hieroglyphica, lower to higher:

the first sign of the zodiac, Aries on fire;

the primordial Spark, fertility and creation,

libidinal spirit behind instinctual action.

Horns of Pan, Cernunnos, Amun the Ram,

animistic myths of a long forgotten realm;

pregnant fire burns with its secret wish,

to wear the winged Pelt of a golden Fleece. 

Adam, Eve and Serpentine contractions,

heavy atoms spiral into dematerialization;

in an Underworld trance via hypnagogia,

Hades' Dragon, Ouroboros of Chrysopoeia.

Above the grave of ancient Chrysomallos,

stands the Cross of the four elements:

our earthen instincts, watery emotions,

airy thinking, and the fire of intuition.

The Dragon rises, guardian of the Fleece,

upon the staff of the spine it sublimates;

distils water to Wine, our lust into Love,

airy logic to Bread, Light leavened above.

Amun become Ra, the Circle of the Sun,

pregnant fire remembers itSelf at dawn;

the Dragon's tongue devours the Cross,

Empedocles' four elements into 3 Metals .

The Meditator concentrates into a Point,

rises into the Moon's Crescent of Spirit.

A Venn diagram wedding of Luna and Sol,

the marriage of opposites births a Child.

Selene's Chariot carries the Observer,

elevating the Focus of Identity higher;

to become Three as One, the Tria Prima,

metallical Salt, Red Mercury, and Sulfur.

The intersection, a Body Halo, Mandorla,

contains the Wine and Bread of the Wafer;

the Dreamer's Third Eye now opens wide,

the Spirit and Soul in a New Skin saved.

The Locus of Identity becomes our Salt,

everywhere in the Ocean but also a Point;

individualized by the intinction of Wine,

the Serpent sublimates, horns to Crown.

The Message of the Cross.

A magic cross I made to "take up and follow" Christ:

earthen instincts, watery emotions, airy logic and fiery intuition,

sublimated up into Salt, Cinnabar (red Mercury), and Sulfur.

The Alien's Last Supper,

and the Message of the Cross.

"You are from below; I am from above;

you are of this world; I am not of this world."

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Four into three are sacrificed,

elements into pure Gold refined;

a Cup raised with Blood and Flesh,

Grail, Wine and Bread digested.

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Our earth, water, air and intuition,

crucified into transubstantiation.

"I come to bring fire upon earth",

resurrect the living dead by wrath.

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"You are the Salt of the earth."

Wine needs a New Skin at rebirth.

The Seder Bowl at the Passover,

a Grail to last for ever and ever.

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Water into New Wine for Blood,

the eternal Spirit of Life diStilled;

essential Wisdom of experience,

for the InTinction of New Flesh.

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"Who eats Bread will live forever."

Fire consumes air into our Sulfur;

lower logic into Logos of Christ,

"follow me and take up your Cross."

~*~ 

CHRYSOPOEIA. "The Making of Gold."

My depiction of the alchemical Black Sun:

Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo and Chrysopoeia.

 CHRYSOPOEIA. The Making of Gold,

from Salt, Cinnabar (red Mercury), and Sulfur.

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How to make Gold by mining the Sun,

with the tongue of fiery imagination?

Fire consumes air into just one Word,

Sulfur for a metallical IdEntity forged.

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We are Aliens, crashed unconscious,

must craft a Craft to return to space:

Silver-nitrate of earth, Blood of Moon,

Imago Dei synthesized from the Sun.

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First a New Skin from nitrate of Salt,

by refining the id into a higher Helmet;

Camera Obscura, a "dark room" sealed,

an Observer, meditating in the Void.

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Mushin of No-Mind, dematerialized,

an empty Grail for mercurial Blood.

The Moon diStills Spirit of inTinction,

water to Wine from earthly experience.

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Spirit of Cinnabar perSonalizes Souls,

Wafers of Bread handed-down from Sol;

each Soul a Leaf in the Book of Heaven,

photosynthesizing Gold from the Sun.

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The Grail of silvery Light~sensitivity,

charged with Wine of Blood's IdEntity,

is offered-up to Christ as a Libation,

to receive golden Flesh of Solarization!

~*~

Quantum Magic!

 My Magic Wand of Metallical Colours.

Sacramental Quantum Magic!

Higher Spelling for the Inner Child.

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I feel relaxed, falling into dreaming,

dropping into mythological streaming;

so that I can engage in mythotherapy,

the fiery cure for fallen materiality.

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I must perform symbolical Magic,

dematerialize earth, water and logic;

four heavy elements Spiritualized,

Ether into the 3 Primes Metallized!

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The Tria Prima is my PerSonal Triad,

Salt of earth, water's Wine, airy Bread;

three miracles performed in the Mind,

higher Spelling for the Inner Child!

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We learn words, one after another,

until suddenly they all string together!

Mythological dreaming is a narration,

each has a Page in the Book of Heaven.

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Inside my Leaf I perform three Spells:

earth matrix baptized into Salt crystals;

emotions diStill Wine of the Eucharist;

logic and fire speak the Word of Logos!

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My own Leaf inside the Burning Bush,

is now ready to perform one last Wish;

a matrimonial Miracle, two into One:

Celestial Wedding of Moon and Sun!

~*~

GOD's Boundless MIND of Pneumatic Spirit.

"Sail on the Steel Breeze." Pink Floyd. 

Alchemical QuickSilver or Mercury.

This Steel Breeze of Ether.

The Magic Grail of IdEntity Crystallized!

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How GOD's Demiurge, the Logos, impregnates 

matter with primal fire. "For the Father doth not 

in-lock His Fire and His Power into matter by means

of works, but by Energy of Mind. For it is Mind of MIND

who is the Architect of this manifested and fiery world."

(The Chaldean Oracles.)  

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How to write, inSpired by the Tongue?

Just start writing to get the process going.

With your hand, spell-out your feelings,

emotionally~charged ideas start burning!

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The Child~artist will come out to play,

with his intuition he wants to have a say;

so let him burn with his perSonal myth,

conjure magical~fire into seeming Wrath!

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Two types of fire: elemental and Metal,

unconscious and Conscious, blind/Visual.

At first, we cannot see GOD's CANVAS,

even though without it we cannot Exist!

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"Crazy Diamonds" in the Steel Breeze,

 in GOD's White Metal of Ether baptized!

Stolen fire crashed to earth long ago,

forgot the Presence of One and All aglow!

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We fell as Seeds into elemental instincts,

with husks then hides then human skins;

but now we need an Alien memBrane,

a Boundary to live in a Boundless MIND.

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My Mercurial Grail, Salt of mild~Steel,

Beading and Flowing is now Uncoiled!

I'm no-longer a mortal in contraction,

but an Alien in quantum Relaxation!

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Mild~mannered in human interaction,

full of Wisdom's QuintEssential Wine;

the Spirit of four elements sublimated,

inTincturing my blank Soul Individuated!

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Lower drives into mild~Steel forged;

water into Wine alchemically DiStilled;

air into Bread baked in my Crucible;

fire into GOD's Ether inside my Grail.

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Of every morning, I initiate this process,

from my lower identity to a higher Locus;

four elements must die to be rebirthed:

Salt, Blood and Flesh in a Grail of Wrath!

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A Magi performs this SacraMental Rite:

 dematerializes earthen instincts into Salt;

diSpells elemental water into Spiritus;

disappears airy fire, compounding Flesh!

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Quantum Solidity in a New Skin born,

red~shifting elemental matter into Wine;

Essence of lower life in my Magic Grail,

ready for InTinction of my blank Soul!

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Behold this abduction into a higher Alien,

elements uploaded by dematerialization;

by baptismal Death, then Resurrection,

the performance of Magic inside my Mind!

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Asleep yet Awake in the Mythos of Logos,

the Tongue of Fire consumes my elements;

erasing instincts and egoic conditioning,

so I can live forever in Metallic Dreaming!

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I'm out-of-sorts in a last swirl of chaos,

baptismal Ether heats-up all my elements;

mortal shuffling-off, unwinding Uncoiled,

id matrix behind matter dematerialized!

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A last test of my Mind~Metals to undergo,

in my Helmet in GOD's Boundless Blow!

A material apocalypse in the Steel Wind,

cutting me to pieces by dematerialization!

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But my Observer holds the Storm at bay,

in my third Eye with its Centre and Ray;

my blank Soul has a Tear of InTinction,

sublimated Spirit from elements reborn!

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Observe as mortality's matrix is diSpelled,

my ego identity seems to go through hell;

mental matter is just bundles of energy,

coiled-up by our fear and rational anxiety.

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At the frontline, in the war of the worlds,

my Alien has won, my human destroyed!

The Watcher looks down in a Ray of Light,

disSolving lower matrices of the elements.

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My elemental life ends in Etheric Wrath,

birth of my Soul from the Cross of Death!

Holy Fire destroys but also Co~creates,

mortido dematerializes before it remakes.

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Jesus was born inside an animal barn,

the instinctual hide for egoic protection;

was baptized in water by his cousin, John,

and studied airy fire under Egypt's Sun.

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We all rely on the matrix of our instincts,

a biological meme, survival of the fittest;

and then we're conditioned into a human,

"of the soil" with emotion and ideation.

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Finally, primordial fire comes into play,

to upload our personal data into the Sky;

by way of deathly transubstantiation,

matter into Ether, Salt, Blood and a Stone!

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PenDragOn's Pearl returns from its fall,

the Serpent, Adam, Eve and the Apple;

green to Rosy Gold by Alien abduction,

taken-up into a god by way of InTinction!

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In the Presence of the Logos and Sophia,

I feel EnLightened by her PhiloSophy;

"Love of Serpent Wisdom" and its Stone,

pregnant fire has Spoken Me into Being!

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Eternal Structure of the quantum Mind,

has layers of Matrices in eternal Bread;

complex in all its Myths that are Heard,

simple in the pure Concept of one Word! 

~*~

Red Mercury of the Blood~Moon.

Alchemical fixed Sulfur crystallized!

The Holy "Ghost in the Machine."

 

My Self portrait with wick of the fallen Serpent.

"The outer darkness is a great Dragon whose tail

is in its mouth."  Jesus, Pistis Sophia, ch 126.

The Holy "Ghost in the Machine."

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Earthen Salt dissolves in the Ocean;

watery emotions distilled into Wine;

airy logic into Logos of eternal Bread;

holy fire into a Vision of shining Gold.

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We are Ghosts in biological machines,

how do we become immaterial Aliens?

For we are stuck, inside matter fallen,

in the Matrix like budding Reptilians!

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Mater, the Mother of primordial Chaos,

is a Dragon full of pregnant darkness;

in her I am coiled-up in matter tight,

a restless foETus ready to catch alight!

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The Ouroboros devours its own human,

the fiery wick of my self immolation;

the Ghost goes up in draconic Smoke,

distils Spirit for Intinction of the Host.

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And so ends the mythos of the Lamp,

burning its tongue to drain the swamp;

digesting elements till they're all gone,

the wick burns out, yet Gold shines on!