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Gnosis - Secrets of Alchemy

Gnosis - Secrets of Alchemy

Gnosis - The Awakening | Special Interest The Holy Mountain - Cauda Pavonis "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates (470-399 BCE) "All that we are is the result of what we have thought." - Buddha "Know Thyself." - Oracle at Delphi Continuing from the last post, Albedo (and Nigredo before that), we reach the intermediate stage of Xanthosis, or The Yellowing. Typically the stages are done in three's as there are three alchemical substances: salt, sulphur and mercury. However, I felt it necessary to break this down a bit more and introduce the hermetic allegory of the peacock's tail, otherwise known as Cauda Pavonis. Mercurius: The remaining darkness unfolds like the multi-coloured petals of a metallic flower. The colors irradiate from the centre like the rays of Sol contained within the circle of Luna. The Alchemist and The Thief enter a room with the design of the third-eye chakra on the floor, complete with Om/Aum symbol in the center. The Alchemist: “The fish thinks about his hunger, not about the fisherman. Next we come to Isla of Mars.

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