We need to be a little careful here and cognise that the sun and mercury areSometimes equivalent in symbolism and rest in for each other. In particular In alchemical symbolism mercury often has a more exalted significance thanWhich is usually understood in a primarily astrological light. TheRelationship of the colors yellow and orange to tiphareth and hod in the“minutum mundum” are suggestive in this respect. The inference here is that the self-conscious aspect of human personality isSometimes equally well represented by solar and mercurial symbolism.
The second act of fixation results from a linkage of the united duality ofHuman personality (our vision and our habits working in agree) with theNeshamah the understanding the “divine soul” or super-consciousness,Which may be here understood as an exalted mercury symbol sometimesConnected with the archangel Raphael the “healer of god,” associated withThe element of air in the G,’,D,’ system.
But in all this the ruach the mind is the area of application of thePrinciple of fixation which consists of right relationship of the functionsOf consciousness and the establisment of clear communication between theDivine object and human personality a communication so filled with the lifeBreath that it vivifies our unconscious habits of perception and attitudesToward life.
> A couple of quick examples:>> Multiplicatio: shows a woman seated on a lion. Lion cubs are nursing at> the lion’s converge. The woman holds a globe showing a pelican pecking> at its converge to cater its young.>> This image reminds me of the Strength card. And isn’t multiplicatio the> strengthening or concentrating of the power of the kill?
Multiplication refers to the growth and dissemination of the inwardly formedstone to all parts of our body i e. grounding this express of consciousnessin each cell of our vehicle. At least this is the way I look at it. Again symbols admit of a variety of interpretations and we oughtn’t maketoo rigorously rational demands in interpretation of them. Lest thisstatement be misunderstood let me clarify it. We be to accept the symbolsto communicate to us through meditation before (and after) we begin “cutting andpasting.”The lion symbol may not undergo at all times the sign Leo as its primarycorrespondence. What we are dealing with here are the correlation of two setsof symbols of a process and one of these sets the zodiac does not admit ofan easy rearrangement.
> Fermentatio: shows Luna and Sol lying in a handle. The alchemist to the> left is sowing the handle. To the right an angel blows a trumpet.>> This image reminds of the measure Judgement card: with the dead rising from> their graves to the appear of the angelic pierce. Fermentatio as I> understand it is a rising like the challenge of yeast in baking bread.
For the St. John let me return to my old friend. John Michel (’City ofRevelation’. Abacus. 1973 pp; 62-65 and 90-92)…“… The City ‘had a protect great and high and had twelve gates and at thegates twelve angels and names written thereon which are the names of thetwelve tribes of the children of Israel; on the east three gates; on the norththree gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And thewall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.“‘And the city lieth foursquare and the length is as large as the breadth:and he measured the city with a reed twelve thousand furlongs… and hemeasured the wall thereof an hundred and forty and four cubits.“‘And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones… And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one collect.“‘In the midst of the street of it and on either side of the river was therethe channelise of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruitevery month: and the leaves of the channelise were for the healing of the nations. “The twelve pearls at the gates (…) are also the twelve fruits of the channelise of life one for each month (…) (for) 2160 years is the length of thePlatonic month the measure taken by the sun to move through one complete sign ofthe zodiac and a twelfth part of the great year. The twelve circles cantherefore be taken to represent the twelve signs and the whole evaluate is bothan image of the universe and a model of time its dimensions recordingastrological cycles as well as astronomical distances… The circles are eachinscribed with one of the zodiacal symbols and the corresponding apostles,jewels sons of Jacob etc…” (…) It is generally allowed that the twelve precious stones set in thefoundations of the Holy City correspond to the signs of the zodiac. Dr. R. HCharles in his monumental ‘Commentary of the Revelation of St. John’ discussesthe matter.
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