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In hindsight, the external articulation and vibrant eccentricity of a vital essence for all living things in the universe is an innovation that probably originated with the Swiss physician, alchemist and philosopher Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim or Paracelsus (1493-1541).

Sulphur first appears as a generative force in an eighth to tenth century tractate entitled Liber misericordiae within the alchemical compendium Corpus Jabirianum attributed to the Arab polymath Jabir ibn Hayyan, the Pseudo-Geber (c. 721-815).

Saturn or lead represents the first rupture of the prima materia, the initial expression of manifesting consciousness. This we can discern by looking at its esoteric symbol, a cross mounted atop a lunar crescent.

The formative force of the cosmos actively expressed by the planet Jupiter and passively by the metal tin represents a rupture that stands much closer to the feminine aesthetic pole of lunar consciousness than to the masculine aesthetic pole of solar consciousness.

In contradistinction to the other four planetary forces and their metals which symbolise unique ruptures in the prima materia or first substance, the volatile and elusive mercurial power is a synonym for the entire cosmological process of becoming–in other words the coming-to-be of pure forms, of intellect or incarnated light from the receptive and creative mirror of the prima materia.

Thus far we have discerned that the metal gold and the Sun represent the active, masculine aesthetic polarity on the cosmological totem pole of pure consciousness. Alternatively, the metal silver and the moon are exoteric markers for the passive, feminine aesthetic polarity on the same cosmological design.

Perhaps the esoteric worldview is encapsulated best by a sixteenth-century alchemo-mystical didactic treatise entitled the Splendor Solis. According to an old legend, the mysterious author of this text, Solomon Trismosin, imparted the secrets of the Philosopher’s Stone and spagyrical methods to Paracelsus of Hohenheim (1493-1541CE), thus enabling him to pioneer the field of iatrochemistry.

THE TYRANNY OF THE SELF IMAGE:
OR, HOW TO SCREW YOURSELF

“Your self image is your pattern! Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns lead your life.”
—J. G. Gallimore

“Your wife is not really your wife. She is an agent of Interzone Incorporated.”

Campbell has mentioned in his workshops that the term “out of body” is misleading. The term should really be “out of mind.” By “mind” what is being referred to is the limitations of psychology and preconditioned mental networks—the assumed, the previously experienced, the programmed, the conditioned state of operational conscious awareness.