Putting Humpty D. Back Together Again: The Egg and Entropy “Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics. The law describes a process known as entropy, a measure of the number of specific ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of “disorder”. The higher…
[soliloquy id=”7295″] 1. The Philosophic Egg or Retort (From Adam McClean, creator of the Alchemy Web Site) In this series of elementary meditative exercises, no special postures are required but that in which one is most comfortable, nor are any special breathing rhythms used. Meditation should be undertaken when…
Figure 98, in Psychology and Alchemy C.G. Jung: Eggs in Alchemy “In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg — symbolized by the round cooking vessel — will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately…
[soliloquy id=”7190″] Images: Eggs in the Red Book “THE EGG-BORN GOD” From The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky Vol. 1, Page 359 The Egg was incorporated as a sacred sign in the cosmogony of every people on the Earth, and was revered both on account of its form and its inner mystery….
The Incantation in the Red Book Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning. And behold it. And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze. Christmas has come. The God is in the egg. I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of…
Carl Jung, on Drawing his First Mandala It was only towards the end of the First World War that I gradually began to emerge from the darkness. Two events contributed to this. The first was that I broke with the woman who was determined to convince me that my fantasies had artistic value; the second…
PHANES [Phanes was the Protogenos — the primeval god– of procreation in the Orphic cosmogony. He was the primal generator of life, the driving force behind reproduction in the early cosmos. Phanes was hatched from the world egg (the primordial mixture of elements) when it was split into its constituent parts by the ancient gods…
Ophic Egg (Jacob Bryant, 1774) The Philosophical Egg “The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former it is the Orphic Egg, the world’s beginning; as the latter, the philosophical egg of the medieval…
M57 Ring Nebula Joseph Campbell and the Cosmic Egg “The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile seed-power within typifies the inexhaustible life-dynamism of nature.” Joseph Campbell A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living