Stan Marlan: Regulating the Alchemical Heat When I was working on understanding the images that had been drawn after a severe heart attack, my wife gave me a copy of Stan Marlan’s “The Black Sun; The Alchemy and the Art of Darkness.” It had been meant for my birthday, but hid itself for…
Mary Magdalene, Red Eggs and Easter Legend recounts that after the resurrection of Jesus, Mary Magdalene travelled to visit the Emperor Tiberius in Rome and greeted him with: “Christ has risen”, whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and quipped, “Christ has no more risen than that egg is red.” The egg,…
Magritte: Key to Dreams Understanding the Symbolism of Eggs in Dreams In coming across Michael Cornwall’s excellent post about how Jung utilized emotion as a key in understanding the dream, I somehow got to wondering how Internet dream sites interpreted dreams of eggs. In general, one has to be very careful of…
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…
The Cosmic Egg According to the worshipers of Visnu, the cosmic egg (also known as the golden womb) emerges from the world ocean at the beginning of the ever-recurring cycle of creation as a result of the friction produced by wind and water. Visnu then enters the cosmic egg and, after a period of…
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…
“According to legend, an egg will only balance on its end on the Vernal Equinox” Source: BBC.com C.G Jung on Egg Symbolism: 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…