Allegorical plate from the Musaeum hermeticum (1678).

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Cass

The Force is Strong With This One
Seeing this image took me back to the Cs session in 2000 and like a flash of lightning I thought, is it the Mer Ka Bah? I was struck by the three images (figures with bare feet); as a representation of the "Masculine, feminine and androgynous being", in addition we see seven people below seem to be women with instruments that could symbolize the female creative potential, sound, dance (movement) as suggesting a high technological knowledge in the center as a stone well, could it symbolize the 5 element? Particularly the stone, the construction, the rock, there is also a detail that stands out, could it be that it is a cipher language of the matriarchal stone, soul stone, could this be related to the head of Bran the blessed or the Grail itself? We also notice in each corner the elements, air, fire, earth and water. Any input on this meaning, the philosopher's stone?
 

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Cass said:
Seeing this image took me back to the Cs session in 2000 and like a flash of lightning I thought, is it the Mer Ka Bah? I was struck by the three images (figures with bare feet); as a representation of the "Masculine, feminine and androgynous being", in addition we see seven people below seem to be women with instruments that could symbolize the female creative potential, sound, dance (movement) as suggesting a high technological knowledge in the center as a stone well, could it symbolize the 5 element? Particularly the stone, the construction, the rock, there is also a detail that stands out, could it be that it is a cipher language of the matriarchal stone, soul stone, could this be related to the head of Bran the blessed or the Grail itself? We also notice in each corner the elements, air, fire, earth and water. Any input on this meaning, the philosopher's stone?
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Hi Cass:
From the point of view of Traditional Western Alchemy Symbology, the scene (from the outside to the center) would look something like this:
1) In the frame enclosing the scene, each element is represented in the corners of the figure: Fire, Air, Earth and Water.
2) In the celestial sphere (day and night), the 7 planets (stars), flanked by the Sun and the Moon.
3) On the surface, the three subjects (they may well be an allusion to the three essentials, Mercury, Sulfur and Salt) carry three symbols, Fire on the left, Water on the right and the character in the middle carries the Seal of David or Solomon, which represents the Philosopher's Stone, or union of the two opposites.
4) And the most mysterious subjects enclosed underground (a grotto or cavern?), here is the most difficult to interpret: the character in the center plays a lyre, so it could be the 7 Muses? Alchemy has been represented with music and sound and the use of musical instruments...
And the cistern, why is the Fountain in the center? Can it be the Fountain of Wisdom where the Sage drinks? Maybe an allusion to the subway waters? It would be necessary to investigate a little more in certain details...
Hug
 
xahyr said:
Hi Cass:
From the point of view of Traditional Western Alchemy Symbology, the scene (from the outside to the center) would look something like this:
1) In the frame enclosing the scene, each element is represented in the corners of the figure: Fire, Air, Earth and Water.
2) In the celestial sphere (day and night), the 7 planets (stars), flanked by the Sun and the Moon.
3) On the surface, the three subjects (they may well be an allusion to the three essentials, Mercury, Sulfur and Salt) carry three symbols, Fire on the left, Water on the right and the character in the middle carries the Seal of David or Solomon, which represents the Philosopher's Stone, or union of the two opposites.
4) And the most mysterious subjects enclosed underground (a grotto or cavern?), here is the most difficult to interpret: the character in the center plays a lyre, so it could be the 7 Muses? Alchemy has been represented with music and sound and the use of musical instruments...
And the cistern, why is the Fountain in the center? Can it be the Fountain of Wisdom where the Sage drinks? Maybe an allusion to the subway waters? It would be necessary to investigate a little more in certain details...
Hug
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The fact that they are in a cave is significant, it is underground - another different level where the 7 "metals" (energy centers) grow and are nourished... as you say and as expressed by Canseliet, Fulcanelli and others, alchemy is a musical art and they precisely talk about mercury when they make that statement (and that we have 2 mercuries as well as 2 salts for example)... in the end it makes some sense that there is a relationship between electromagnetism (salts and its two poles - and +) and the sound-vibration related to this (mercury) with changes that can occur in the centers of the body.
 
ApotheosisMMC. said:
The fact that they are in a cave is significant, it is underground - another different level where the 7 "metals" (energy centers) grow and are nourished... as you say and as expressed by Canseliet, Fulcanelli and others, alchemy is a musical art and they precisely talk about mercury when they make that statement (and that we have 2 mercuries as well as 2 salts for example)... in the end it makes some sense that there is a relationship between electromagnetism (salts and its two poles - and +) and the sound-vibration related to this (mercury) with changes that can occur in the centers of the body.
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May be. Maybe the "grotto" is a resonance chamber...
 
Maybe the ‘centres’ have something to do with it.

The celestial or higher half of the image representing the heiros gamos, the sacred marriage of the higher intellectual and higher emotional centres.

If there are seven centres including the sex centre and the magnetic centre, then perhaps the figure with the harp is the magnetic centre and the harp represents harmonic resonance.

The well could be the source of the knowledge that makes the Work possible, it being done on Earth/underground/in the lower realm/as below, which is then shown as the sacred marriage above - as above.
 
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