The pendulum of the world beats between inspiration and expiration. This is the breath of the angels who 'burn and glow' (scriptural expression), in the pulsative access and reinforcement of the soul of the world. This 'breath of the...
moreThe pendulum of the world beats between inspiration and expiration. This is the breath of the angels who 'burn and glow' (scriptural expression), in the pulsative access and reinforcement of the soul of the world. This 'breath of the angels' is made human in the mechanism of the heart, and is eternal; but becomes personal in the 'world of man'-down, in inhalation, to a point, and up, in exhalation, from that point (intensifying and multiplying). So Jacob Boehm: You need not take care for the body, for each 'planet' (property) maketh a body to itself well enough, according as its desire is; but you must always take one planet for the fire-life of the noble tincture (cardio-), and then one for the spirit of the air (pulmonary), for the one subsisteth not without the other: go on further through the sun's fire (the mechanism of the heart); and lay hold through the tincture on the eternity (the innermost filament for holding your flame). Bring that upon the cross; 'fixing' the solar tincture or flame, at the cross-point in the turning wheel of your respiration-cycle. What it projects into the upper firmament of your mind's eye is the biblical 'sun' that stands still. The color is white, and yellow, which is the majestic color; signifying a 'type' of the holy world. Intensifying and multiplying, all thus lies between hermetic rarefaction and condensation-mortal and spiritual alike. We give this to the seeker-for none findeth the Stone in Luna, unless he come upon the cross into the tenth number X: and then, if he longs further to seek this world, and desireth the medicinal Stone of this world, let him go thus from the inward into the outward; let him go into Luna, and give it a little of Sol, but if its hunger and thirst be great, give it a seventh part of Sol, and then it is complete. ***** This is the most essential alchemy we can practice, and hardly a 'theoretical' construct: Even in ill health, we can have direct recourse to the 'eternity' as Boehme labels this ultimate filament of our life-flame, once we have laid hold on it, and established its reality! Then it becomes, in dear Mary Ann Atwood's words, 'the efflux of such a life' that we carry from the inward into the outward, dispensing a little of this Sol as a medicine of degrees, according to the particular hunger and thirst of our current deficiency.