Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult ArtsSilberer, Herbert
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Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
Silberer, Herbert
Alchemy; Society of Rosicrucians; Symbolism (Psychology)
In a “Vision” of Daustenius, the king is to return into his mother’s womb
in order to be procreated afresh. The king “goes into his bedroom and
unexpectedly is fired with a great desire for coition, and goes to sleep
at once, and has lain with a surpassingly beautiful maiden, who was a
daughter of his mother” [weakened form of mother incest]. Later the vision
says, “The woman, however, incloses her man, as a mother, quite carefully
in the innermost part of her body.”
The bodies inclosed in the vessel fall to pieces and are partly volatile.
The vapors [soul] return, however, into the bodies. There conception takes
place.
Daustenius [Ros. IX.]: “... From that are airy spirits come, that with
each other rise into the air, and there have conceived life, that is blown
into them by their dampness, as the human being has life from air, by
which it increases.... For life of all natural things depends upon the
blowing in of air.”
The bestowing of life by a blowing in of air plays a great part in myths.
Also there occurs quite frequently special impregnations by air and wind.
It is a primitive impregnation theory, that is found also in the ideas of
children.
Children think of the blowing in of air into the anus as a natural sexual
theory. I know several cases where this practice is carried out with
emphasis on the erotic under the pretense of “playing doctor.” A child
once told what papa and mamma do when they are alone; they put their naked
backsides together and blow air into each other.
Another infantile theory explains impregnation by the swallowing of an
object. In myths and fairy lore this motive occurs with extraordinary
frequency. To the swallowing as conception, corresponds defecation as
parturition. Incidentally we should note that the bodies in the
philosophic egg turn actually into a rolling, stinking, black mass, which
is expressly called dung by many authors. The water is also called urine.
The prima materia is also called urine. In the philosophical egg the white
woman swallows the red man, man-eating motive. (Stucken.)
Liber Apocal. Hermetis (Cited by Hohler, p. 105 f.): “... Therefore the
philosophers have married this tender young maiden to Gabricus, to have
them procreate fruit, and when Gabricus sleeps he dies. The Beja [i.e.,
the white maiden] has swallowed him and consumed him because of her great
love.”
Now as to the intra-uterine nourishment of the fetus by means of the water
of life:
Daustenius [Ros. vi.]: “... The fruit in the womb is nourished only by the
mother’s blood.” Id. (Ros. x):
“Without seeds no fruit can grow up for thee:
First the seed dies; then wilt thou see fruit.
In the stomach the food is cooked tender
From which the limbs draw the best to themselves.
When too the seed is poured into the womb
Then the womb stays right tenderly closed.
The menstruum does not fail the fruit for nourishment
Till it at the proper time comes to the light of day.”
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