All the common faculties - even the sense of the ego itself - are affected by it. Here appear all the symbols already assigned to philosophical Mercury as a weapon that wounds, stuns and kills: dissolving water, poison, philosophical vinegar, viper. [...] To explain this experience in general terms without resorting to esoteric teachings, the simple fact itself suffices that when the activities of the external waking consciousness in the ordinary person have been reduced, the collective consciousness is likewise reduced. Said reduction, in its successive stages, is parallel to the progressive separation of the Mercury principle, which when disengaged ceases to perceive images from the exterior world. If the normal man is able to orient himself without the direct supoort of this images, he find himself in a state of reverie, and then in the dreamstate, in which the energization of the imaginary activity, dissociated from the external sense, is accompanied by a reduction and emptying of the consciousness of self. When the alienation increases, sleep comes and the consciousness is abolished. Farther beyond lie trance, lethargy and the cataleptic state. Farther still, when the separation is complete, he enters into a state of apparent death and finally into the state of the dissociation of the organism no longer held together by the vital force, which is to say: death. [...] Now, the whole secret of the first phase of the hermetic Opus consists in this: in working in such a way that the consciousness is not reduced and then suspended at the threshold of sleep, but instead can accompany this process through all its phases, in complete awarenees, up to a condition equivalent to death. The is then made into a living, intense, indelible experience experience, and this is the alchemical , the , the entrance into the
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