Saturn amputating the feet of Mercury (this is found, for example, in Abraham the Jew) is just this. Mercury is thus converted into an individualized Mercury, not free to choose his own individuality, but bound and hobbled against the possibility of taking any other form of life than that of a particular designated life. This is the sense in which Mercury is under the custody of Saturn. [...] Hermeticaly speaking, separation means the extraction of Mercury from the Body. Once the action of the animal organism on the vital force has been suspended, the other principles are virtually free as well. For this reason it is said that Mercury is the only key , or as Philalethes also says, . Thanks to the separation, Mercury is again liberated, returned to the state of vital unlimited possibility (it is this that is known as ). And now the internal Sulphur find the way open to every transcendent activity or transformation. [...] At this moment we come to that crisis to which we referred when we spoke of the symbolism of the seed, which .
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:03:12 +0000
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