Monday, April 25, 2011
Day 16 of Hyperbaric Dive
Coagulatio I
If you give birth to what is within you
the voices you redeem will redeem you.
If you fail to find and give birth to them,
they become part of what is destroying you.
-Gospel of Thomas
translated by Neil Douglas-Klotz
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Day 17 of Hyperbaric Dive
Alchemical Gold III
“In you is hidden the whole terrible and marvelous secret.
Make known to us how the highest descends to the lowest,
and how the lowest ascends to the highest,
and how the midmost draws near to the highest
and is made one with it.
This midmost is the stone,
the mediator which unites the opposites.”
-Legendary Alchemist Ostanes
To his student Cleopatra
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Day 18 of Hyperbaric Dive
Coagulatio II
Speak
to the Earth
and it
Shall teach thee.
-Job 12:8
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Day 19 of Hyperbaric Dive
Rubedo VI
One who is filled with goodness is like
a freshly-born infant.
Wasps, scorpions and snakes will not bite her.
Wild beasts will not attack her,
nor will birds of prey pounce on her.
Her bones may be fragile and her skin soft,
But her grasp is firm.
She does not recognize the union of male and female
For she knows it only as an undivided whole.
This is the essence of perfection.
She can howl all day and not get hoarse.
This is perfect harmony.
-LAO TZU
Translated by Rev. John Mabry
Friday, April 29, 2011
Day 20 of Hyperbaric Dive
Nigredo V
The fire
Has roared near you.
The most intimate parts of your body
Got scorched,
So
Of course you have run
From your marriages into a
Different
House
That will shelter you
From embracing every aspect of Him.
God has
Roared near us.
The lashes on our heart’s eye got burnt.
Of course we have
Run away
From His
Sweet flaming breath
That proposed an annihilation
Too real,
Too
Beautiful.
-Hafiz
translated by Daniel Ladinsky
“Coagulatio I,” “Alchemical Gold III,” “Coagulatio II,” “Rubedo VI,” and “Nigredo V,” 4x6” collages on paper from The Oracle of Alchemy, ©2006-2011 by Colette de Gagnier. To order prints from this series, please visit Alchemy of the Divine and Colette's Visionary Art Gallery at MysticAlchemyDesign.com
The Gospel of Thomas quote from The Sufi Book of Life by Neil Douglas-Klotz, sufibookoflife.com
Lao Tzu quote from God as Nature Sees God by Rev. John Mabry, apocryphile.org
Hafiz quote from Love Poems from God, by Daniel Ladinsky, available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Love-Poems-God-Twelve-Compass/dp/0142196126
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