For Paracelsus

half-Lion half-eagle,
Griffin's Egg, Conjunction
of thy fixed and volatile, allusion
to thy Vessel of Hermes,

arcanum of her
soul, Mercury weeping
through her cracks accumulating
in small puddles in mountain grottos,
don't weep my wife, instead accumulate
natron, thy white salt formed from evaporation
of thy lakes, my dear wife, preserve thy mummy,

For Paracelsus - salt,
balsam thy body produced to
shield decay,

we were wed under
thy sign of Ouroboros,
divorced under thy cosmic
periodic cycle of destruction
and creation, give circulation to
resurrection by way of thy Pelican,
thy vessel with two side arms feeding
condensed vapors back into thy body in
resemblance to a pelican pecking its breast,

Philosopher's Egg,
Vase of philosophy, Ankh,
thy hieroglyphic character denoting
ascendancy of thy life force, spirit, thy
circle over thy material, world, thy ♱ cross,
through crucifixion of thy soul rises reborn
on a higher level, animals of alchemy,

Lion
thy Earth,

Fish and
Whales thy Water, 

Eagles
thy air,

Salamanders and
Dragons thy Fire,

Sublimation, first stage
of coagulation, thy vapors
solidify, represented in sign
by thy constellation of Libra,
thy scales,

Fermentation,
number five operation
in alchemical transformation
represented in sign by thy constellation
of Capricorn, sulfur one of thy three heavenly
substances representing passion and will,

Thy Philosopher's Stone,
Thy Salt of thy World, a western
screenplay with thy Queen's characters,
thy Queen naked during thy early stages but
regains her robe at thy end of transformation
when thy main screen credits roll, passed through
Thy Black Phase, melanosis, thy first stage in alchemy,
operation of calcination lasting through putrefaction stage
of fermentation,

Filtration,
separation of
material passed
through thy sieve
represented in sign
of thy constellation of
Sagittarius, thy Archer,

Lead,

Silver,

Copper,

and finally
Thy White Phase,
leukosis the second
stage of thy Great Work
takes place during Distillation

Gold
thy perfect
of all metals
including that of
thy mind, spirit and
thy soul, Jung's images
of thy archetypal roots of thy
modern mind, thy process of
transformation leading to thy integration
of personality...For Paracelsus [Sage Sweetwater]


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