Sol Niger: The Alchemical Black Sun 🧵
All cultures are connected through the same ancient origins and the evidence is revealed through comparative analysis of symbolism and mythology.
The "Saturn / Cronus" or Black Sun figure is the "Hidden God" of ALL religions-mythologies.
That includes all male and female deities, because IT is a Hermaphrodite of Duality that is able to reproduced through ITSELF thru Parthenogenesis.
This includes the Baphomet, Janus & Shiva. Another Similar Concept is the Egyptian Creator God Atum or the Mesopotamian Kumarbi.
In the Theogony, Chaos, Gaea, Night, Strife & Hera all reproduce through parthenogenesis, which is often associated with Saturn
E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many, One. All Aspects & Avatars of the ONE.
In Alchemical Terminology, Saturn is 'Lead' that ALCHEMICALLY becomes 'Gold'.
Gold is associated with the Sun in Alchemy. It is no wonder the Ancients worshipped Saturn as the SUN!
Saturn becomes the Sun,
Lead becomes Gold,
Alpha becomes Omega.
This is the "Blood Sugar Sex Magick", "Red + White", Blood & Oil, the Red Queen & the White King, Heiros Gamos.
This is the Alchemical Marriage, Divine Couple. The Philosopher's Stone is the Philosophical Elixir of Life or simply the MIXTURE of Life, the Mixture of Opposites to Create Something New.
Saturn is "Lead", and is "transmuted" into other stages or variations of ITSELF.
The ultimate goal would be to transmute the Saturine Lead Consciousness to the Christic "Gold" or the "Sun", hence 'Jesus the Son'.
This is where Hermes comes into Play. Hermes is the Messenger of the Gods or the Traveler between Realms, Hermes is the Act of Transition itself.
Hermes THRICE Greatest. Hermes is Mercury. Mercury is "Red" and "Quicksilver". It is the intermediary with the Caduceus. Hermes represents the Alchemical Process, the Great Work itself.
Saturn is Pan. Pan is represented by Capricorn. Capricorn is ruled by SATURN. PAN means ALL!
ALL Energy or Matter goes through this "metamorphosis" in varying degrees. Energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. For instance, chemical energy is converted to kinetic energy (i.e. when dynamite explodes.)
Saturn (Lead) is the Alpha-Aleph, the Darkness/void or Father Bull, Taurus (Torus FIELD!) and transmutes eventually into the Sun (Gold), the Omega, the light bearer, the golden calf. (Repetitiously).
God is the Alpha and Omega.
Saturn is the Alpha & Omega, the Beginning & End.
It is clear that Saturn is/becomes the Sun, and that Death/Life both begin/end the cycle as it is circular in nature, shown as the Ouroborus. The Serpent continuously eating its own tail, repressing the Cyclical Nature of Time. The Alpha & Omega, the Dark & the Light.
Everything including ourselves is the "Lead" which changes and transmutes itself into "Gold" and then recycles through "Death" then "Rebirth" etc.
Saturn's Sickle represented, "Matter/ The Physical (Cross) taking Precedence Over Mind or Human Spirit (Crescent)"
Thus as stated, Saturn's Glyph can be seen as the Soul being stuck but seeking to rise above the Cross of Matter.
The Ego Mind can be viewed as such:
Saturn = SATAN = LEAD
Sun = CHRIST = GOLD
From Saturine LEAD to Christic GOLD Consciousness.
Saturn is known as Sol Niger or the Alchemical BLACK Sun, why the Black Sun? Blackening or Nigredo is the First Stage of Alchemy.
The very word Testament can be problem down as Testa (Will) +Ment (Mental) or "The Will of the Mind"
Hence, why the OLD Testament was transformed into the NEW Testament. Darkness to Light. Lead to Gold.
Many ask: Why did Saturn Eat His Own Children? Is this just an Allegory?
Carl Jung explains, "Once they have been activated the regius filius- Spirit, Logos, Nous- is swallowed up by Physis; that is to say, the body and the psychic representatives of the organs gain mastery over the Conscious Mind"
t should be clear: Chronus eats his 12 Children, the 12 Titans which represents the 12 Solar Months or the 12 ZOOdical Houses of the SUN, Shiva is called King of Animals.
Quite the paradox, "Throughout the visions it is clear that sacrificer and sacrificed are one and the same."
"This idea of the unity of the prima & ultima materia of that which redeems & that which is to be redeemed, pervades the whole of alchemy from beginning to end. “Unus est lapis, una medicina, unum vas, unum regimen, unaque dispositio” is the key formula to it enigmatic language."
"Greek alchemy expresses the same idea.Its symbol is the uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. In our vision it is the priest as sacrificer who devours himself as the sacrifice."
Saturn or Chronos symbolizes CHRONOlogical Time.
Saturn symbolizes TIME, LAW & ORDER.
TEACHER & DISCIPLINARIAN
In our Alchemical Quest, Saturn is the Dweller of Threhold.
"Humanity as whole has to face that Dweller as well as the Angel of the Presence, and in so doing discover that both the Dweller & the Angel are that complex duality which is the Human Family"
Saturn is often depicted as Father Time. One the attributes of Saturn's Rings is that they slow down the Movement of Atoms, which is what concentrates Energy into Form. Whereas the Sun accelerates the motion of Atoms, anything Trapped in Saturns Orbit is Hindered by Time & Space.
The Cross represents Matter, the Zodiac & TIME. As stated, Saturn's Glyph represents the Soul seeking to Rise Above the Cross of Matter. Saturn tries to keep you down in PRISON of MATTER and PAIN, the Black Cube is your MIND.
But it's simply about PERCEPTION.
The Cross collapses into a Cube. Tilt the Cube & you have the Hexagram. Herein lies the KEY, my initiate, The Hexagram is simply a Variation of the Swastika. The Swastika symbolizes a 4th Dimensional Cube while the hexagram is a Three Dimensional Cube.
You see the Riddle?
The Hexagram symbolizes the Union of All Opposites while the Swastika depicts a Fourth Dimensional Cube from Within. To Unify All Opposites, YOU must GO Within. This is the GREAT WORK. TO Unify ALL Opposites and find the VORTEX within the Torus (Taurus, Torah, Tarot = Get it!)
Jung writes, "The parallel between the Hebrew god and Saturn is of considerable importance as regards the alchemical idea of the transformation of the God of the Old Testament into the God of the New. The alchemists naturally attached great significance to Saturn."
"He is the spiritus niger who lies captive in the darkness of matter, the deity or that part of the deity which has been swallowed up in his own creation, who reverts to his original luminous state in the mystery of alchemical transmutation."
This is the major occult secret.
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