http://www.aaroncheak.com/news daily 0.75 2020-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1531680322416-3O072OUX2C36M2W42RWJ/angel-on-frauenkirche.jpg Ephemera http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2019/12/26/serpents-skin monthly 0.5 2020-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1577334871680-ZDMTW7KLZI1ZUH01J14C/dragon.jpg Ephemera - Serpent’s Skin http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2018/7/15/gravity-and-light monthly 0.5 2018-07-15 http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2017/4/17/christs-descent-into-hell monthly 0.5 2017-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1492388731315-WXXTP35JQJCXIJKUDYNY/ElGreco Ephemera - Christ's Descent into Hell El Greco, The Resurrection, c. 1600. http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2017/4/10/announcing-the-leaf-of-immortality monthly 0.5 2017-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1491795412021-T0LZ7YNAQEWG0MZG8M0X/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Announcing: The Leaf of Immortality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1491788722306-H3JVHPXQ0CE502QAH940/image-asset.png Ephemera - Announcing: The Leaf of Immortality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1491795487900-ENWSWGT0V9FAUQ179CDV/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Announcing: The Leaf of Immortality http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2016/7/17/our-gold monthly 0.5 2016-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1468745918668-3XJCUTB8NFQU8DD8HQIT/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Our Gold Is Not Ordinary Gold Yogi practicing tummo (cultivation of inner fire). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1468746096347-89MW3KYT3E7YHCIG7WXX/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Our Gold Is Not Ordinary Gold M. 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"Aurum nostrum non est aurum vulgi". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1468759229936-7AQD59ZFGGK49RY68VWJ/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Our Gold Is Not Ordinary Gold http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2016/3/6/coming-forth-by-day monthly 0.5 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1457245184073-71UDXHQJCM2FQ2WAWOYS/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Coming forth by Day http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2016/2/10/rhea monthly 0.5 2019-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1456966438188-33VPSKWVCEACU51DUAMU/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1455072609409-UQULV3KO5HYU2JLRW9OW/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand THIS IS PLANET EARTH — In Hellenistic cosmology, Kronus (Saturnus) represents the outer limit of the planetary spheres that encloses all earthly beings in the cycles of generation and corruption (the sublunary world, samsara). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1455073262681-75ZCNWJT116R71L8ZEE9/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand SIMON LE BON as AGATHOS DAIMON—The great Gnostic Simon le Bon, i.e. Simon ‘the good’, signifies the Platonic principle of the agathos daimon, the ‘good spirit’, hearkening back to the Egyptian nefer neter, ‘good god’, and thus to the divinities who transcend the slavery of samsaric existence imposed by Kronos and his false avatars. Le Bon clearly identifies with the good spirit (bon, agathos) versus the kakodaimon (evil demon). The name Simon itself should be seen as referencing the late antique Gnostic, Simon Magus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1456963487572-SGUH86TXFYZP0FRC814R/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1455073415097-0CJOA67AEWJQ3MD7LBKU/842961_f520.jpg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand WILD BOYS—An explicit reference to the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name, the film clip for Wild Boys features Simon le Bon—the Gnostic agathos daimon—strapped to a revolving mill symbolising the Wheel of Fortune, i.e. the vicissitudes of samsaric existence that we are fated to suffer until we free ourselves from the bonds of Archonic enslavement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1456963205913-XCZ0EC7J53139406X0NX/rhea_greek Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand Rhea riding a lion (Athenian red-figure vase, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), prefiguring the eighth Major Arcana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1456966920068-SIW22ESBR2UR66MAWIB1/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Her Name is Rhea and She Dances on the Sand http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2016/1/19/gary-lachman monthly 0.5 2016-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1453178922169-IL02MATLF9RSBSBDNE09/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - Between Philosophy and Esotericism with Gary Lachman Blondie. Left–to-right: Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, and Gary Lachman (a.k.a. Gary Valentine). http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2015/12/31/the-alchemy-of-miami-vice monthly 0.5 2016-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530028848-KAFEIL4HMFFAB0W5C6IK/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice If Sonny Crockett represents the Sun or solar principle in the cosmos, the meaning of Ricardo Tubbs is more oblique. The name refers to the royal principle. Middle English Rycharde, from Old French Richard, from Old High German Ricohard “strong in rule”, is derived from Proto-Germanic *rik- “ruler”. This, in turn, is ultimately connected to the Proto-Indo-European root, *reg-, ‘king’. We do not have to look far in Hermetic symbolism before we find images of the Sun and the King. They are ubiquitous. In the chain of being, Sun and King are one. Crocket and Tubbs therefore represent two aspects of a single, royal-solar principle. Like the juncture of spiritual authority and temporal power, they form the double aspect of a single reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530728775-DFAG4E7PBQDA35MR4147/miami-vice-boats-stinger-3.jpg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530757421-AFAPCJORYATU20890Z9W/wp0_wp0_wp0_wp0_wp0_wp155c4683.png Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530742262-IBYYIWLD83K8DVZWQYJ1/Stinger.jpg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451524075398-XRP7T4JRE4GZCCLXM7AY/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice Crockett’s Armani summer suits are a covert reference to Pythagoreanism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451524216180-XFHB25B698UKJIM3QTIV/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice The use of colour in Miami Vice is a distinct alchemical code. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530266628-EMLU8FMYIJQD6V0QVNCE/Miami_Vice_Crockett_Tubbs.jpg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530316499-U9L7O35MQUS0ZHV0E3M7/56769ad290b009bc7d847640fc2af6c2.jpg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451530432116-J4XWRR82YXUIY69QSSEY/miami.jpg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451531670120-HFNI11V9H09HQ8R6642F/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice Pale pink suits hint delicately at the solar iōsis (the perfection in red). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1451607281070-KIOKQNVEK1J52047VC4X/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - The Alchemy of Miami Vice http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2015/7/13/diaphany-a-journal-and-nocturne monthly 0.5 2016-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1436758606191-DR4FAGEFVDAZ54EGU2QR/Diaphany Ephemera - Diaphany: A Journal and Nocturne http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2015/5/10/announcing-rubedo-press monthly 0.5 2016-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1436757658479-LDJTMYXISAXSEGYLPQ0A/RP-Logo Ephemera - Announcing Rubedo Press http://www.aaroncheak.com/news/2015/2/8/curiouser-and-mer-curioser-ruminations-on-a-hermetic-retrograde monthly 0.5 2017-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423415364414-APCF0HL2NUT8H4OYIBBQ/HermesMet Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde The Greek god Hermes with serpent entwined caduceus. Roman relief depicting an archaistic form of the god, integrating characteristics from Archaic Greek iconography (6th century BCE) mixed with contemporary Roman forms (1st century CE). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423407153593-1XRAQZADNWLGMSFP65YP/GrandCentralMercury.jpg Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Grand Central Terminal, New York City. Flanked by Minerva and Hercules, Mercury is the central figure of the colossal Transportation, or The Glory of Commerce, by Jules-Felix Coutan (1914). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423399390268-B08DZDYG5WIVUQ7EONFP/Pazuzu Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Pazuzu, king of wind demons. Bronze statuette, Mesopotamia (8th–7th century BCE). Musée du Louvre, Paris, on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423415861455-83C72DP1FJ1SJ5NPP5A1/MainConcourse Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Main Concourse, Grand Central Terminal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423415226742-MM6QHK7MN1XWD2XFSOSU/Hiremy-Hirschl Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, The Souls on the Banks of Acheron (1898). Österreichische Galerie Belvedere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423410999771-WO5Y9NN0OZ8DSWH9YU3Z/Lamberti.jpg Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Virgin and child, attributed to Pietro Lamberti, Venice (c. 1430). Late Gothic with early Renaissance traits. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423411754533-YNDBQJG8NZRWU91DZKWP/Antimony Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Playing with fire. Making the Star Regulus of Antimony at Robert Allen Bartlett's Spagyricus Institute. (Tulalip, Washington, November 2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423412062852-JDQOVXSYCIYBRMTGOKUD/Grueneslicht Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423446499727-CCJNHQLWVN7MG90R84CV/buddhanature Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde The golden embryo as Buddha Nature (Tathāgatagarbha). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423401049784-75PJPNCO66AVTT1028DJ/TarkovskyStalker Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde Tarkovsky, Stalker, 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1423699863364-K38LWXXQ9GE1EX7OPD7Y/horamheb Ephemera - Curiouser and Mercurioser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde The Pharaoh Horemhab as scribe, bearing the Hymn to Thoth on his knees. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty (c. 1323–1295 BCE). 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"Separation of light from darkness, of the dry land from the waters". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1417753730291-8DD9VBDTFLQ9PDTF1LJ0/Fulcanelli+1.jpg Ephemera - On the Hieratic Arts: An Interview with Dr Aaron Cheak Fulcanelli's 1926 work, Le Mystère des cathédrales—the esoteric interpretation of the Hermetic symbols of the Great Work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1417750268279-71QKMCXGL6TCEUZQW6R4/image-asset.jpeg Ephemera - On the Hieratic Arts: An Interview with Dr Aaron Cheak Michangelo, Awakening Slave, c. 1525-30. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1417754209744-Q40JYFHITE4LYC0CHJP0/magisterium Ephemera - On the Hieratic Arts: An Interview with Dr Aaron Cheak Spagyric Magisterium of fennel (foeniculum vulgare). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1417755376345-L5LAIZHLVOU5P8UMUC0U/alchemical_traditions_cover2+%281%29.jpg Ephemera - On the Hieratic Arts: An Interview with Dr Aaron Cheak Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde, edited by Aaron Cheak. 684 pp., 40 illustrations. 2013; Revised edition, Rubedo Press, 2018 (forthcoming). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1487544485468-ECEWB02RWCREJC8QIO58/image-asset.png Ephemera - On the Hieratic Arts: An Interview with Dr Aaron Cheak Diaphany: A Journal and Nocturne, edited by Aaron Cheak and Sabrina Dalla Valle, 270 pp., fully illustrated. 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Artist, alchemist, Egyptologist, Neopythagorean, and Hermetic philosopher. Pictured here during the epoch of Suhalia (1922-1929), St. Moritz, Switzerland. Image reproduced from frontispiece to R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, La Doctrine: Trois conférences faites à Suhalia, 1926 (Par Aor). St. Moritz: Officina Montalia, 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458026487815-WWO0Q14E65UBLDRE1ODZ/image-asset.jpeg The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Jean-Julien Champagne (1887-1932). Artist, alchemist, inventor, and the foremost name behind the mystery of Fulcanelli. Champagne was Schwaller’s closest Hermetic collaborator on the operative alchemical opus for almost twenty years. Image source: Christian Dumoulard (www.hermetism.free.fr). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458026541912-9RZGQP4MYMDXSW4UF74W/zzzFulc The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Title page of Le Mystère des cathédrales et l’interprétation ésotérique des symboles hermétiques du grand-œuvre. Paris: Jean Schmidt, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458078843201-VOZ2SFH37X6QRXEFFQNA/image-asset.jpeg The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz O. W. de Lubicz Milozs (1877-1939). Poet, noble, and diplomat, in 1919 Milosz bequeathed the chivalric title « de Lubicz » to René Schwaller, officially adopting him into his clan. Image source: www.archerjulienchampagne.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458078997144-3NHCYHWP1L2JAYB8YGAS/image-asset.jpeg The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Station Scientifique de Suhalia, St. Moritz, Switzerland. Complete with laboratory, forge, looms, printing press, and observatory, Suhalia provided the ‘philosophical mansions’ of Schwaller and his entourage throughout the 1920s. Photograph, A. Cheak, St. Moritz, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458079111882-BJ4BIR1DC0K3B3B74O8T/0001 The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz View from Suhalia. ‘What is Aor? Aor is that which, one night at sunset, from high atop a frozen, flame red peak, said to me—listen!’ (Schwaller de Lubicz, L’Appel du feu, 1926). Photograph, A. Cheak, St. Moritz, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458079747033-UT16SNZ3HP4BB3SR9M8K/image-asset.jpeg The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Title page of Schwaller’s 1926 work, Adam l’homme rouge (Adam the Red Man). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458079933463-B03HJYRVKUUA3E971X76/image-asset.jpeg The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz North Rose Window of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. The stained glass of the oldest gothic cathedrals was believed by the alchemists of the Parisian alchemical revival to have been coloured using esoteric methods lost to the modern world. Between 1913 and 1932, Schwaller and Champagne worked exclusively on achieving these mysterious blues and reds. Their efforts pivoted firstly on the animation and isolation of the volatile spirit of metals, and secondly on marrying this sulphuric lustre to a body of molten glass. Panoramic photograph, Julie Anne Workman, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458085589775-JBJN8QZLX8REKP4QVTN3/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz The alchemical colour theory of René Schwaller de Lubicz. In the Hermetic tetraktys, unity divides itself into the primordial polarity of warmth (red-orange-yellow) and coldness (blue-violet-indigo), which merge to form the temperate colours (yellow-green-blue). The interaction of the two poles creates the primordial triads of the alchemical tria prima—sulphur, mercury, salt—(orange, green, violet). The interaction of the triads forms the four elements—fire, air, water, earth—(red, yellow, blue, indigo). Diagram by A. Cheak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458099732695-E0DSBJKNGP2VZ8T4JOJD/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz The alchemical triads: sulphur, mercury, salt. Each triad is headed by a principle (composed colour) that is the synthesis of two non-composed, elemental colours: sulphur (red-orange-yellow); mercury (yellow-green-blue); and salt (blue-violet-indigo). The first two triads are in a sense ‘perfect’: the principial colour is in fact the proper mean term between the elemental colours: red + yellow = orange; yellow + blue = green. But the third triad presents an anomaly: it ‘should’ be blue + red = violet. The red that ‘should’ be there—the impulse that is equivalent to the culminating note of the octave, is not there. Indigo is. Diagram by A. Cheak, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458100206055-JH5OOPG6E5DRGM95C8J6/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Indigo’s secret fire. The fire that must be joined to water in the alchemical opus is to be found not in ordinary fire (under sulphur), but in the fire of the earth, under the ægis of salt. This mysterious lustre, this ‘call of fire’, is the arcanum that links the end of the spectrum to its beginning. Diagram by A. Cheak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458100639449-KPMZCYEO330BYGYH6RMZ/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Kamuef (‘the bull of his mother’), Tomb of Ramses IX. In this image, Schwaller saw the Pythagorean principle of tri-unity. In Egyptian theology, ka (‘bull’, ‘spirit’) indicates the active masculine force in the triad; mut, the ‘mother’, represents the feminine receptive force; while the child or son represents the product. The paradox that binds the three aspects of this lineage into a triangular unity lies in the fact that the son, by recapitulating (indeed reincarnating) his father, becomes thereby the bull (spirit and inseminator) of his mother. In short, he is the father of himself. Rather than being a simple ‘product’, he exists both in a primary state, ‘before’ the separation or differentiation into gendered polarity (male-female) and in an ultimate state, ‘after’ the two poles have been differentiated and then recombined (the alchemical conjunctio or cohabation). Reproduced from R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man: Apet of the South at Luxor. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458101022740-GMPI81Y7DPCI7O4AKLIH/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Moriendo renascor (‘In dying I am reborn’). Bone, vine, and phoenix represent the palingeneses of the vegetable and animal kingdoms from their mineral foundation. For Schwaller, the human femur—the largest bone in the body—was the repository of the fixed alchemical salt, the immortal mineral remains that neither fire nor putrefaction can destroy, ‘the last in corruption and the first in generation’ (Steeb). The incorruptible ashes or salts were regarded by Schwaller as the passive register that preserved an entity’s acquired consciousness, and the agent of all mutations between kingdoms and species. Photograph, A. Cheak, Èze-sure-mer, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ae7cf8e4b09f75e9efdc6a/1458101290330-MXQTUZSNQ9ID6A11LIU3/image-asset.png The Call of Fire—The Hermetic Quest of René Schwaller de Lubicz Aor at Plan-de-Grass, 1960. In 1955, Raoul Jahan described Schwaller as ‘bearing an astonishing resemblance to Einstein’. He recalls how ‘for three hours he spoke, answered our questions and smoked three packets of Gold Flake without interrupting himself’. 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