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At another level she compares the taoist idea of Yin and Yang, in which to our western minds the active principle, Yang, plays the more important role, while the receptive principle, Yin, is subordinate. As is well known, Yang is traditionally associated with the masculine, and Yin with the feminine. She argues, purely on the grounds of philosophy... See more

So if the mercurial fire contains both the horror of the abyss and the ecstasy of divine love, it is necessary for the alchemist (or the modern seeker) to learn to sustain that unbearable tension without fragmenting, to learn to live the torment of their conflicts. One cannot access divine love by ignoring the power of the secret fire; we must... See more

Mercurius is the wonder of the world because it reminds us that what is lowest and most rejected in us contains the germ of what is highest , and that spiritual forces do not act only from the heights of a transcendent beyond, but also incarnated in the darkness of our creation. This discovery allows all those psychic forces we fear as destructive... See more

In this way, Mercurius stands as a nexus between the celestial spirit and earthly matter, being the mediator that allows the light of natural wisdom to be accessible to the adept

In the alchemical and hermetic tradition, lumen naturae is not intellectual knowledge nor a doctrinal teaching, but a kind of implicit wisdom, a kind of consciousness inscribed in the very structure of nature.

We can experience this mercurial fire in the tension of opposites (mind - body, thought - emotions, external reality - internal reality, animus - anima, etc.). Generally it is felt as a tense psychic conflict (personally, deep meditation showed me that such tension was often projected into external conflicts).

The fire symbolized in Mercurius can be interpreted as the unconscious manifesting in our being through a vital impulse or élan vital that drives us toward our process of individuation, that is, toward the development of our authenticity, of the unique individual that we are. This internal force is not merely an uncontrolled energy, but an... See more