Sunday, November 18, 2012

Up in new york hoping to meet Diane Di Prima.
wish me luck for i wish to study under her wing and learn how to perform and learn new things about alchemy.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Green Lion

The lion symbolizes gold or the sun. The Green Lion swalling the sun is an alchemical symbol for gold being dissolved in a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids called ‘aqua regia’ (royal water).

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In alchemy, the green lion eats the sun. On a chemical level this is a metaphor for when a green, liquid sulfate called “vitriol” purifies matter, leaving behind the gold within the matter. Very pure vitriol is an acid that eats through practically anything, except gold.

On a human level, the green lion eating the sun is a metaphor for when a person’s “consciousness [is] overwhelmed by violent, frustrated desires” (Fabricus). In other words, inside a person, when the metaphor of the green lion eating the sun takes place, the person is compelled to act out destructively.

seems familiar

I've seen this before on a tomb stone. Greenwood Memorial Park.

A transumation circle from Abramelin the mage

if any one can help translate this please do so.