![]() The sun's rays are represented in Egyptian plumes. What greater symbol of unification is there than the disc of the sun? Sun worship is the most organic and universal form of meditation and focus. All that we enjoy is made possible by the sun. One big fiery day in the future, the sun will draw all back inside it. The famous Mayan Calendar is a great example of ancient urban culture and its pre-urban relationship to the cycles of life as per the solar wheel. The sun was born, died and reborn, inspiring the idea of an unconquerable God. The ancients watched the cyclical journey of the sun, the brightest star. Not always, but often, the sun's generating power is associated with masculine principles. ![]() Monotheism is considered solar most of the time. "Su" comes from a Sanskrit root, meaning "to bring forth". This extract offers a brief history of Reaching out for the Star that explodes. The back cover to TKI and NFE both feature sunset with moon and LIONHEART features a solar lion moving its slow thighs. The Sun is prominently featured on the AERIAL cover. The cover to The Black Sun is so like the Kate and Paddy Bush 'Delius' video, and very much suggests solar worship. Man wearing Sun Mask in divination ceremony With clear voice to the beating of his wings,Īs he alights upon the bank by the eddying river Peneios Īnd of you the sweet-tongued minstrel, holding his high-pitched lyre,Īnd so hail to you lord! I seek your favour with my song. SOLAR MONOTHEISM: Reaching Out for the Sun. ![]() Why is it that Galadriel, Gandalf, Elrond, Aragorn and Faramir refuse to take up the Ring? Filled with wisdom, love, and virtue, they know in the depths of their beings that their task is to be of service to the continuance of the ever-unfolding vision and laws of the One True Creator. Genuine masters and adepts who, as a by-product of their devotion to Divine Principles and 'inner' spiritual work have acquired certain powers that we would call magical or miraculous, refrain from exhibiting these powers except under the most serious of circumstances. Seduced and perverted by his/her ever growing communion with 'forces' that promise endless treasures, extraordinary physical and psychic abilities, power over men and 'phenomena', and of course, immortality, the alchemist, having forsaken the essential interior or spiritually oriented aim of this Divine Art becomes ensnared in an ever-tightening net of darkness and delusion that is essentially antithetical to the ultimate goal of the Great Work.īut for the true alchemical adept, turning lead into gold is merely a metaphor for the process by which the lead or prima materia of the psychophysical body is transformed into the pure gold of enlightenment, in which the adept comes into total alignment and harmony with the Divine. Too often, like the wizard Saruman in The Rings Trilogy, the aspiring adept becomes the victim of a type of mental distortion and disequilibria, which Tolkien describes as a perversion of their Art into Power. ![]() For as the adept, spoken of in the alchemical lore as the artist and imitator of Nature and the divine Great Work, rises in knowledge and aptitude, as he/she delves into the heart of nature and the elements, seeking the elusive prima materia, philosophers stone, and 'elixir of life', there is always the opportunity for a 'fall' or error. True adepts from the great esoteric traditions of humanity speak of the trap of personal power and the grasping nature of the individuated ego that desires its own dominion and therefore, immortality above all else. Alchemical Secrets of The Lord of the Rings ![]()
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