I, Homunculus.

Cultivating Homunculus in a retort (From Goethe’s Faust, 19th-century engraving).

"Let the semen of a man putrefy by itself in a sealed cucurbite.
Mercury is the Spirit, Sulphur is the Soul, Salt the Body". (Paracelsus)

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I, Homunculus.

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Incredible shrunken man, denuded himself unlearned,

stripped his egoic persona bare, to find his inner Child;

took three gifts, for the metallic Homunculus inside:

"Helmet of salvation", mercurial Wine, golden Bread.

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Now the atomic Child, hidden in the secret fire,

burns with aliveness, imagination, creativity inspired;

he accepts the human sacrifice of three offerings:

a non-judgmental New Skin, holy Blood and Flesh.

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The Light in Dark Matter begins to shine,

reborn and baptized in the libation filled Mind;

a golden Crown crowns forth from the Void of All,

the primordial Matrix rebirths a cosmic Child.

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Devoured by my own alchemical ex-experiment,

in life's universal Manger of the starry night;

my infinitesimal seed of Father, suddenly Blooms,

from the Cradle of the virgin Mother's Womb.

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A winged Child awakens from his mythic sleep;

from oceanic unconsciousness the Red Sea parts!

A refined Pearl of wisdom emerges from the abyss,

the fire forged and ever drunken I, Homunculus.

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Homunculus, the golden divine Child bathing in alchemical Wine of
Quintessence, in the vacuum of the sealed and higher Mind.

The Ravens of Nigredo tend to the secret fire.

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My alchemical Homunculus, comprising:

~ a thoughtless Bubble memBrane or New Skin;

~ libation of mercurial Wine, overflowing;

~ golden Flesh/Bread inside the Crucible/Grail. 

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(part II)

Atomic Child.

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"Unless you become like little children,

you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." Jesus. 

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I feel de-mented unlearned!

Fire baptizes my lower human.

Raven tends to the flames,

oh how this secret fire burns.

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Salamander is not consumed,

creature of fire remains immune.

Inside the Crown of Salvation,

Blood and Flesh in a New Skin. 

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My mind is suffocated empty,

into metallic Salt of lucidity;

a fire~inflated thoughtless Bubble,

Grail and hermetic Crucible.

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Homunculus, infinitesimal giant,

paradox of the small and great,

across the bridge of ego burned,

my id becomes the Ideal Child.

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Splendour Solis (16th century).
"A man emerges from a swamp. One arm is white, the other red,
and his body black, thus incorporating the main colour changes
in the alchemical process. His head is metamorphosed into a
glassy sphere." (Adam McLean, the alchemy website.)