Tongue of Fire, Spoken, Returns to Heaven.

The fiery ouroboros turns green into Gold!

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"The death of earth is to become water, 
and the death of water is to become air, 
and the death of air is to become fire.
He who hears not me but the Logos

will say: All (Pan) is One." Heraclitus, 500 BCE.

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Tongue of Fire, Spoken, Returns to Heaven.

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Kundalini burns my libidinal desire,

water becomes Wine by secret fire;

evaporated by celibacy and sublimation,

psychic id made sublime by Idealization.

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Animal instinct of chthonic dragon,

Lucifer fallen into wearing horns;

two elements make a human bridge,

emotional dialect and air's language.

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Earth, water, airy notions, stolen fire,

kingdoms devour kingdoms on high;

id to libido into ideas then mortido,

compounding Salt, Mercury and Imago.

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Thanatos, lord of archetypal Death,

tests the Metal of my Grail's emptiness;

porous to Heaven, dead to the world,

no leaking libido, hermetically sealed.

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Zoomorphic theosis, transmogrification,

horns into Crown of green to Gold!

Promethean fire unchained returns,

ouroboros turning water into Wine.

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"Eat, be like God, knowing good and evil."

The Lord's pet serpent did cause a fall.

We're digesting the Apple of ignorance,

forging a Pearl of Self remembrance.

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The circulating alchemical dragon as ouroboros,

churning and sublimating the elemental life-forces,

horns into Crown transmogrified, and Wine distilled.

"When you go down into Egypt
and bring back the one Pearl
that lies in the middle of the sea
and is guarded by the snorting serpent,
you will be heir in our kingdom."

"I remembered the Pearl.
And in my royal robe of brilliant colours,
I arrayed myself, wholly."

(The Song of the Pearl, Acts of Thomas.)