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^s Livrc du mercure occidental, CMA, 3;215.
^q Corresponding to the esoteric Hindu teaching is the blossoming of the lotuses (.sphuta), that is, of the "centers of life” (cf. p. 56ft.) in the vertical dimension via the path that the ascending current of regeneration (the stem) takes. Cf, J. Evola, The Yoga of Power, chapter 10.
co that which plunged its roots into the Earth in the first place, but which now has taken a subtler form,"^{233 234 235}
For more general associations with flowers, resurrection, or alchemical spring­time, we can but repeat the impressive words of Ostanes referring to the "strange and terrible Mystery"; "When the highest descends to the lowest, and the lowest rises to the highest; when the blessed waters descend to visit the dead stretched out, enchained, cast into the darkness and gloom of Hades; when the Pharmakon of Life reaches them and awakens them, taking them out of sleep, right where they are; when the New Waters penetrate . . . , rising in the midst of Fire. . . . The waters, on reaching them, awaken the chained and impotent bodies and spirits , . . , little by little they are unfolded, ascend, redressed and are seen in living and glorious colors, like flowers in spring."¹¹
Tliese are the variations of a primordial symbolism linked to the vegetable kingdom, in which the Tree also appears, though understood in a different way; primordial, we say, because in the Hyperborean and Nordic-Atlantic tradition the rune,Y that is, "Cosmic-man-with-upraised arms” (see page 11, note 39), and the Hermes (of Cyllene)—which also had the value of "resurrection," "opening mouth," "rising sun," "Light of the Fields"—is ideographically equivalent to the symbol of the "Tree.” This "Tree” is born of the Stone or "Rock" and in one of its variants gives rise to the hieroglyph that in Egyptian signifies the "double,” that is to say, the subtle states of corporeality, the hieroglyph, Ka, rendered by the two raised arms XJn
To hermetism, the convergence of all these elements organized into a single understanding and transmitted across the centuries is perfect. ^