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Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad, 4-2.2-3; 2.5.10; 4-3.7-9; 2.1.15, In the final passage, the spirit that has oassed into the state corresponding to sleep, and which is called "Great King Soma of the white, robe.,” can be compared to the hermetic albedo.

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^s Kazha-Upaiv'shad, 7,5.8, 2.6.17 Cf. Bhagavad-GiCa. 15,15; 13.17.

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^ Brihada.ranyaka-Upanis had, 4.4.22.

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1.65; and rhe words, as well, ot Milarepa (from Vie de Mihrepa, trans. J. Bacot, 141, 173, 226): "1 kneel

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down ... in the mountain monastery that is my body in rht temple of my breast, at the summit of

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rhe triangle ot my heart.” ' In the desert grotto [cf. the cavern of Mercury" and the "cavernous" chamber

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of the heart], 1 shall transform the transmigration in liberation. In the monastery of thy body—thy strong soul will be the rernple wherein are reunited the gods joined by illumination"; "... the holy palace that is the region of the pure idea" (cf. the "palace of the king” of Philalerhes].

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