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^Concerning "mountain," see page 130, note .3. The "serpents'’ here symbolize the powers residing within "Earth’s breast.” The same symbolism can be seen in an illustration ot Abraham the Jew (de Givry, Masee des sorciers, 397): a mountain, seven caves, seven serpents; below, two griftons mutually devouring one another indicate the antagonism ot the powers, about which we have previously spoken (p. 40). and give origin ro the body as petrifying neutralization; above, at the summit, is a tree with branches ot golden, ted and white tlowers (awakenings in ^ and 5 ).

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^Boehme (De signs cura. 12. §31) says that the seven forms of human life are first killed and then aroused to a new life. In the images of Abraham the Jew (de Givry, 297). this killing is expressed symbolically by "the massacre ot the innocents:" seven children have been killed and their blood serves as the bath ("washing”) of the king and queen, © and C. Also in Hindu alchemy one is instructed to "kill”

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^H CMA, 1.262-63.
^1:> Cf. 77je Virgin of rhe World. 3 (Mead, ZSS): "The difference between corruptible things and eternal things, between physical and non-physical, is that the ones are subject tu necessity and the others exist freely "

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^ De pfiarmaco, 4, §2.
⁷ Salmon, introduction to BPC, iii; cf. Trtomphc Hcnncuque, BPC, 3:243 ⁷ Livre de h misericvrdc, CMA. 3:138, 185.

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^ Syrian cexrs, CMA, 2:121. Incroicus apertus, §18.

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^ The Virgin of rhe World, 2 (Mead. 214-15); Corpus Hurmmcum 4.5; 72.

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^Livrc dc Crates, CMA, 3:55,

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