The Hermetic Tradition by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy/Science/Religion
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Eight

THE CONIUNCTIO IN WHITE

Once its "location" and meaning have been established, we must return to the importance of conferring an active character on the experience. It is necessary to recover the magical heroic sense hidden in the symbolism, according to which the Divine Water is represented by a Virgin, who is the Mother with respect to that which is reborn1 out of her by "immaculate conception" (autogenesis, spiritual endogenesis), and simultaneously the Wife of this her own son who, serving as the male, possesses and impregnates her.

According to another allegory in the literature, while the mother engenders the son, the son engenders the mother, that is, his act accompanies, creatively and exactly, the entire process—provided this is always in accordance with "the rules of the Art." This generation of the Mother purifies her (what purifies is also purified), and at the same time it transforms the "Whore of Babylon"2 into a virgin.

Here we have the "fixating" action that the reborn Gold, almost by its sheer presence, exercises over the evoked power. If it has not been dissipated, the power is relieved of its desire nature and its "viscosity," by which it had been attracted and enslaved by everything (symbol of the whore). It is then reduced to "aqua permanens" (Eternal Water). This is the result of the "philosophical incest." "The True Mercury," so says one text, "does not work alone, but must be fixed by Arsenic," that is by the Masculine.3 On his part Ostanes says that Mercury "used in the trial of souls," "transformed into ethereal spirit [liberated or extracted] is launched into the upper hemisphere; descends and reascends avoiding the action of the Fire [equivalent to the Masculine or Arsenic] until upon its fugitive movement being stopped, it reaches the state of wisdom. First, it is difficult to retain it and it is mortal";4 but in the Greek enigma of the "four syllables and nine letters," knowledge of which confers wisdom, the key is, ἀρσενικόν, Arsenic, equivalent to the fire avoided by the "Virgin," the "fleeing demon," which must be restrained.

Here the hermetic exegesis of classical mythology also intervenes: recall the labor of Hercules in which he conquers Achelous, son of Earth and Ocean, who has assumed the form of a river. Della Riviera explains that in allegory this is the resistance necessary to oppose the waters attempting to sweep away the Earth (that is, individualization, speaking generally) via the wet element still hidden in the substance, which causes the latter to try to dissolve itself. "But the hero battling pyronomically [that is, opposing the Fire state of the Spirit], finally overcomes the powerful flow of the stream, keeping it to the destined Earth [which here expresses the supernatural form of individualization]."5

In the same way, on the Porta Magica of Rome we read Aqua torrentum convertes in petram (You will convert the water of the torrents into stone—Trans.). Surely not standing alone is another inscription that announces that Our Son who was dead, lives, and the king has

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