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The Symbolic Basilisk
Posted by: "elksnisandrew" elksnisandrew@yahoo.com.au elksnisandrew
Tue Nov 6, 2007 6:10 am (PST)
The Symbolic Basilisk
Much has been lost in translation from the Golden Age when simplicity
was more easily grasped. The Basilisk mythology contains some of the
most extremes in crucial loss of meaning, some of which will be
recovered here.
To illustrate the extent of misunderstanding it is easier to refer at
first to a more obvious area of animal sacrifices for the purpose of
offerings and purification both in the Hindu Vedas and Old Testament did
not originally refer to the killing of physical animals, but to the
clearing of foreign parasitic elementals and entities from the human
energy bodies, etheric and astral fragments of dead relatives. This is
what was meant by purification of the soul and the sacrifice which had
to be offered in order to achieve it. As these parasites' were
referred to as parts of the human animal soul, hence animal entities
which were meant to be offered to the `fire' referred to as the
Great White Light for dissolution rather than transferring to another
human host . When original knowledge started to become lost that texts
were interpreted literally rather than symbolically and animals were
slaughtered as part of offering and purification rituals. So the
essential knowledge of the Cockatrice/Basilisk was lost.
The basilisk had become a symbol of sin and hell, had been drafted into
heraldry, and had been used as a decorative feature on castles and
churches, like a gargoyle. Basilisks were finally pictured with bat
wings, and arrow-point on the ends of their tails, and either horns or
antlers.
This fall from a higher mode of knowledge is the central theme of
Basilisk Mythology. It is what happened to the Divine Feminine as it
fell into its negative interpretation. When the Goddess becomes a
Divine Beast.
For it is of such a character that if it is seen by a man before it can
see him itself, the cockatrice must die, and vice versâ. In the event
of the cockatrice getting the all-important first look, it will dart
venom from its eyes, deadly enough to kill any living creature.
The more dominant personal modality of awareness kills its less dominant
opponent. At a time of rampant religious inquisitions by fanatics who
thought they had a god given right to kill others over differing
opinions, the basilisk mythology is a warning to approach the
unconscious with the cunning wisdom of the Higher Self. As the same
history is being repeated in our present age the Basilisk serves again
as a relevant warning.
The price for not taking it as a warning is the potential loss of
immortality and succumbing to the second death, the fragmentation of the
astral soul.
This little lizard is held to be the king of serpents, hence its name.
The wart or hood on its head was thought to resemble a crown.
The kingly aspect and crown refers to the high potential for personal
transformation or death.
The basilisk cockatrice is symbolic of the personal unconscious in
which reside the feminine mysteries of eternity and great power, and
potential to produce the elixir potion of immortality by marriage with
its male counterpart, the normal male consciousness co-operating with
its own Higher Self. It is also comparable to being the earliest
representation of Mephistopheles and the Jungian Shadow.
A neglected unconscious becomes a tyrant master and the unconscious
fantasies dominating the everyday consciousness reveals the danger of it
externalising by becoming the evil eye's capacity to kill and
destroy balanced relationships. At a time of rampant religious
inquisitions by fanatics who thought they had a god given right to kill
the basilisk is a warning to approach the unconscious with the weasel
cunning wisdom of the Higher Self.
In alchemical symbology it is the black primal first matter which is
difficult to find from which the philosophers stone is made, or in many
other black stone mythologies such as the Cthulhu myth has its door way
as the black alter stone, and how essential to enlightenment are the
dark fiery wrathful deities of the Buddhists.
As a great power it is feared by ,most individuals who fail to discover
a positive way to engage in a productive relationship with it. They lack
the wisdom and cunning and the necessary skills of the weasel to ever
gain any advantage from the basilisk. The weasels cunning is the Higher
Self which assists the normal everyday male consciousness to get the
vital life force to achieve a transformed astral soul which becomes the
immortal body of the Higher Self.
The basilisk could only be killed by a weasel (which knew the secret
that Rue was poisonous to the Basilisk) who wet his teeth in the rue
plant's juice.
The weasels knowledge of the herb rue being a poison to the basilisk
should suggest to us that herbalism and alchemy play an important
assisting role in dealing successfully with the basilisk. The vital life
force is enhanced by alchemy improving the capacity for thje physical
human brain accessing the higher consciousness which is the Holy Grail
Golgotha in which the opposites of duality have to be brought together
to transform the astral soul from one which fragments at death to one
which becomes an immortal body for the Higher Self. We know from living
life in nature that the feminine aspect is responsible for creating all
new life, yet we have written Her out of common awareness and historical
existence. Now we have to face Her as the basilisk of the unconscious
mind, night terrors, the night Mare.
Basilisks are usually magically rather than normally bred. It is a
creature that is born from a spherical, yolkless egg, laid during the
days of Sirius (the Dog Star) by a seven-year-old rooster and hatched by
a toad.
The dragon was, of course, usually associated with the magical element
of Fire. In an experimental context the dragon could also represent the
application of heat or fire to produce magical personal transformation
as well as practical in cooking your dinner. Astrology also uses
"Modalities" : Fixed, Cardinal and Mutable. A winged dragon was sometimes
used to represent Mutability (change) , a wingless dragon Fixity
(stability). The serpent Ouroboros eating its own tail is frequently
found in alchemy. It represents the unity of all things and the circular
nature of the universe where things surprise you and return to bite you
on the bum.. Ouroboros also represents the universal unity of duality
<http://amazon. com/gp/product/ 0595322611? ie=UTF8&tag= dragonorama- 20&link\
_code=em1&camp= 212341&creative= 384065&creativeA SIN=0595322611& adid=d4b33\
04b-b25c-4b89- a72a-395857c231f 1> , the bringing together of opposites to
form a coherent whole. The basilisk mythology is the continuation of the
secret magical universal green language which is only magical because
it hides invisible symbolic meanings behind literal external facades.
Universal as a sphere, defining magical knowledge as a dog protecting
boundaries. Brought into existence from the sevenfold scale of
consciousness which spans from the frogs earth to the roosters heavens
singular clear purity. In the ancient past the basilisk symbolised
everything which moved people into great fear superstition and dread
before a visible threat became real, its capacity to bestow life or
death. It still does the same today as can be seen by the literal
interpretation given earlier inspires fear, but the symbolic knowledge
inspires hope and peace. The basilisk mythology is essential survival
information for the soul packaged under an innocent label as a
child's fable, as an external image which would escape violent
church authorities who refused to allow any modality of the souls
progress which made them irrelevant and redundant.
Sphinx head of woman, body of lion would kill you if you didn't know
the answer to her riddle.
The sphinx is a comparable mythology to the basilisk suggesting the
requirement of cunning wit and perception in comprehending the personal
unconscious to avoid death of the soul. The deadly breath of the
basilisk is the powerful challenging effect of the basilisks fire
element that turns away the ordinary person from even just entertaining
a small preview notion of its magical capacity for transformation power
and mystery. Its breath is similar to the breath of fire breathing
dragons suggesting the fiery nature inherit in the basilisk. Before it
acquires its capacity to kill with a glance, the fiery nature is an
aspect of the Quintessance nature of ISIS the divine feminine and the
Shekhinah of the Hebrew Kabbala.
The killing capacity of the basilisk by its glance.
When you are provided the life opportunity to see it into its prime
innocence and creative potential you refuse it and also to see your own
unconscious then by your denial of eternal life itself it kills you
with the rage of a woman spurned. Later in life when mid life crisis is
upon you the negative power of the basilisk has increased due to your
neglect, the only thing that can save you is introducing the basilisk to
your Higher Self the positive self mirrors that which neutralises the
negative self.
The tragedy of the human condition is that all it requires is one
single honest active human partnership to transform from the toxic
basilisk to the transcendence of uniting the human astral soul with the
higher Self. It is ignored by the male orientated patriarchal everyday
normal awareness, so as the unconscious it deteriorates and rots into a
deadly menace and killer of the personal soul by creating the very
opposite of what it was originally intended. But before it kills the
personal soul it externalises its toxicity creating the present
crisis of the humanity.
Pliny the Elder described it simply as a snake with a golden crown.
Basilisk are attested by a host of learned persons, such as Plyny,
Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna, Scaliger, and others.
The wise in all generations have known the truth always. When an
individual deciphers the grand cosmic riddle and gets the cosmic joke
humour is accompanied by compassion. Apart from mythology and the worlds
sacred texts these wonderful powers of the basilisk are attested by a
host of learned persons, such as Plyny, Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna,
Scaliger, and others. Occasionally one would question some part of the
tale.
Jonston, a learned physician, sagely remarks, "I would scarcely believe
that it kills with its look, for who could have seen it and lived to
tell the story?
The wise who went deliberately in search of the basilisk took with them
a mirror, the true Higher Self which reflected back the only reality
which would satisfy and disarm deadly evil capacity of the basilisk by
neutralising it by its opposite, and by a kind of alchemy and poetical
justice voided the basilisk with her own weapon. In contemporary
psychology self observation and mirroring are methods used to reframe
personal inner toxic conditions, methods to slay the basilisk. It is
the dragon which hordes immortal jewels and riches, which patriarchal
cultures fear and misinterpret as the enemy of mankind for thousands of
years. This position has constantly been poisoning mankind's own
unconscious.
A basilisk can live for at least 900 years given an adequate food
supply, and as it can eat most vertebrates (including humans), this is
not difficult to achieve.
The vampiric archetype Gods are basilisks, monsters of our own creation.
The unconscious has to be loved and married by its opposite the rational
everyday male awareness. If it is not seen and engaged by the everyday
awareness then the unconscious putrefies and deteriorates back into its
more dangerous primaleval roots where it expresses itself as the
negative version of the Divine Feminine. Now justifiably it is to be
feared as a self for filling prophecy which by neglect it falls first
into a lower octave of degenerated life force symbolised as the wurm
worm, where its attracts other perverse energies which become parasites
which feed off the vital life force of the human body. The neglected
unconscious becomes a vampire basilisk. Either now voluntarily perform
the alchemy and expose yourself to the Divine Fire of the Goddess or
later involuntarily She as the basilisk will expose you to it.
Mark 9.49 For Everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
shall be salted with salt.
Mark 9.44 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9.46 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9.48 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
.
Mark 9.50 Have salt in your selves and peace with one another.
[Basyllikus the Dream Thief]
<http://monsters. monstrous. com/basilisk_ and_toad. htm>
Even the look of its eyes could kill.
Shelley, in his "Ode to Naples," full of the enthusiasm excited by the
intelligence of the proclamation of a Constitutional Government at
Naples, in 1820, thus uses an allusion to the basilisk:
"What though Cimmerian anarchs dare blaspheme
Freedom and thee? a new Actaeon's error
Shall theirs have been,- devoured by their own hands!
Be thou like the imperial basilisk,
Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds!
Gaze on oppression, till at that dread risk,
Aghast she pass from the earth's disk.
Fear not, but gaze,- for freemen mightier grow,
And slaves more feeble, gazing on their foe."
The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents
and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be
burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the distant hiss of
their king, although they might be in full feed upon the feast.
Illustration by American artist Mahlon Blaine of a basilisk, from
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers (The John Day Company, New York, 1929).
"...When the pale night has fallen, then the basilisk comes slinking by.
It is she who in a most curious fashion was birthed by the cold Moon,
eternal spirit of infertility, and mothered by the arid sand herself, no
less fertile than the Moon. She is the secret of the desert. Some say
she is an animal, but that is not true. She is a thought and she grew up
suddenly where there was neither earth nor seed. She is a thought sprung
out of envious eternal infertility, and she must therefore take on a
chaotic form, unknown to orderly life. And that is why no one can
describe this creature, for she is as indescribable as nothingness
But what was to attack this terrible and unapproachable monster? There
is an old saying that "everything has its enemy"- and the cockatrice
quailed before the weasel. The basilisk might look daggers, the weasel
cared not, but advanced boldly to the conflict. When bitten, the weasel
retired for a moment to eat some rue, which was the only plant the
basilisks could not wither, returned with renewed strength and soundness
to the charge, and never left the enemy till he was stretched dead on
the plain.
Acid and alkaline neutralise each other. Everything is resolvable, now
is not too late. The wise cannot be as easily killed and renew their
strength by the art of alchemy which cannot ever be eliminated.
.
[Basilisk]
<www.pantheon .org/areas/ gallery/folklore /folklore/ basilisk. html>
"2012 The Season of the Basilisk".
The chikens come home to roost. The Basilisk spirit that has apparently
been operating since the beginning of time but which has been completely
unknown in the history of man. This spirit is given permission by God
every year to have a heightened power and authority from the 17th of
Tammuz to the 9th of Av in the Jewish calendar (remember God operates
on the Jewish calendar according to the prophets)."Apparent ly during
certain cyclical seasons, a tremendous increase in power is given to
this spirit to cause what is hidden to be revealed.
Dragons in Alchemy
Alchemy is a mixture of art, science and philosophy. Although it is
often associated with magic, it was a serious attempt to understand the
universe. As such it was an early forerunner of modern sciences such as
chemistry.
Lacking our modern vocabulary
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f82-a1da-48bb- b6f8-b5f2c65b1be 9> of science, the alchemists had to
invent their own which naturally reflected the beliefs of the time. It
was deeply symbolic and revolved around concepts such as the "four
elements". The creation of a new, allegoric vocabulary of symbols also
allowed the alchemists to preserve their secrets from outsiders.
Because there was no standard, concrete terminology for alchemy
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006-7f1b-46c4- 9e9a-807e8c2d398 b> , symbols often had multiple meanings
and were used in different ways. There is no single "meaning" of the
dragon in alchemy, it was used for a variety of different purposes. In
addition, alchemy was based around a synthesis of symbols to form a
whole rather than the analysis of individual symbols.
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The Symbolic Basilisk
Posted by: "elksnisandrew" elksnisandrew@yahoo.com.au elksnisandrew
Tue Nov 6, 2007 6:10 am (PST)
The Symbolic Basilisk
Much has been lost in translation from the Golden Age when simplicity
was more easily grasped. The Basilisk mythology contains some of the
most extremes in crucial loss of meaning, some of which will be
recovered here.
To illustrate the extent of misunderstanding it is easier to refer at
first to a more obvious area of animal sacrifices for the purpose of
offerings and purification both in the Hindu Vedas and Old Testament did
not originally refer to the killing of physical animals, but to the
clearing of foreign parasitic elementals and entities from the human
energy bodies, etheric and astral fragments of dead relatives. This is
what was meant by purification of the soul and the sacrifice which had
to be offered in order to achieve it. As these parasites' were
referred to as parts of the human animal soul, hence animal entities
which were meant to be offered to the `fire' referred to as the
Great White Light for dissolution rather than transferring to another
human host . When original knowledge started to become lost that texts
were interpreted literally rather than symbolically and animals were
slaughtered as part of offering and purification rituals. So the
essential knowledge of the Cockatrice/Basilisk was lost.
The basilisk had become a symbol of sin and hell, had been drafted into
heraldry, and had been used as a decorative feature on castles and
churches, like a gargoyle. Basilisks were finally pictured with bat
wings, and arrow-point on the ends of their tails, and either horns or
antlers.
This fall from a higher mode of knowledge is the central theme of
Basilisk Mythology. It is what happened to the Divine Feminine as it
fell into its negative interpretation. When the Goddess becomes a
Divine Beast.
For it is of such a character that if it is seen by a man before it can
see him itself, the cockatrice must die, and vice versâ. In the event
of the cockatrice getting the all-important first look, it will dart
venom from its eyes, deadly enough to kill any living creature.
The more dominant personal modality of awareness kills its less dominant
opponent. At a time of rampant religious inquisitions by fanatics who
thought they had a god given right to kill others over differing
opinions, the basilisk mythology is a warning to approach the
unconscious with the cunning wisdom of the Higher Self. As the same
history is being repeated in our present age the Basilisk serves again
as a relevant warning.
The price for not taking it as a warning is the potential loss of
immortality and succumbing to the second death, the fragmentation of the
astral soul.
This little lizard is held to be the king of serpents, hence its name.
The wart or hood on its head was thought to resemble a crown.
The kingly aspect and crown refers to the high potential for personal
transformation or death.
The basilisk cockatrice is symbolic of the personal unconscious in
which reside the feminine mysteries of eternity and great power, and
potential to produce the elixir potion of immortality by marriage with
its male counterpart, the normal male consciousness co-operating with
its own Higher Self. It is also comparable to being the earliest
representation of Mephistopheles and the Jungian Shadow.
A neglected unconscious becomes a tyrant master and the unconscious
fantasies dominating the everyday consciousness reveals the danger of it
externalising by becoming the evil eye's capacity to kill and
destroy balanced relationships. At a time of rampant religious
inquisitions by fanatics who thought they had a god given right to kill
the basilisk is a warning to approach the unconscious with the weasel
cunning wisdom of the Higher Self.
In alchemical symbology it is the black primal first matter which is
difficult to find from which the philosophers stone is made, or in many
other black stone mythologies such as the Cthulhu myth has its door way
as the black alter stone, and how essential to enlightenment are the
dark fiery wrathful deities of the Buddhists.
As a great power it is feared by ,most individuals who fail to discover
a positive way to engage in a productive relationship with it. They lack
the wisdom and cunning and the necessary skills of the weasel to ever
gain any advantage from the basilisk. The weasels cunning is the Higher
Self which assists the normal everyday male consciousness to get the
vital life force to achieve a transformed astral soul which becomes the
immortal body of the Higher Self.
The basilisk could only be killed by a weasel (which knew the secret
that Rue was poisonous to the Basilisk) who wet his teeth in the rue
plant's juice.
The weasels knowledge of the herb rue being a poison to the basilisk
should suggest to us that herbalism and alchemy play an important
assisting role in dealing successfully with the basilisk. The vital life
force is enhanced by alchemy improving the capacity for thje physical
human brain accessing the higher consciousness which is the Holy Grail
Golgotha in which the opposites of duality have to be brought together
to transform the astral soul from one which fragments at death to one
which becomes an immortal body for the Higher Self. We know from living
life in nature that the feminine aspect is responsible for creating all
new life, yet we have written Her out of common awareness and historical
existence. Now we have to face Her as the basilisk of the unconscious
mind, night terrors, the night Mare.
Basilisks are usually magically rather than normally bred. It is a
creature that is born from a spherical, yolkless egg, laid during the
days of Sirius (the Dog Star) by a seven-year-old rooster and hatched by
a toad.
The dragon was, of course, usually associated with the magical element
of Fire. In an experimental context the dragon could also represent the
application of heat or fire to produce magical personal transformation
as well as practical in cooking your dinner. Astrology also uses
"Modalities" : Fixed, Cardinal and Mutable. A winged dragon was sometimes
used to represent Mutability (change) , a wingless dragon Fixity
(stability). The serpent Ouroboros eating its own tail is frequently
found in alchemy. It represents the unity of all things and the circular
nature of the universe where things surprise you and return to bite you
on the bum.. Ouroboros also represents the universal unity of duality
<http://amazon. com/gp/product/ 0595322611? ie=UTF8&tag= dragonorama- 20&link\
_code=em1&camp= 212341&creative= 384065&creativeA SIN=0595322611& adid=d4b33\
04b-b25c-4b89- a72a-395857c231f 1> , the bringing together of opposites to
form a coherent whole. The basilisk mythology is the continuation of the
secret magical universal green language which is only magical because
it hides invisible symbolic meanings behind literal external facades.
Universal as a sphere, defining magical knowledge as a dog protecting
boundaries. Brought into existence from the sevenfold scale of
consciousness which spans from the frogs earth to the roosters heavens
singular clear purity. In the ancient past the basilisk symbolised
everything which moved people into great fear superstition and dread
before a visible threat became real, its capacity to bestow life or
death. It still does the same today as can be seen by the literal
interpretation given earlier inspires fear, but the symbolic knowledge
inspires hope and peace. The basilisk mythology is essential survival
information for the soul packaged under an innocent label as a
child's fable, as an external image which would escape violent
church authorities who refused to allow any modality of the souls
progress which made them irrelevant and redundant.
Sphinx head of woman, body of lion would kill you if you didn't know
the answer to her riddle.
The sphinx is a comparable mythology to the basilisk suggesting the
requirement of cunning wit and perception in comprehending the personal
unconscious to avoid death of the soul. The deadly breath of the
basilisk is the powerful challenging effect of the basilisks fire
element that turns away the ordinary person from even just entertaining
a small preview notion of its magical capacity for transformation power
and mystery. Its breath is similar to the breath of fire breathing
dragons suggesting the fiery nature inherit in the basilisk. Before it
acquires its capacity to kill with a glance, the fiery nature is an
aspect of the Quintessance nature of ISIS the divine feminine and the
Shekhinah of the Hebrew Kabbala.
The killing capacity of the basilisk by its glance.
When you are provided the life opportunity to see it into its prime
innocence and creative potential you refuse it and also to see your own
unconscious then by your denial of eternal life itself it kills you
with the rage of a woman spurned. Later in life when mid life crisis is
upon you the negative power of the basilisk has increased due to your
neglect, the only thing that can save you is introducing the basilisk to
your Higher Self the positive self mirrors that which neutralises the
negative self.
The tragedy of the human condition is that all it requires is one
single honest active human partnership to transform from the toxic
basilisk to the transcendence of uniting the human astral soul with the
higher Self. It is ignored by the male orientated patriarchal everyday
normal awareness, so as the unconscious it deteriorates and rots into a
deadly menace and killer of the personal soul by creating the very
opposite of what it was originally intended. But before it kills the
personal soul it externalises its toxicity creating the present
crisis of the humanity.
Pliny the Elder described it simply as a snake with a golden crown.
Basilisk are attested by a host of learned persons, such as Plyny,
Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna, Scaliger, and others.
The wise in all generations have known the truth always. When an
individual deciphers the grand cosmic riddle and gets the cosmic joke
humour is accompanied by compassion. Apart from mythology and the worlds
sacred texts these wonderful powers of the basilisk are attested by a
host of learned persons, such as Plyny, Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna,
Scaliger, and others. Occasionally one would question some part of the
tale.
Jonston, a learned physician, sagely remarks, "I would scarcely believe
that it kills with its look, for who could have seen it and lived to
tell the story?
The wise who went deliberately in search of the basilisk took with them
a mirror, the true Higher Self which reflected back the only reality
which would satisfy and disarm deadly evil capacity of the basilisk by
neutralising it by its opposite, and by a kind of alchemy and poetical
justice voided the basilisk with her own weapon. In contemporary
psychology self observation and mirroring are methods used to reframe
personal inner toxic conditions, methods to slay the basilisk. It is
the dragon which hordes immortal jewels and riches, which patriarchal
cultures fear and misinterpret as the enemy of mankind for thousands of
years. This position has constantly been poisoning mankind's own
unconscious.
A basilisk can live for at least 900 years given an adequate food
supply, and as it can eat most vertebrates (including humans), this is
not difficult to achieve.
The vampiric archetype Gods are basilisks, monsters of our own creation.
The unconscious has to be loved and married by its opposite the rational
everyday male awareness. If it is not seen and engaged by the everyday
awareness then the unconscious putrefies and deteriorates back into its
more dangerous primaleval roots where it expresses itself as the
negative version of the Divine Feminine. Now justifiably it is to be
feared as a self for filling prophecy which by neglect it falls first
into a lower octave of degenerated life force symbolised as the wurm
worm, where its attracts other perverse energies which become parasites
which feed off the vital life force of the human body. The neglected
unconscious becomes a vampire basilisk. Either now voluntarily perform
the alchemy and expose yourself to the Divine Fire of the Goddess or
later involuntarily She as the basilisk will expose you to it.
Mark 9.49 For Everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
shall be salted with salt.
Mark 9.44 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9.46 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9.48 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
.
Mark 9.50 Have salt in your selves and peace with one another.
[Basyllikus the Dream Thief]
<http://monsters. monstrous. com/basilisk_ and_toad. htm>
Even the look of its eyes could kill.
Shelley, in his "Ode to Naples," full of the enthusiasm excited by the
intelligence of the proclamation of a Constitutional Government at
Naples, in 1820, thus uses an allusion to the basilisk:
"What though Cimmerian anarchs dare blaspheme
Freedom and thee? a new Actaeon's error
Shall theirs have been,- devoured by their own hands!
Be thou like the imperial basilisk,
Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds!
Gaze on oppression, till at that dread risk,
Aghast she pass from the earth's disk.
Fear not, but gaze,- for freemen mightier grow,
And slaves more feeble, gazing on their foe."
The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents
and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be
burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the distant hiss of
their king, although they might be in full feed upon the feast.
Illustration by American artist Mahlon Blaine of a basilisk, from
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers (The John Day Company, New York, 1929).
"...When the pale night has fallen, then the basilisk comes slinking by.
It is she who in a most curious fashion was birthed by the cold Moon,
eternal spirit of infertility, and mothered by the arid sand herself, no
less fertile than the Moon. She is the secret of the desert. Some say
she is an animal, but that is not true. She is a thought and she grew up
suddenly where there was neither earth nor seed. She is a thought sprung
out of envious eternal infertility, and she must therefore take on a
chaotic form, unknown to orderly life. And that is why no one can
describe this creature, for she is as indescribable as nothingness
But what was to attack this terrible and unapproachable monster? There
is an old saying that "everything has its enemy"- and the cockatrice
quailed before the weasel. The basilisk might look daggers, the weasel
cared not, but advanced boldly to the conflict. When bitten, the weasel
retired for a moment to eat some rue, which was the only plant the
basilisks could not wither, returned with renewed strength and soundness
to the charge, and never left the enemy till he was stretched dead on
the plain.
Acid and alkaline neutralise each other. Everything is resolvable, now
is not too late. The wise cannot be as easily killed and renew their
strength by the art of alchemy which cannot ever be eliminated.
.
[Basilisk]
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"2012 The Season of the Basilisk".
The chikens come home to roost. The Basilisk spirit that has apparently
been operating since the beginning of time but which has been completely
unknown in the history of man. This spirit is given permission by God
every year to have a heightened power and authority from the 17th of
Tammuz to the 9th of Av in the Jewish calendar (remember God operates
on the Jewish calendar according to the prophets)."Apparent ly during
certain cyclical seasons, a tremendous increase in power is given to
this spirit to cause what is hidden to be revealed.
Dragons in Alchemy
Alchemy is a mixture of art, science and philosophy. Although it is
often associated with magic, it was a serious attempt to understand the
universe. As such it was an early forerunner of modern sciences such as
chemistry.
Lacking our modern vocabulary
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f82-a1da-48bb- b6f8-b5f2c65b1be 9> of science, the alchemists had to
invent their own which naturally reflected the beliefs of the time. It
was deeply symbolic and revolved around concepts such as the "four
elements". The creation of a new, allegoric vocabulary of symbols also
allowed the alchemists to preserve their secrets from outsiders.
Because there was no standard, concrete terminology for alchemy
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and were used in different ways. There is no single "meaning" of the
dragon in alchemy, it was used for a variety of different purposes. In
addition, alchemy was based around a synthesis of symbols to form a
whole rather than the analysis of individual symbols.
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Re: The Basilisk
Wed, November 7, 2007 - 11:43 AMinteresting ~ thanx!
I have long been attracted to the phrase "rue the day"
love all-ways,
mem
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Re: The Basilisk
Wed, November 7, 2007 - 4:40 PMUmm, do you have anything even remotely resembling evidence for the nonsense about sacrifices? The records and rituals for them are pretty complete and have been around for a hell of a long time. If "It just has to be that way because that's how I want it to be," which is what you seem to be saying then try again. Stop projecting your own prejudices onto other cultures.
