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Re: Aryan Alchemy (was Alchemy)   Topic List   < Prev Topic  |  Next Topic >
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The difference between the gold-making process and the one concerning the elixir and/or body of immortality is apparent, because gold, diamond, cinnabar, rainbow, radiance, and so on, are all images of that golden embryo or body. 

Alchemy, being the Ars Regia, the regal art of the Khsatriya, looks closer to the solar-Aryan principle and far from the lunar one, even if we got the merry alchemist 'Mary the Jewess or the Egyptian', legendary mistress of Cleopatra, who invented the famous Bain Marie…

Only apparently Coomaraswamy does not agree, considering mostly androgynous the human nature, in fact, in the attempt to relativize the racial meaning of the word Aryan, he writes:

"We are all Aryans from the paternal side and all not Aryans from the maternal one, because the feminine principle is always demonic (Asura's) in the Rig-Veda; we are child of the day and of the night, of the fire and of the water, our existence itself coming from an exogamy and a double generation, and by consequence we are heirs of a bilateral symmetry; see correlation between the right eye and Indra, and the left eye and Indrani in Sh. Br. X, 5, 2, and the Upanishads" ('La doctrine du sacrifice', Dervy, Paris 1978).

 

I wonder if Coomaraswamy realized that considering the male-paternal heritage Aryan and the feminine-maternal (and demonic!) one not Aryan, is going even beyond the racial significance. A curious comment, from the mouth of an author (apparently ignored by Evola) always eager to please to the West by his parallels between Bible, Rig-Veda and Upanishads. 

 
 
Savitar Devi <savitar_devi@...> wrote:
 
Thank you for the offer, but I am afraid that in general I have too much dignity to accept loans anyway - however since you have with pinpoint accuracy deduced that I do not own a copy of the book, you have managed to embarrass me into ordering a copy.
 
I was actually thinking of the comparison in reference to few general trends in Tantrism, but also more specifically a text by David Gordon White 'The Ocean of Mercury: an Eleventh-Century Alchemical Text' (Religions of India in Practice, Lopez, D. ed, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1995).
 
'Alchemy, the "way of mercury" (rasayana), was essentially a Hindu enterprise in India; there are no extant Buddhist texts devoted to the subject. Within the Hindu sphere, the roughly eleventh-century Rasanava or "Ocean of Mercury" is the most important textual source for what is known as Tantric alchemy. In contrast to earlier (third to tenth centuries C.E.) "gold-making" alchemy and later (fourteenth to twentieth centuries) therapeutic uses of mercurial and mineral medicines, tantric alchemy, which saw its heyday in the tenth to thirteenth centuries, was most concerned with the alchemical production of an elixi r of immortal life with which to realize the supreme goals of bodily immortality (jivanmukti), supernatural powers (siddhi) and a state of being identical to that of the supreme being Shiva.'
 
In regards to the more general similarities, there are the solar and lunar channels, male and female Tantric texts, red and white drops, son and mother lights and kundalini/gTummo....it seems rather obvious that there is at least some similarity at play here, the question is why
 


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The difference between the gold-making process and the one concerning the elixir and/or body of immortality is apparent, because gold, diamond, cinnabar,...
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The Tantrik 'immortality of the body' 'tis but a metaphor - one should never read a literal meaning into the Tantras - read them literally, and one will...
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