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The Magical Mountain

On the mountain tops the earth is refined and is joined with heaven, it's also where heaven condenses and tokes form. For this reason, in all traditions, mountains have symbolized the place of encounter of man with God. Nevertheless, this sacred encounter can't be generated on any mountain, rather only on a magical mountain, a secret place which only men who have been initiated into the mysteries may approach.


 

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The Magical Mountain

On the mountain tops the earth is refined and is joined with heaven, it's also where heaven condenses and tokes form. For this reason, in all traditions, mountains have symbolized the place of encounter of man with God. Nevertheless, this sacred encounter can't be generated on any mountain, rather only on a magical mountain, a secret place which only men who have been initiated into the mysteries may approach. In the Judeo Christian tradition, the prototype of this type is Moses, when he removed his sandals, symbols of the lowest, in order to go to the place of his encounter with God.

So also, under the mountains are found the mines, where people extract the precious metals formed through the influences of heaven, and it is justly there, on the mountain top, where the alchemists must go to search for their prima materia , germ of celestial light, before it is fixed as a specific metal

The painting by Joan Miró, Femme devant l'etoile filante , in a masterful way suggests the encounter between of the subtle, represented by the star, and the corporeal, represented by the woman-mountain contains a secret in her entrails.

  • Joan Miro, "Femme devant l'étoile filante" (1974)
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