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systole
diastole
Life = power = food, the earliest formula for obtaining power over anything,
oblation
apana
Brahma arises through tapas. From Brahma comes food, From food—breath, spirit, truth, Worlds, and in works, immortality.
Brahma and food
relation between the world and God is equivalent to that between food and the eater of food.
Prajapati,
he who knows the essence aditi, becomes the eater of the world; everything becomes food for him
“know the essence of aditi” is to experience the infinite being of the creator who “eats” the world he has created. Thus, on the primitive level, conscious realization is called eating.
This material object outside is then “assimilated,” i.e., eaten.
Conscious realization is “acted out” in the elementary scheme of nutritive assimilation, and the ritual act of concrete eating is the first form of assimilation known to man.47
where need is hunger and satisfaction means satiety.
parturient.
beatific
autarchy,
homunculus
the first is the pleromatic stage of paradisal perfection in the unborn, the embryonic stage of the ego, which a later consciousness will contrast with the sufferings of the nonautarchic ego in the world. The second stage is that of the alimentary uroboros, a closed circuit whose “own waste provides its own food.” The third, genital-masturbatory phase is that of Atum “copulating in his own hand.” All these images, like the self-incubation of one made pregnant through tapas—a later spiritual form of autarchy—are images of the self-contained creative principle.
for the development of the ego, of consciousness, of personality, and, lastly, of individuality itself is actually fostered by the autarchy whose symbol is the uroboros.
The growth of consciousness and of the ego is largely governed by this pattern.
abeyance,
when ego development is replaced by the development of the self, or individuation.
world has ceased to be of prime importance, the uroboros symbol will reappear as the mandala in the psychology of the adult.
Unity, once again
centroversion.
Canaanite
The uroboros, traceable in all epochs and cultures, then appears as the latest symbol of individual psychic development, signifying the roundedness of the psyche, life’s wholeness, and perfection regained.
Uroboros
Then it is no longer the primordial figure of the uroboros, but, in the case of a more developed ego, the indication that a further stage has been reached, namely, the dominance of the uroboros over the ego, or the stage of the Great Mother.
nascent
ambivalent.
The unconscious life of nature, which is also the life of the uroboros, combines the most meaningless destruction with the supreme meaningfulness of instinctive creation; for the meaningful unity of the organism is as “natural” as the cancer which devours
Vital components in the growth of the ego and in the evolution of consciousness, culture, religion, art, and science spring from the urge to overcome this fear by giving it concrete expression.
The world is uroboric and supreme, whether this uroboric supremacy be experienced as the world or the unconscious, one’s environment, or one’s own body.
In individual development and perhaps also in that of the collective, these layers do not lie on top of one another in an orderly arrangement, but, as in the geological stratification of the earth, early layers may be pushed to the top and late layers to the bottom.
Stages of individual development
“childman-ego-consciousness” on the sequence “mother-earth-nature-unconscious”
For the dawning light of consciousness, the maternal uroboros turns to darkness and night.
suzerainty.
androgynous
vernal,
Ever the same Great Mother mates with ever new men.
The young men whom the Mother selects for her lovers may impregnate her, they may even be fertility gods, but the fact remains that they are only phallic consorts of the Great Mother, drones serving the queen bee, who are killed off as soon as they have performed their duty of fecundation.
suprapersonal
defines archetypally the situation of the adolescent ego under the dominance of the Great Mother.
Adolescent
The relation of son-lover to Great Mother is an archetypal situation which is operative even today, and the overcoming of it is the precondition for any further development of ego consciousness.
only have a collective fate, not a fate of their own; they are not yet individuals and so they have no individual existence, only a ritual one.
If ego-conscious does not develop, does something like a gang get formed? Or armies?
and universal like “life.”
Precisely in virtue of her fruitfulness, she is a virgin, that is, unrelated and not dependent upon any man.
Virgin symbol meaning
kedesha,
Yoni and lingam, female and male, are two principles which come together beyond the person, in holiness, where the personal is shed away and remains insignificant.
chosen ministers and priests of the Mother Goddess are eunuchs.
human sacrifice.
