Talk:Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
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What is an "iniciatic ritual"?
My hunch is he means inititation ritual. ThePeg [1] [2] [3] [4] AxelBoldt 23:54, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] CHYMICAL WEDDINGS
Once you've read the Chymical Wedding its very interesting going back to world literature and seeing how often the images of the Chymical Wedding recur, along with other alchemical images such as the Rose. The idea of the Hieros Gamos clearly reccurs again and again in the Western mind. Check out the chapter Cana In Galilee in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; the Wedding Guest in The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (he never gets into the Wedding he has been invited to because of the Mariner's story of horror and discord. The Brides' face is red like a rose etc.); the Rose Garden in The Four Quartets with its 'necesarrie conjunction' and so on and so on. For probably the most amazing expression of the idea of the Chymical Wedding as a cosmic force read The Man Who Died by D H Lawrence ,one of his last works, in which the Resurrected Christ achieves a mystical union with a Priestess of Isis. The prototype of all these allegories of the Rose and the transformation of the individual is the great medieval poem The Romance Of The Rose which unites the Mysticism of Christianity & Alchemy with the most sublime imagery of the Lover in search of the Rose of his Mistress.ThePeg 23:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
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