Symbols of the 4 elements9/8/2023 ![]() The 'sublimation' or progress or qualitative change consists in an unfolding of totality into four parts four times, which means nothing less than its becoming conscious. ![]() ![]() What the formula can only hint at, however, is the higher plane that is reached through the process of transformation and integration. It shows the rotation of the mandala, the antithetical play of complementary (or compensatory) processes, then the apocatastasis, i.e., the restoration of an original state of wholeness, which the alchemists expressed through the symbol of the uroboros, and finally the formula repeats the ancient alchemical tetrameria, which is implicit in the fourfold structure of unity. The formula reproduces exactly the essential features of the symbolic process of transformation.
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