Spirit creates a potential for holograms. To form a real hologram, a whole trinity of rays is required. Salt is a member of the triad mercury, sulphur, and salt, corresponding to spirit, soul, and body; or to fire (or air), water, and earth. Paracelsus regarded these as the mystical elements of all compound bodies. All forms of matter were reducible to one or other of them -- everything was either a sulphur, a mercury, a salt, or a compound. The philosophers stone was said to be a compound of all three. As the soul, our most divine element, preserves life by preventing dissolution of the body, just so salt, controls and checks the process of decay. The connection of salt to the soul, is as a balsam to the body. Its fertilising, generative power,—a leavening function extended to the role of the Apostles in the Christian Gospels: ‘Ye are the salt of the earth’. In Paracelsus’ writings, the tria prima are often compared to the three aspects that are present during the process of combustion (i.e. fire, smoke, ash): ‘Whatever burns is sulphur, whatever is humid is mercury, and that which is the balsam of these two is salt’. Paracelsians also employed the tria prima to represent the composition of the human microcosm: spirit (mercury), soul (sulphur) and body (salt), and this correlation was extended to some extent to the Christian trinity: father (sulphur), holy spirit (mercury), son (salt). Salt is the balsam of Nature, which drives away the corruption of the warm Sulphur with the moist Mercury, out of which two ingredients man is by nature compacted. In geometry, in a triangle, the given line is Mercury, the Angles are Sulphur, and the resultant triangle is Salt. The thing that is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable. The thing that is sown is contemptible, but what is raised is glorious. The thing that is sown is weak, but what is raised is powerful. When it is sown it embodies the soul (psyche), when it is raised it embodies the spirit (pneuma). —I Corinthians 15:42-44. The Hermetic application of this principle - is the aims of alchemy: the transmutation of the physical corpus into an immortal resurrection body: an act of spiritual concretion in which the body is spiritualised and the spirit corporified. The presence of the Gods gives us health of body, virtue of soul and purity of mind. In short, it elevates everything in us to its proper principle. It annihilates what is cold and destructive in us, it increases our heat and causes it to become more powerful and dominant. It makes everything in the soul consonant with the Nous [mind, consciousness]; it causes a light to shine with intelligible harmony, and it reveals the invinsible as visible to the eyes of the soul by means of the eyes of the body. The idea of the fixed alchemical salt finds its most significant forebears in the concept of the creation of a resurrection body. All the intensifications made on material species occur through an inscription on the entity’s indestructible nucleus (alchemically, a mineral salt); because this nucleus is the foundation of the body, the more intensifications it experiences, the more its essential (primordial but also future) body will approach the perfect physical vehicle until the point is reached where, ultimately, luminous consciousness itself becomes its own perfect body - Diamond body . Thus, the abstract and the concrete, the volatile and the fixed, are ultimately joined through a process of intensification registered permanently in the being’s incorruptible aspect—the salt in the bones or ashes. The incorruptible body will be earthly, but without moisture and coarseness, having been unutterably changed from animate to spiritual, so that it will be both of the dust and heavenly. Just as it was created in the beginning, so also will it arise, that it may be conformable to the image of the Son of Man by entire participation in deification. from.aaroncheak/hermetic-problem-of-salt/
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