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MARTIN P. NILSSON: THE SICKLE OF KRONOS
In The Alchemical Tarot, Robert Place and Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 1995, the alchemical correspondences with:
15 THE DEVIL:are: ..."imprisonment in matter; coagulation; Hermaphroditus."
Edward Edinger writes:
"In essence, coagulatio is the process that turns something into earth. "Earth" is thus one of the synonyms for the coagulatio. It is heavy and permanent, of fixed position and shape. It doesn't disappear into the air by volatilizing nor pliantly adapt itself to the shape of any container as does water. Its form and location are fixed. Thus, for a psychic content to become earth means that it has been concretized in a particular localized form; that is, it has become attached to an ego
Interesting that the Hermaphrodite is seen as evil in African culture, an androgyne devil, and in ancient Egypt, where we have the buggery between Set [Saturn] and Horus.
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