Pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd in his Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris (1617–21). Around the black void's edges is inscribed "Et sic in infinitum..." (“And so on to infinity…”). publicdomainreview.org/product/and-...

"...As long as this is not so, every tap on the walls of the retort shifts the powders. This means that every change incidental to life shifts us inside and we have no power of inner resistance to the external world and its changing events."

(Maurice Nicoll - "Commentaries")

"...You know that an egg that is being hatched must not be allowed to get cold too long. You have heard also in this teaching that a fire must be lit to heat the alchemical retort in which the metallic powders are contained which must eventually be fused together..."

"...Defy anything on this planet to submerge you. There is the light of a life-belt in you."

(A.R. Orage)

"...One half tragedy of life is this blaming of others for what happens to us. Warning: sooner or later we shall encounter experiences which we are unprepared for and for which we are so unequipped that they may conquer us..."

Unnoticed, ne’er rouse him, and fly from before him!
Father Zeus, O free them all from sufferings so great…!

- #Pythagoras, 'The Golden Verses'

That is the Fate that blinds humanity; in circles,
Hither and yon they run in endless sorrows;
For they are followed by a grim companion, disunion within themselves;

- #Pythagoras, 'The Golden Verses'