Gold
‘the sun is its father’; consequences for our inner life
March 21st 2011
We know gold in its solid state only. But, in fact, the metal we go in search of in the bowels of the earth exists at first in an igneous state. This is what Hermes Trismegistus is referring to when he says, ‘The sun is its father, the moon is its mother, the wind carried it in its belly, and the earth nursed it.’ Yes, the father of gold is the sun – the sun produces it, every ray is gold – and the moon is the reflection of this gold. The sun’s rays come down through the air to reach the earth and penetrate it, and there they condense. So, the sun produces gold in its etheric state, and the earth condenses it. In the sun, gold is too volatile; it can only be condensed in the bowels of the earth, where particular materials capable of fixing it are found.
And, in springtime, when you watch the sunrise, think of yourself as being a soil, in which the gold from the sun’s rays can come to deposit itself and settle.