Immortal, hidden

The Milk of Soma, the sublimated seed, the Nectar of Immortality, hidden within the body, pours outward giving life to all things. Sustaining all things, the banner of awareness is raised to the zenith of the flagpole Shashumna. 

Haut, Mavis. The hidden library of Tanith Lee themes and subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene. Jefferson (NC) McFarland Co, 2001. viii, 216 p. ISBN 078641085X... 

Thus one cannot, without error, confound this Humid Radical with Innate Fire. The latter is the inhabitant, the former the habitation, the dwelling. It is, in all the Mixts, the laboratory of Vulcan the hearth on which is preserved that immortal Fire, the prime-motor created from all the faculties of individuals the universal Balm, the most precious Elixir of Nature, the perfectly sublimated Mercury of Life, which Nature distributes by weight and measure to all the Mixts. He who will know how to extract this treasure from the heart, and from the hidden center of the productions of this lower world, to despoil it of its thick elementary shell, which conceals it from our eyes and to draw it from the dark prison in which it is enclosed and inactive, may boast of knowing how to make the most precious MEDICINE to relieve the human body. 

I was so intent on following his every move that I even looked up the references he d made to other alchemists, though in the old days I had disliked their portentous prose. But with Selden under threat, I read these alchemists with different eyes. The more Harford and Osborne tapped into the hidden cavities of Selden, the more I became committed to the alchemical process. H. and O. s preoccupations were transitory. If Selden could be torn down once, it could be tom down again. But alchemy was at the heart of Selden, and they couldn t touch that. It seemed to me now that the alchemists were entirely justified in their faith in a unifying spirit that transcended the material and mortal life. Thus Paracelsus on the immortal soul ... 

Po-Yang revives and wakes up the faithful disciple and the dog, and they go on to join the immortals. The two disciples who lost faith are informed that their ex-master has transcended mortality, and they must live a life full of regret over their missed opportunity and lack of faith. The story is full of symbolism and the importance of faith and obedience. The alchemist (or those who would follow the alchemist s path) had to understand not only the practical issues of making tinctures or medicines but the deeper esoteric or hidden aspects of nature. What makes the story even more complex is that the central character, Po-Yang, is a thinly disguised Lao-tse, founder of Taoism, one of whose names was Po-Yang of Wei. Po-Yang is thus not merely a master alchemist but a spiritual master. 

Table XXXII approaches the mitochondria. Before their capture to become endosymbionts, they were independent proteobacteria dividing incessandy without senescence and namral death. In their host eukaryotic cells do they contribute to immortality (that is malignant transformation ), or induce cell death (intrinsic mitochondrial apoptosis) (Figure 23). Table XXXIII confronts the problem of pediatric acute leukemias. Are as yet hidden human retroviruses involved and therefore it has the characteristic pathogenesis that of extrinsically induced malignancies Table XXXIV deals with a clinical observation of experienced...

During my student days (pre-university, university, PhD), we learned quantum mechanics from the books authored by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, A. S. Davydov, D. Bohm, Feynman s course of Lectures on Physics, and from P. A. M. Dirac s Principles . We were exeited with the theories of hidden variables, EPR paradox, decoherence, entanglement, and concerned for a life of immortal Schrodinger s cat - they were in the air at that time Did I understand it Yes - because, due to a conventional wisdom, I used it more than 24 hours a day and every day. I however doubt - doubt together with Feynman who once remarked that Nobody understands it - that I ve actually understood it. I touched and used it throughout the molecular world, which is nowadays inhabited by 21 million molecules, and which I studied as a quantum chemist - in fact, by education, I am a theoretical physicist. 

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