Unus Mundus

To the alchemists duality is an illusion. It is the division of the Unus Mundus into opposite pairs of polarities, which were considered masculine and feminine. The fact that these masculine and feminine pairs attract each other was considered a divine gift in that this allowed them to recombine and return to unity. The alchemical Great Work, therefore, is a process of transmutation in which opposite polarities are combined, separated, and recombined to attain a state beyond duality. 

If the imaginal realm is real, then it is time to begin making it conscious. No longer the arcane pursuit of seers and mystics, the survival of our species may now depend on its capacity to live in the unus mundus. If this mutation is latent then conceivably it is contingent upon our choice to be- come its living catalyst. Such a choice is ultimately a no-lose proposition. 

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