On yellow

[Mark Kohut]

Bekah,
   
  Great of you to look this up.........and Ian for suggesting it ..................fascinating...
   
  were you able, Bekah, to read (my) posts re when Cyprian
  seemed to have all of his previous expressed sexuality emerge as a kind of full body
  orgasm?....Related to tantric sex but coming without even trying or thinking of it......
   
  Sublimation became its own reward......
   
  Mark

Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
      On Apr 27, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

    Look into alchemy.  The four colors of transmutation: black, white, yellow and red.  See Eliade,  The Forge and the Crucible.


  Interesting.  So I Googled the definition of "transmutation" and was sent to Wiki which gave me "sexual transmutation" among others.  So I clicked the link: 
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_sublimation
  

    Sexual sublimation, also known as sexual transmutation, is the attempt among some religious traditions to transform sexual energy into creativity, thereby facilitating a mystical awakening.
  In psychology, sublimation is the transference of sexual energy, or libido, into a physical act or a different emotion in order to avoid confrontation with the sexual urge. It is based on the belief that sexual energy, the creative function of the human being, can be used to create a spiritual nature instead of being let out in hopes of creating physically or sensually.[1][2][3]
  The term itself means to transform the crude sexual energy into a carrier of spiritual essence. Different schools that describe this energy as vital energy, vital winds (prana), spiritual energy, ojas, shakti, tummo, or kundalini.[4][5][6]
  

  "The Yellow Book: Gnosis, the Divine Mother Kundalini and Jinn Science"  is about sexual transmutation.  It's yellow. 
  

  Btw,  the author of "The Forge and the Crucible" is Romanian - just north of the Balkan area. Do they know about this sort of thing?  (paranoid mysticism)
  ***
  

  Good point and interesting but I still see the Austrian connection as the most realistic meaning behind Cyprian's cryptic comment.   
  

  Another idea might be that yellow could mean cowardly and that could possibly be relevant to a meeting with the Prince.   (I still like the Austrian connection best.)
  

  Bekah
  

  




       
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