On yellow

[Mark Kohut]

I do think it is "no accident' that TRP seemed to put some of eliade's ideas here in ATD, just south of the Balkan area---nor is it an accident that Eliade FOUND his ideas here
  (in the real world), of course.
   
  'courtyard within a courtyard' is very eliadeish................as is much more (if not yellow)
   
  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)
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  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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