On yellow

[Bekah]

I've read your posts now - I can't really remember reading them at  
the time.

I think back there Cyprian's "orgasm" was a sense of relief at the  
"release from desire"  so complete it was physical.  Isn't a sexual  
orgasm a  "release from desire"?

And this may be the onset of his quest for release from self which is  
found in later pages?

Bekah

On Apr 27, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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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