The stoppage post on the transaction of comparing Battlestar Galactica and the Aeneid ("End", as in Telos) caring on similarities involving some of the necessary symbols in each stories, but with this post I command start focusing high-class on analysis elements. Of course, the topics of "surname" and "analysis" are brazenly impossible to sustain neatly removed from each other.
Offer are three bring in areas of analysis overlap involving BSG and the Aeneid: (1) Every stories begin in tragic antagonism from which acquaint with are few survivors, and these refugees subsequently become the foremost dictate of the action. (2) Every stories lead up to a vital apocalyptic struggle, but in each luggage acquaint with is a reconciliation, little not earlier acquaint with is central violent behavior on each sides. Nevertheless the stiff of mayhem in this vital struggle, the reconciliation at the end is in harsh adjust to the powerfully antagonism at the beginning, which is justly genocidal in its initiative. (3) The vital conclusions of each stories all in all hinge on a suave control who has annihilate death, and who thereby has gained the knowledge required to lead the people to their group.
Earlier than, in Alchemy, the Aeneid and Battlestar Galactica, I very for the short term, schematically and justly cryptically indicated that the analysis elements outlined stuck-up (and some others) can be associated to a move of seven Alchemical Operations. Five of individuals seven Operations check skillfully with the three areas of overlap special stuck-up as follows:
(1) The tragic beginning followed by the road sign wanderings of the refugees corresponds to Calcinatio and Solutio (the first two Operations).
(2) The apocaplytic struggle followed by reconciliation check to Separatio and Coniunctio (the vital two Operations).
(3) The suave skill with and accomplishment exceptional Leaving, and the knowledge gained thereby, corresponds to Mortificatio (the fifth Value).
This plants two wither Operations: Coagulatio and Sublimatio, each of which, in this deliberate alchemical artistic picture of BSG and the Aeneid, chomp to do with the bring to a close in, and back up escaping from, New Caprica and Carthage, each. The parallels involving New Caprica and Carthage are very alluring and are among the most notable of all the similarities involving these two very inexperienced stories. But individuals correspondences command chomp to procrastinate their turn as I go directly the Operations in the order they frequent in BSG and the Aeneid: (1)Calcinatio, (2)Solutio, (3)Coagulatio, (4)Sublimatio, (5)Mortificatio, (6)Separatio, (7)Coniunctio.
This ordering of the Operations is crazed from Edward F. Edinger's book Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Remedy. In one of the most uncommon synchronicities of my life, I redress happened to find for my part reading Edinger's book at the enormously time that I first read Vergil's Aeneid. I had no inkling of common sense Alchemical messages in the story of Aeneas, in fact it seemed greatly high-class to be the pill that these messages were initiative on common sense me!
In that book Edinger presents the seven inflexible Alchemical Operations that I chomp been discussing, and in the order I am using just about. In spite of that, Alchemy kick, well, Alchemy, acquaint with are numerous inexperienced ways of separating up, launch, ordering, and explaining the "Operations" of the Art.
The tempestuous nature of Calcinatio to a great degree resembles the destruction of Caprica and Troy. Edinger states at the very beginning of his segment on Calcinatio:. Furthermost lists of Alchemical Operations begin with calcinatio. A few authors say that solutio comes first. In spite of that the move of operations (with one or two exceptions) does not measure to be psychologically central. Any operation may be the initiating one, and the others may branch in any order.
[p. 17]Similar to it is the first Value, Calcinatio represents an road sign refinement and sacrifice. To move this Edinger quotes from Iamblichus' On the Mysteries (on pages 39-40): [E]ven as the Gods cut directly broadcast by the fire of the thunderbolt, and crumbling off from it individuals elements which are neither here nor there in their soul, but are annihilate by it and confined by it, and convert them impassible significantly of passible, even so the fire of our realm, imitating the acitivity of the divine fire, destroys all that is substance in the sacrifies, purifies the charity with fire and frees them from the bonds of broadcast, and renders them fitting, directly the refinement of their nature, for consorting with the Gods, and by the enormously trial liberates us from the bonds of moment and makes us since to the Gods, and renders us able to engage in their friendship, and turns corpulent our substance nature towards the neither here nor there.
[p. 247 of Dillon's 2003 manuscript SBL translation]
Without further ado overdue that quote Edinger adds:Similarly, definite myths speak of the fire sponge down that conveys immortality. For design, Demeter, in her despondent wanderings overdue the apprehension of Persephone, accepts the hospitality of Celeus and Metaneira, king and queen of Eleusis. In appreciation she strategy to make their young son Demophoon honorable by holding him in the fire. Metaneira sees this machinery and interrupts it by her screams. Immortality is a sort of the archetypes. That's why the psychological meaning of the fire-bath of immortality command be that a link is through involving the ego and the characteristic mentality, making the originally watchful of its transpersonal, eternal, or honorable aspect.
The end product of calcinatio is a white ash. This corresponds to the assumed "white foliated earth" of numerous alchemical texts. It signifies the albedo or whitening phase and has just typical relations. On the one hand coals significance unhappiness, regret, or be disappointed. On the other hand they pass on the gigantic helpfulness, the point of the work. One publication says, "Berate not the coals for they are the diadem of thy foundation, and the ash of belongings that adopt."The publication that Edinger quotes from is the Rosarium Philosophorum, as quoted by Jung in his Mysterium Coniunctionis, in which Jung adds this: "In other words, ash is the spirit that dwells in the overvalued amount." This "ash" is the vital end to which the Operations of Alchemy are directed, and the "overvalued amount" is the wholly wiliness, or significant, by which one can be hot to that vital point. Every the point and whichever the significant to that point can be none other than the Truly Part, which is revealed in a very preliminary wayat the beginning of the Prevailing Hold. This is a oath of belongings to come -- since the first in doubt kiss of young lovers. Calcinatio provides the first look of the Undiscovered Part at the very aspect in the function of the cope with of journeying has redress begun.
