The Alchemical Symbolism of Clouds Gnostic Muse

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Clouds are an alchemical symbol. Like all alchemical symbols it is derived from the visible, physicalproperties of nature but the meaning pertains to the invisible and psycho-spiritual properties withinourselves.

Alchemical Symbols of Nature

Alchemical symbols of nature include minerals such as salt, sulphur, mercury, gold, and silver. Thefour classical elements of nature. Plants such as herbs, flowers and trees. Animals such as lions,dragons, dogs, birds, snakes, and fish. Planets, stars, the sun and moon, mountains, bodies of water,and rainbows.

Clouds as Vapor

Clouds are collections of water vapor that rise from bodies of water such as rivers, lakes streamsand oceans. Vapor is lighter, ethereal, can drift and expand in ways that water in liquid or solid formcannot. For liquid to become vapor requires heat, and it leaves behind any impurities as it rises.Vapor is transmuted water.

Rain and Ice

As clouds gather and increase in density they condense into rain. Rain is one of the life-giving andcleansing properties of water that nourishes the plants, animals, crops, and all living things. Cloudsalso magnetically gather around mountains where they concentrate back into a liquid form or a solidform as snow and ice. Ice as the solid form of water represents energetic potential in a static state, itmust be heated into liquid or vapor to become usable.

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The Sexual Waters/Waters of Life

“See how the water of a puddle on the road gradually evaporates under the heat from the sun andbecomes clouds, and ultimately energy, lightning and thunder. All the water from the seas and therivers becomes clouds and finally lightning and thunder; that is, energy. The same happens with theEns Seminis [sexual substance in men and women].”-Samael Aun Weor, Lecture on Transmutation of the Sexual Energy

Water in the liquid state is our internal sexual waters. The aquifer from which we draw our basicvital energy. In normal life the sexual waters are never purified, just drawn upon for use. The vitalenergy is naturally dissipated throughout our lives through physical, sexual, mental, and emotionaldischarge. To transmute is to purify the sexual waters.

Combining breath, willpower, visualization and other practices to heat, transform, and clarify thewater and move it up the spine where it gathers as purified clouds in the higher centers. The imageabove shows Mercury-Hermes, the intelligence of the sexual energy emerging from clouds andholding a lit candelabra with seven candles, representing the awakened seven chakras.

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Clouds and the Being

It is common to see depictions in many religions of God and heaven surrounded by clouds. When thetransmuted sexual waters are formed as clouds it means the consciousness, which is containedwithin sexuality, is purified and awakened. God, the Being, can communicate with us, help us, workthrough us, when the consciousness is awakened.

Clouds may imply a blockage like one’s vision was “clouded”, but the clouds provide an appropriateform for the mystery of the Being.

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Clouds and Heaven/Nirvana

Likewise with heaven or nirvana. Heaven is not an external place but an internal state ofconsciousness where we are vibrating in the higher dimensions, either temporarily or in apermanent way. Clouds make heaven and God invisible to those with the consciousness asleep. Withthe consciousness awakened we are more attuned to that which is subtle, hidden invisible, vaporous,and ethereal and can experience the reality hidden in the clouds.