#lapis exilis

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Labyrinth of the White Lotus or White Stone of Chartres Cathedral. An older Sufi/Egyptian manuscript can be found with this precise, exact pattern, predating the building of Chartres. The Knights Templar, builders of the great Gothic Cathedrals, learned these masonry techniques and sacred geometry from the Gnostic temple builders in the far East. The symbolism holds the same significance as the Ancient Egyptian and Buddhist imagery of the individual rising out of the lotus flower. This is why the Bible mentions the white stone in Revelation 2:17, what Jesus calls the cornerstone, upon which all temples are built, for the ‘Kingdom of God’ is within. - REGIII,32,RAM, ‘Modern Alchemist’

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“The alchemists projected the inner event into an outer figure, so for them the inner friend appeared in the form of the “Stone,” of which the Tractatus aureus : “Understand, ye sons of the wise, what this exceeding precious Stone crieth out to you: Protect me and I will protect thee. Give me what is mine that I may help thee.” To this a scholiast adds: “The seeker after truth hears both the Stone and the Philosopher speaking as if out of one mouth.”” - Carl G. Jung, Collected Works Vol. 9, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

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Eye made from Lapis lazuli (shell)

Period:Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2600–2500 B.C. Mesopotamia, Nippur, Sumerian.

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Artist: Anonymous (Egypt) Title: High Clerk in the Cult of Serapis Date: circa 230 - 240 AD Medium: marble

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The seeker after truth hears both the Stone and the Philosopher speaking as if out of one mouth.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

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Medieval alchemists, who searched for the secret of matter in a prescientific way, hoping to find God in it, or at least the working of divine activity, believed that this secret was embodied in their famous “philosopher’s stone”. But some of the alchemists dimly perceived that their much-sought-after stone was a symbol of something that can be found only within the psyche of man…

Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols

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“A carved jasper (British Museum OA.9545, 3rd century CE ?) probably worn as an amulet. The side shown on the left contains the name Abrasax, and the image of a rooster-headed deity with snake-legs, often associated with the deity of that name. Such amulets were in the past called “gnostic gems” by scholars...”

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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Revelation 2:17