GOLD – The Metal of the Sun
Lilly chose certain of these festivals for further experimentation, and again found gold expressing the sun’s influence — truly the ‘earthy sun’ of the alchemists. The pictures formed by gold salts were very beautiful in the spring, especially at the exact time of the Spring Equinox. But the most striking appeared on the day fixed by the Astronomer Royal as Easter Sunday — the first Sun-day after full moon after the Spring Equinox. This day continues a long pagan tradition of celebrating the emergence of life from the darkness of winter, with its symbolic egg from which the sun was said to be born.
Concerning this picture she wrote: “Never, in all the years of experimenting with gold and copper, has a similar picture been formed. It stands there unique in its beauty of colour and strangeness of form. r
Strangely enough, the day judged Easter Sunday by the church authorities, produced pictures which were judged as a whole, to be more or less insignificant.
To conclude this circular path which the sun has taken us, we return to those old temples of the sun-gods and goddesses. Who were the spirits of the sun our forbears worshipped? What were they really doing in those golden temples?
We have barely touched upon the outskirts of the mysteries of the Sun, and the role of gold as its earthly ambassador. The inner mysteries remain hidden in those gleaming ritual ornaments and objects of gold used in the temples of the ancient gods. We know that in a very direct way they linked the priest and priestess in a circuit with the essence of the sun itself.
We also know gold to be an excellent conductor of electricity, and, as we have seen, of forces yet to be understood; the forces which the ancient sun-gods personified. Perhaps, as John Keel writes in THE COSMIC QUESTION: “If the ancient gods were real in some sense, they may have come from a space-time continuum so different from ours that their atomic structure was different. They could walk through walls because their atoms were able to pass through the atoms of stone. Gold was one of the few earthly substances dense enough for them to handle. If they sat in a wooden chair, they would sink through it. They needed gold furniture during their visits.
GOLD REFERENCES
1. Alchemy — The Secret Art, Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Bounty Books, New York
2. The Secrets of Metals, Wilhelm Pelikan, Ant hroposophic Press, New York, 1973
3. Alchemy, Titus Burckhardt, Element Books Ltd., Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset, 1986
4. The Sun — The Ancient Mysteries and a New Physics, Georg Blattman, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1985
5. Heart Lectures, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, New York, 1982
6. Workings of the Stars in Earthly Substances, Lilly Kolisko, Orient-Occident Verlag, Stuttgart, 1928
7. Gold and the Sun – The Total Eclipse of the Sun of 20th May, 1947, Lilly Kolisko, Kolisko Archives, Bournemouth, England, 1947
8. Spirit in Matter — A Scientist’s Answer to the Bishop’s Queries, Lilly Kolisko, Kolisko Archives, Bournemouth, England, 1948
A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, Gareth Knight, Helios Book Service Ltd., England 1965
Amulets and Talismans, E.A. Wallis Budge, First Collier Books Edition, New York, 1970
Homeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke, B. Jain Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 1984
Outside the Circles of Time, Kenneth Grant, Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1980 Gray’s Anatomy, Henry Gray, Running Press, Philadelphia, 1974