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[THESIS SERIES – Original 2016] Station 3: An Alchemical Journey into the Divine Darkness

Fig. 5.2.02: The Royal Divine-Divine Union (2015). Coniunction and the Gilded Nigredo, where the personal journey merges with the Absolute.

In this dream, I saw the marriage of the Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine and Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. This dream depicts a marriage, or coniunctio in alchemical terminology (Edinger, 1985). All the attendants at the ceremony were dressed in shimmering black and gold, which are colours recognised by my therapist as associated with experiencing a deep union.

A couple of months later, on 13th October 2015, I dreamt ‘I am talking to God’. This reference to God equates to the dimension described by Pseudo-Dionysius as the ‘divine darkness….where God is said to live’ (Marlan, 2005, p. 176) and to ‘vast infinite black space’ (Almaas, 2004, p. 394). In The Black Sun (Marlan, 2005, p. 197) mystic Henri Corbin compared this state to the Sufis’s ‘black light.’ Raff (& Vocatura, 2002, p. 36) refers to this stage as the ‘Divine-Divine’ and similarly describes it as the ‘union of the person and God’.

The culmination of the ascent is depicted in emblem 12 where the son acquires ‘all the power of heaven and earth’ (Raff, 2000, p. 148). Raff quotes a passage from The Emerald Tablet that captures this ‘ascent to the celestial world’:

It ascends from the earth to heaven, and descends again to earth, thus you will possess the glory of the whole world, and all obscurity will fly away (Raff, 2000, p. 151).

Further to my therapist’s understanding of my dreams and based on the proximity of this dream to the dream where ‘I am talking to God’, I understood this third dream that unfolded to be a depiction of the deeper transcendental union.

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