Vol. II | Fig. 5.1.03

The Sowing of the Septenary: The Seeded Pendant | Mar 2015

OUTWARD STONE: STAGE V — STATION 1 (BOUNDLESS FLOW)


01. RESEARCH NOTE
[Witness Level 03: ESSENTIAL-PRACTITIONER]
— The work shifts from an internal psychological focus into a boundless, universal potential. The sevenfold pendant, which once anchored separate chakra frequencies, is now completely re-engineered. Replacing static colour pigments with real biological seeds ensures that the internal architecture no longer operates as an end in itself. By surrendering its hard-won design to a seedbed, the vessel activates viriditas—the greening power, divine life force, and spiritual healing energy that flows through all creation. This shift establishes the baseline needed for a deeper expansion to take root.


02. THE VISION — The original sevenfold pendant appears completely reimagined, its finalised chakra colours entirely evacuated from the silver frame. Real seeds and grains fill the seven structural partitions rather than coloured pigments. The amulet no longer functions as a personal ornament but as an active crucible. While no green growth shows yet, a quiet internal knowing confirms this seedbed will successfully germinate.


03. THE PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE — This transformation introduces fermentatio, the alchemical phase where the quiet, integrated stone is broken down to become a living, rotting, and multiplying source of new life. This step connects directly back to the uncoloured channels of the original Ayana Vessel [Vol. I | Fig. 0.0.04] and follows right after the completion of The Sevenfold Pendant [Vol. I | Fig. 4.0.06]. By clearing out the personal chakra colours to hold raw seeds, the work proves that early integration is not the final stop. Surrendering the personal design to a fertile seedbed allows the entire timeline to overflow with Life itself.

[ ALCHEMICAL EMBLEMATIC SYNTHESIS ]

An alchemical copperplate engraving depicting a flat terrestrial plain where a mature elder guide stands hand-in-hand simultaneously with a bearded father and a young son.

Figure XI: Tria Conjuncta from the 1625 Frankfurt edition of Nicholas Barnaud Delphinas’s The Book of Lambspring.

[CODEX III: THE BOOK OF LAMBSPRING // FIGURE XI]

FIGURE XI // The Triple Alliance (Team Harmony Before Takeoff)
The calm breath in which everything pulls in the same direction: the body (the Father), the soul (the Son), and the spiritual path (the Guide). They stand hand-in-hand in total harmony on the ground, fully committed to a higher cause. This absolute alignment is the exact peace the body needed—because from this stable launchpad, the Guide lifts the Son for the vertical takeoff of The Celestial Carry.

[CODEX I: ROSARIUM PHILOSOPHORUM // EMBLEM 13]

EMBLEM 13 // Nutritio (The Winged Sarcophagus Sleep)
This final emblem of the middle sub-cycle depicts the two-headed hermaphrodite possessing fully expanded angel wings, resting inside the stone tomb. Within the classical laboratory circuit, nutritio is the deep, hidden holding phase in which the celestial realisation of the preceding steps is contained within the potentiality of the seeds. Likewise, the sevenfold pendant, evacuated of its personal colour pigments to host raw, latent grains, converts the individual system into a universal crucible, allowing a deeper expansion to take root on a biological scale.
A two-headed hermaphrodite with angel wings lying resting inside a stone tomb, representing the containment and fixation of volatile spirit.

Woodcut 13 from the 1550 Frankfurt edition of the Rosarium Philosophorum.

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