{"id":994,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:37:45","slug":"consciousness-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Benefits of salt<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W95DY3q61T4?si=DYQB8tN4VSrlgUmL\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>China&#8217;s Thorium molten salt reactor<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Although <a href=\"?p=979\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Salt<\/span><\/a> just seems to be an inert <a href=\"?p=932\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">white powder<\/span><\/a>, it is one of the great mysteries of initiation. Salt symbolizes a sacred, not to be broken, initiate&#8217;s covenant entered into with the master &amp; school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As mentioned in Matthew 5:13, the initiated elect are the Salt of the Earth. They would sit in the place of distinction &#8216;above the salt&#8217;, for they had conquered the salt within themselves. Nowadays it is usually referred to as simple people. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In ancient literature, Sal also meant &#8216;cunning&#8217; and &#8216;wit&#8217;. A good <a href=\"?p=850\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Fool<\/span><\/a> was always a Fool, worth his salt, and paid in relation to his worth. Thus, he was no fool in the ordinary sense of the word.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Paracelsus: &#8220;when the inner salt has gone, gold will be found in the liquid&#8217;. It describes the initiation process, removal of the dross, + the retrieval of the sacred, hidden within. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Thus, the formula does not make for a Water of Salt, but a Water bereft of Salt, which is to say, an initiate who can no longer cry. &#8216;Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears&#8217;, reads the arcane text.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An alchemical sigil for salt is <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>\u00cf\u00b4<\/b><\/span>, <span style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\">derived from the Greek letter theta, of the word &#8216;Thanatos&#8217;, which meant &#8216;death&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/DeadSea-salt-crystals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"134\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Dead Sea Salt Crystals<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In alchemical texts, salt represents a process of death, the residue of the spiritual activity, rational thinking, which takes place in the head. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The dross is the white powder left behind when the gold is extracted. It is the ash of thought.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">When this mental activity reaches a point where the universal order appears to break down, because the rational mind lost understanding, at that moment, the head issues salty tears.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Nowadays, we could argue that human thinking and surface rationalism is our salvation, and the key to Paradise. However, any initiate worth his inner salt would challenge such a view. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">For the Adept, there are 2 Salts: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">born of the activity of Fire, <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">the &#8216;ash&#8217; after the burn,<br \/>\nitself &#8216;a potential Fire&#8217;.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In this perpetual interaction of Fire and Salt, which lies at the basis of the phenomenal world, Salt represents the inert state of Death, an interlude between lifetimes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Azoth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"256\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Azoth:<br \/>\nThe Way to make the Philosopher&#8217;s Gold<br \/>\nUpper triangle:<br \/>\nthe 7 planets attached to<br \/>\nthe branches of the Tree of Knowledge<br \/>\nLower triangle:<br \/>\nthe 3 principles of Alchemy:<br \/>Salt, Mercury, Sulphur<br \/>\nThe union of the 7 + 3 = Azoth<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/7-planets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"123\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=988\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefits of salt China&#8217;s Thorium molten salt reactor Although Salt just seems to be an inert white powder, it is one of the great mysteries of initiation. Salt symbolizes a sacred, not to be broken, initiate&#8217;s covenant entered into with the master &amp; school. As mentioned in Matthew 5:13, the initiated elect are the Salt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}