Daily Meditation: Sunday, June 9, 1996

Before it existed in a solid state deep in the earth, gold …

06/09/1996

Before it existed in a solid state deep in the earth, gold first existed in an igneous state, and it is to this gold that Hermes Trismegistus refers when he says: ‘The sun is its father, the moon is its mother, the wind has carried it in its belly, and the earth is its nurse.' Yes, it is the sun who is the father of gold, it is he who produces it; each of his rays is gold. The moon is the reflection of this gold. Through the air the sun's rays descend to earth where they condense and become this metal we call gold. Thus, the sun produces gold in its etheric state, and the earth condenses it. In the sun, gold is too volatile to become set: this solidification can only take place deep in the earth where there are materials capable of stabilizing it. And you, when you look at the sun, realize that you are a kind of earth into which the gold of its rays will be deposited and condensed