Thought you might consider the alchemical references to be fascinating.
www.soul-guidance.com/houseof...%202.htm
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Re: Nigredo, Albedo, & Rubedo.
Fri, May 27, 2005 - 4:59 AMYou're awesome. Have I mentioned that you're awesome? You're awesome. -
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Re: Nigredo, Albedo, & Rubedo.
Fri, May 27, 2005 - 9:59 AMI'm glad you found it interesting. I was very excited to discover it myself. -
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Re: Nigredo, Albedo, & Rubedo.
Fri, May 27, 2005 - 10:49 AMwhat was it you found out about the Unus Mundus?
.... maybe we should start a xenosaga website that's just a bunch of reference information for various terms. hehehe -
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Re: Nigredo, Albedo, & Rubedo.
Fri, May 27, 2005 - 2:28 PMOh dear... then that will frustrate you endlessly. We can't have that.
The Unus Mundus is a Carl Jung psychological reference. Involving depth psychology, syncronicity, & the "healing of soul".
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Re: Nigredo, Albedo, & Rubedo.
Fri, May 27, 2005 - 5:08 AMI couldn't even begin to describe how much all of this falls in line with the game, but I'll point out a couple things that I thought were most interesting:
"The union of the Red King with the White Queen, symbolic of the union of male-female, albedo-rubedo. In other words, when after having attained albedo (having discovered the divine light in oneself), the 'spirit' must be fixated (the descending eagle), resulting in rubedo. The two lions with one head signifies the unified nature that has been attained. Out of its mouth flows the water of life."
"In Christianity, rubedo corresponds with the resurrection of Christ."
"Nigredo, or blackness, in the alchemical sense, means putrefaction, decomposition. By the penetration of the external fire, the inner fire is activated and the matter starts to putrefy. The body is reduced to its primal matter from which it originally arose."
