On Ambrosia, Soma, the nectar of the Gods

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by Legrand

So nice to read you all here,

Could ambrosia be that substance that the spiritual alchemist use to transform the lead that we are into Gold, the Philosophical Egg (Hirayangarbha, the golden womb or golden egg)?

In the picture of Soma churning of the Ocean:


I see the pillar in the centre as the tip of Sushumna near the third eye opening on the crown. The gods on both side of the pillar puling on the serpent, as the horizontal path running feels there on third eye level, churning the Sushumna so that below the Abyss Sea, separating the Supenals from Creation, starts to flow the Soma into Creation.

Regards,

Yes, this is very much a depiction of the Kundalini in action as it churns out the nectar. Some depictions show three demons (Asuras) on one end and three gods (devas) on the other, with Vishnu in the middle, sitting on top of a stone.

I think this might be shorthand for the chakras, with the heart chakra being in the middle, that is where Vishnu, symbolised by the hexagram, is supposed to reside, with the gods representing the top three and the demons the lower three chakras. The heart is the centre of it all, even though the secretion is in the throat, but the actual work of energetic churning, transmuting mundane, physical matter into the divine nectar, is done in the heart.

The stone on which Vishnu sits may be shorthand for the Philosopher's Stone, which is supposed to bestow immortality on the spiritual seeker, as does the holy grail. These are connected, it's just that the true meaning behind these symbols has been lost over the centuries, the underlying reality behind them is the same though.