On the Fifth Day of The Chymical Wedding, Christian Rosenkreutz is led by his page to explore the King’s Treasury in the dungeon of the castle. There he sees what I call the “sepulcher of symbolism,” Lady Venus, and her son, Cupid.
In the margin of the text it reads, “Thalamus Veneris Sepultae,” which translates to “the burial chamber of Venus.”
But if we parse out these Latin words we find that “Thalamus Veneris” means “come to the room,” which is precisely what Christian has done, and it’s as if he’s been summoned to do so. Here, The Chymical Wedding is speaking to mental alchemy, the process of elevating energy through the tree-trunk of the chakras in the torso, through meditation, to enter a specific place or room of the mind. We use the term thalamus to describe a part of the brain located in the center, between the two dualistic hemispheres. And in Latin, thalamus means “room.” So the personal alchemical symbolism here is that Christian is moving his energy to his thalamus.
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