I think a lot of people miss that before man knew how to mine and smelt iron what his basic source of iron was: meteoritic iron. We would all do well to take a look a Eliade's _The Forge and the Crucible_. The few meteors that survive the drop to earth all seem to contain a mix of predominantly iron and nickel. The sites where they landed were sacred to the goddess. The adepts that worked with this metal, the early blacksmiths, all shared one thing in common: they were the ones who could and would be possessed by the local spirits of that area. We don't realize what a profound act this was, either did I. Till I saw the video made of the priests of Bali. These tantric priests still descend through a labyrinth below their ancient temples, established on old meteorite sites and go into trance. And they mold these metals WITH THEIR HANDS. To this very day. A good Balinese kris, extremely rare, will have the markings where the tantrika kissed the edge of the blade with his lips. Little crescent- shaped marks.
I think this work is one of Eliade's greatest work, but quietly so. One of Eliade's old students gave me a copy when he found out I was interested in Alchemy. It tapped me into an older strata of thought, I might've completely missed otherwise. -Vaj On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:37 PM, E. Noval wrote: > > Since we were talking about iron phurbas... > Our friend Brian wrote this. It has some interesting bits. > > http://www.panikon.com/phurba/articles/iron.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
