In hermetic philosophy,
eternity is to time as the centre is to the periphery,
or the Sun-gold to Saturn-lead.
The goal of the Opus Magnum" is the complete reversal of inside and outside,
the rejuvenating return of old Chronos/Saturn to his original paradisal state.
Saturn also embodies the sharpness of mind and analytical intelligence,
and thus his reversal also means a transformation of thinking,
for "thinking is an excrescence of what has been,
it is based entirely on the past (...)
No human problem can be solved by thinking,
since thinking itself is the problem.
The end of knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.
~ J. Krishnamurti, Ideal and Reality, Bern, 1992
