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
