A subterranean city exists within the profound Amazon jungles. Some Occidental Yogis dwell there. The sacred treasures of submerged Atlantis are zealously kept within this mysterious city. These Sage Yogi Physicians are the zealous guardians of the very ancient medical wisdom. Another mysterious city exists also within the thick jungles of California. This city will never be discovered by the ‘civilized’ people of this XX century. Here is where a surviving race from ancient Lemuria dwells. This race is the most ancient depository of the precious treasure of the medical wisdom.

• will
• treasure
• wisdom

The mythological goal of the dragon fight is almost always the virgin, the captive, or, more generally, the 'treasure hard to attain.'  It is to be noted that a purely material pile of gold, such as the hoard of the Nibelungs, is a late and degenerate form of the original motif.  In the earliest mythologies, in ritual, in religion, and in mystical literature as well as in fairy tales, legend, and poetry, gold and precious stones, but particularly diamonds and pearls, were originally symbolic carriers of immaterial values.  Likewise the water of life, the healing herb, the elixir of immortality, the philosophers' stone, miracle rings and wishing rings, magic hoods and winged cloaks, are all symbols of the treasure.

• dragon fight
• religion
• treasure
• life
• symbols
• ritual
• immortality
• literature
• alchemy

By freeing the captive and raising the treasure, a man gains possession of his soul's treasures, which are not just 'wishes,' i.e., images of something he has not got but would like to have, but possibilities, i.e., images of something he could have and ought to have.  The task of the hero, which is to 'awaken those sleeping images that can and must come forth from the night, in order to give the world a better face,' is far indeed from 'masturbation.'  And yet it is a preoccupation with oneself, a case of letting the libido stream inward, without a partner - a kind of masturbatory self-fertilization in the uroboric manner, which alone makes possible the creative process of psychic palingenesis or self-birth.

• the hero
• conscious development
• treasure
• soul
• self
• birth

Sometimes, life does seem to be unfair.  Do you know the story of Elijah and the Rabbi Jachanan?  This Rabbi went on a journey with the prophet Elijah.  They walked all day, and at nightfall they came to the humble cottage of a poor man, whose only treasure was a cow.  The poor man ran out of his cottage and his wife ran too, to welcome the strangers for the night and to offer them all the simple hospitality which they were able to give in strained circumstances.  Elijah and the Rabbi were entertained with plenty of the cow's milk, sustained by home-made bread and butter, and they were put to sleep in the best bed while their kindly hosts lay down before the kitchen fire.  But in the morning, the poor man's cow was dead.\n\n 'They walked all the next day, and came that evening to the house of a very wealthy merchant, whose hospitality they craved.  The merchant was cold and proud and rich, and all that he would do for the prophet and his companion was to lodge them in a cowshed and feed them on bread and water.  In the morning, however, Elijah thanked him very much for what he had done, and sent for a mason to repair one of his walls, which happened to be falling down, as a return for his kindess.\n\n 'The Rabbi Jachanan, unable to keep silence any longer, begged the holy man to explain the meaning of his dealings with human beings.  'In regard to the poor man who received us so hospitably,' replied the prophet, 'it was decreed that his wife was to die that night, but in reward for his goodness God took the cow instead of the wife.  I repaired the wall of the rich miser because a chest of gold was concealed near the place, and if the miser had repaired the wall himself he would have discovered the treasure.  Say not therefore to the Lord: 'What doest thou?'  But say in thy heart: 'Must not the Lord of all the earth do right?

• fate
• circumstances
• meaning
• god
• life
• sleep
• treasure
• poor