Thomas Vaughan's Allegory Of The Mountain - Esoteric Alchemical Text. A short allegory from Thomas Vaughan Lumen de Lumine, or a New Magical Light, London, 1651. Using Thomas Vaughan's allegory of the mountain as a backdrop and drawing insights from the myth of Demeter and Persephone, this text elaborates on the challenging and paradoxical path toward individuation, which, in this case, is metaphorically expressed as climbing a mountain. Although, at first, it is often assumed that individuation is a straightforward process of moving forward and upward, this article demonstrates that this is not the case. Rather, individuation is a complex endeavor that initially takes one down instead of up. In other words, to climb the mountain is to encounter the prima materia, to come face to face with one's shadow, and to take the many unforeseen detours away from the ego's fixed goals. In the end, what is discovered is that one never attains the mystery (or reaches the top) by strength and will alone, but rather by divine grace, which the alchemical literature describes as the aqua permanens, the “stream of living water from the summit of the mountain.” Please consider supporting my work and download this audio as part of the ESOTERIC AND OCCULT WISDOM - MASTER COLLECTION (an ongoing collection of Gnostic, alchemical, Hermetic, and related occult audio projects that span dozens of hours) at https://altrusiangrace.bandcamp.comYou can now hire my voice for your projects! Sign up at ElevenLabs at https://try.elevenlabs.io/ip88ytdib898and then you can preview my available voices at https://altrusiangrace.blogspot.com/p/hire-my-voice_14.htmlTHE GNOSTIC TAROT and THE NECROTAROTCON card decks now available! https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/synkrasis*JOIN MY PATREON at https://www.patreon.com/altrusiangracemedia*BECOME A YOUTUBE CHANNEL MEMBER at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMzRTOugvDLwhSwJdoSWBZA/join*JOIN THE CULT OF STARRY WISDOM at https://altrusiangrace.bandcamp.com/starry-wisdom-cult*MY AUDIOBOOKS FOR AUDIBLE AND SPOTIFY - https://altrusiangrace.blogspot.com/p/audible-audiobooks.html*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON DASHERY at https://altrusiangrace.dashery.com/*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON AMAZON at https://amzn.to/3peS9j3*MY TSHIRTS AND DESIGNS ON TEEPUBLIC at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/altrusiangrace?ref_id=36271*MY ETSY STORE at https://www.etsy.com/shop/AltrusianGrace*FOLLOW THE AGM PODCAST at https://open.spotify.com/show/5Vc6Y7i6KtxWjwQ1EjXUep?si=GNnjlCGuRruR9ZNsHNU2UQ*SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEW CHANNELS - AGM STORYTIME at https://www.youtube.com/@agmstorytime AND MAGNA VORAGO at https://www.youtube.com/@magnavorago