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File:Spirasolaris-b.jpg|Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the earth. The word 'Ouroboros' is really a term that describes a similar symbol that has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. From "Ouroboros," there is the serpent or dragon gnawing at its own tail. The symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; disintegration and re-integration; truth and cognition complete; the Androgyne; the primeval waters; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; primordial unity; self-sufficiency, and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle. It represents the conflict of life as well in that life comes out of life and death. 'My end is my beginning.' In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations that can be drawn. It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle - it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear. Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may REALLY be - a series of movements that repeat. "As Above, So Below" - we are born from nature, and we mirror it because it is what man wholly is a part of. ([http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4f.html Copyright © 1997. John N. Harris, M.A.(CMNS)])
File:Spirasolaris-b.jpg|Ouroboros was and is the name for the Great World Serpent, encircling the earth. The word 'Ouroboros' is really a term that describes a similar symbol that has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. From "Ouroboros," there is the serpent or dragon gnawing at its own tail. The symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; truth and cognition complete; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle. It represents the conflict of life as well in that life comes out of life and death. 'My end is my beginning.' In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations that can be drawn. It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle - it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear. Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may really be - a series of movements that repeat. "As Above, So Below" - we are born from nature, and we mirror it because it is what man wholly is a part of. ([http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4f.html Copyright © 1997. John N. Harris, M.A.(CMNS)])
File:Mipart2014.1.jpg|Science is beautiful: it has truth, it has drama, it is full of wonder. The Mitchell’s dreamseries by [[Odra Noel]] is a vision of some aspects of science through art. We hope it explains, inspires or makes you curious to find out more [https://wiki.oroboros.at/images/f/f8/MiPArt-Mitchells_dream.pdf here]
File:Mipart2014.1.jpg|Science is beautiful: it has truth, it has drama, it is full of wonder. The Mitchell’s dreamseries by [[Odra Noel]] is a vision of some aspects of science through art. We hope it explains, inspires or makes you curious to find out more [https://wiki.oroboros.at/images/f/f8/MiPArt-Mitchells_dream.pdf here]
File:Sigillum sapientum.jpg|The ‘Sigillum Sapientum’ (Seal of the Wise) of the alchemist. The inner union (hexagram and ouroboros) takes place as a result of the inner working of the divine Sophia (woman with sword and scales). Source: JM Faust, Philalethes Illustratus, 1706
File:Sigillum sapientum.jpg|The ‘Sigillum Sapientum’ (Seal of the Wise) of the alchemist. The inner union (hexagram and ouroboros) takes place as a result of the inner working of the divine Sophia (woman with sword and scales). Source: JM Faust, Philalethes Illustratus, 1706

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