The king drinks a potion of forgetfulness and becomes or dreams that they are a peasant. They believe and therefore perceive that they are a poor orphaned peasant. They must go on a long journey of awakening and remembering(or anamnesis) to recover and restore their lost divine, royal nature, heritage, and station. At the end they have gone through the entire journey and recovered everything, but now they are much wiser and more experienced and humble and conscious. Now he has mastered and integrated all aspects of life and his soul and is truly a total sovereign master and monarch.
The King and the Potion of Forgetfulness a very deep and significant parable
You ARE that King who drinks the potion and forgets his true divine inheritance and thinks he is a penniless beggar who must scrounge for scraps in the muddy street.
Who can wake up at an time and realize who/what he really is. And can walk into the castle and announce himself
The dreamer who falls asleep and is lost in the dream The prisoner in an imaginary, mental prison
Myths of the Fall & Return
- the fall of lucifer and the emerald from his diadem - Parsifal grail myth and in ancient judeo-christian legends
- the fall of sophia - gnosticism
- the separation of the Son from the Father - as taught in a course in miracles
- the shattering of the vessels - kabbalah
- the fall of adam and eve by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge - hebrew/jewish and ancient mesopotamian myth
- the alchemical prima materia that is buried in the earth and through VITRIOL must be extracted and perfected to result in the crowning of the king
- The king drinks a potion of forgetfulness and becomes or dreams that they are a peasant. They believe and therefore perceive that they are a poor orphaned peasant. They must go on a long journey of awakening and remembering(or anamnesis) to recover and restore their lost divine, royal nature, heritage, and station. At the end they have gone through the entire journey and recovered everything, but now they are much wiser and more experienced and humble and conscious. Now he has mastered and integrated all aspects of life and his soul and is truly a total sovereign master and monarch.
- The Descent of Inanna: The goddess descends through seven gates, is stripped, judged, killed, hung, and then restored. This is an early formulation of the descent-as-initiation pattern. The stripping at each gate parallels the progressive removal of false identity.
- Osiris and the Dismemberment Myth: Osiris is killed and dismembered; Isis recovers the pieces; resurrection occurs. Alchemy explicitly models its Solve–Coagula cycle on this sequence: fragmentation, recomposition, reconstitution, coronation.
- Dionysus Zagreus and the Titans: Dionysus is torn apart by the Titans; the fragments produce humanity; the heart is recovered and resurrection occurs. An account of the fall of the soul into matter, the scattering of the divine spark, and the need for re-collecting.
- The Neoplatonic Doctrine of the Soul’s Descent: Plotinus and Proclus present the soul as emanating from the One, descending into matter, forgetting its origin, and returning by recollection (anamnesis).
All essentially saying that the human soul/being has fallen from heaven/perfection and gotten stuck in/on the earth - but that through the alchemical/spiritual path one can heal the separation, find the light, reverse the fall, perfect the stone and therefore return back to heaven/divinity/perfection.
This is really what the whole story is all about. The key insight is a gnostic one, that this world isn't really real, that we are a sleeping and dreaming fallen angel, that the whole point of this game is to awaken and return to Reality, back to our rightful place as God's beloved Son....