The Vision of the Cosmic Egg - part I

The fiery Cosmic Egg is starting to break

What is the Cosmic Egg?

The Cosmic Egg, as a symbol of the primordial origin of the world, was considered the archetype capable of bringing every element back to its original purity, restoring the corruption of matter. For this reason, the Philosopher's Stone, sought by the alchemists for its ability to transmute base metals into gold, was assimilated to an egg, often of a vitreous consistency, whose components Shell, Albumen, and Tuorlo corresponded to the three alchemical ingredients Salt, Mercury, and Sulphur, which, properly combined, led to the culmination of the Great Work.

Illuminated copy of an image in Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias (ca. 1151), depicting a "cosmic egg" from one of her spiritual visions. ⠀

Scivias — a contraction of Sci vias Domini (Know the Ways of the Lord)—was the German Benedictine abbess, mystic, and polymath first's major visionary work, and one of the biggest milestones in her life. Describing 26 religious visions she experienced, the work survives in ten medieval manuscripts, two lost in modern times. The most esteemed of these was the well-preserved Rupertsberg manuscript, prepared under Hildegard's immediate supervision or that of her immediate tradition, made around her death. It resided in the Wiesbaden Hessische Landesbibliothek until World War II, when it was taken to Dresden for safekeeping, and subsequently lost. Some hoped that the German reunification in 1990 would cause it to reappear, but to date it has not. A faithful illuminated copy was made at the Hildegard Abbey in Eibingen in 1927-1933 and it is this copy shown above. The Public Domain Review

The Vision of the Cosmic Egg

Below is an excerpt of Hildegard’s visions:

After this I saw a vast instrument, round and shadowed, in the shape of an egg, small at the top, large in the middle and narrowed at the bottom; outside it, surrounding its circumference, there was bright fire with, as it were, a shadowy zone under it... But from the fire that surrounded the instrument issued a blast with whirlwinds, and from the zone beneath it rushed forth another blast with its own whirlwinds, which diffused themselves hither and thither throughout the instrument. In that zone too there was a dark fire of such great horror that I could not look at it, whose force shook the whole zone, full of thunder, tempest, and exceedingly sharp stones both large and small. And while it made its thunders heard, the bright fire and the winds and the air were in commotion, so that lightning preceded those thunders; for the fire felt within itself the turbulence of those thunders. The Ovum Mysterium or The Fiery Cosmic Egg by Hildegard von Bingen

Exegesis:

The firmament in the likeness of an egg and what it signifies: For this vast instrument, round and shadowed, in the shape of an egg, small at the top, large in the middle, and narrowed at the bottom, faithfully shows Omnipotent God, incomprehensible in His majesty and inestimable in His mysteries and the hope of all the faithful; for humanity at first was rude and rough and simple in its actions but was enlarged through the Old and New Testaments and finally at the end of the world is destined to be beset with many tribulations.

Hildegard von Bingen.

Further Interpretations of the Cosmic Egg

The author Dianna Elizabeth Conner comments:

Hildegard the theologian compared God to a Cosmic Egg that surges flames into the universe, emptying and filling itself like a womb—creative, beneficial, and nurturing to all life within. She spoke of this sacred feminine as Divine Love, the essence of the universe—the highest fiery power that shines in water, burns in the sun, moon, and stars, stirring everything into existence, and causing all life to glisten with this light.

Across history, various cultures have embraced the cosmic egg symbol as a fundamental way to explain how our universe started and evolved. Many different societies have employed the cosmic egg archetype, which holds sacred spiritual meanings in their original cultures:

• The golden egg of the Hindu Rigveda texts.

• The ancient Egyptian sun egg was laid by a primaeval goose.

• The benben stone of meteoric iron, where the phoenix perched, is in the temple at Heliopolis near the Nile.

• The Dogon egg of the creator-god Amma.

• The cosmic, serpent-encircled egg of the Greek Orphic religion.

• The Omphalos stone at the oracle of Delphi.

• The Hopi Mystery Egg at the end of the Fourth World contains the sun yolk, a whirling swastika (pre-Nazi), and a spot of menstrual blood.

Our planet is moving toward a major transition. The fiery cosmic egg is starting to break, and the spirit bird appears to announce a new beginning.

The Design of the Golden Egg

The Golden Egg is defined by the Golden Ratio Φ 1.618

From the Egyptian Triangle 3-4-5 discussed in my previous article, a great mathematical relationship can be defined between the height of the Golden Egg as the square of the golden proportion Phi Φ 1.618, that is, 2.618, and the number Pi π 3.141, as shown in the illustration below. The egg is a perfect example of an object with curvature. Without curvature, there would be no motion governed by the spin effect.

The Golden Egg, geometrically constructed from the Triangle 3-4-5

As previously seen in Egyptian Triangle 3-4-5, the circle inscribed inside the triangle is of diameter 2. The golden egg circumscribes the small green circle of diameter φ (0.618) tangent to the sides of the triangle 3-4-5 and the red circle of diameter 2.

Interestingly, the quotient ratio of Pi π 3.141 with the square of the golden proportion Phi Φ 1.618, that is, 2.618, is a good approximation of the quotient ratio of 6 with 5.

As above, so below

\(\frac{\pi}{\Phi^2} = \pi \phi^2 \approx \frac{6}{5}\)

The Cosmic Egg on a planetary scale

On another note, the Cosmic Egg can also be built on the relationship between the Moon and Earth, which is a representation of the Cosmic Egg on a planetary scale that involves only these two celestial bodies, with the assumption that Earth is a perfect circle and has no bulges.

In the third part of the Cosmic Egg, I will be speaking on the important correlations between the Great Pyramid, the transcended line of length 7.4 determined from the Egyptian Triangle 3-4-5 (see previous article to grasp the context) and the Cosmic Egg of Earth, not to mention its chakras and how this mirrors an individual and the collective consciousness. Although this part will bring some interesting metaphysical and philosophical concepts, part III will be also quite mathematical.

The second part of the Cosmic Egg will be focused on the Inner Alchemical Process of an individual, the development of his/her psyche through the different layers of consciousness. For this, we will compare Hildegard’s vision of the Cosmic Egg and Assagioli’s Egg Diagram of the human psyche.

Once the third part is published, I will sum up the previous articles in a video for animated and illustrated content of this particular discovery using GeoGebra. The Great Pyramid is not only a technological device but also a time machine that accompanies humanity in its evolutionary process into higher consciousness.