Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

I looked into alchemy now, and there are several different interpretations. One common theme I found are the four stages of alchemy (magnum opus):

"The Great Work (Latin: Magnum opus) is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition, attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as a device in art and literature. The magnum opus has been carried forward in New Age and neo-Hermetic movements which sometimes attached new symbolism and significance to the processes. The original process philosophy has four stages:[1][2]

nigredo, the blackening or melanosis
albedo, the whitening or leucosis
citrinitas, the yellowing or xanthosis
rubedo, the reddening, purpling, or iosis" - Wikipedia

Since there are several interpretations I will make my own initial interpretation: 1) the blackening stage is the death of the beast ego (burned down by the Venusian flame), 2) the whitening stage is the dragon stream activation (the metal associated with Saturn is lead), 3) the yellowing stage is when the kundalini (red) reaches the heart chakra (green) and produces yellow/gold (red + green = yellow [additive color mixing]), 4) the reddening stage is the kundalini having risen through the chakras (illustrated for example by a snake coming out of the forehead of pharaohs). The blackening stage is symbolized by turning silver to ash in my interpretation. Silver is the metal associated with the moon, so turning silver to ash symbolizes removing the moon lock which keeps the kundalini energy trapped in the base chakra.

The burning of silver is my own interpretation, but alchemy images about the blackening stage actually show a moon, such as in this picture: