The Twelve Operations · Operation 6 · Albedo
Fermentatio Fermentation
In the vessel. A ferment is added to the decayed matter and quickens it, as leaven raises bread. In the images a green lion devours the sun.
In a life. New life entering what had died. It is lived as unexpected inspiration, energy returning from a direction you did not anticipate: something growing in the soil where something else rotted.
What is quickening you, and from which direction did it come?
The full section on fermentation, with the other eleven operations and the four stages, is in The Magnum Opus.