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Starting at the bottom of the card, we find the Orphic egg.
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The famous Orphic egg was consecrated to Bacchus in his Mysteries.
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Orphic Egg: Alchemical symbol showing an egg (sometimes winged) entwined with a serpent.
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He was the same with Kneph, from whose mouth issued the Orphic egg out of which came the Universe.
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It is a threefold process that gently warms the Orphic egg during its last most sensitive phase before birth.
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Flanking the cauldron (as they flanked the Orphic egg in the Lovers) stand the lion and the eagle.
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Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg, 1774 6.