Phoenix – Gold – Pendant

Product Description The Phoenix, from Greek mythology, is a long-lived bird that associated with the element of fire and the Sun and represents the idea that the end is only the beginning. In classical mythology and ancient legend, the Phoenix was a magical bird that lives for several hundred years, before it dies by bursting into flames. It is then reborn from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. This Phoenix artifact is for renewal, purity, strength, transformation, and purification. The phoenix pendant will help you overcoming darkness and rising to the challenge to become powerful and succeed. The Phoenix is also an alchemical symbol. It represents the changes during chemical reactions and progression and has to do with the steps of alchemy in the making of the Philosopher’s Stone. In the known text of antiquity - Treasure of the Alchemists by Paracelsus, the author is using the phrase “alchemical phoenix” while referring to the union of salt, mercury, and sulphur, known as the tria prima or “three principles” in alchemy. According to Paracelsus, the alchemical phoenix refer to a crisis preceding an awakening, spiritual, or otherwise. “A phoenix is a mythical bird that has a 500 to 1,000-year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds a nest of myrrh twigs to ignite; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of frankincense and myrrh and deposits the egg in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis.” Paracelsus (quoted from several books of antiquity):