The Alchemical Androgyne (Rebis)

The meeting of both currents can only produce a neutral non polarized element, the
result of the combining action of twocomplementary principles. Consequently, this

image represents, at the same time, the primordial Androgyne as well as the way
back of the manifested being to its primeval non differentiated state.Expressed in
other words, both descent and ascent currents depict respectively the active or
sulphured and passive or mercurial principles of the Hermetic tradition.
The hermetic Rebis (from “res bina” or double matter) is composed of a body
crowned by two heads, one masculine, the other feminine, as on the picture below
dating from the beginning of the 17th century.
Moreover, the character of the first picture represents the One (split) in two when
the second is more about the two (re-unified) into One.
https://maypoleofwisdom.com/the-double-meaning-of-the-androgyne/
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As Knapp explains, “The alchemists, in their quest for philosophical gold,

considered the world to be influenced and manipulated by a multitude of paired
forces: wet and dry, cold and hot, sun and moon, male and female, proton and
neutron, etc. When these opposing forces are harmonized and balanced through
synthesis, creation is commenced. The Great Hermaphrodite is an amalgam of this
union.”
Described as “the much coveted goal” of alchemy, the Rebis has repeatedly been
“identified with the philosophers’ stone” and its sacred coincidence of opposites
(Fabricius 90; DeVun 199). To many alchemists, alchemy is integrally connected
with their understanding of divinity. To give one example, English alchemist Thomas
Norton calls the practice “blessid & holye” in his 15th-century Ordinal of Alchemy
(line 144). This and other such statements have led scholars to explore the complex
connections among the Philosopher’s Stone, the Rebis, and the figure of Christ.
https://cyntheamasson.com/2018/02/19/the-rebis-or-alchemical-hermaphrodite/
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The Rebis Figure
The Rebis figure symbolizes the end of the Great Work (alchemical magnus opus)
that we have to do on ourselves. The symbology itself is ancient and represents the
end result of the search to “know ourselves” and seek the light at the center.
Purification of matter and thought, and the reconciliation of spirit and matter.
Within it one can see the reconciliation of the duality into a whole; male and female,
sun and moon, square and compass, the right hand and the left hand. The symbols
of the united being are contained within an ancient symbol of the universal, world
or cosmic egg.
The understanding that we were divine and eternal right now, was the universal
“religion” of antiquity. This was long before the time when portions of the ancient
mysteries were seeded to what we know today as the various “religions” or
mysteries.
“In this way you will reach the fullness, the unity… How is that done? By union with
each other and union within oneself…let perfect unity take the place of primitive
dissociation and “division”…
in other words, let the “outside” become as the “inside”, the “upper” like the “lower”,
the male like the female; let the first become last and the last first: in short, let there
be reunion of opposites…”
―Jesus Christ, Gnostic Texts
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thelightofthecenter.tumblr.com/post/10049397449
9/the-rebis-figure-symbolizes-the-end-of-the-great/amp
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The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end
product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work. After one has gone through
the stages of putrefaction and purification, separating opposing qualities, those
qualities are united once more in what is sometimes described as the divine
hermaphrodite, a reconciliation of spirit and matter, a being of both male and female
qualities as indicated by the male and female head within a single body. The sun
and moon correspond to the male and female halves, just as the Red King and
White Queen are similarly associated.
Rebis can be the perfect balance of opposites.
Yin-Yang
The yin-yang symbol is an androgynous symbol. It is called the taiji-tu in Taoist

alchemy and it shows the perfect fusion of duality, or the complementary
combination of all opposites with and into one another. The androgyne is symbolic
of the persistent driving force to attain balance and harmony. In Chinese philosophy,
yin and yang is a concept of dualism in ancient Chinese philosophy, describing how
seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary,
interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give
rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
https://tao-talk.com/2019/04/20/a2z-april-2019-r-rebis/
The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the end
product of the alchemical magnum opus or great work.
After one has gone through the phases of rotting and cleansing, sorting out
opposing abilities, those abilities are united once more in what is from time to time
labelled as the holy hermaphrodite.
It is a resolution of soul and matter, a being of both male and female abilities as
shown by the male and female head within a single body.
The sun and moon resemble the male and female halves, just as the Red King and
White Queen are also linked.
https://wikireligions.com/rebis/
The Rebis lives at the center inside each one of us; it is your “god” Self. As the
primordial human, the Rebis is neither masculine nor feminine. It is neuter or
neutral, before the sexes separated. (Spirituality is “pre-materiality”―indeed it is
the “source” of materiality―before masculine and feminine.)
In addition to the masculine/feminine heads, this neutrality of the Rebis is expressed

by the two-hand balance of the solar compass on one side (in the right hand) and
the lunar square on the other side (in the left hand). Holding them together―uniting
them, you might say―the Rebis embodies a “uniting” of the opposites of sun and
moon, day and night, light and dark, hot and cold, fire and water, dry and wet, male
and female, spirit and matter, soul and body, and so on, as all opposites were united
in the beginning.
https://www.richardcassaro.com/tag/rebis/
The Red King and White Queen are alchemical allegories, and their union
represents the process of uniting opposites to create a greater, fully unified product
of that union.
The Chemical Marriage
The union of Red King and White Queen is often called the chemical marriage. In
illustrations, it is depicted as courtship and sex. Sometimes they are garbed, as if
they have just been brought together, offering each other flowers. Sometimes they
are naked, preparing to consummate their marriage that will eventually lead to an
allegorical offspring, the Rebis.
https://www.learnreligions.com/marriage-red-king-white-queen-alchemy-96052
Regarding the Androgyne and its significance within Thelema, in Alchemy the Rebis
(Latin: Res bina, dual or double matter) is the end product of the Alchemical
Magnum Opus, or “Great Work.” This Divine Androgyne (Hermaphrodite ☿︎) is
considered to be the reconciliation of Matter and Spirit, having a balance of both the
Male and Female qualities in one, with the heads of both a man and a woman
conjoined within a single body.
The Sun ☉︎ and the Moon ☽︎ conjoined (as seen on Crowley’s Mark of the Beast),
the Red Lion and White Eagle, Shiva-Shakti, Yin-Yang, etc. also correspond to the
Rebis’s Male-Female halves that become united as One through the process of the
Great Work.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thelemicunion.com/atu-xv-key-unlocking-binary-libe
r-xv/amp/
The Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter) is the final
product of the alchemical magnum opus.
It’s a divine hermaphrodite that symbolize the reconciliation of spirit and matter: so
it’s represented as a being of both male and female qualities.
The Rebis is the perfect balance of the opposites.
https://silviaamadei.com/portfolio/coniunctio-oppositorum/

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The meeting of both currents can only produce a neutral non polarized element, the

result of the combining action of twocomplementary principles. Consequently, this

As Knapp explains, “The alchemists, in their quest for philosophical gold,

―Jesus Christ, Gnostic Texts

Rebis can be the perfect balance of opposites.

The yin-yang symbol is an androgynous symbol. It is called the taiji-tu in Taoist

In addition to the masculine/feminine heads, this neutrality of the Rebis is expressed

The Chemical Marriage

The Rebis is the perfect balance of the opposites.

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