Viscom CM 235

Now that the alchemist bears within his being the White Tincture, the mastery of the lunar forces, the time has come for him to embark upon the preparation of the Red Stone. As the White Stone was prepared by an active working of the male solar forces upon the female forces in a state of passivity, in the tomb of the unconscious, so now it is the turn of the masculine side of the soul to enter the darkness, through the active work of the female lunar forces within the alchemist's being.

Thus it is in illustration 11, we see again the Conjunction - the Coitus of the two soul facets. This is called the Fermentation distinguishing it from the conjunction of the White phase. This time the female forces are active, and in their intercourse it is the woman who lies on top of the man. The figures are also winged, indicating the degree of spiritual development that has occurred during the first cycle of transformation which resulted with illustration 10 in the winged hermaphrodite.