Viscom CM 235

The solar-masculine and lunar-feminine forces in the soul have now united together in the most intimate way possible. Through this union an hermaphrodite being is formed, as with the next figure, number 6, where the masculine and feminine soul forces fuse into one body with two heads. After this primal fusion and exchange of energies within the soul archetypes, an inner darkness, a nigredo or putrefaction occurs. This takes the form of a descent of the complex of interconnected male and female energies into the dark unconscious sphere of the soul.

We note here that this union of the male and female energies produces the hermaphrodite, and does not give rise to the conception and birth of a separate 'soul-child' as in some other versions of the alchemical process. In the Rosarium process, the union of these two energies is entirely contained within the being of the operator, and does not produce an independent 'soul-child'.