Water: Motherhood is Endurance
The positive solution to the rather negative fear of being alone is to create one thing that lasts.
As Fire is the Father and is fear of being alone, the only solution for eternal lonliness is to creates one thing that is everlasting.
Permanence is imposed as a solution to lonliness by the everlasting presence of the mother, Water.
Water is the prime state of all matter, the singular from which the diversity and plurality of all things will arise through division and transformation. Her tool is the cup and the cup is used to preserve its contents while it fails if it spills.
Preservation: The lasting tenacity of substance is the conservation of matter.
For the alchemist, Water is not H2O but rather the prime singular of matter, the source of all things, undivided are raw with potential.
Fire and Water are Father and Mother.
This is the Yin and Yang, above and below, the one thing and the one mind.
This process is witnessed by Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
This is the start of everything. This is the place where everything happens.
