The Sun and its Shadow

"Sometimes the Earth will spin into the Abyss & sometimes stand at the Centre and sometimes it spreads flat into broad Space".
[Wm Blake, 'Jerusalem']

The phases of the alchemical Work are given as either four or three in number.
They are represented as colours [cf 'castes' or 'varna'], the four being;
Black
White
Yellow
Red

These are the same four colours as found in the Aryan caste system.

The Work is more generally reduced to three essential phases [one thinks of the very basic Aryan tripartite division of Order of Rank] which are called;

Nigredo
Albedo
Rubedo

The Nigredo is symbolised by the Death's Head or Raven's Head - something dear to esoteric sm.
The Albedo is variously symbolised by a drowning king, a pelican piercing its own , a unicorn, or simply by the White Rose.
The Rubedo is symbolised by the Ouroborous, mentioned in the above post [and so a sense that the process always returns - Eternal recurrence], or by the rose garden, or the marriage of the King and Queen, or else by the Starry Lion.

"Hitler's demonic possession is directly linked to his Nietzschean vision of a new species of mankind, the Aryan Superman who will become a god among mere mortals.
The breeding of this divine mutation is the task of National Socilaism, which is thus no mere political movement but is concerned with transforming the very nature of life on earth".
[Black Sun, Goodrick-Clarke p.110]

"Alchemists were masters of wordplay ...
In addition to the symbolic characters, the texts frequently employ riddles, puns, and assonance.
They even go to the extent of stating the exact opposite of that they are intended to convey.
This wordplay is known as the 'Language of the Birds', or the 'Green Language' ".
[Alchemy, S. Martin]

Obvious parallels with Nietzsche's way of philosophising here.

Nigredo = Black
Albedo = White
Rubedo = Red

Are these not the colours of a certain flag?
The red background, the white disc and the black swastika?