Last night, I was working my way through some of Fulcanelli's book "Dwellings of the Philosophers". He spends probably 1/4 of the book covering the symbolism contained in the decorations of the Castle of Dampierre. One of the decorations was about the person from Greek mythology known as Narcissus.

While reading through that section, I learned that Narcissus, in Greek letters, is Νάρκισσος which relates to the Greek root word Νάρκη (Narke), also spelled Νάρκα (Narka) which means numbness or torpor. Fulcanelli related this to latency, sleepiness, hibernating animals, and patients under the influence of NARCotics.

I also noticed that Narka is extremely similar to Naka which is basically the same thing as Naga. Naga, in Sanskrit, means snake/serpent, most likely a reference to the kundalini serpent.

Fulcanelli also points out that the Narcissus plant has white or yellow flowers.

This got me thinking about what else I knew about the Narcissus story, namely that he was egotistical.

In 15.12 of the Law of One, the questioner asked "How does an individual go about balancing himself? What is the first step?"

Paring down Ra's response to the relevant part, Ra said "The third blockage resembles most closely that which you have called ego. It is the yellow-ray or solar plexus center."

The energy centers, a.k.a. chakras, are radiative which is why things like wheels and lotus flowers have been used as tangible analogs to describe them, and the solarplexus energy center is associated with the color yellow, just like the Narcissus flower. I don't think this is a coincidence.

In order for the dormant, numb, torpid, latent, hibernating kundalini serpent to awaken and activate higher energy centers, not only must spiritual accomplishments/lessons be learned and embodied, i.e. unconditional love, honesty/truth/knowledge, and surrender, the lower three energy centers must be balanced. Imbalance can be a lack of energy or an overabundance of energy.

The egotistical Narcissus had an overabundance of energy in his solarplexus chakra and, as such, his kundalini serpent remained dormant, asleep, numb. That's likely the moral of the story and the reason a yellow flower is named after him.