The rosy cross (0X) symbolizes the marriage of opposites, the basis of the Great Work of alchemy. This is where life emerges from the divine, from the nullification of male and female, from nothing. In this constantly moving ecstatic embrace is a new knowledge of self, and the beginning of defiance of authority. This knowledge is called evil in religious doctrine, because the goal of religion is to subjugate the individual to a ‘higher order’ – one which is naturally presided over by a fortunate elite.