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The last stage of Ion Barbu's poetry is one of enciphering the meanings, called for this reason the hermetic stage. But first there was a moment of transition, represented by the Dogmatic Egg, Rhythms for Necessary Weddings or Uvedenrode, published between 1925 and 1926. They are still connected to the previous stage through both descriptive and narrative passages, which make poetry easier to understand and decipher. George Călinescu claims that in fact there is the authentic hermeticism of Ion Barbu's poems here, because it is based on symbols, the one from the Second Game being only a hermeticism of "philological difficulty", related to a difficult poetic syntax.
The mentioned poems revolve, metaphorically speaking, on the idea of "wedding" understood as penetration into the miracle of universal creation. The "dogmatic egg" is even a symbol of the mystery of the "wedding", a kind of cosmoid, because in its dual structure is represented the world before the wedding, the creation before Genesis. The commonplace egg demonstrates that "small worlds keep dogma," that the macrocosm repeats itself in the microcosm. That is why he is made to be the object of contemplation: "It is given to this sad people And the barren egg as food, But the living egg at the top with the fruit Made is to look at it in the sun!" Seen in the sunlight, the egg reveals the very essence of the universe, the eternal image of the uncreated.
In Rhythms for the necessary weddings, three ways of knowledge are evoked: through eros, represented astrally by Venus, through reason, having a symbol on Mercury, and through poetic contemplation, which is protected by the Sun. Every experience is a "wedding", that is, a communion with the essence of the world, but through the first two the fusion is not perfect. Sensations allow only lightning contact, and the intellect ignores, in order to perform the operations proper to logical knowledge, the fundamental condition of the universe, which is continuous becoming.
The aspiration for the absolute is fulfilled only by reaching the poetic contemplation, by the direct vision of the universal principle when: what sparks / Eternal "In simpler terms poetry poses the problem of the relationship between logical and metaphorical knowledge as Blaga had put it in I do not crush the corolla of wonders of the world.
In Uvedenrode on the same theme of the wedding, the idea of eros as a failed attempt at knowledge is repeated in a poetic material. The title, invented by the poet, defines a nightmare space, "a ravine of gastropods", a representation of pure vegetative life. The transition phase is of a strong originality, confusing for the reader, who is required to make a much greater effort than usual to grasp the meanings, the broad vision enclosed in the concrete images of the poem. The language is dense, the terms unusual, many neological or rare. It is a final step to the extreme concentration of expression in the Second Game cycle.