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A spiritual science of soul intellect, Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation seeks knowledge and understanding of the Alchemical inter-relationship between Humanity, Nature Spirits, and Divinity. As a material science, Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation also deals with the material realm of minerals, plants, animals, and metal, since matter and spirit are interconnected like two sides of a coin. The Alchemist seeks to learn how to accelerate (in a relatively short period of time) the evolution of inherent seed potentials in accord with evolutionary laws. Unlike chemistry where external elements of matter are mixed, compounded, and decomposed into different forms and substances, the Alchemist Practitioner of Alchemy must develop sufficient spiritual power to activate something in its preexistent latent state and cause it to grow; making the unmanifest manifest. Although Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation Procedures can be taught and learned by the Alchemist through reasoning, to really accomplish anything significant, to awaken the sleeping spiritual potential within matter, the Alchemist must also be a primordial artist imbued with Divine Powers.
In its highest aspect, Alchemy
enables one to regenerate, to transmutate, and to transform something that is
earthly into something that is divine. Just as an acorn can become a might oak
through both elemental power and quintessence; a human being can be transformed
into a God or Goddess.
The aphorism of Hermes Trismegistus, "As Above So Below", is a great Cosmic Law and a chief tenet of Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation teachings and traditions. The work of Paracelsus, the physician and Alchemist, influenced Dr. Bach who developed the Flower Essences infused with the spiritual and elemental forces of Nature to help heal the human spirit.
Carl Jung viewed Alchemy as a
transformative process, an archetypal system of psychological symbols. The Grail
energy for the Alchemists was intimately connected with the integrity,
immutability, and immortality of Materia Prima, First Matter, the chalice
cauldron of unlimited potent potentialities and primal prescience... Continue on
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