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Alchemy Alchemist Alchemical Transformation
As Above So Below
At its core, Alchemy is the alchemical transformational process of imbuing matter with spirit, awaking potent potentialities, and manifesting the intrinsic absolute within extrinsic relativity.
The Alchemist Practitioner of Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation must develop sufficient spiritual power to activate something in its preexistent latent state and cause it to grow; making the unmanifest manifest.
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 and Alchemical Transformation 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.
As Above So Below Allegory Trees Reflected in Lake
The aphorism of Hermes Trismegistus, "As Above So Below", is a great Cosmic Law and a chief tenet of Alchemy teachings and Alchemical Transformation traditions. Thoth's Emerald Tablets that were written in Egypt before the great deluge, about the Alchemical relationship between the Above and the Below, were passed to the Pharaoh Akhenaten to Moses to Alexander the Great to the sage and miracle worker, Apollonius of Tyana.
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. By quickening the Spirit with
infusions of Spiritual Awareness, the life force rises to higher, more refined
levels of Beingness. the "Light of Spirit"... Continue on
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