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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 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 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. Over the millenium, different categories of Alchemy have developed including: Egyptian, European, Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, Islamic, Chinese, Hindu, Hermetic, Mystical, Metaphysical, Personal, Psychological, Shamanic, and Quantum. Many original Alchemy books had allegorical writings and illustrations that were symbolic and deliberately obscure, requiring considerable effort to glean their meaning and intent.
Even today writings on practical Alchemy are
rare since the core Alchemical Teachings are passed on by the Alchemist through oral traditions. The quest for the Philosopher's Stone, the "Magical Touchstone" of immortality
through purity and perfection, has long been the Arcana and the Elixir that will infuse the Below with the Above, making the mundane
divine. At its core, Alchemy is the transformational process of imbuing matter
with spirit, awaking potent potentialities, and manifesting the intrinsic absolute
within extrinsic relativity.
This safeguarded the keys to the
kingdom from falling into the hands of those who might misuse this wisdom. In
the allegories, a person often went on a transformative journey or quest to
search for spiritual knowledge or for true understanding of mystical alchemical
mysteries. Along the way, the seeker encountered various archetypal Arcana
characters such as the Empress or the Fool; as well as, birds and animals. For
example, the fire elementals, the salamanders were depicted as dragons, while,
the air elementals, the sylphs were depicted as eagles... Continue on
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