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This process of dissemination not only protected spiritual knowledge from being profaned but also acted like a powerful impetus to push beyond the envelope, to transcend the boundaries of normalcy and to truely reach for the starry heights twinkling Above, beckoning the seeker of understanding Below to strive to become the Sage Mage with the View from the Mountaintop.
The origins of Alchemy transcend
time since they encompass both the spiritually etheric, encircling sea of
non-time, as well as, the material space-time continuum. The nascence of the
alchemical tradition in recorded history can be traced as far back as Egypt,
beyond that lies the speculative shrouded mists of lost Cultures and
starlore.
The life stories of the alchemists suggest that theirs was more of a quest for spiritual enlightenment, immortality, and ascendant transcendence than the quest for a specific linear formula for either a philosophers stone or the material riches of silver and gold. Alchemy is not only an ancestral science to chemistry, medicine, philosophy, psychology, and quantum physics; it is also an integral part of many religious, spiritual, and magickal traditions. Webster' Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines alchemy as: [ME alkamie, alquemie, fr. MF or ML; MF alquemie, fr. ML alchymia, fr. Ar al-kimiya, fr. al the + kimiya al-chemy, fr. LGk: chemeia]. Alchemy is a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold; the discovery of the universal cure for disease; and the discovery of a means to indefinitely prolong life; a power or process of transforming something common into something special; an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting]. Clearly it is difficult to neatly delineate, describe, or demarcate Alchemy. Since Alchemy focuses on the multiplicity of manifest creation as well as the matrix of interpenetrating, unmanifest latencies, no linear, one dimensional definition will suffice. There is a synergy about Alchemy that is more than just the sum of its parts.
There are a myriad of alchemical
approaches: lab work, symbolic meditation, essential oils, allegorical journeys,
spiritual pursuit, esoteric, philosophical, flower essences, mystical
explorations, archetypal, metaphysical, psychological, crystal elixirs,
semiotic, and anthropological to name a few... Continue on
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