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Alchemy Alchemist Alchemical Transformation
Magical Touchstones Traditions
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.
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.
Alchemical Primal Waters Regenerative Symbolism
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 Goddess or God.
The great rainbow snake Uroborous (Ouroboros) portrayed in the process of consuming its tail in either, a circular, a figure eight, or, an upright infinity symbol position, depicts a mystically allegorical rendition of the eternal principle, "As Above So Below".
The Good Spirit, Uroborous, represents the light that emanates from the Central Sun of Creation, the source of our eternal origins, out into All the levels of manifestation. This UR transmission of illumination permeates everything Below with the light codes of transcendent divinity necessary to transform ALL substantive sciences into spiritual technologies.
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... Continue on
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