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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.
Thus they were concerned with
Materia Prima and Heavenly Substances in an effort to fully comprehend the
aphorism of Hermes Trismegistus, "As Above So Below".
This was a great Cosmic Law and a chief tenet of Alchemy teachings and traditions. Likewise the Grail energy for the Alchemists was intimately connected with the integrity, immutability, and immortality of Materia Prima or First Matter. The chalice cauldron of unlimited potent potentialities and primal prescience. Primordial spiritual, substantive seeds, and potent potentials that manifest through alchemy into visible external expressions of all that ever was, is, or will be. For the alchemist First Matter is both unified and triune in its intrinsic characteristics of the three Heavenly Substances of Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt which essentially epitomize the Light of Spirit. The triangle symbolized the triune oneness which was represented at the physical level by these three heavenly substances - Mercury, Salt, and Sulfur; by the three levels - physical, psychological, and spiritual; by becoming thrice greatest with a - golden physiology, golden personality, and golden soul. The triangle also exemplifies the pyramidal light, love, and power technologies that form the spiritual foundation for divine communications about the all encompassing, all encircling, all embracing interconnectedness of universal unity.
This universal soul's Corpus is
Anima Mundi, the perpetuity of Nature which the Secret Fire brings into outer
manifestation. To the alchemist, this Secret Fire, the fire within us,
(kundalini, radiating, intense), was an external catalyst for change... Continue on
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