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Alchemy Alchemist Alchemical Transformation
Materia Prima Heavenly Substances
All forms are held within the
womb of the world. Fire, earth, air, and water commingle and combine in a myriad
of patterns as they spring forth from the ether, the fifth element, the hidden
underlying spiritual foundation of perceptible physicality.
The key to performing Divine Alchemy resides in igniting the spark of sacred fire at the center of pertinent points of the crystalline etheric matrix. Only then will transformation be spiritually substantive. The truism As Above So Below is as apropos today as it was in the times of Hermes in ancient Egypt.
Alkahest is the powerful universal solvent from Above that facilitates alchemical transformation by separating physical Below substance into its constituent components and essential natural characteristics. They are rarified in the cleansing primal waters until they are transmuted into their purest form - grosser metals into gold; the astral body into a golden consciousness body.
Each of the elements contain archetypal and alchemical properties: Earth is linked with tangible manifestation, physical materiality, fertile creativity, copper ore, and Conjunction. Water is linked with cleansing ablution, fluidic purification, osmotic luminosity, the metal tin, and Dissolution. Fire is linked with initiative action, sacred vigor, dynamic transformation, the metal lead, and Calcination.
Air is linked with manifest
spirit, vital communications, sympathetic vibrancy, the metal iron, and
Separation. Ether is linked with quintessence, the space-time continuum, the
vital principle of collective universality, the magnetically radiant Archaeus,
and Mysterium Magnum.
Alchemical Outward Expression of Astrology Zodiac Symbols
Since alchemists work with breath, vitality, and the Doctrine of Correspondences, they always consult the Zodiac before initiating any significant transformational process. Comprised of the twelve astrological signs and their corresponding planets, stars, and constellations, the zodiac finds outward expression through Astrology.
Astrology synthesizes how the planets and stars at the time of birth on the Earth imprinted the physical body, mind, emotions, psyche, and soul with patterns and potentials that affect every area of life in progressive cycles of growth and evolution. Alchemy then is a soul science of spiritual intellect that seeks knowledge and understanding of the alchemical inter-relationship between Humanity, Nature, and Divinity, viewing them as a "Triune Oneness".
As a science, Alchemy also deals with the material realm of minerals, plants, animals, and metal, since matter and spirit are interconnected like two sides of a coin. An alchemical elixir is both a liquid curative and a restorative that acts like the philosopher's stone to perfect substance that heals and generates youthful health. Some examples are essential oils and crystal elixirs.
A Quintessence is exalted, unified, subtle substance is the essential vitality that permeates all of evolution. Its holistic wholesomeness, fundamental incorruptibility, compassionate continuity, and pristine vitality diffuse and disperse to the far reaches of the encircling boundaries of the manifest, etheric, universal template.
By upholding, sustaining, and
nourishing the continuity of all things, quintessence infuses existence with
kindhearted compassion, kindled virtue, and potentized will, making it possible
for the terrestrial to align with divine harmonic will and to resonate with the
music of the celestial spheres, so that profound transformational healing of the
Self and the World Spirit becomes an attainable occurrence...
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