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Alchemy Alchemist Alchemical Transformation
Spiritual Beliefs
Alchemy 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. 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.
Alchemical Transformation Butterfly Psychological Symbol
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.
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] 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. 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 magical traditions...
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