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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.
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.
This universal soul's Corpus is Anima Mundi, the perpetuity of Nature which the Secret Fire brings into outer manifestation. For the alchemist First Matter is both unified and triune in its intrinsic characteristics of Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt which essentially epitomize the Light of Spirit. The Triangle then symbolizes the triune oneness which was represented at the physical level by the 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. Salt, the third heavenly substance, represented the meditative One Mind which activated the One Thing, materializing thought. Salt was a body balsamic shielding it from entropy, while, the astral body was interconnected via the philosopher's stone with the Uroborous and cyclical eternity.
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. First Matter or Materia Prima is comprised of primordial spiritual,
substantive seeds, and potent potentials that manifest through alchemy into
visible external expressions of all that ever was, is, or will be... Continue on Go back
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