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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 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. First Matter or Materia Prima consists 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.
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. All forms are held within the womb of
the world.
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.
Alchemical Transformation
deals with the Five Elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether. 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... Continue on
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