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Although Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation 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 enabled one to regenerate, to transmutate and to transform something that was earthly into something that was divine. Just as an acorn could become a might oak through both elemental power and quintessence, a human being could be transformed into a semi-divine god or goddess. To the Alchemist such archetypal expressions as Animal Allegories; as well as, the Oracular Arcana of the Tarot encompassed all aspects of being from the minutest particles and cells of the body to the most distant galaxies and their largest stars, from DNA spirals to emotional moods and from survival needs to vast spiritual aspirations. From the symbolism and meditative meanings of the Tarot, to the Chinese I Ching and to the Hebrew Cabala, the Arcana were a way to intuit and interpret the outworkings of the One Mind, the Greek "Logos". Since the Arcana transcended the normal boundaries of relative time and space, deciphering their mysteries empowered the Alchemist with the ability to change, restore, revitalize, transmute and transform Much of Alchemy knowledge and many Alchemical Transformation principles were transcribed and encoded for transmission in the form of these allegories; as well as, coded alphabets, ciphers, hieroglyphs, icons, symbols, paintings, icons, paintings, poems, pictorial languages, sacred architecture, songs and symbols.
This process of dissemination not only protected spiritual knowledge from being profaned but also acted like a powerful impetus to push beyond the envelope, to transcend the boundaries of normalcy and to truly reach for the starry heights twinkling Above. Like the caterpillar who wove a cocoon and via transmutation became a golden butterfly, this process also beckoned the seeker of understanding Below to strive to become as knowledgeable as the Hermit, as the Hierophant or as the Priestess. The aphorism of Hermes Trismegistus, "As Above So Below", was a great Cosmic Law and a chief tenet of Alchemy and Alchemical Transformation 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.
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