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Nature Spirits Devas
Spirituality Alchemy
Alchemy was a soul science of
spiritual intellect that sought knowledge and understanding of the
alchemical inter-relationship between Humanity, Nature and Divinity, viewing them as a "Triune Oneness". As a science, Alchemy also dealt with
the material realm of minerals, plants, animals and metal, since matter
and spirit were interconnected like two sides of a coin.
The aphorism of Hermes
Trismegistus, "As Above So Below", was 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 consisted of primordial spiritual, substantive seeds and potent potentials
that manifested through alchemy into visible external expressions of all that ever
was, is or will be.
This universal soul's
Corpus was Anima Mundi, the perpetuity of Nature which the Secret Fire brought
into outer manifestation. For the alchemist First Matter was both unified and
triune in its intrinsic characteristics of Sulfur, Mercury and Salt which
essentially epitomized the Light of Spirit. All forms were held within the womb of
the world.
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The alchemist sought 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 were mixed, compounded and decomposed into different
forms and substances, the Alchemist Practitioner of Alchemy needed to develop
sufficient spiritual power to activate something in its preexistent latent state
and cause it to grow. They need to make the unmanifest manifest.
Although Alchemy and Alchemical
Procedures could be taught and learned by the
Alchemist through reasoning; however, in order to really accomplish anything significant, to
awaken the sleeping spiritual potential within matter, the Alchemist needed to 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 goddess or god.
Alchemical Transformation
dealt with the Five Elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. Fire, earth,
air and water commingled and combined in a myriad of patterns as they sprang
forth from the ether, the fifth element, the hidden underlying spiritual
foundation of perceptible physicality.
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