Alchemy & the Alchemists. This ancient science is also a prodigious tool for self-knowledge and gnosis. We take a voyage into Alchemy’s origins, evolution and practices. We also delve into the some of the great Alchemists of history, including Saint Thomas Aquinas, Paracelsus and CG Jung. And we break it down into a poignant spiritual practice that is as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago during the Classic Greek Era.

Astral Guest—Tobias Churton, author of ‘Gnostic Philosophy’, ‘The Gnostics’, ‘The Golden Builders’ & ‘Freemasonry’.

Topics Discussed:

--Alchemy history and Alchemy practices, many that help the transformation of the human soul.
--Great Alchemists of history and their contributions.
--How even Orthodoxy never stifled and often supported this ancient, Gnostic science.
--Alchemy as a psychological tool for mental healing.
--The Eucharist—perhaps one of the greatest Alchemical exercises in history.
--How the loss of the Alchemical spirit has made science into a soulless, dangerous practice, while making religion a leave-your-reason-at-the-door phenomena. And how to get back to the days when the secular and spiritual went hand in hand.
--Why Alchemy is making a comeback in these postmodern days.
--Tobias gives his unusual views on Gnosticism, gnosis and a just-discovered ancient Gnostic sect in the Middle East.

Alchemy isn’t just a superstitious science or the precursor to chemistry. It’s a way of life, or at least a way of making you an authentic life.

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Continuing the fight to live the true essence of the Solstice and fighting back the commercial, fake tides of the Holidays, our rebroadcast is ‘CCG #60—Astrotheology’. Our guests were Irving and Andrew Rutajit, authors of ‘Astro-Theology & Shamanism’ and producers of the DVD, ‘The Pharmacratic Inquisition.’

Astrotheology is the earliest of all religions. Man once deified the sun and its celestial court for various reasons. As time passed, the heavens were turned into stories and personalities that later became our gods, including Buddha, Krishna and Jesus. We thread the needle in understanding how religious characters we assume to be historical are nothing but the heavenly bodies.

Topics Discussed:

--The birth of Jesus—nothing more than a symbolical play on the rebirth of the sun and the dance of the stars.
--The philosophy Astrotheology, including the influence of astrology, astronomy and a new concept called Archeostronomy.
--Evidence in the Bible itself that reveals that Jesus is nothing more than a sun god.
--Why exactly did man forget that their religions originated as the worship of the heavenly bodies.
--How the procession of the zodiac ages affected humanity’s attitude, including what to expect from the upcoming Age of Aquarius.
--The possible truth that many of the ancient wars were not based on real estate or religion but actually the supremacy of their calendars.
--Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls that points to much of Judaism revering the heavens instead of just one god.
--How the Mystery Religions kept the secret of the reality of the Divine throughout the ages.

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