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http://ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats_new_42.html OUR CRYSTALLINE CHAOTIC SEA: Alchemy & the Chaotic Art by Iona Miller, 4/2009 "The Ain Soph at first was filling All and then made an absolute concentration into Itself which produced the Abyss, Deep, or Space, the Aveer Qadmon or Primitive Air, the Azoth; but this is not considered in the Qabbalah as a perfect void or vacuum, a perfectly empty Space, but is thought as the Waters or Crystalline Chaotic Sea, in which was a certain degree of Light inferior to that by which all the created (worlds and hierarchies) were made." (Isaac Myer) -- Manly Palmer Hall, Secret Teachings of the Ages, Page Number: CXVII Natural Philosophy The alchemist leads him/her self and follows nature. The alchemical world is composed of the three primal components of the base matter or prima materia, Mercury, Sulphur and Salt. As spiritual qualities, Mercury is spirit, sulphur is soul and salt, the body. There is psyche in nature and nature in psyche. In alchemy we mine the soul for emergent phenomena. In each creative cycle alchemical gold is generated in the vessel. Natural and human processes are the matrix of action. Recognizing action, bipolar opposition, and connection as the three components of creation in natural processes provides tools for creation and the incentive to take the initiative. They are the raw materials of Mercury, Sulphur and Salt in chaos theory. The unimaginably vast and the infinitesimal are simply connected. Nature is self-referential like fractals. Connection is as fundamental as structure. Mortality (and suffering) is the overarching strange attractor, a vision of life after death. This primordial awareness improves living in the here and now whether it is "true" or not, for death/rebirth is with us in each and every instant as our primordial awareness. Each moment arises and passes, yet somehow we remain. The deepest part of our essential nature abides as the groundstate of being, our cosmic zero point. In the continuous creation, the center of the universe is everywhere, a seething cauldron of potential. Everything manifests from temporal interaction with the local nonlinear vacuum of spacetime. The interaction of time and negative time extracts massergy from the limitless ocean of roiling subspace. The temporal potential of force and form manifests in each and every instant at each and every point of being. Scalar waves are real even if unobservable. These oscillations of the stress energy tensor of the vacuum, the dense energy potential of the vacuum plays a key role in structuring the Universe. Energy moves from a free to a bound state via the dynamic structure of the vacuum. The vacuum contains randomly fluctuating electromagnetic fields with infinite zero-point energy. A quantum fluctuation is the appearance of equal but opposite particles out of vacuum. The engine of the universe runs by consuming the negentropy of highly compressed spacetime. So do we. We don’t feed on energy, but on negentropy. Both mysticism and science describe it in their different vocabularies for the deep nature of Reality. The Great Work is personal and cultural. It happens in the world at large, hiding in plain sight. More than abstractions, self-organizing processes and fractal organization are results of dynamic interactions. Alchemy is a self-organizing activity and artform that epitomizes open-ended process, intentionally engaging the natural tendency toward self-organizing process. This poetry-science recognizes the universe in man and man in the universe. We learn to know our own nature. The universe is reborn within us in various forms, including our image being, pre- and post-existence, and the secret medicine Azoth, the elixir of energetic healing. The 'Crystalline Chaotic Sea' of alchemy is synonymous with the Dirac Sea of virtual vacuum fluctuation. It is the root of our being in the gaps or void between our particles [sic]. We are part of Eternity and it is part of us. Solid objects are composed of atoms but the subatomic and pre-geometric subquantal nature is metaphysical, etheric, vaporous, and above all chaotic. The micro-ether is a universal fluid whose constant turbulence perturbs the quantum domain. This is more than poetic license or metaphor. We see through the transparent phenomenal experience of the world. more http://ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats_new_42.html

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