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Tons of Alchemy Links

alex — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:47:47 GMT

This is an amazing resource, has over 2000 links to alchemy-related materials online:

http://www.alchemy-bibliography.co.uk/online.shtml

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The Philosopher’s Stone

Phillip — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:59:44 GMT

While I do believe that it is possible that alchemists who practice the laboratory form of alchemy could have manifested such a stone that would render miraculous powers, especially a powerful manifesting power, I also believe that the Philosopher’s Stone is an esoteric internal space which can be realized by other methods as well. I believe the alchemist who may have manifested such an object also must have realized this same state of consciousness that the more esoteric alchemist manifests. But both lead to the same realization, if not the same manifestation of power.

What do others think?

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Thelemic Alchemy

Wizzard — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:26:56 GMT

The more I read and study Aleister Crowley, the more apparent it is to me that his writings and his philosophy/religion of Thelema is all about alchemy, the inner alchemy, sometimes called the spiritual alchemy. The whole thrust of his teaching is the spiritual development of the human psyche. This appears in very obvious ways at times. When I was reading Liber Al recently, I noticed the words, "There are four gates to one palace." I noticed the number "four" and asked myself if that referred to the four alchemical elements. The continuation of the verse listed a number of substances to be found in the "palace" so I asked myself if there were seven kinds of thing listed. Sure enough, there were, Matching these to the seven visible planets was a bit harder and I don't yet have complete confidence in all my attempts at identifying which planet goes with which substance, but I have found enough correspondence to be sure that is the intention of the verse.

Then there is Book 4, Section 2, which deals with the practice of magick and its symbolism. Crowley quite explicitly identifies each piece of temple furniture and each implement with some aspect of the magician's psyche. The oil symbolizes the magician's aspirations, he tells us. The circle defines the limits of the magician's universe. And so he continues through the list of items, each of them representing some part of the personality and spirit of the mage.

And in the Tarot, he makes a great deal of fuss about the Trumps of the Lovers and Art. Together, he tells us that "they compose the comprehensive alchemical maxim: Solve et coagula." This is quite clearly the fundamental expression of the alchemical formula, or so it seems to me, since every other maxim that refers to the Great Work is simply an expansion on Solve et coagula. And the Art Trump actually has the planetary formula of V.I.T.R.I.O.L. printed behind the central figure, in full this reads, "Visita Interiora Terrae, Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem. Translated from the Latin into English this is, "Visit the interior of the earth, by rectifying find the hidden stone," that stone being, of course, the Stone of the Wise, the Medicine of Metals, the Universal Solvent, the Red Powder, the White Powder, the Egg of the Phoenix, the Accomplishment of One's True Will, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness.

The whole system is all about Alchemy, once you begin to see it and look more closely. The Gnostic Mass is an alchemical process presented as a magical drama. The Book of the Law sets forth the principles of alchemy. The Tarot deck shows us pictures of the alchemical operations. Alchemy is the most powerful current in all of Crowley's writings.

Wow! What a concept. And how cleverly disguised. As magick, as religion, as philosophy, as Tarot, as initiation. It all comes back to Solve et Coagula, in one form or another.

With love under will,

Bob, Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville

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The Complete Great Work Photographed Roger Caro

ionamiller — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:49:47 GMT

http://www.rexresea rch.com/caro/ caro.htm

Never was such an arduous task executed with so much patience, tenacity, sureness, and competence.

A Puzzle constituted by 40 loose color photographs, disordered and without caption, was solved and commented upon with mastery. This was a titanic undertaking, for to restore the correct order it was first necessary to learn the secrets of the Magistry --- at least in theory; for who wouldn’t be astounded by the superb result obtained when one has before one’s eyes Pleiade Alchimique, and above all the 508 quotations contained in Concordances Alchimiques, which places all the valid authors, both ancient and modern, in parallel, phase by phase, thus placing the Great Work in a favorable light.

All of the preceding demonstrates a rare hermetic knowledge. Consequently, how would Our Order have been able to remain indifferent before such an unselfish work? So it is with one accord that our Supreme Council --- upon my request --- permits you to publish the Complete Great Work Photographed.

These photographs, which were formerly taken by our deceased and much-missed son, Kamala-Jnana, during the course of an alchemical experiment at Ajunta, could only be published by you, my dear Grand master. Also, do not stop yourself because of financial or other considerations. Go ahead, you have the faith, you have the knowledge, you know what must be done to succeed. Go then, and continued to sow the good seed. Don’t let yourself stop for anything, and remember always that God accords success only to his predestined --- the others, the complicated, will have eyes which don’t know how to see and ears which don’t know how to hear.

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Rubaphilos Salfluĕre – The Hermes Paradigm, Book One:

ionamiller — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:12:30 GMT

The much anticipated first volume in a major five book series of 21st century alchemical texts

Drawing upon many years of rigorous research conducted by dozens of trained individuals, using verifiable methods of investigation and providing reliable and replicable results, and publically introduced here for the first time by Rubaphilos Salfluĕre, this first volume in The Hermes Paradigm series offers a detailed consideration of the core concepts that afford a glimpse at the nature of the philosophy, and its first principles, that lie at the heart of Hermetic science – the source and backbone, yet least understood aspect, of the Western mystery tradition. Beginning with an examination of the history of Hermetism over the past two millennia, a clear historical and conceptual distinction is made between the body of pure Hermetic knowledge – the secret tradition – and the popular outer tradition, the latter of which is so often mistaken for the former. The much-neglected and misunderstood heart of Hermetic philosophy and its practical expression – the science of Hermetic initiation – is the subject of detailed discussion, as is the central role that alchemy plays in the theory and practical dynamic of Hermetism. The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus is dissected in order to provide the reader with an introduction to how natural law provides the blueprint for both the alchemical laboratory tradition and the inner alchemical journey of initiation. For those interested in developing a higher cognitive faculty capable of grasping deeper truths about the true nature of existence, The Hermes Paradigm, Book One: First Principles is essential reading.

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NYC guest lecturer BRIAN COTNOIR, Concise Guild to Alchemy

ionamiller — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:08:22 GMT

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 e.v.

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Special Guest Lecturer and noted author BRIAN COTNOIR

Author of The Weiser Concise Guide to Alchemy

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alchemy and the Ascent of the Soul

OPEN EVENT

4:00-6:00 PM

In Constantinople June 617AD, Stephanos of Alexandra finished writing a
series of lectures called the Art of Gold-making. This work is the
synthesis of alchemy to that time and a synopsis of what was transmitted
to the Arabs and on to the West. By examining excerpts from this work,
we will see the broad outlines of Byzantine alchemy with its more overt
spiritual emphasis — alchemy as the ascent of the soul.

In today's talk this idea of the ascent of the soul will be explored
from a variety of perspectives and traditions. Please join noted author
and practicing alchemist Brian Cotnoir, as he surveys the techniques and
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In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Rider-Waite tarot deck,

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Int'l Alchemy Conf. L.A. 10/2009 who's going?

ionamiller — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:09:54 GMT

http://alchemyconference.com/

The alchemists tried not only to change base metals into gold but also rejuvenate their bodies, integrate their personalities, and perfect the very essence of their souls. Although they spoke of retorts, furnaces, and chemicals, they were really talking about synchronous changes taking place in their own bodies, minds, and souls.

Dr. Masaru Emoto

(Keynote Speaker)

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Hans Andréa
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Robert Allen Bartlett
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Paul Bartscher
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Barry Carter
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Daniel Coaten
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Dr. Thom Cavalli
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Dr. Pradheep Chhalliyil
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Gudni Gudnason
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Dennis William Hauck
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William Henry
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Dr. Theresa Ibis
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Don Nance
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Micah Nilsson
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Duane Saari
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Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
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Gary Stadler
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. . . and many more!

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

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Techniques of Spiritual Alchemy
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The Alchemy of Harry Potter
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Alchemy for Personal Transformation
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Alchemy of Healing & Energy Work
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Practical Laboratory Work & Demos
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How to Make Tinctures, Elixirs, and Oils
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White Gold, Monatomics, & ORMUS
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The Mysterious Alchemy of Water
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Hermetic Alchemy & the Kabballah
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Alchemy in the Arts & Film Industry
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Global & Environmental Alchemy
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Alchemy of Business & Finance

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Suppression of the Sexual Instinct to Benefit Others Who Cannot Suppress the Sexual Instinct, But Need to Appear to ~~

Total Nut Job — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:52:23 GMT

Metaphysical Narcissists worshiping their own Navels. Navel of the World. Jerusalem come down please. (Is this Alchemy-related?)

Desire was, to a certain mindset, offput by God to this realm of existence (as if God had any desire).

Is the Vice of Greed at Binah on the one tree indicative of a greed for progeny within the top supernal triad of Ehieh -- YHVH -- Elohim? NO.

Deal with it, people. The people not reading.

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The Philosopher's Stone

Od — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:49:47 GMT

Alchemy meets Sacred Geometry...

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clauspat/stone.htm

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Al-Kemi

Chloe — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:40:41 GMT

Have any of you read 'Al-Kemi' by Andre Vandebroock ( I may have miss-spelled his last name, I no longer have the book in my pocession)

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Finally

Solari — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:52:24 GMT

There is a growing recognition of the value and utility of magnetically altered water which we in the ormus community have been experimenting with for the past 8 years. The video below describes the growing acceptance of the technology in Australian agriculture. However, we are hoping these applications will not be overdone or misapplied. For instance, drinking magnetically altered water daily and in copious amounts can be a bad idea. Still, it is gratifying to see the rest of the world starting to take notice. Bo

http://waterforlife.net.au/

Below are links to the devices and techniques I have developed over the past four years. The web pages are hosted by "Subtleenergies.com" which is the master site for all things ormus.. Bo

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/magneticalteration.htm

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/stratifying.htm

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/longtrap.htm

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ORMES?

jerryb — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:35:05 GMT

Has anyone heard of Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements? Dr David Hudson's research?

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The Dragon or Serpent in Alchemy

Phillip — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:52:03 GMT

The serpent eating it’s tail is a common gnostic and alchemical symbol. It is often seen coiled around an egg, and is also called the “pole serpent” in Kabbalah, and the serpent in the garden of eden. This symbol is also seen in Job, where God describes Leviathan. This symbol, and the serpent or “dragon” is prevalent as a symbol in alchemy and various other traditions. But what is this dragon, or serpent?

One contemplation declares that he dragon is a manifestation of Yaweh, but at a lower grade, explaining why Balaam could see visions and speak with God, though he was a sorcerer, not a servant of the Divine. It is said, that Baal-Shem, a “master of the name” is a master of the dragon as well as a master of the “dragon”. It is also said that a master sorcerer is a master of the dragon, but not of the name. These are common Kabbalistic teachings that heavily influence alchemy, and thus this contemplation of the alchemical dragon.

The “serpent power” is often referred to in Eastern traditions as Kundalini, and many Western traditions would propose that this symbol matches completely the Western symbolism of the “serpent,” informing us of the qualities of this energy when it arises, and it’s nature.

The serpent, or “dragon” is desire. In alchemy, there are various colors of this dragon, representing the various permutations of desire. Also, in Kabbalah, there are various symbols of the serpent, including the serpent devouring it’s tail, as well as the pole serpent, and in Gnosticism and Alchemy, there is the serpent coiled around the egg. The egg can be thought of as the seed of desire, it’s unborn potential, that is both contained, guarded and restrained by the serpent, which is it’s expression in externalized desires. The egg hatched, is the desire directed inward, the phoenix, which is the nature of re-birth. This alludes to the Kabbalistic distinction between the serpent eating it’s tail, which is a representation of the material world, which devours itself constantly to create new forms endlessly, and the “pole serpent” which is the serpent uplifted on a pole, or a cross. Yeshua, or Jesus, is the enactment of this Alchemical and Kabbalistic principle, the serpent uplifted, or this desire energy directed fully inward, which means he is fully in submission to this interior impulse, even unto death. But what does this master enact? The same mystery of the Phoenix!

So the “master of the dragon” is the being who can manipulate desire energy for his own ends, which does not manifest itself in so dualistic terms as “my desire” and “your desire”, for, in fact, desire is simply the raw material of creation. So it manifests through these bodies in the same essential way, and the sorcerer knows how to play upon this to manifest his own will.

But he question is, what is the “master of the name”? In fact, this is desire energy directed inward, and the key distinction between the black dragon, which gives forth acid from it’s belly, which consumes everything and the Gold dragon, which is this desire energy uplifted.

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BAN MIND CONTROL/ DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE

Native Flower — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:42:55 GMT

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The Voarchadumia & John Dee…

ionamiller — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:54:15 GMT

http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/23/the-voarchadumia-john-dee

The Voarchadumia & John Dee…
Posted by nickpelling on May 23rd, 2009

Once upon a time (in 1518), a Venetian called Giovanni Agostino Pantheo put himself into hot water by writing a work on alchemy (the Ars Transmutationis Metallicae). Yet essentially unrepentant, he went on to publish (in 1530) a further book on alchemy called the Voarchadumia Contra Alchimiam: this was largely a reprise of his 1518 book but dressed in additional historical garb for an air of antiquity and authority. Yet given that his word “Voarchadumia” was a mash-up of Hebrew and Chaldean (meaning something vaguely about making gold), it has to be said that Pantheo’s take on history was probably no less spurious than his artificially-constructed title.

Still, the Voarchadumia covers languages, alchemy, metallurgy, and various other topics: intriguingly, the well-regarded alchemy expert Adam McLean is currently working on a translation of it, and plans to be finished by the end of this year. Probably because it is currently only in Latin, the Voarchadumia seems to be one of those books which people often claim to have read, but which in fact they have only read about. Which makes it fertile soil for the weed-like seeds of misremembered half-stories to flourish in…

For example, the two most-repeated tales about the Voarchadumia concern its influence on John Dee: in one, Dee’s (1564) Monas Hieroglyphica symbol allegedly appeared first in the Voarchadumia, while in the other, Dee’s Enochian alphabet allegedly appeared first in the Voarchadumia. Are these true?

Well… it’s certainly true that Dee had his own copy of the Voarchadumia (which is now in the British Library, complete with Dee’s annotations!) However, having just gone through a scan of a 1550 edition of Voarchadumia, I can say that the first story seems just flat wrong (though please tell me if the symbol appears in a different edition!), while Dee’s angelic alphabet (though note that Dee didn’t actually call this “Enochian”) similarly fails to make any obvious appearance there.

Even so, what does appear on leaves 15v and 16r in Pantheo’s Voarchadumia, however, is an alphabet attributed to Enoch (”Antiquiores autem hi:& concessi Enoch“, to be precise) which has many visual similarities to Dee’s Enochian in its stroke structure and stylistics… even if none of the actual glyphs does actually match. Saying that the two are the same would be an easy mistake to make if you weren’t being careful.

A further angelic alphabet (marked “Angelicum“) appears in James Bonaventure Hepburn’s (1573-1620) early 17th century Virga Aurea, which contains 70 secret or ancient alphabets: Adam McLean discussed this alphabet in The Hermetic Journal in 1980, and even translated the (tiny) amount of text on the engraving depicted beside it. Even Athanasius Kircher subsequently wrote on angelic languages!

But angelic languages first appeared prior to the Voarchadumia, both in Trithemius’ Steganographia Polygraphia (where the prototypical stylistic blend of Arabic and Ethiopic lettering common to these Angelic Alphabets seems to have emerged first) and in Agrippa’s three Coelestis, Malachim, & Transitus Fluvii alphabets – according to Wikipedia, the Transitus Fluvii alphabet first appeared a decade before Agrippa (you may also have seen this in the Blair Witch Project!) It has been claimed that Pantheo formed the Voarchadumia’s second alphabet by munging together these three Agrippan alphabets, with fairly sensible historical reasoning, I’d say.

All in all, it should be clear that Dee did not invent the idea of an angelic or Enochian language – but then again, neither did Pantheo. And furthermore, I don’t believe that angelic languages were common in Dee’s time – though this runs contrary to the Wikipedia Enochian page, which cites Tobias Churton’s [very enjoyable] book “The Golden Builders” as support (but I can’t find any substantial reference there at all). My own reading of the evidence is that the notion of talking to angels in their own angelic language (for that was their purpose) was no more than a marginal, post-rationalized (if affectedly pious) Renaissance reworking of the kind of nigromancy still widespread in the Trecento and Quattrocento.

And so for me, the central issue about Dee is whether he was using the notion of angelic language in a fully necromantic sense (as modern occultists believe, following Aleister Crowley et al), or in a fully steganographic sense (pace Trithemius and possibly Agrippa), or perhaps some kind of epistemologically-confused mix of the two. This is hugely tricky and contentious, because it goes right to the heart of Dee’s entire Renaissance project - i.e. was he scientific or occult? Did Casaubon really have any right to label Dee a Faustian conjuror?

What do you think?

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Alchemy - Tarot Trumps

GalacticTime — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:36:58 GMT

Curious if anyone has any information or resources for associating the individual Tarot trumps to the stages of Alchemy...?

Thank you for your time and contributions.

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another fraud case to add re flamel college

margaret — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:06:23 GMT

I foolishly paid for the whole Masters course with flamel college, i.e iag services. ....................Dennis Hauck............. This consists of 7 modules, I received only one module, February, 2008. No more modules and no money refunded although Dennis Hauck said that it would be refunded last year. It has never transpired. I paid $606. Sent loads of emails and a registered letter to IAG but no replies.
B------s!............................PEOPLE BEWARE.

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Alchemy Journal Vol. 10 No. 1

ionamiller — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:09:05 GMT

http://www.alchemyjournal.com/
he Alchemy Journal is devoted to the Divine Art, Celestial Agriculture, the Mother of all Science and Wisdom, the ancient Art of Transformation: the Great Work as known by many names.

Since 2000 the Alchemy Journal has published an eclectic array of material, both scholarly and personal, logical and emotional, practical and spiritual, everyday and occult, including essays, articles, poetry, visual art, interviews, and summaries of operative alchemical processes, along with book and website reviews, sources and resources, and the latest conference, lecture and workshop announcements.

Contents:

The Modern Mystery School by Gudni Gudnason

The Influence of Women in Alchemy by Abigail McBride

The Mother-Space, the Ultimate Alchemical Feminine by Dr. Bruce Fisher

Anima Mundi, Soul-Filled World by Iona Miller

The Seed in Spring by Steve Kalec

The alchemical feminine in new works by Michael Pearce

The Salts of Life by Karen Bartlett

Shekhinah, the Feminine Presence of God by Dr. Theresa Ibis

Beyond Passions by Tamara Nikolic and Jay Hochberg

Mater Alchemæ by Rubaphilos Salfluĕre

To Pursue Their Full Measure of Happiness: Sex, Gender, Politics and Alchemy by Andrew Minkin

Twenty-First Century Turba Philosophorum: the 2008 International Alchemy Conference by Dennis William Hauck

Hymn to Kali by Ramdulal Nandi

Russell Burton House, plus Nicki Scully and Linda Star Wolf reviewed by Rubaphilos Salfluĕre; Dr. Ross Mack reviewed by Iona Miller; Alexander Roob reviewed by Jay Hochberg; Paul Foster Case reviewed by Darcy Kuntz; Russell Burton House reviewed by Mike Ridpath; and Ruth Rusca and Dr. Christine R. Page reviewed by Alexander Price

Plus a profile of Modern Magister Jeannie Radcliffe

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Call for Entries

alex — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:36:05 GMT

*Interesting* is an edgy new literary magazine with decided academic and mystical tendencies. It will come out as often as I feel like it, and its contents are limited to what I, the editor, personally find interesting. I'm looking for poetry, artwork, essays, interviews, book reviews... Anything is fair game but NOTHING BORING.

Here are some examples of things that interest me... The rising stars of contemporary American poetry. Controversies in the practice of anthropology. Exorcism techniques. The space where literary criticism meets psychoanalysis. Deconstructionism, and bad-mannered mockeries of deconstructionism. Practical Kabbalah. The causes of poverty. Theosophy. Shamanism. Unpredictable haiku.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

POETRY: No rhyming or metered verse. Previously unpublished only. Send up to three in the body of an email (no attachments).

NONFICTION: Send a brief email query with a link to one or two writing samples, or a short sample included in the email body (no attachments!) An informal email is ideal: just tell me who you are and what interests you (briefly). I'm looking for sparkling writing with a clear, strong voice. I'm looking to provide a forum for work that doesn't fit anywhere: eccentric, highly personal pieces. Please send them to me.

FICTION: No fiction.

ARTWORK: I'm looking for all kinds of original artwork for use on the cover and as content. Graphic-designy, young, experimental a +, but nothing gross. Send links; if you don't have an online portfolio, snap some digital pics and upload them to flickr or photobucket and send me the url. Once again: no attachments.

All submissions and related correspondence to: editor@interestingmag.net. I can't currently offer compensation for accepted work, just publication.

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fyi, South American alchemy links

ionamiller — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:42:47 GMT

from the Alchemistica newletter, some little known news on South American alchemy:

> I'd like to contribute something that isn't very well known in the English speaking alchemy world.
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> There is a city in Uruguay (South America) called Piriápolis built in 1980 by an alchemist called Francisco Piria (1847 - 1933).
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> The city is full with alchemical symbols and a huge castle. Mr Piria also wrote an utopian book (loosely translated) "The triumph of socialism - What will be of my country in 200 years". Take into account that "socialism" in Uruguay is something different from what it is commonly associated in the post-Cold War world.
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> The book itself, (which I believe is not translated to English), is full of alchemical references. He imagines that Uruguay in 2098 is a society in which "Alchemy has won", its principles adopted into society and Uruguay being a "socialist alchemical utopia".
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> In the link below, there is a section called "El triunfo de la Alquimia" which is very interesting to read if you know Spanish.
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> You can see some pictures here:
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> http://www.taringa. net/posts/ info/1379409/ Uruguay-- ---Piria- y-la-Alquimia. html
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> http://es.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Archivo:Castillo _Piria.jpg "Piria's castle"
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> http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Piriápolis
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>> Little is talked about alchemy in South America, but rest assured, there are practitioners.
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> If you ever go to Uruguay, or Argentina, it's a nice place to visit.

Sergio, the outline for the work proposed under "Apuntes para una historia del Hermetismo en América y especialmente en Chile" is fascinating.

It is well known in Argentina that José de San Martín was a mason. The influences of Hermeticism in the Southern Cone seem to be extensive whether in literature, art, or in the buildings of Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago.

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> Dear friends:
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> Those who are interested in the alchemical development in South America can visit the sites I've developed in this regard:
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> http://www.bajolosh ielos.cl/ hermss.htm
> http://my.opera. com/mercurioradi ante/blog/
> Also:
> http://alquimia. 100foros. com/la-fuente- de-la-plaza- matriz-de- montevideo- vt24.html
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> The> history of Hermeticism in countries like Chile, Uruguay or Argentina is> very rich and go hand in hand with the arts,
> poetry and painting.

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The Transmodern Alchemist online book

ionamiller — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:33:52 GMT

Find the book at THE TRANSMODERN ALCHEMIST
http://transmodernalchemy.iwarp.com/

Science-Art Mystics

"We expect artists as well as scientists to be forward-looking, to fly in the face of what is established, and to create not what is acceptable but what will become acceptable . . . a theory is the creation of unity in what is diverse by the discovery of unexpected likenesses. In all of them innovation is pictured as an act of imagination, a seeing of what others do not see . . . “creative observation.” (Bronowski, 1958).

“Scientists search for a ‘real’ and hidden, internal visibility (invisible to the naked eye) which will confirm the limits of identity. . .This is an act of limitation which inverts its own criteria by relying on a ‘depth’ model of identity, which is invisible, but gives visibility through microscopic magnification. Yet this search for an invisible core of identity remains open to a visible transgression via artists who are constantly exposing these new certainties as constructs.” (Sargeant, 1999).

"Any given state of consciousness is permeated by the clear light of primordial awareness. However solid ice may be, it never loses its true nature, which is water. In the same way, even very obvious concepts are such that their 'place', as it were, their final resting place, does not fall outside the expanse of primordial awareness. They arise within the expanse of primordial awareness and that is where they dissolve." (Dalai Lama)

"To summarize, I have spoken of seven major aspects of Solutio symbolism: (1) return to the womb or primal state; (2) dissolution, dispersal, dismemberment; (3) containment of a lesser thing by a greater; (4) rebirth, rejuvenation, immersion in the creative energy flow; (5) purification ordeal; (6) solution of problems; and (7) melting or softening process. These different aspects overlap. Several or all of them may make up different facets of a single experience. Basically it is the ego's confrontation with the unconscious that brings about Solutio." (Edinger, 1985, Anatomy of the Psyche)

"There is a generic process in nature and consciousness which dissolves and regenerates all forms. The essence of this transformative, morphological process is chaotic -- purposeful yet inherently unpredictable holistic repatterning. The Great Work of the art of alchemy is the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, a symbol of wholeness and integration. The liquid form of the Stone, called the Universal Solvent, dissolves all old forms like a rushing stream, and is the self-organizing matrix for the rebirth of new forms. It is thus a metaphor or model for the dynamic process of transformation, ego death and re-creation." (Miller, 1992, "Chaos As the Universal Solvent")

Emanation: Creative Source

Alchemy calls Chaos the prima and ultima materia. In this chaosophical philosophy, all systems emerge from and eventually dissolve back into chaos. The trancendent principle "emanation" is primordial. All derived or secondary things proceed or flow from the primal Source. It eliminates will from the theory of creation. There is no hand of a supreme artisan who finds matter at his or her disposal. All things, actually or only apparently material, emerge or flow from the primal principle.

Unlike evolution, the process of development, emanation declares the immutability of the first principle. Emanation involves a series of descending stages, a subjective gnosis, not a developmental evolution that goes from less to more perfect. Thus, chaotic excitability is a paradigm of emergence, transcendent yet immanent potential. The undecomposable domain of Chaos is not an emptiness, but a rich, generative source -- a bornless nothingness from which all form proceeded.

There is an unmanifest fundamental reality, a virtual field, which is an invisible flux not comprised of parts, but an inseparable interconnectedness. In this dynamic model, there are no "things", only energetic events. This holoflux includes the ultimately flowing nature of what is, and also of that which forms therein. This subquantal domain marks the limit of our ability to peer into the Mystery of nature at cosmic zero.

At the human scale, we are blinded to this primal creative field, virtual photon flux. Chaos theory as holism without wholes allows us to describe both psyche and matter in terms congruent with physical reality. This is simply the way nature works, and the way our nature works, too. Chaos provides a comprehensive psychophysical metaphor for uniting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realities.

Global recruitment is characteristic of chaotic patterning. It allows the best balance between random fluctuations, permitting discoveries and innovations. Changing the activity of just one element can unleash an avalanche of changes in the patterns that might have otherwise occurred (“butterfly effect”). A structural perturbation is a permanent transmutation for the functions of a network.

Because interconnectivity is more than metaphorical, realizations translate across disciplines. Metaphors reflect the interdependency of mind and body, and the embodied nature of metaphor holistically reflects the unity of individual and world. The events and experiences of our lives become embedded in our structure and metabolism. We might call this nonlocal entangled embodiment "metaphorms."

Physics deals with the energetic aspect of the world. Information theory deals with the communicational or patterning aspect. Fractals, nature's dynamic self-organizing pattern, exist in the paradoxical space between dimensions, levels and forces of existence. They arise at the interface between processes, at boundary zones where they serve both to connect and separate multiple levels. They translate information/energy, structuring dimensions by adding or recursively removing structure, embodying process.

Fractal dynamics escalate change from tiny to large scales. Self-organization is an emergent property of systems and organisms, from the cosmos to human beings. Chaotic dynamics governs the emergence of this new order from apparent randomness. The deep coherence of the overall process implies hidden or missing information for holistic patterning within the apparent "noise" or randomness of chaotic patterns.

Consciousness, like creativity, is an emergent phenomenon patterned by strange attractors which govern the complexity of information in dynamic flow. Our consciousness appears co-temporaneously with our embodiment, creating the imaginal flux of representational and nonrepresentational perception - the stream of consciousness. The cosmic trinity of chaos, matter, and attraction appears at the heart of modern chaos theory and alchemy.

The Vedas identify all creative intent and substance as a manifestation of primal consciousness, which is considered the basis of all manifestation. In this worldview, there is nothing but consciousness. Complex dynamics is implicated in the energetic translation of "waves of unborn nothingness". Healing is the biological equivalent of creativity. The more complex a system, the more stable and self-correcting it is.

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Pre-existence, Chaos Theory, Soma Athanaton

ionamiller — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:22:53 GMT

http://spiritualalchemy.iwarp.com/whats_new_20.html

"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

Both spiritual and experimental alchemy are participatory arts. The alchemist leads him/her self by following nature with the Hermetic spirit. The alchemical world is composed of the three primal components of the chaotic 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 and refine our experience. We re-forge our essential elements by recycling our consciousness in the ecology of the soul. We discover the universal solvent in resonant flow states. In each creative cycle alchemical gold is generated in the vessel. "Heating" is necessary to intensify consciousness and kindle the Light of intuitive illumination and divine inspiration -- the legendary Stone.

Natural and human processes are the matrix of action. Recognizing action, bipolar opposition (polarity), and connection (bonds) as the three components of creation in natural processes provides tools for creation and the incentive to take the initiative. These abc's 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.

Alchemy is an accelerated path to enlightenment, a state or phase change to a higher order adaptation and function. Mortality (and suffering) is the overarching strange attractor, including a vision of life beyond 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 primal clarity.

Each moment arises and passes, yet somehow we remain, breath after breath. Magic happens in the gaps between breaths. Realizing this moment neither begins nor ends, we realize deathlessness. That which is never born, never dies; deathless, timeless eternity. To embody the Philosopher's Stone, we reiterate the whole process of creation.

Body of Light

The alchemist learns to identify less and less with the ego and more strongly with absolute space as the vehicle of consciousness. The spiritual or Diamond Body is a vessel of immortality -- the Soma Athanaton. Thus, "attainment of immortality" takes place by transformation of the physical body and the energy body, or hyperdimensional field body. Identification is expanded into cosmic consciousness, the ground state of being.

Like alchemy, meditation (meditatio) is a psychic transformation process. Psyche or soul is the vital life energy, the living essence of the body, expressed as images. The alchemist feeds the incorruptible field body on the dew of pure life force, pure limitless Light. The breath-body harmlessly consumes the surplus negentropic energy radiantly shed by all creative process in the Universe. Physically, the inhibitors that prevent full pineal function are deregulated, allowing the spirit molecule, DMT, to flow.

An utterly new, naturally-psychedelic phase-state first glimmers in awareness then stabilizes with the union of the personal and the transpersonal. This deep consciousness is also known as the Golden Flower, vajra, awakened kundalini, resurrection body, rainbow body, supercelestial body, the Elixir and the Stone. The indestructible core, the sacred form of the truly spiritual body emerges.

The Diamond Body is a Mystery, but one whose building we can conceptually unpack for greater understanding of the process/goal. This bioplasmic double, the etheric body is literally a Body of Light, rooted in the subquantal ether or scalar physics. We can decode the cryptograms of alchemy in contemporary scientific terms.

Diamond Sea of Scintillae

Jung sourced alchemical ideas to fund his psychological theory. The most prominent alchemical symbol is the scintillae, or germinal divine sparks of the spirit. He thought what the alchemists saw in matter was a projection, but it may be direct insight, perception of metaphysical reality. These seeds of light broadcast in the chaos are not illusory. Paracelsus, Khunrath and Dorn related them to the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness like a diamond-strewn night sky.

They are more than symbolic. Jung linked them to the Sun, luminosity and numinosity. We labor in the dark of the unconscious until we see these glittering "fishes eyes" that herald the solar light. These multiple eyes reflect our many facets back to ourselves. Comparable with archetypes, these multiple intensities herald psyche's reunification with the unconscious, sparkling in the margins of astral vision. The union of the scintillae form gold. Sparks shining in the dark solution are the first glimmers of immortality.

In essence, consciousness is located everywhere in the universe at the center of origin of every radiant energy field and fundamental particle. The universe and every field and form in it originates from and rests on its infinite zero-points of timeless and dimensionless (thus "empty" and "eternal") absolute or "ground space." Each zero-point (acting contiguously with all other zero points, as one thing, like a BEC) contains the total potential mass energy of the entire cosmos. All the energy and structural information of the entire cosmos is contained in every zero point and every standing wave particle center field.

The universe is a hologram. All its information accessible to consciousness is carried as wave interference patterns on radiant harmonic (fractal involved) energy fields, between near zero and near infinite frequency phase orders. It is transmitted from field to fields by some sort of phase conjugate adaptive resonance process, and detected by consciousness by reflection of a coherent energy willfully radiated. "Empty" absolute space (located at the zero-point origin of every particle and radiant field) -- must be as substantial and potentially mass-energetic as the entire metric spacetime universe that arises out of it. (Maurer)

Vacuum Expectation Energy

The singularity is not near; it's here, everywhereallthetimeforever, and we are not separate from that. This is the point. The deepest part of our essential nature abides as the groundstate of being, our cosmic zero point. Connection to this primordial nature is the essence of deathlessness, the elixir of immortality. The plenum is pregnant with possiblity and we are always expecting.

Those who realize alchemical deathlessness in this life, transcend the concept of death. It is a realization of open awareness, of Life without deterioration or entropy. The essence of life is unobstructed radiance. Such purified life force, the radiance of all cosmic life, is nourishment for the energy body.

Pre-existing absolute space, (a BEC) is more fundamental than visible space which is embedded within it. Energetically and informationally, the physical universe is contained in absolute space, as emergent phenomena in numinal and spatial fields. In visible space, points have the capacity to draw charge. Likewise, the one-pointed concentration of focus creates an influx.

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.

Naughtiness

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. Nature oscillates incessantly, in a dance of electromagnetic dipole dynamics.

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. We don't really know when we're going to cross thresholds.

There are conventional truths and there are ultimate truths. We practice to experience ultimate truth. 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. We make the Universal Medicine from nothing but morning dew. Morning dew is life force.

Our Crystalline Chaotic Sea

The 'Crystalline Chaotic Sea' of alchemy is synonymous with the zero point energy Dirac Sea of virtual vacuum fluctuation. A dissorderly structure is a chaotic sea, a jumble of superimposed waveforms. Mixing is enhanced in the chaotic sea giving rise to self-similar emergent properties as information becomes more complex.

Chaotic mixing states have a fractal structure. The chaotic sea applies equally to psyche and substance. It is the root of our being, including the gaps or void between our particles [sic]. A mighty fractal Dragon consuming its tail lives in this turbulent sea. A dragon curve is the generic name for any member of a family of self similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods. Like the dragon, we are part of Eternity and it is part of us.

Nature is continuous with what is revealed to us. Nature penetrates us even as we penetrate nature through our own nature. Currents can be generated in dissipative systems. Transportable islands of stability exist in the chaotic sea. These islands come and go. Such islands can be flooded by chaotic states.

Main resonance islands of stability persist. Regular-chaotic motions abound in transition states. An initial point in the chaotic sea will explore the whole sea. Its motion is characterized by periods of frequent extraction and reinjection interspersed with long arcing forays away from the singularities. Our chaotic orbit is determined by the strength of surrounding attractors.

Crystalline Grid

The chaotic prima materia and the Stone also have a crystalline nature. Buckminster Fuller described an omnitriangulated grid as the Isotropic Vector Matrix and vector equilibrium matrix -- essentially a Diamond Body. (Miller, 1992)
Energy "crystallizes" into matter in the womb of empty space, a dynamic Void. Mass is simply a form of energy. This process is structured by an underlying, invisible, geometrical lattice. Actually, it is pre-geometric. Because it has no true physical existence, it is metaphysical (beyond physics). This threshold of matter, where nothing becomes something, is of great philosophical and existential interest.

In the Lightness of Being, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Frank Wilczek describes new theories on how matter and energy interact, the Grid and the Core. Core theory, the Standard Model of quantum mechanics, reconciles gravity with electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces. The grid is the ground of being, the dynamics of space itself. Particles are disturbances in the grid. The grid shapes mass geometrically as it interacts with it. Mass is a property of the grid. Fields are self-renewing patterns that fill all of space and, when disturbed, throw off particles.

The fields that fill space turn out to be quantum fields, which spontaneously, unpredictably fluctuate. These quantum fluctuations are known as virtual particles. Along with virtual particles, space is filled with the residues of invisible interactions among elementary particles such as quarks, bosons, and leptons. The residues, called condensates, are "ethers {that} "condense spontaneously out of empty space as the morning dew or an all-enveloping mist might condense out of moist, invisible air." Space is not empty after all; "the cosmos is a multilayered, multicolored superconductor," with weight and density. Its name is "Grid." www.boston.com/ae/books/a...al_physics/

Over the past few decades, physicists’ ideas of reality have changed dramatically. Matter is like light, and mass comes from energy. The dynamic “Grid” hums as it creates and destroys particles. Perhaps QCD is the contemporary version of the alchemical peacock's tail. Quantum chromodynamics is a gauge theory describing strong interaction of color forces.

Quantum vacuum charge. The grid is the vacuum that theoretically seethes with quantum activity, a conceptual descendant of ether, that mysterious substance scientists once believed filled empty space. In this theory space is highly structured by the grid, which is the primary ingredient of physical reality and the substance from which all physical matter is formed. (Wilczek)

The phion field (Bose-Einstein condensate) has been proposed as the quintessential force. Squeezing and entanglement are properties of phion condensate. A "fifth force," a phion is a neutral vector particle in a vector field. This vector field, phion condensate fluid, curls into a skewed symmetric field that couples to matter. (Moffet)

The deepest nature of Reality is nonlinear and nonlocal. These aspects of contemporary chaos theory and subquantal physics are metaphorically relevant to our Opus. We have to think like chaos, beyond the sealed retort in 'open-systems.' It doesn't just take place 'in here," because we are the same as "out there," despite any persistent cultural delusions. We have to open ourselves to the Universe and the depth of our interconnections. Alchemy suggests we can find our virtual oasis, our resonant islands in the chaotic sea of reflection points, in the serenity of the One World.

Nothing is Impossible

Alchemy allows us to 'kick' the system. Kicked systems can implement changes in quantum dynamics. There is a coupling matrix between regular and chaotic states. Things propagate in this matrix. We learn to dynamically tunnel with resonance-assisted thought experiments from ordinary states to the chaotic sea of infinite potential. In the language of chaos theory, as the strength of the perturbation is increased, the resonance zones grow, and can overlap and form a chaotic sea. Elements mix chaotically into flow.

The Book of Lambspring says, "Two fish swim in our Sea," - the opposites of spirit and soul, the conscious and unconscious, positive and negative. We live in a cosmic psychic sea. We are in psyche, not psyche in us. Individual psyches are ultimately illusory. In the process of reexamining for what we know about ourselves, we realize most of our imagery is pre-conscious or never conscious.

Solid objects are composed of atoms but the subatomic and pre-geometric subquantal nature is metaphysical, etheric, vaporous, and above all chaotic. The phase space of mixed systems consist of resonant islands in a chaotic sea connected dynamically by quantum tunneling.

Dynamic entanglement is a signature of chaos. Random states are highly, even maximally entangled. The typical entanglement, agrees with the long-time-averaged entanglement for initial states in the chaotic sea. In all cases the dynamically generated entanglement is that of a random complex vector. 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. It is how we know what we know. But that can only ever be a belief, a model, a construction, ultimately an illusion much like a dynamic n-dimensional hologram. There are vortexes of activity in this endless chaotic sea -- virtual wave upon interpenetrating wave of the patterns of pattern and form. A similar process happens in the chaotic processing of the holographic brain.

Our commonsense distinction between "subjective" and "objective" experience is an obsessive delusion created by the brain. Neurology research shows all the contents of consciousness are social constructs. We don't originate our own thoughts, much less feelings and proprioception. Most of our action potentials are decided without conscious intervention. Our decisions are made before questions are formulated. Nothing matters; psyche matters. Paradoxically, "Nothing is impossible."

Chaotic Attractors

An archetype is a "dynamic action plan" shaping consciousness, emotions, behaviour and relationships as well as the realm of matter. Creation myths describe the evolution of an archetypal system from the undifferentiated homeostasis of equilibrium to the symmetry-breaking perturbation of the primordial matrix and on through the increasing differentiation, coupling and complexity of the unfolding system. Psychologically, creation myths symbolize the origin of consciousness, the process of individuation, and the dynamics of creativity, each closely associated with the archetype of the self, regulator of the human psyche (von Franz, 1972).

Creativity is characterized by psychological openness to inner and outer experiences. We engage this tendency in a purposeful way and learn to flow with the energy and creativity within the system leading to insights and applications by breakthroughs in information barriers. Reducing the dataglut of massa confusa to alchemical channels of information flow expedites the process. Tiny inputs can lead to cascades of events -- embodying logically necessary relations.

Alchemical operations delineate discontinuous levels of consciousness as robust methods for seeking novel solutions with non-consensus coherence via synchronized chaos. Finding such adaptive solutions demonstrates survival and system resilience by maintaining tension of opposites, rather than resolution. In the coherence model learning is a process of transformation, or self-organization. Complexity and freedom are actually coextensive with one another.

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Monoatomic Alchemy

ORMEs — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:58:56 GMT

The center of the periodic chart of elements consists of what are known as the "transition elements," meaning that they can transit from metallic to monatomic or diatomic via chemical treatment or through other means (what some would refer to as "shadow chemistry" or "arcane chemistry" or even "alchemy"). Take gold for example. When you have two or more gold atoms in a microcluster, it will have metallic properties, but if you have only one atom, it will then have ceramic properties, which means that it becomes chemically inert but at the same time will have superconductive capabilities even at room temperature. The weight of these amazing materials can also change by heating, becoming lighter, even to the point of levitation. Because it is chemically inert, it can be ingested for health, wellbeing and super-energizing at the cellular level.

It's truly amazing stuff. Our users are raving about the results they're experiencing. Reports have indicated huge boosts in mental and physical energy, aches and pains vanishing, increased mental clarity and focus, increased strength, stamina and sex drive, and looking and feeling younger, and huge boosts in strengthening the immune system.

Superhealth begins at the level of our cells. The reactions required to make these astonishing materials cause boosts in the presence of, and reaction with, hydrogen. When more hydrogen is present, the surface tension of water (or any other liquid) is reduced. When ingesting any liquid with a reduced surface tension of the water molecule itself, the result is a reduction in the surface tension of our cell walls. That allows a greater influx of oxygen which displaces carbon dioxide trapped in the cells, and also increases the uptake of any other nutrients present.

Not only do our cells communicate via chemicals and electricity in our nervous system and intercellularly throughout other processes, but also through the exchange of photons, or light particles. The human body is a marvelous bioelectric machine, and all of its processes depend on the clear and (ideally) unimpeded conduction of electrical "messages" required to carry out those processes. Light, as proven by fiber optics, can carry more and actually "purer" information. As mentioned above, these materials are superconductive, and therefore change our bodies at the cellular level, from our organs, muscles and tissues to our brain and nervous system, into superconductors of a greatly increased flow of photons, greatly increased because the materials themselves are in a sense "liquid (or powdered) light." It's like installing 'gold tipped' wires on your brain synapse. Put another way, you could say that monatomics transform the body's "wiring" from being simple copper cable to being wired with fiber-optics, where the same "width" of wiring is able to carry 1,000 times as much 'processing' information.

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Transmodern Alchemy

ionamiller — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:21:40 GMT

CHAOS THEORY IN TRANSMODERN SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY

INTRODUCTION
By Iona Miller 5/2009

"Nonexistence is eagerly bubbling in the expectation of being given existence....For the mine and treasure-house of God's making is naught but nonexistence coming into manifestation." ~Rumi

In the 20th Century, Carl Jung described alchemy in terms of depth psychology and shed new light on an old science. Contemporary 21st Century alchemy can be viewed as a revolutionary dynamic process in terms of Chaos Theory and its related sciences. There are analogies between spiritual psychology, chaos theory, scalar physics and alchemical processes, some of which are more than metaphorical. Chaos is intgrated in the new paradigm.

In the Transmodern union of opposites, the real and the unreal are no longer opposed. The concept of reality emerges, no longer bound to the material world but turned into fiction because of it. Reality and existence are no longer synonymous – it is a type of reality that continues to “be” even when it may not “exist” and does not comply with the simple status of simulacrum, i.e., the virtual is the true reality.

Time is no longer a flow, projection or hope. It accelerates at overwhelming speed, becomes compressed and plays itself out. Instantaneously, everything takes place before us simultaneously, including retrievals of the past and projections of multiple futures.

The transmodern world is not in progress nor beyond history. This instantaneous world means time quickens to the breathtaking speed of an eternally updated present. Beyond the hierarchy which has lost divine legitimacy and beyond anarchy, integrated chaos represents our very own dynamic momentum of innovation.

Alchemical transmutation is likewise virtually instantaneous, because its potential exists in each and every nanosecond, at the bottom of each breath. Creative solutions arise from chaotic circumstances by more openly receptive awareness of potential. Alchemy’s protocols, in the context of art instigate some imbalance to facilitate discovery of enriching solutions to this chaos. Were we wiser in the past? What if we collapse the notion of past, present, future in the ever-present NOW?

Transmodern Alchemy

Transmodernity is the synthesis of modernity and postmodern philosophy. So what might a chaos-informed Transmodern Alchemy look like? First and foremost our existential state space is in flux. The nation-state no longer dominates space in globalist society. Phenomena no longer correspond with old-paradigm frameworks.

Trans- is the prefix that guides the vision of reality as virtual and fluctuating. At the subquantal range of virtual photon flux, this is literally true and the metaphysical substrate of manifestation. At the virtual level, the fiction of ‘reality’ as substantive is revealed and the transparet veil is ripped away. Self-organizing dynamic transactions combine the positive momentum of the modern philosophy with the emptiness of the Postmodern, the longing for unity of the former and the fragmentation of the latter.

Our comprehension of the physical world has been transformed. We are wavefronts in local space, undergird by the vacuum fluctuation of absolute space. Material reality, as formation, atom, mass, power, space, time, etc. is an outworn concept that brought order to a Newtonian universe.

The theory of relativity and quantum mechanics , waves, chords, uncertainty, gravitational lines, the temporalization of space, etc., an entire fuzzy logic brought physics to the edge of metaphysics. We have alchemically synthesized the actual and ethereal in our transmodern cultural worldview.

Reality is no longer limited to the movement of aggregates of atoms (objects), but also quanta of information transmitted in real time. Space is no longer the site of transformation, nor the alleged place of secularization multiplied in n dimensions. It becomes irrelevant and ceases to exist, as a limit never reached before. The speed of light, takes on the form of everyday instantaneity.

The spirit, soul, reason, the subjective, objective and absolute was the main protagonist of modernity, although progressively undermined by scientific materialism, it became a mere metaphor of itself as a dynamic driving force and shared form of rationality.

Behind it all we are left with the body, fragmented, joyful, lustful, a form of moral subversion and doomed flesh. Nowadays the remaining organic matter seems more like a primitive burden, the mind plays with its transformation and turns it into a guinea pig for genetic engineering or expands it with technological prostheses. We are already mutants connected to the net, cyborgs that proclaim the era of the postcorporal and the transhuman.

The ultimate alchemy is performed on ourselves and we are headed into a vast epochal shift -- the dawn of a transgenic age fills us with both hopes and fears. Even the body reaches out, externalizing its nervous system, to unite the biological and mechanical: chips, implants, assisted reproduction, cloning, technological gadgets developed to extend our senses. The cyborg model embraces the metaphor of a mutating transhuman body, just as transsexuality has dislodged and paved the way for a vast array of possible genders, desires and identity beyond the dichotomy of masculine and feminine.

“Reality becomes constant transformation. Its actual conditions are transcended to become part of an interconnected whole that is infinitely readjusted on a global level. In the end, the Total does not bring us back to a religious or supernatural power, nor to the noumenal kingdom of Metaphysics or Absolute Logic. The transcendental that used to be beyond and yet close to empirical reality has now become the hyperreal empirical reality itself, i.e., virtual transcendency.”

The contemporary area that is criss-crossed by all trends, memories, possibilities. It is both transcendental and apparential, and is voluntarily syncretic in its ‘multichrony’. Transmodernity is a fiction: our reality, the copy that supplants the model, eclecticism both mean and angelical.

Transmodernity is postmodernity without its innocent rupturism, the museum display of reason, not forgetting history which has died to avoid ending up in barbaric cybernetic or mass media domestication. It is proposing values as stops or as fables, but without forgetting, because we are wise, because our past was wise.

Transmodernity takes up and recovers the vanguards, copying and selling them, but meanwhile it remembers that art has had, and has, an effect of denunciation and experimentalism, that is, not everything goes. It breaks down the distance between elitism and mass culture and reveals the connections between them. Transmodernity is image, series, baroque fugue and self-reference, catastrophe, loop, fractal and inane reiteration, the entropy of what is obese, the clumsy inflation of data, the aesthetic of what is full and of what has disappeared, entropic, fatal.

The key to it is not what comes after, the rupture, but the trans-substantiation and overlapping of paradigms. The worlds that penetrate each other and end up as soap bubbles or as images on a screen. Transmodernity is not a desire or a goal. It is just there, like a complex, random, imposed strategic situation. It is neither good nor bad, beneficial nor unbearable… and it is all of these things together… It is the abandonment of representation, it is the reign of simulation, of simulation that knows it is real.

Transmodernity, as an open stage and the designation of our present, goes beyond a random denomination and aims to cover the inheritance of the challenges of Modernity after the collapse of the illustrated project. If we do not renounce Theory, History, Social Justice and the autonomy of the Subject, accepting post-modern criticism, we are limiting the possible horizon for reflection getting away from nihilism without committing ourselves to outdated projects but not forgetting them.

Accepting pragmatism as a basis does not mean we have to deny that human action is guided by regulatory ideals that are the basis for argument and rationality. But these regulatory ideals which, after modernity, refused to be based on theology or metaphysics, can still not, after post-modern criticism, be legitimised by the illustrated project. We have weakened their gnoseological vigour but not the logical and social need for them, and this gives us the notion of pragmatism.

Such regulatory ideals represent operational simulations legitimised by rational perfectibility, which criticism and consensus constantly renew, non-universal but universalisable public values which find their sphere not in intuition, common sense or tradition but in the theoretical effort to create conceptual paradigms that will help increase social and individual wellbeing.

We are therefore talking about social transformation, the transcendence of mere practical management, of compromise, of lines of questioning that cross through rational enquiry, changing and being changed. (Rosa María Rodríguez Magda)

Creativity

Whether alchemy can perform a causal transformation of metals to gold or not, it certainly has the capacity for creatively stimulating the imagination and the kind of divergent thinking that leads to discovery about oneself, the world, and the primal nature of reality.
Alchemy recognizes its own creative role as an art based on the life of the soul (Anima Mundi) in relation to Spirit and Body, and as a healing fiction, using certain symbols and images. Spontaneous healing is a stated goal of alchemical process. It supercharges natural healing factors.

Healing occurs on many levels, including radical holistic self-organization from the deepest chaotic level. Psychology works through fictions which contribute to the healing of the psyche and heal our ideas about fiction being false. Healing fictions are fundamental to creative imagination and thereby thinking itself. It is a self-correcting process, like science.

Alchemy is a form of magic facilitating acausal qualitative change of substance – transmutation, including that of the soul. In this aspect, it is a spiritual technology based in the metaphysics of a primordial chaos or the void. Seeming ‘miracles’ happen in the gaps in consciousness. For example, art has a way of wordlessly heralding the future, in general terms, symbolism and sometimes in specifics. We are momentarily freed of enslaving ideologies.

Alchemy, like the Philsopher’s Stone, can take on the projections of modern science theories from psychology to life sciences to physics. Complex systems emerge from simple systems whose parts do not predict such transformations. Yet things can and do transform into other things. We are left holding our breath in suspended animation at the paradox, the moment of despair or bliss when we are engulfed in unsolvable Mystery — riddles wrapped in enigmas, half-truths disguising lies, faulty theories explaining nothing.

Soul is a perspective not a substance. Differentiating this middle ground, we find ourselves in Chapel Perilous, a way of being in the world between thinking and perceiving, a conspiracy (seeing with) of Eros and its laws of attraction that reason alone cannot nourish. The word ‘resolve’ echoes the alchemical maxim of “Solve et Coagula,” the liquification and reintegration of essentially frozen psychic energy.

We dream into the world while we are awake - coincidence theories, perceptual theories, alchemical theories. Confusion arises when your rational view is irreparably broken. Paradoxically, as “the poison is the cure.” It might lead to breakthrough, insight or spiritual healing. We make soul by pro-actively living life not by retreating into spiritual discipline. Emphasizing the inner soul at the expense of the outer soul fosters the decline of the actual world – alchemy’s One World. We can be that hyperdimensional crossroads, that strange attractor, that archetypal probability cloud.

Unseen Order

We struggle to connect the dots. In relentless speculation multiple mind-blowing streams of thought completely shatter preconceived notions of perception, time and space. It is as true in physics as cultural engineering. It is difficult to grasp without solipsism that everything we experience is a virtuality.

It is difficult for any of us to free ourselves from our enculturated, a priori beliefs about existence. When we firmly believe what we say, we sell others a confabulation of our own truths and lies. It is hard to view anything from outside of our own fundamental philosophical, spiritual, and psychological perspectives.

But it is possible to persuade others and many speakers have staked their careers on it. These theories, dogmas, and experiences condition how we perceive reality. Their influence may be so subtle we fail to notice where our position originated, when the shift occurred. Our viewpoint is relative to our position.

When old defenses no longer work, you must develop new coping skills for developmental challenges. But this initiatory way includes many “deaths” and rebirths. Nigredo, the blackening, isn’t always the first stage, but may be one of relapse, eclipse or another incubation stage.
Nigredo is a recurrent cycle of desire and frustration with no real beginning. Your energies are sucked from the outer world and turned in on themselves. Normal life is radically disrupted. When you are paralyzed by life there is nothing to do but let go of your control fantasies. An eclipse of the ego offers a way into the deeper energies of the unconscious.

The Art of Alchemy

Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.

Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming.

Today, we might describe this resonance as accessing energy that regenerates the mindbody. Healing is an aspect of creativity; nature is within and without us. The Magus does not dominate reality but develops embodied psychophysical equilibrium, clarity, wisdom and compassion.

Creative work originates in the body and is projected out into the world. The projections are then internalized into awareness. The bodymind of the artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux during the process of transformation. Awareness and consciousness form a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody. The mindbody is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.

Metaphysical Basis of Life

Formerly secret forces in the universe have been revealed by modern research. Alchemy reduces all to the first state, the ground state of being -- original experience that is timeless, infinite. The classical Void, the quantum vacuum is a carrier of information.

The energy body or the quantum field body connects us with the negentropic potential of the zero-point field. Radiant light literally emerges from this mystic void. Primordial structuring processes are common to both psyche and matter, working in the gap or empty interval between intention and action.

Light is a universal system and a general property of all plant and animal life. We are photon-emission systems of low-level luminescence which differs from bioluminescence which is a chemical reaction. Even rocks, liquid and solid crystals, diamonds and inorganic materials emit photons or plasma discharge. Decay of these emissions, which are quantum events, function as clocks revealing their age. Gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation from photon emission.

Quantum optics (quantum optical coherence) is the basis of life. Endogenous light produced by living systems is called biophotons. Light is produced by our own cells and connects us non-materially to the environment. We are self-tuning resonating systems of oscillating field, coupled nonlocally, tunable to a broad range of frequencies and polarizations.

We are electromagnetic, essentially human antennas. Ultraweak photon emission is the quintessence of our being. A coherent radiation field which permeates and envelops the solid body is emitted by the organism as a whole. Tranmitting at the speed of light, it regulates and controls all life. Material structures function as antennae for absorption and emission.

Emitting matter forms a biological laser. DNA in each cell nucleus stores and modulates light emission (non-classical light, non-monochromatic, squeezed states). DNA/RNA projects its code into 3-d manifestation via highly coherent biological laser light and sound vibrations. Below the chaotic threshold, between coherent and incoherent oscillation, light sources decouple and function separately, dominated by the overall absorption of light.

The field/solid body is a holographic field of standing waves. These ultra-stable waves can superimpose to order living tissue, coupled by a coherent radiation field. DNA uses frequencies to transmit and coordinate coded information and feedback through waves. Rogue frequencies can be retuned to normal oscillations.

DNA stores light and emits it when unzipped. In our brains, neuronal activity of light information bits creates a feedback system of holographic thoughtforms. Biophotons are related to both metabolism and pathologies. During death emissions increase up to a thousand-fold and fall to zero upon death of the organism. (Bischoff)

Health is a measure of subatomic communications. We are light-sensitive at the levelof single photons. We suck up light from our environment and re-emit it, according to our functional state. Wave resonance or entrainment is the mechanism that allows us to exchange photons and even potentially influence one another, psychophysically, even at a distance.

“Biophoton emission reflects, (i) the left-right symmetry of the human body; (ii) biological rhythms such as 14 days, 1 month, 3 months and 9 months; (iii) disease in terms of broken symmetry between left and right side; and (iv) light channels in the body, which regulate energy and information transfer between different parts. The results show that besides a deeper understanding of health, disease and body field, this method provides a new powerful tool of non-invasive medical diagnosis in terms of basic regulatory functions of the body.” (Cohen, Popp, 2003)

Spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission from human subjects can be measured. The biophoton field is almost fully coherent and strongly linked to all physiological functions, cell division, morphogenesis, growth and differentiation, and regulatory activity. Information of local influences on the body is transferred by a biophotonic communication channel to other places of the body. Biophotonic emission also correlates with electrical parameters of the skin.

Biophotons are the ideal communication system for any organism. Complex organisms emit fewer photons than less complex ones. Related to nonlocal effects, holistic function, bliological rhythms, stress, adaptogens, health and disease, biophoton emission is the spontaneous emission of ultraweak light emanating from all living systems, including humans.

Regulatory activities of the body are not stable functions of the electromagnetic fields within the body, but subjects of permanent rhythmical, oscillatory and coherent field amplitudes. Cancer causing substances are light scramblers. Light is going out of sick or stressed individuals in an attempt to restore homeostasis. (Popp)

Emission is linked to mental states, blood flow and the endogenous production of excited states within the living system. The detection and characterisation of human biophoton emission has led to suggestions that it has potential future applications in medicine. Meditation may conserve biophotonic reserves by slowing free-radical activity (Van Wijk)

Dark Biology

So, alchemy refines the way the mindbody generates and processes inherent light as medicine. It refines the aspirant's ability for tapping and amplifying Medicine Light. This primordial state is the luminous ground of our being, hidden deep in the heart of things.

It remains undemonstrated, but we may also have dark biology counterparts, an invisible self coupled to the visible human body, of massless, zero-charge dark matter and dark energy. There are some theoreticalindications that biophoton emission may be the result of interactions of Dark Matter particles with the visible particles.

In alchemy, ll other goals are subordinate to the transformative prime directive which includes meditative techniques for continuing consciousness after death. This Philosopher's Stone is also the Universal Medicine (meta-syn), the regenerative Elixir of Life. The greatest mystery is the LIFE IN DEATH: we don't die but continue in transcendent form. This is the virtual secret of man and nature.

“I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbol led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with truly a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang holiness is forever being created.” (Hesse, Magister Ludi)

Process Arts

In chaos, science and art draw closer to one another. Alchemical art is full of fractal-like “reflectaphors” that speak to the human condition throughout the ages. Art can be meta-syn -- therapeutic, both in the process of creation and for the viewer who reacts from personal associations. the future ceased to function as the predominant sphere of reference, and the past turned into a storehouse of images, lifestyles and ideas for us to recycle.

Alchemy is not a religious, metaphysical. nor ethical pursuit. It looks on the play of the powers of the Soul from a purely cosmological point of view, treating the soul as a ‘substance' to be purified, dissolved and crystallized anew. Each alchemist, with a will to be interconnected, is an intellectual and spiritual pioneer who enters unknown territory realizing the groundstate is non-substantial.

Only the frame distinguishes an empty set.. From pre-history onward, humans have tried to make sense of their observations by framing of the natural world even while experiencing the world as essentially chaotic. We like our doses of reality in bite-sized chunks. We chunk science into domains according to the scaleof phenomena. There is a strong relationship between chaos and fractals, which describe the edge of chaos where patterns repeat regardless of scale.

Good art also strives to incorporate the elements of self-similarity although this is generally done subtly. In a great work of art each image must related to the others in terms of its geometry and metaphorical themes. Artists and sculptors have always been inspired by the complex forms of nature, seeking to imitate, outdo them, distort or recontextualize them.

Cymatics, wave patterns produced by vibrations, visibly demonstrates how form is related to process. Poetic ideas and metaphoric notions have reflections in all fields from the wave/particle duality of quantum physics, to oscillations within the nervous system to the oscillations and distinctions that we make at every moment of our lives. Complexity and self-organization emerge from disorder as the result of simple processes and intersecting dynamic networks.

A fiercely lived life is an artform -- illumination in action, based on discipline, practice and service. Symbolism resonates between the visionary and social spheres. The specific "Art" is alchemical, a merger of inner and outer reality in One World. Art bares the soul, and provides a container for unbridled self-expression. Lack of causal specificity is no argument against the process when the proofs are in the result.

For example, science has revealed a mathematical chaos present in the chaos of the drip paintings of Jackson Pollack. Such intuitive works emerged in the context of his struggle for salvation in the retort bottles of alcoholism. Who can say how his random process managed to embody such an intrinsic aspect of nature, which is far more than chance or training could predict.

Was this the gift that the ‘fire-water’ [displacement of the Elixir] gave him which was more than metaphorical? His sense of aesthetics guided his apparent freeform motion toward ineffable Truth which took decades more for science to find. His works didn’t require any metaphysical commitment prior to execution. They simply flowed forth from his essential, yet trained being. He mined his subconscious for creative potential. This potential of emptiness is the hidden ground of our experience of the stream of consciousness.

“Pollock denied "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular piece to appear. His technique combined the movement of his body, over which he had control, the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the absorption of paint into the canvas. It was a mixture of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.” [Pollack wikipedia]

“When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”

High synergy is a differentiating characteristic of the nonagressive and secure. Beyond synergy is negentropy, the flow of creative connection with Source. Non-objective art is about flow and the feedback process between artist and creation. When the constructed forms which hold personality together are voluntarily relinquished, consciousness "liquifies" and rapidly moves toward the unconditioned state.

Chaos is the universal solvent. Though easy to say, it is sometimes difficult to achieve such liberation from the mental-conceptual activity of the nervous system. When we do, the quiescent nervous system is open and receptive to the conscious recognition of pure energy transforms with no interpretations. Solutio implies the liquification of consciousness through the dissolution of rigidities which inhibit free flow.

In reducing all to pure water, the prima materia and the ultima materia become synonymous. That primal consciousness state, that creative and chaotic consciousness is the beginning of the operation of "water", and its ultimate realization. It becomes easy to see why the operation of water is the "root of alchemy." Through consciousness journeys which liquify our rigid notions of self and world, we re-create the adventures of the hero or heroine. The theme is the loss and recovery of identity.

Symbolic art has both an emotional and cognitive content. Metaphysical art draws on the multicultural iconography, not only of the globe, but of the Beyond. At its best it embodies and reveal the indomitable human Spirit.

We need a new cultural proving ground, a new paradigm for the potential of the bodymind and the culture for which it is the ground. In our culture, the body and our fantasies about it, have come to represent the lost Feminine element. We have lost touch with our primal femininity, the animating principle (nature, body, instinct). We have become estranged from the body through the Cartesian mind/body split, which is also non-relativistic. We talk a good game about ‘wholeness’ but don’t really connect as much as nostalgically yearn for it.

There is a way that joins spirit and body through the spontaneous imagery of soul. It seeks neither to solve our troubles (pathologies) nor “save” our souls. It suggests direct engagement with images for soul-making or deepening through personal experience. We can see through the nature of apparent reality for ourselves, if we but try. Then we develop our own philosophy, apart from consensus. When it comes to questions of speculation on the unknown, we can either accept what others have said, or look for ourselves.

We seek the lost soul primarily because of the intense degree of wounding in our modern consciousness. This wounding has “opened” us to transformation. We can embody soul by seeing-through appearances to an acute awareness of the archetypal, subjective perception of our experience.

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About the Word Ephphatha

Richard — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:46:22 GMT

I have carried this conversation from the crowley book of the law conversation to here so if any more questions arise it can be done here.To get the rest of you up to speed go to the "book of the Law" post and see what this talks over but I am publicly bringing this word out
because I am proving that there is a real religion and a real GOD and so by anouncing publicly instead of behind closed doors that yes there is something REAL and its within us all and its by my experiance of scrying the aethyrs that I was blessed with this knowledge and gift to be able to anounce the new aeon comming I feel blessed to be able to be a part of something like this because once this hits full speed it will do wonders the likes of which have never been witnessed before.Like I said in the last post what would a magician be if he could not influence the objective and better yet if he cannot influence the subjective he will never be able to influence the objective.And what would a spiritual path be if one could not stand up for what they believe in.For the uninitiated you will only get lost in this conversation.

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"The Book of Law"

WhtsUrSgn — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:14:28 GMT

Aleister Crowley is said to be a true prophet in the same sense that Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha are. He said to be the prophet of the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. Supposedly Crowley received "The Book of the Law" from the Being Aiwass.

OK so all I want to know is who here has read "The Book of Law" and what is it that Aleister is saying our Spiritual Laws are for this Aeon...basically the laws of ascension for the next 2000 yrs or so.

I have heard many very skewed perceptions on Crowley some claiming he is an cult leader others a prophet. Id like to judge for myself but Im curious who has read this book "The Book of Law".

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Lumen Naturae

ionamiller — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:15:07 GMT

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Dark Sparks

FIAT LVX! Only light is omnipresent and eternal. Science now confirms what the alchemists knew centuries ago that it is more than metaphorical. The meaning of Life is Light. Absolute Light, archetypal divine fire, radiates from the Tree of Life as the vital formative principle. The light of earth and heaven, the animating power, mingle in our consciousness. The Light fulfills us and we are fulfilled in its revelation. It shines through us.

Behold the natural light of natural philosophy. As Homo Lumen we consciously cultivate and realize the Body of Light. Alchemy is the sensuous science through which we love that natural light into being, even as Lumen Naturae kindles ourselves. The light is our connection to all that is wholly existant. In fact, there is nothing else but this light of grace and glory that complements the celestial light. Mending this division makes us whole.
The full force of the clear Light of the Divine would blind us, but it is mediated by the Lux Naturae which is always with us. Only in this new millennium have we learned just how literal it is. Light is hidden in matter and the forces of nature, so you must seek and see it for yourself. We must cultivate it like an artist.

In the One World of alchemy, inner and outer light are identical, seamlessly wed. The light within life is our own awareness, mediated by our energy bodies (field body) which fills each particle of being. Direct communication is healing, realigning body and soul. We finally come to our senses. When we sit in meditation we come to know the meaning of scintillae and the light of the darkness. We see it gleaming beyond the Abyss that distinguishes being from nondual unmanifest existence.

Matter is composed of and utterly dependent on organic light that fills the universe and our bodies. The Great Work is an operation of Light. This light has an earthly and spiritual aspect, psychosomatic and archetypal nature. This meaningful light of our own darkness is the holy Grail, the diamond Stone, the curative Elixir that links our ego-experience and spiritual unity. Self-knowledge is the science of Creation.

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Our Crystalline Chaotic Sea

ionamiller — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:21:50 GMT

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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.

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OT: New Tribe

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:18:44 GMT

New tribe started for Agnostics: tribes.tribe.net/agnosticsonly

Being certain is stupid, whereas exercising doubt and critical thinking is more intelligent. Agnosticism is simply about being skeptical. Skeptical Atheists are welcome, and we ask that all people be considerate and polite when posting. Labels matter little, it's what's going on between the ears that counts.

True skeptics are skeptical of skeptics, skepticism, and him/herself.

Admitting that you may be wrong shows strength of character. We're only human. The only people who don't make mistakes aren't doing anything at all.

Agnostics may have suspicions about social/scientific/spiritual concepts having more or less validity, but our trick is discussing such topics without an emotional investment in any particular outcome.

So, with an open mind, a warm heart, and a colorful sense of humor, we extend our invitation to anyone inclined towards the Agnostic point of view.

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Chaos Naturae

ionamiller — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:19:35 GMT

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CHAOS NATURAE: Chaos, Complexity & Alchemical Process
By Iona Miller, 2009
"Whence will come the chamaeleon of our chaos in which all secrets are hid in their potential state."

Sacred Science

We are agents of chaos. The secrets of chaos are embodied and revealed in alchemy and chaos theory. Alchemy and chaos theory are metamodels, demonstrating we are verbs, not nouns - holographically interconnected dynamical processes, not separate things. The whole is contained in the part in reiterated patterns of nested structure. Chaos is the transformative energy. We have the capacity to transform utterly in any given instant of pure potential.

Alchemy rightly identifies chaos as a chamaeleon -- ever changeable yet the same. Chaos is complete in itself, internally harmonious. Creation is a self-contained, organic process of development. Layered complexity automatically surfaces the features it is critical to work on at a different level. We do not have to take apart, analyze or interpret the complexity of images but learn to flow with them just as they are presented in the stream of consciousness and experience. Each flowing image brings a morphological epiphany, "I am that."

We are always in dynamic balance between order and chaos. Nature's way also expresses our deepest nature, precreative chaos. Paradoxically, we initially have to separate ourselves from it to become more intimate with it. Mining the soul through mindbody cultivation, we disassemble ourselves to recongeal in purified or refined form, reintegrated at a holistic level of dynamic functionality. We revert to chaos in meditation as the body stills and thoughts slow down and cease in universal resonance. Healing emerges by immersion in the undifferentiated chaotic consciousness.

Chaotic material comes in many forms with structure at a global level. Chaos is present in the universal set of building rules, networks, events, coherent wholes, dimensional embedding, the nonlocal mind and the synergetic achitecture of life and biological organization. Matter is not passive but spontaneously active. Order is created in this random activity.

Chaos underlies global behavior and the dynamical system of the mind, panpsychism, psychological complexity, sentience and emergent properties, pattern recognition, genesis of intelligence, reality discrimination, raw awareness, attention, meaningfullness, perception-cognition loops, refocusing, creative inspiration, consequences, memory, self-sustenance/structure maintenance, perceptual chunking, time distortion.

There is chaos in our dreamlife, fantasies, mythologizing, in the complex interactions of the neural firing patterns of our brain, and the dynamics of thought especially during REM, creative imagination, connectivity, even enlightenment--the biology and psychology of consciousness itself with its tightly knit fabric of subprocesses, and especially in point of view/relativity, significance/correspondence (beliefs, concepts, attitudes, emotions, behavior), attributions, restructuring, adaptive learning, spontaneous healing.

We don't need to worry about the mathematics or geometries here, except to know chaos and self-referential fractals validate the assertions foreseen long ago in alchemy, such as "As Above, So Below," holism, and the urobouric feedback of circulatio and turbulent vapors. Chaos is sensitively dependent on initial conditions. It kindles heightened response patterns. This kindling is synonymous with the alchemical fire of calcinatio. Chaos turns up the psychic heat.

Jung related the deep structure of the psyche, prima materia to the collective unconscious, our transpersonal being. Our minds shape our perceptions of the environment according to innate categories. Our nature is not separate from the nature of matter or the nature of the world. We are always in flux. We are one with the matrix of all creation, primordial awareness, the unmoved groundstate of our being.

When the mind is stripped of its contents by sublimation of our being, we experience the pristine natural mind. Prima materia is the "mother" and a return to this most fundamental state is a return to the womb for rebirth. This initial state is the raw material from whch we make gold by pursuing the experiment with ourselves. Our understanding of the true nature of the work deepens beyond concepts into experience and direct knowing.

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Chaos, the Solvent & Stone

ionamiller — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:16:58 GMT

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Everybody Must Get Stoned

The Great Work of the art of alchemy is the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, a symbol of wholeness and integration. The Stone is also the prima materia. The liquid form of the Stone, called the Universal Solvent, dissolves all old forms like a rushing stream, and is the self-organizing matrix for the rebirth of new forms. It is thus a metaphor or model for the dynamic process of transformation, ego death and re-creation.

The Stone is a return to the prima materia. The Philosopher's Stone is like a psychic lodestone or vortex. It 'magnetically' orders the contents of our consciousness around it through reflexive feedback loops in chaotic yet meaningful fashion. It is a 'strange attractor' in the lives of those engaged in the quest for alchemical transformation. The Stone whispers to us in our slumber. It brings us into its orbit.

This instinctual attraction toward processes that dissolve the ego and liquify consciousness leads to transpersonal experience via symbolic death/rebirth. As alchemists we experience deep states of emotional turbulence in initiation ordeals and in the merger of subject (soror mystica) and object (frater). The massa confusa of the vortex of pure information becomes gradually differentiated as we work through the alchemical stages.

The alchemical operation Solutio, called "the root of alchemy," corresponds with the element water. It implies a flowing state of consciousness, "liquification" of consciousness, a return to the womb for rebirth, a baptism or healing immersion in the vast ocean of deep consciousness.

It facilitates feedback with Source or the groundstate of consciousness via creative regression. De-structuring, or destratification by immersion in the flow of psychic imagery through identification with more and more primal forms or patterns leads toward creative emergence of a psychedelic, expanded state. This creativity can become a stabilized trait of the individual.

Chaos Theory, as well as alchemy, provides a more than metaphorical language for describing the flowing dynamics of the chaotic process of psychological transformation. Chaos has always been recognized as a primal condition from which things emerge and into which they dissolve when they become obsolete. It sets the stage for holistic repatterning. Creativity and healing are emergent properties of self-organizing systems.

Chaos Naturae

Chaos is a pure cosmic principle. The language of chaos theory augments, validates and supports the arcane terminology of alchemy. We can unpack its metaphors in the analogical language of alchemy. It gives us a unitarian language to discuss the alchemical process in contemporary terms. As a chaosophical natural philosophy, alchemy is an art with its origins in magic.

Chaos theory provides a philosophical basis for exploring the relationship of psyche and matter since they share a common dynamics. It allows us to formulate a theory of consciousness and healing based on an organic model of transformation, rather than a mechanistic or cybernetic process, as other contemporary theories.

Chaos, matter and attraction lie at the heart of chaos theory and complex dynamical systems. Chaotic systems display certain characteristics including complex feedback loops, self-organization, holistic behavior, and inherent unpredictability. Because of its holographic nature, a chaotic system cannot be decomposed.

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Seattle Esoteric Book Conference 09 / Emerald Tablet book

ionamiller — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:12:27 GMT

Dear Friends,

The words of Trismegestus were inscribed upon an Emerald Tablet just
as the Esoteric Book Conference will be inscribed in the Emerald City.

Ouroboros Press would like to bring your attention to a new
publication as well as a new publishing event taking place here in
Seattle this Fall.

Tablua Smaragdina Hermetis, also known as; The Emerald Tablet of
Hermes has been re-issued in letterpress. The original edition of 100
copies printed on handmade paper in 2003 have been long out of print
and we have made this new edition available for those who were asking
after the original. Check the link below for more information.

Emerald Tablet of Hermes
http://bibliomancer.blogspot.com/2009/02/emerald-tablet-of-hermes.html

Ouroboros Press is proud to be sponsoring the first international
Esoteric Book Conference here in Seattle. Publisher William Kiesel is
working with Night of Pan Books in administrating the event. Details
below:

Esoteric Book Conference 2009
September 19 & 20 Seattle Center
http://www.esotericbookconference.com

The Esoteric Book Conference is an annual international event to bring
together authors, artists, publishers and bookmakers working in the
field of esotericism. In addition to presentations by notable authors
and scholars, the conference opens it doors to publishers and
booksellers showcasing new & used books as well as rare and
hard-to-find esoteric texts. For two days the conference hosts the
largest selection of esoteric books under one roof. Contemporary
esoteric publishing, finepress book arts and antiquarian texts are
offered to augment the libraries of readers, scholars and collectors
alike.

This multi-disciplined conference will feature presentations by
contemporary authorities researching and working in esoteric currents
both East & West. Western Esotericism, Gnosticism, Theosophy,
Mythology, Shamanism, Rosicrucianism, Sacred Sciences, Occulture and
World Religions are among the subjects to be represented. An esoteric
book fair and art show will also be on site allowing education,
vending and networking in a unique field of literary, historical and
cultural arts.

There is a growing list of confirmed guests including: Robert Ansell
[Fulgur Limited, UK], Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech [Scarlet Imprint,
UK], John Coughlin [Waning Moon Publications], Joel Radcliffe [Ars
Obscura Bookbinding], Darcy Kuntz [Golden Dawn Trust], Carlos Melgoza
[Anima Noctuna], and more to be announced. Watch the website for
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Finally we would like to thank everyone who came out to the recent
Picatrix book release party held at the Rodriguez Guerra Art Studio.
Pictures of the event may be seen here:

Picatrix Release Party
http://bibliomancer.blogspot.com/2009/03/picatrix-release-party.html

Thank you for supporting Fine Esoteric Book Arts.

William J. Kiesel
Ouroboros Press
219 First Avenue South B2
Seattle, Washington 98104

Website
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*Esoteric Book Conference 2009*
September 19 & 20 Seattle Center
[http://www.esotericbookconference.com]

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Proposed Rectification of the 12 Stage Process

Wizzard — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:50:22 GMT

At the very beginning of my serious studies in alchemy, I found something I consider a serious anomaly. It was the traditional exposition of the twelve-stage or twelve-step alchemical work. It was laid out in the traditional format like this.

The 12 Core Alchemical Processes

1. Decomposition through Calcination – Aries, Cardinal Fire
2. Decomposition through Digestion - Leo, Fixed Fire.
3. Decomposition through Fermentation/Putrefaction - Capricornus, Cardinal Earth.
4. Modification through Congelation/Coagulation - Taurus, Fixed Earth.
5. Modification through Fixation - Gemini, Mutable Air
6. Modification through Ceration - Sagittarius, Mutable Fire
7. Separation through Distillation - Virgo, Mutable Earth.
8. Separation through Sublimation - Libra, Cardinal Air.
9. Separation through Filtration - Scorpio, Fixed Water.
10. Union through Solution - Cancer, Cardinal Water.
11. Union through Multiplication - Aquarius, Fixed Air.
12. Union through Projection - Pisces, Mutable Water.

In this, I added the attributions of the elements and the modes to the list of astrological signs and couldn't help noticing that it made no sense. it begins with Aries, the sign of cardinal fire and continues with Leo, fixed fire. So far, so good. But then it takes an unusual and apparently nonsensical twist and skips directly to Capricornus, Cardinal Earth. This certainly looks out of place. I began to suspect a deliberate blind to mislead the uninformed. So I decided to replace Capricorn in its usual position with the sign that logically should follow in that sequence--Sagittarius, Mutable Fire.

Since there are four elements and three modes of each element applied to the twelve signs of the zodiac in astrology and since 3 X 4 = 12, it seemed logical to me to follow this scheme in determining the order of the Processes and the three Methods in each Process. The fourth sign seemed to follow reasonably, Capricornus should drop down into the fourth place for Cardinal Earth. In the zodiac after Cardinal Fire, the next sign is Fixed Earth represented by Taurus. So if we adopt Earth as the element of the next triplicity, Cardinal Earth should lead the Earth parade, followed by Taurus for Fixed Earth and Virgo to complete the triplicity of Earth. The result then plays out quite logically as:

1. Decomposition by Calcination. Cardinal Fire, Aries.
2. Decomposition by Digestion. Fixed Fire, Leo.
3. Decomposition by Fermentation or Putrefaction. Mutable Fire, Sagittarius.
4. Modification by Congelation/Coagulation. Cardinal Earth, Capricornus.
5. Modification by Fixation. Fixed Earth, Taurus.
6. Modification by Ceration. Mutable Earth, Virgo.
7. Separation by Distillation. Cardinal Air, Libra.
8. Separation by Sublimation. Fixed Air, Aquarius.
9. Separation by Filtration. Mutable Air, Gemini.
10. Union by Solution. Cardinal Water, Cancer.
11. Union by Multiplication, Fixed Water, Scorpio.
12. Union by Projection, Mutable Water, Pisces.

And it seems to me that this order should give a more reliable result than the traditional one. I am not sure if further modification might be necessary to align the proper order of the Processes and the Methods, but so far, the combination of Process and Method makes sense to me and I believe represents a substantial improvement in the arrangement of the 12 Processes. What say you? Does this make sense to anyone? or have I got it all wrong?

With love under will,

Bob, Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville

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have you had alchemy-related synchronicities?

Holden S. — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 18:19:12 GMT

i have!...once. on the day that a friend gave me a videotape copy of the jazz musician Sun Ra's movie Space Is The Place, i also found the book The Morning of The Magicians by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier in a used book store, particularly interested in the section on alchemy. i should back up & mention that Sun Ra maintained that he was an entity who incarnated on Earth from Saturn. (whether he meant this literally or metaphorically i can't say.)...so i bought the aforementioned book, & you can imagine my astonishment when i turned to part 5 of the alchemy section & read this passage: "the old alchemical texts affirm that the keys to the secrets of matter are to be found in Saturn. by a strange coincidence, eveerything we know tyoday in nuclear physics is based on a definition of a "saturnian" atom. according to Nagasoka & Rutherford, the atom is a central mass exercising an attraction surrounded by rings of revolving electrons."

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Alchemical Cinema!

Holden S. — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:39:53 GMT

first off, at the risk of being just slightly repetitive, i'd like to re-post an old link that already exists on one of the older threads here:

www.fusionanomaly.net/2001.html

that page contains a discussion of the movie 2001: A Space Oddysey as an alchemical allegory. scroll down till you find the little photo of Terrence McKenna on your right. the relevant discussion begins in a block of text immediately after that.

and NOW for something new...well, new to me anyway...last night i watched Alejandro Jodorowsky's early movie The Holy Mountain. good stuff! it's about an alchemist who leads a group of people on a spiritual quest in the form of an ascent of a sacred mountain. folks, i'm quite sure that most of you would appreciate this movie. check it out! it's very rich & rewarding.
please use the rest of this thread to discuss films with an obvious or not-so-obvious alchemical/hermetic theme.

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Recently joined Tribe. Am just saying hello.

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:49:57 GMT

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Art Kunkin and alchemical elixirs

Holden S. — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:33:29 GMT

okay, folks! i indicated a while back on the "alchemical synchronicities " thread that i'd like to share the relevant bits from the mentioned Fortean Times article on Art Kunkin's quest for longevity via alchemical elixirs...so here goes:

"His quest began in 1980, when he travelled on a journalistic assignment to Salt Lake City to interview the alchemist Frater Albertus at the Paracelsus Research Society. So impressed was he with the alchemist's experiments, Art joined the famed school, which boasted that it provided access to teachings previously available only to members of a secret society or fraternity.
" "Frater Albertus...was working on how to make herbal medicines in a totally different way," explains Art. "His idea was that if you made a separation of a plant and were capable of preserving the life, then at the end of it you would not only end up with a medicine, you would end with something alive, an herbal stone. The whole theory of alchemy is that the principle of life is the mineral kingdom - that minerals are really alive and evolve one into another. If you can extract the life principle from a mineral, then you can change one metal into another through a transmutation, and you could then process it further into a medicine to rejuvenate the human body. This is the philosopher's stone.
" "For 30 years, I collected a library of 1000 alchemical books and i began experimenting, replicating the methods in ancient documents. But nothing was successfull. I then worked with mercury, lead and antimony (the latter features heavily in the works of the alchemical monks) and still nothing. The only thing that kept me going was a book i found called Biological Transmutations, and this showed a metallic transmutation using soil bacteria - it wasn't one of the old alchemical books, which talked of distillations and so forth. i used soil bacteria called leptothrix that i found in a puddle at UCLA and cultured. After feeding the sample manganese, it turned into iron."
"although the would-be alchemist has been successfull in transforming soil bacteria into metal (a result he discovered was also acheived by the U.S. Army, which was developing sources for batteries), Art isn't interested in getting rich with mountains of precious metals. In his autumn years, he's more concerned with extending human life and invigorating his body with new energy.
"Incredibly, by pulling together the strands of his research, he now believes he has created the mythical Philosopher's Stone, and for the last year has been preparing and eating a special herbal medicine with startling results. Art has just released an e-Book, Alchemy: the Secret of Immortality Finally Revealed, so the whole world can have the chsance to live forever. He also maintains that this public disclosure of information means that clandestine powers are less likely to try and bump him off.
" "I'm almost 100% sure i've succeeded," he beams, with a youthfull glint in his eye. "Two years ago i got an email from Albert Cau, a French professor of chemistry who wanted to share his work with me. He was working with a mineral that no alchemist had looked at, because it was a radioactive mineral, and there was no basis for the alchemists in the Middle Ages or earlier to even detect radioactivity. Gold and platinum miners would dig this mineral and throw it away. it's called pitchblende and consists of uranium oxide. It looks like an ordinary rock with absolutely no value but is giving off low level radiation. non-ionizing radiation is al around us, mainly from the Sun, and radiation is probably how life developed, from energy in inorganic minerals like this."
"in recent years, evidence has arisen which suggests that low level doses of radiation could be beneficial rather than harmful to the human body. an article in National Geographic of January of 2004 revealed that a number of purported 'miracle cures' were happening in undrground mines in Montana. Doctors were even signing medical prescriptions for people to sit inside the mines for an hour a day to improve their health by exposure to the low level radiation produced by the radon gas found there.
" "There is a lot of reseach that a certain level of radiation is good for you - like homeopathy," notes Art. "A vey small amount is very healthy for the human body. i actually discovered in Japan that, while obviously many people died from atomic explosions, there are pockets of people that are super healthy, and evidently they recieved only a low level of radiation. then there are the spas in Europe, where people have been going for hundreds of years because of their healing qualities. up until now the healing was thought to be because of the sulphur in the heated waters. But all those baths are actually radioactive."
"Art considered the U.S. Army's research which found that the soil bacteria's mitochondria were responsible for its transmutation into iron. he did further research into Chinese alchemy, which speaks of a 'secret fire' to create the herbal stone, which was eaten in the form of fruit. Then Art began experimenting with adding apples and pears into the pitchblende concoction.
" "It's a very simple procedure. i have a jug full of pitchblende rocks and i put a pear in. i've been eating the fruit every week or two for nearly a year now, taking a risk at this point because i don't really know how strong the radioactivity is. the latest theory of aging has to do with mitochondria, that it is the source of life and energy for the body and that they kill eachother off in the process of producing the ATP. What i am assuming is that the radiation is affecting the mitochondria inside the pear, helping these mitochondria reproduce. when you eat this fruit you are taking in substances that add to the energy of yourself, directly from the inside."
"The modern day alchemist says he has acheived some startling effects. already sporting a thicker head of hair than the average 20 year old, he now claims it grows twice as fast. so do his finger nails. He's admittedly a workaholic, but his everyday energy has now increased to the point where he has been known to sit at his computer for 30 hours straight without eating or sleeping."

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Do you have a Magickal Motto?

Sunwolf_388 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:12:35 GMT

This turned out to be a hot topic on my cyber-lodge group.

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A friend and new associate over at our yahoo egroup FutureThelema brought up the notion of a magick motto. I realize that I have never had one, actually.

Do any others here use a magick motto? Would you like to share?
My friend said that one ought to realize the power of a magickal motto and
be sure what one wishes to use, because there is power in it. Do any of
your feel this is true? Is a magick motto something one could share with
other members of magick groups, cyber lodges such as this?

Any thoughts and comments would be helpful.

I remembered later, after I posted this in another group, that I had used a past motto used as sig: Cuetlachtonameyoa ~Wolf that Shimmers~ "I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star."

--
Namaste,
Ron Adams
Frater Sabaechit
Sunwolf

"I brake for moonbeams"

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help support The Crucible

ionamiller — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:15:46 GMT

International Alchemy Guild

Thu Apr 2, 2009 8:49 pm (PDT)
Greetings Members:

One of our main suppliers of herbs and laboratory items, The Crucible, has
been hard hit by the economy. Workers have been laid off and thankfully,
our main manager, Greg Schrum,, is still employed. Otherwise we would have
nothing. May I please suggest that you consider the Crucible if you need
herbs or other laboratory items. The Crucible is devoted to the needs and
wants of alchemists. I deeply appreciate your consideration, please keep
this alchemy-devoted business in your thoughts.

http://www.crucible .org/
Crucible.org is a consumer group founded by people engaged in the Great Work of personal and global transformation. Through our combined buying power and close contact with alchemists and other independent producers, we are able to offer unique products at discounted prices. Our catalog of alchemical products offers a wide variety of hard-to-find merchandise intended for persons active in many non-traditional disciplines, including the Hermetic sciences and alchemy, meditation, shamanism, psychic arts, sacred art and music, alternative therapies and healing modalities, and hundreds of other similar categories that lie outside mainstream consumerism.

Best Regards,
Roy Taylor

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New Golden Dawn Alchemy Book

ionamiller — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:19:03 GMT

New Golden Dawn Alchemy Book

Wed Apr 1, 2009 4:35 pm (PDT)
The Second Volume of `The Golden Dawn Alchemy' series, `Hermetic
Alchemy – Science and Practice' by Paul Foster Case is now available
on amazon.com and through bookstores everywhere. Note that a recent
publication of this material by Ishtar Publications only contained
the introductory chapters. Here for the first time in over 75 years
are Paul Foster Case's advanced aspects of the Alchemical Process,
the Twelve Stages of the Great Work, and practical instruction
publicly available to students:

http://www.amazon. com/Hermetic- Alchemy-Science- Practice- Golden/dp/ 0982352115

From the Introduction:
When Paul Foster Case published this Magnum Opus in 1931, it
reflected a period during which he chose to write very clearly. Paul
Case later mentioned that it was a mistake to give out this
alchemical material "too easily". After preparing the outstanding
`Tarot Fundamentals' and `Tarot Interpretation' lesson series as well
as the `Tree of Life' courses, Paul created the `Great Work' course
but decided to write in a more cryptic manner with regard to Alchemy.
Students who have diligently studied the material and performed the
corresponding meditations in the preparatory lesson courses mentioned
above, are very well prepared to grasp the inner meaning of the
`Great Work' course...

This book will be of great value to those who have not had the
opportunity to pursue the B.O.T.A. lesson series through the `Great
Work' course but would like to study Alchemy from one of the greatest
leaders of the Golden Dawn in the 20th century; those who have
already progressed to Paul Case's `Great Work' course will find this
current volume of interest in tracing the evolution of his thought
and assisting them in understanding some of the more cryptic aspects
of the newer course.

From the Foreward:
This volume is an excellent resource for gaining a greater
understanding of Alchemy and the Hermetic tradition… Paul Foster Case
– a true Adept within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Alpha et
Omega) in America – worked for several years under the guidance of
Moina Mathers. Upon leaving the Order, he founded his own magical
organization called B.O.T.A. (Builders of the Adytum). Case wrote a
number of courses for the students in the B.O.T.A. and the material
in this book comprised an early version of one of these courses. Case
is known for communicating complex esoteric information and ideas in
a clear and precise manner. It is a pleasure to read Case's lesson
plan for cutting through the enigma of Alchemy, getting right to the
powerful heart of what Spiritual Alchemy is, and how it can be used
to benefit the magical life. Recently there has been a resurgence of
interest in the writings of Paul Foster Case and this book is an
excellent addition to the library of any Hermetic scholar. I am
looking forward to the next book in the `Golden Dawn Alchemy Series'
– Mr. Darcy Kuntz, author and publisher of www.goldendawntrust .com

In L.V.X.,

Tony

P.S. Don't miss the first volume of this series `The Secret Fire':
http://www.amazon. com/Secret- Fire-Alchemical- Golden-Alchemy/ dp/0982352107/

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Archetypal Imagination in Spiritual Alchemy

ionamiller — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:50:39 GMT

ARCHETYPAL IMAGINATION in SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY:
The Art of Alchemy in Archetype, Imagination and Soul

By Iona Miller, 2009

“Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in the same world, and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action would be impossible. If research could only advance far enough, therefore, we should arrive at an ultimate agreement between physical and psychological concepts. Our present attempts may be bold, but I believe they are on the right lines.” --Carl Jung, AION

“To propose a psychology of Anima Mundi is to invite oneself to a relationship of intimacy with the soul of the world and its objects…From this point of view, the psychic reality of the world’s soul becomes available from the images. There is no way to separate our soul from the souls of others – and by “others” I mean people as well as everything that we can consider an environment. It is, thus no longer possible to work with the classical notion of individuation and its rhetoric of “my travel,” “my process,” “my journeys,” the blind frenetic pursuit of an inner Self, and to ignore the individuation of the soul of the world and its objects. The care of the soul does not necessarily mean introversion or denying the reality of the world, its substance and objects. There is no way to engage in soul-making if we keep ourselves attached exclusively to the Self, and exclude the world.”
--Marcus Quintaes on James Hillman’s Polemics in Archetypal Psychologies (Marlan, 2008)

Post-Postmodern Alchemy

The topic of ancient and medieval alchemy was rescued from obscurity largely through the efforts of C. G. Jung. Following an influential dream, he collected an entire library of alchemical works. He compiled alchemy’s universal truths in several of his works including Psychology and Alchemy, Alchemical Studies, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious.

Jung codified the encrypted language of alchemy in terms of our human transformation process, including irrational consciousness. Yet, Jung’s is not the only interpretation of those elements, including the Quest and the Great Work. While initially we might learn about symbols, we have to learn how to work with them, to work within them since they contain us, rather than being contained within ourselves. The alchemist is a living symbol of the healing power of the Philosopher's Stone.

Jung’s second-generation followers adhered fairly strictly to his monist view of alchemy. Highlights of this period include now classic works by Marie-Louse von Franz and Edward Edinger. Edinger gave us Ego and Archetype plus Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy. The works of von Franz include Alchemical Active Imagination, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology, Number and Time, and Alchemy; An Introduction to the Symbolism and its Psychology, to name but a few.

Other Jugnian contributors include Henry Corbin with Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, on Arabic alchemy, M. Esther Harding's Psychic Energy, Robert Grinnell's Alchemy in a Modern Woman, and Edward Whitmont's Psyche and Substance. Another Jungian contribution is Mircea Eliade's The Forge & the Crucible. Their work was referenced and paralleled by scholars like Frater Albertus, Stanislas Klossowski De Rola, Richard Grossinger, Adam McLean and other modern commentators.

But the 3rd generation of psychotherapeutic practitioners were far more innovative than preservationist. In this they were true to the vital and reflective Mercurical Spirit. Revisioning the whole mindscape, James Hillman led a revolt against the ossified orthodoxy that came to be called Archetypal Psychology and later Imaginal Psychology. It freed the psyche from what had become a conservative fundamentalism with a party line and right and wrong interpretations. It brought back living process and moved interest out of the containment of the cloistered therapy room into the living, breathing World-at-Large.

A similar process is happening in the practice of alchemy, which has come to include not only scholar/practitioners and laboratory or experimentalists, but globalized cultural forms of spagyrics, fire circles, and other volatile practices, which have escaped the retort into the world. It has brought alchemy’s process-oriented spirituality down to earth.

The Way of Alchemy

Alchemy is not a sacred 17th century cow, embodied only in hoary texts, enigmatic laboratory procedures, and static pictures. Soul is made in the fractal reiteration of the deepening of experience – all experience – which molds character (narrative identity) with mythologizing. Alchemy is one of these dynamic means of moving beyond deconstruction into soul-making – a phenomenological approach.

Alchemy is a creative encounter with chaos and a struggle to understand the nature of healing. Chaos is the Universal Solvent. Healing springs from deep within. All apparent structure is hidden in chaos, and in chaos there are hidden forms. As we deconstruct our fictional selves, we find that deep within there is a primordial consciousness of pure Being. Connection with this wellspring is the Source of life and creativity. Chaos is the crucible of creation. Through alchemy, we move deeper into the images, and then become them, rather than merely interacting with them.

Alchemy, like therapy, is a practical Way of making life into a flowing story, and that story is necessarily illustrated to convey what cannot be said in words, to include what happens in the gaps in consciousness. The alchemy of by-gone centuries is as inappropriate today as obsolete science. Naturally, there is value there but we don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of its extant literature to apply its wisdom and gain its treasure.

Post-postmodern alchemy has broken the retort and escaped into the world at large, into bigger stories. We craft a personal narrative by recognizing and reiterating mythic claims, metaphorical enactments through reflective speculation, experimentation, projection, meditation, dream, image and fantasy. Reflection deepens into experience and expression through artful means of what never happens but always is.

Soul is an active intelligence because myth leads to practical moves. Soul is made through suffering the process and by taking up myth as a poetic perspective – a dramatic complexity of multiple metaphorical and symbolic dimensions of experience. In this sense, alchemy cannot be separated from life. The narration is one of life’s possibilities, of our alternative selves as realizable potential, including discordant elements, into meaningful story lived in and through the alchemical process.

If we are truly Mercurial, we oscillate in our thoughts, are enigmatic in our language, inconsistent with ideas, and resistant to any fixed definitions or propositions. Perhaps only archetypal imagination serves this mercurial nature. It is explored and embodied best through artistic expression of archetypal images, making the universal particular and moving archaic symbolism into the immediate present, rather than relying exclusively on stale retrievals and intellectual commentary.

Soul-Making

What soul does is make fantasy images. Alchemy is a psychological metaphysics, a worldview that takes the soul further into mythopoiesis, producing images, events, and phenomena. Analysis and discourse (deductive and inductive reasoning) merely turns the libido into a narcissistic reflection of itself, when it could be embodied or manifested, even beyond self-evident intuition.

Soul-making approximates what it means to be “in soul,” esse in anima, immersed in both an internal and external process of transmutation. It is the process of making psyche matter, of making the World Soul – the Anima Mundi – through image, phenomena and pathologizing. It is not limited to so-called spiritual matters, but spiritualizes the whole sociopolitical field of human endeavors so that it all “matters.”

Imagination is stimulated by mythical fiction, which generates mythological imagination and speculative freedom of the soul. Breaking our containment in the ancient practices through artful means releases libido into the world, into the drive, which loves the world, even into erotic desire for anima mundi.

Embodying the Vision

Alchemy cannot be a closed system of static dogmatic thoughts. It is a way of reimagining and creating metaphors from different points of view or narratives that open the field of infinite meanings. Each reiteration creates new networks, new meaning, new insights, embodiments, metamorphosis and transformation. To participate in this process means mythologizing our own chaotic character.

It is a truism in therapy that art expression clarifies and releases emotional flow. The classical alchemists nearly always illustrated their works, making universal pictures with themselves as point of reference. Alchemy would be a dry discourse without its images, without the discipline of images that leads to flow, to solutio.

REFERENCES

Edinger, Edward F.; ANATOMY OF THE PSYCHE, Open Court; LaSalle, Illinois, 1985.
Edinger, Edward F.; EGO AND ARCHETYPE, Penguin Books Inc., Baltimore, 1973.
Grinnell, Robert; ALCHEMY IN A MODERN WOMAN, Spring Publications, New York, 1973.
Hillman, James; ANIMA; Spring Publications, Dallas, 1985.
Miller, Iona; “Chaos As the Universal Solvent,” Chaosophy ’93, 1992. www.asklepia.org/chaosophy...ophy3.html
Miller, I. & Miller, R.A.; THE MODERN ALCHEMIST (formerly The Book of Lambspring); Phanes Press, Chicago, 1994.
Miller, Iona; “Introduction to Alchemy 101,” 1985. spiritualalchemy.iwarp.com/rich....html

Washburn, Michael; THE EGO AND THE DYNAMIC GROUND; SUNY Press, New York, 1988.

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Art Kunkin on Alchemical Elixers

ionamiller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:50 GMT

Since the thread on ORMES is live now, also check out ART KUNKIN's work on alchemical elixers for a different point of view on the Stone.

Art Kunkin's blog | Alchemy Revealed
This is Art Kunkin writing you with important information you should know about this book. ... I have cracked the code of the Philosopher's Stone. ...
http://www.alchemyrevealed.com/blog/2

or see our old thread at
Art Kunkin and alchemical elixirs. topic posted Fri, July 18, 2008 - 11:33 PM by Holden S. ... This is the philosopher's stone. ...
alchemical.tribe.net/thread/1ecdcca5-a292-4e1d-b7e7-8feda042540e

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The Secret Fire by E.J. Langford Garstin - The Golden Dawn Alchemy

ionamiller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:50:31 GMT

The Secret Fire by E.J. Langford Garstin, the first volume of the
`Golden Dawn Alchemy Series' is now available on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon. com/gp/product/ 0982352107? ie=UTF8&tag= rosiordeofthe- 20&linkCode= as2&camp= 1789&creative= 9325&creativeASI N=0982352107

`The Golden Dawn Alchemy Series' is a collection of distinguished
books on Alchemy written by leaders of the Golden Dawn Tradition. The
Secret Fire, first published in 1932, was written by E. J. Langford
Garstin, V. H. Frater A.e.F., a Cancellarius of the Rosicrucian
Order of the Alpha et Omega during the second quarter of the 20th
century.

It has become well known that Alchemy is a key which opens some of
the deepest aspects of the Golden Dawn Tradition and provides the
richest symbol system known to describe the spiritual process
involved. It is apparent that those trusted with the development of
the Ritual and Teachings of the Golden Dawn were intimately familiar
with the deepest mysteries of Spiritual Alchemy.

From the back cover:

"Edward Langford-Garstin was a chief of an A.O. Temple and well
versed in alchemy as this book indicates. Garstin was the first A.O.
Chief in the 1930s to discuss Chakras and their effect, and he
brought them into the periphery of the Golden Dawn teachings through
their alchemical links. The Alchemical teachings here concentrate on
the spiritual aspect of the work, Book `M', the Philosophical Mercury
of the Rosicrucian manifestos. This book is a must for all those
studying the Golden Dawn, its roots, its history and its teachings."
– Pat Zalewski, author of the highly acclaimed `The Magical Tarot of
the Golden Dawn'

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How does one practice alchemy?

Devin — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:22:56 GMT

I'm interested in alchemy, but know nothing about it.
I know there is the whole scholarly side to it, but what is the practice? What outside of alchemy can you compare it to? is it like meditation? or ritual magic? I realize that it is it's own thing, I'm just trying to get some kind of idea. What specific things does one do on this path?
devin

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Ouroboros Press Catalogue

ionamiller — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:45:26 GMT

A note from Wiliam who started our lovely Alchemy tribe -

Ouroboros Press Catalogue

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The Magnum Opus and the Philosopher' s Stone

ionamiller — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:33:37 GMT

2009/2/10, Steve Kalec
> Since it is so quiet here, I will write something.
> ____________ _________ _________ _________ __
>
>
> The Magnum Opus and the Philosopher' s Stone
>
> Some of the most beautiful, mystical and philosophical writings, are found
> in the ancient works and literatures of the Hermetic masters, and
> philosophers.
>
> These beautiful works are true works of art, and as one begins to penetrate
> their most wonderful allegories and metaphors, one realizes a depth and a
> profundity of a symbolic language that is inspiring and elevating in a very
> mystical and magical way as they possess and captivate one.
>
> They speak in archetypal manners to the very soul of the adept who dares to
> embark on that noble work, which leads him to the great quests of the
> mythological heroes, the noble knights in search of the holy grail, the
> alchemists in search of the elixir of life, and to us as Rosicrucians who
> seek that which is the highest goal of all human life, cosmic consciousness.
>
> In his 'De signatura rerum', Jacob Boehm reveals to us an axiom upon which
> this unique knowledge rests, this tradition that claims for itself
> universality and primordiality: he says, "Between Eternal Birth,
> Resurrection from the Fall and the discovery of the Philosopher' s Stone,
> there is no difference." In a work entitled," The Golden Tractate of Hermes"
> we read the following declaration by the philosopher' s stone itself.
>
> " Understand then, O Son of Wisdom, what the Stone declares; protect me, and
> I will protect thee, increase my strength that I may help thee! My sol and
> my beams are most inward and secretly in my own Luna, my light, exceeding
> every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I
> give freely, and I reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory,
> riches, delights; and them that seek after me I make to know and understand,
> and posses divine things."
>
>
> So where would we seek this blessed thing? Where would we start looking for
> this most marvelous thing, this ultimate reality that all men and women
> truly seek, whether consciously or unconsciously without which man could
> never truly be happy ?
>
> On the portals of the Temple of Delphi it is written,
>
> "My advice to you, whoever you may be, Oh you who desire to explore the
> Mysteries of Nature; if you do not discover within yourself that which you
> seek, neither will you find it without. If you ignore the excellence of your
> own house, how can you aspire to find excellence elsewhere? Within you is
> hidden the treasure of treasures. Oh Man! Know thyself, and you will know
> the universe and the Gods.
>
> Within us lies an excellence, a most wonderful presence, and it is this
> inner essence as the "Beloved Master Within" that we all truly yearn for and
> seek union with. This union of entity with the universal is the true
> magnificent formation of the Philosopher' s Stone.
>
> Steve Kalec

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Hockley / Golden Dawn new edition

ionamiller — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:38:12 GMT

fine new edition available

Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:55 am (PST)
* * *

A Facsimile
Frederick Hockley/Golden Dawn
Alchemical Manuscript

Finely bound by hand in a limited edition of 120 numbered copies
printed on fine laid paper hand sewn in folio; this new enlarged
edition ( 290mm x 225mm ) has each copy in quarter leather using a
rich grained dark blue goatskin, a fine cloth in deep wine red, and
incorporates French marbled endpapers of non-pareil design showing
layers of reds and purples intricately melted together. To the front
board is a paper title label its design reflecting Hockleys'
characteristic interlinked circles on his title page, we announce:

`A Manual
of a
Rosicrucian Philos(ophus)
From April 30th to June 15
1797

Containing the
Process of the philo-
sophers stone, and some
valuable experiments
inventions, astrolo-
gical ingredients
&c

Transcribed from
The original manuscript
By
Frederick Hockley
January 8th
1833'

Legend of a secret alchemical tradition within the Hermetic Order of
the Golden Dawn has persisted, from the earliest days members were
devoted to the practise of a physical and spiritual alchemy that had
its roots in the earliest Rosicrucian Societies.

Hockleys influence on the Golden Dawn and thus upon the whole of
western esotericism is now undisputed, his priceless collection of
books and papers built up over a lifetime of buying and himself
transcribing rare works informed generations of leading adepts. Here
we present a full facsimile printed lithographically in an enlarged
edition of Hockleys priceless `process of the philosophers stone'
communicated to him by the famed Rosicrucian Dr Sigismond Bacstrom,
and to him by the Comte du Chazal.

Reproduced here is Hockleys transcription of series of alchemical
experiments carried out in 1797 by Bacstrom, as part of his work in
the Philosophus grade of Chazals `Society of Rosicrucians' . Each
experiment is accompanied by an astrological chart and detailed
observations on the material, apparatus, times and conditions of the
work. Diagrams of the flask, burning lamp and seals convey the
precision of Bacstroms approach, far removed from the vagaries of
published alchemical treatises.
Stages of the work are clearly marked, dates and times for all the
experiments are given with the positions of the planets at the time,
the measure of heat used is given precisely, variations and
alterations to the method and apparatus are noted carefully
throughout.

`…may 23rd… there are proofs here that a simple matter without any
addition might be brought to perfection…'

The authors exhilaration at witnessing the `Peacocks Tail' (the
effective degeneration of the substance) and its producing a most
wonderful display of bright colours which `..remain as brilliant as
before..' show that this work was clearly part of a much larger and
longer series of experiments no doubt undertaken with the direction
of his initiator into the Rosicrucian mysteries.

`…My new subject taken from its mine June 4th 3pm 1797..'

Bacstroms operations, of which we have Hockleys precise transcript,
is an unique view into the inner world of alchemy as practised by the
adepts before and at the inception of the Golden Dawn. Described by
Fulcanelli as `Archimie', it was a process of the exaltation of gold
learnt from Yardley in 1716. But it was not only the philosophers
Stone that these men were pursuing, in their search they sought
the `Animal Stone' a means of prolonging life, an inner alchemical
process whose methods lie in the earliest teachings derived from the
associations between organic life and the inner world of man.

This `Animal Stone' is a precise operation involving much detailed
and careful work, it is only given to members of the `Internal
College', the inner order of the Rosicrucian Society, and constitutes
the real secret of inner alchemy transmitted through the `Gold un
Rosenkreuz' order founded in 1580.

The manuscript reproduced here is part of that genuine transmission
of hidden alchemical lore, Hockley learnt from Bacstrom, who learnt
from Chazal. The Comte Luis du Chazal in turn received it through
Cagliostro, whose Egyptian Rites were of such great interest to the
founders of the Golden Dawn and their teachers in the `Societas
Rosicruciana in Anglia', the `Fratres Lucis' of Kenneth Mackenzie and
the `Society of Eight' of F.G.Irwin et al.

An early member of the Golden Dawn, the Reverend Alexandre Ayton told
W.B.Yeats that he had made an elixir of life which he had shown to a
French alchemist, undoubtably Eliphas Levi who visited England for
that purpose in 1861, Levi himself wote:

`…I have seen the secret fire produced…I know what can be done with
gold, but believe me when I say that I will never do it…'

Percy Bullock himself bought a copy of this manuscript, and showed it
to A.E.Waite after Hockleys death, Waite mentions this in his
book `The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross' where he refers to

`… a very curious manuscript on diurnal proceedings in a laboratory
undertaken for the purposes of the Great Work…..'

Appended to our Hockley manuscript on the alchemical operations, is
another shorter piece, a certificate and relation of an initiation
into the Rosicrucian Society, being:

`Copy
Of the
Admission of Dr Bacstrom
Into
The Society of
The ROSY CROSS
[with the philosophic seal of the
Society of the Rosicrucians]
By
The Compt du Chazal
At the Island of Mauritius
1794
Transcribed by
Frederick Hockley'

This short document is again an important artefact in its own right,
and a link in the chain of initiation from the earliest European
Adepts through to the founders of the Golden Dawn and all those it
has influenced up to the present day.
The ancient charges of the Roisicrucian Society are given in full, in
a style both simple and sublime, equally respecting the admission of
male and female members into their ranks who are desirous of
performing the Great Work.
At the end of the certificate is the `Seal of the Society of the
Rosicrucians' , an image of angelic transformation, a circle squared
and the perfection of the elements `…the best magnet for continually
attracting and preserving the Universal Fire of Nature in the form of
Incorporeal Spiritual Fire for the regeneration of Matter…'

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Goldmine of Manly Hall on Alchemy lectures

ionamiller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:41:08 GMT

bit torrent giant download of MPH lectures on Alchemy and more.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/31480180/Hidden+Mysteries+Of+Egypt?tab=summary

enjoy,
Iona

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Transformation

WhtsUrSgn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:52:06 GMT

Hence, let me say that while others are involved in philosophies, Zen is involved in metamorphosis, in a transformation. It is authentic alchemy: it changes you from base metal into gold. But its language has to be understood, not with your reasoning and intellectual mind but with your loving heart. Or even just listening, not bothering whether it is true or not. And a moment comes suddenly that you see it, which has been eluding you your whole life. Suddenly, what Gautam Buddha called "eighty-four thousand doors" open.

~Osho Zen

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Free Books

Greenlord — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:29:37 GMT

Hi folks.

It seems there is a lot of confusion as i see the post How does one practice alchemy thread comming up often. I decided i would share some books with you. It covers a lot of subjects from physical alchemy to spiritual alchemy, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism etc... There are books for beginners as well as for initiated and practitioners. Be your own judge, just read the title before you download, you know what to expect ;)

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Review of ALCHEMICAL ESSAYS by Dr. Ross Mack

ionamiller — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:48:01 GMT

Alchemical Essays by Dr. Ross Mack – Review for Alchemy Journal

Review of ALCHEMICAL ESSAYS:
The Living Process of Alchemy

Iona Miller, 1-1-09

“The changing of bodies into light and light into bodies, is very comfortable to the course of nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.” ~ Opticks, Sir Isaac Newton

“Ultimately, the Stone should be considered a catalyst to instruct the body code to overcome its inherited weakness and rebuild a better, stronger vital metabolism that is not just self-repairing, but building to an optimal state of health. . .The Stone has the seed of all DNA in an archetypal form and gives the correct, original instructions to the potential new cells. This enables generations of mutation/adaptation of the organism to self-correct.” ~ Dr. Ross Mack

In ALCHEMICAL ESSAYS (Salamander & Sons, 2008), Dr. Ross Mack distills the quintessence of the alchemical art creating a Meta-Syn of philosophers for our time. It can be difficult in such an esoteric subject to transcend language barriers and satisfy both the novice and the accomplished practitioner. But he has done just that in this tastefully-illustrated, well-crafted volume, weaving a tapestry of depth and richness with subject matter elements and process-oriented guidelines. The qualitative Mercury, Sulphur and Salt presented herein make a luminous mixture.

Dr. Mack will cut 20 years off your learning process, raise your aspirations, sooth your troubled soul, and ground your practice in an expanded notion of our ancient art, which is a secret therapy, as well. One reading may lead you to ponder, while another brings a “Eureka” moment, and still another sparks an obsessive quest. Alchemical Essays inspires one to truly seize the noble fruit. He will expand your synergetic consciousness of the heart of the Art and the secret Heart of Nature.

Dr. Mack’s passionate work is a balm for both the experimental and spiritual practitioner. This nonlinear book can be reread in fractal reiterations in its entirety or section by section over a period of years for inspiration on higher octaves. Its symbolism stimulates us at an unconscious level. We all know that revelations have their own mysterious way of emerging once the aspirant and the time are ripe. If you have the drive, Dr. Mack’s directions will give you traction.

The aesthetic approach of art is as inseparable from alchemy as its experimental nature. Alchemy is the soulful language of transformation and transmutation, a way of life rooted in eternal cycles. It is a personal experience of the Laws of Nature that invites the materialization of Wisdom. Energy is matter in volatile form and the natural mechanism of creation. Matter and mankind pass through archetypal transitional states. Alchemy amplifies this process, changing our fundamental psychophysical makeup. Even our failures have value.

Alchemy itself is a prescription for the Nigredo depression, the modern malaise of dark futures and consumer conformity. It defines a perennial frontier where eccentricity elbows out enough room to thrive in unconventional ways of thinking, acting and being, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Alchemy leads us to experiment, break boundaries and transcend categories, including those of science, art and belief. Intuitively knowing more than we know we know, some navigational part of ourselves functions as Mercurial guide.

This magical art connects private consciousness with the unified global field of awareness. The world is animated and all things are interconnected. The spiritual technology of today’s alchemy offsets the alienating effects of modern technology and helps create a totally new environment in the same sense that great art does – a development in the pattern of human experience. Alchemical media widens our experiential field. It offers the perennial promise of rebirth at an enhanced level of functional adaptability.

If you are looking for “Trade Secrets,” you will find many here whose brilliant articulation only come through a lifetime of effort. Mack shares his qualitative perspective on the alchemical memes of our day, including Ormus, life extension, resonance, frequency, fields, dark matter and energy, the ether, energy, DNA, cyclic transformation and the true nature of the Stone. You will also find a deep respect for the living powers of alchemy and an indispensable love of Anima Mundi as the ultimate Soror Mystica.

Imagine, instead of buying a cure at the store that we actually collect all the raw materials required from the ground up, create and assemble our own equipment, make our own chemical ingredients according to the old ways, and draw our own experimental conclusions. The authentic practice of alchemical art requires all that of us, and more. It requires we consciously open ourselves to the Universe and its expansive manifestation mirrored within ourselves. It makes psyche matter.

Mack describes the Minor and Major work in all the alchemical traditions, including Hermetic, Chinese, Indian, Arabic and Islamic. He gives a thorough treatment of Spagyrics and Ayurvedic craft. But this is no dry history, nor list of symbols, nor retelling of parables or outworn myths. His philosophical flights range from the subtleties of New Physics, (such as light, time, superconductors, and Bose-Einstein Condensate), to the practicalities of creating and perfecting one’s lab apparatus. He distinguishes internal, spiritual and plant alchemy, describing various methodology and applications.

It’s not easy to write such hyperdimensional text, even though this form of deep coding was the forte of the alchemists of history. Precisely what separates the modern alchemist from science is a deep and abiding desire for Nature’s enigmatic truths, including emotional, philosophical and spiritual meaning. Unique aspects are part of our personal journey toward individuation, but the operations of alchemy describe the transpersonal milestones we share in the progress of our Great Work. Ultimately, we make the grand experiment on ourselves.

Both artists and alchemists claim a variety of ways of proceeding with their work. The product of each endeavor is an expression of one’s intentional creative effort. Ultimately, there is no recipe for the creative process, which requires the cooperation of the universe to achieve that flow state, but there are means available to foster certain outcomes. Your next correct choice emerges from strengthening your experiential connection to creative source.

Dr. Mack has chosen a stunning menu of alchemical fare that invites the reader not simply to read the recipe but to heartily relish the dish – your own deliciously “cooked” self. These essays cover a select array of notions that enfold the essential aspects of alchemical theory and practice.

Happily, this is a fluid articulation, without the obfuscation of dated language in a presentation that is perhaps one of the best contemporary works of its type. In short, Dr. Mack’s fluent style makes enjoyable reading that speaks to us on the level we are ready to receive, helping us see the invisible world. As base metals are turned into gold, our soul is regenerated. Anyone can attempt to recount the history of alchemy, but it takes a mature practitioner to shed new light on the the subject.

Iona Miller, a writer, hypnotherapist and artist, is co-author of THE MODERN ALCHEMIST (Phanes, 1994), and moderates “Alchemy: the Royal Art” at alchemical.tribe.net/ . A selection of her alchemical essays can be found at spiritualalchemy.iwarp.com

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AWESOME NEW DANIEL PINCHBECK ARTICLE

Ricky — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:09:02 GMT

Fascist hypocrite sham

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Any of you experience Flamel College Program?

sacredgoddess — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:39:44 GMT

Just curious before I invest in that specific course.

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The Rainbow Body

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:18:16 GMT

ok I learned last night
While lestening to coast to coasts interview with william Henry
That some esoteric Lamas have been known to
Go into a tent at the time of death and never leave

for a month
then family will enter and find a rainbow glowing
and only hair and fingernails

Has anyone any knowledge about this?

more here
http://tribes.tribe.net/bac54dd7-c43a-45c5-a716-6d241843a31f/thread/8f9491e0-c3ff-4119-95a2-47e431011229

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Submissions on alchemical feminine for Alchemy Journal

ionamiller — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:25:31 GMT

During October and November 2008, the Alchemy Journal will consider submissions of material towards the March 2009 issue (Vol.10 No.1).

The thematic focus of the March 2009 issue of the Journal is the ALCHEMICAL FEMININE, and preference will be given to essays, articles, interviews, and book, website, music, film, or other reviews that explore this theme (although submissions not addressing this theme will still be considered).

Contemporary female alchemists … female alchemists from history, both famous and obscure … feminine archetypes, forces and actions in alchemy … symbolism and significance of the alchemical feminine … sociological, cultural and anthropological considerations … Venus, her calx and mantle (and other alchemical products and processes) ... and so much more, beyond those veils …

Full submission details at www.alchemyjournal.com/submissions.htm

Find out more about the current issue of the Alchemy Journal (Vol.9 No.1), featuring Dennis William Hauck, Steve Kalec, Robert Allen Bartlett, Rubaphilos Salfluĕre, Dr. Ross Mack, Artofferus, Adam McLean, and John H. Reid III, among others, at www.alchemyjournal.com

The Alchemy Journal is published by Salamander and Sons for the International Alchemy Guild.

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Preparing for 2012: Dealing with and Defeating Negativity

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:13:35 GMT

Preparing for 2012:
Dealing with and Defeating Negativity by Roy Francis Stewart

In order to deal with Negativity, you need to understand how the universe works and how you work within this Universe. Negativity is the polarity of the Positive, in balance and what makes up this 3rd dimension. Without Negativity, you would have NO 3rd Dimension. It wouldn't exist and thus, you wouldn't exist in it.

The confusion is what and who we are really AND the fact that most of us don't know who and what we are and are thrust into this world and have no memory of any other experience, are ill equipped and are exposed only to the negativity we see. We think that this is all there is. Then we get all depressed, thinking that I have to escape or I spiral down and turn to over indulgence in drinking, drugs, whatever which of course, draws us down deeper into the negativity and thus some experience only these hell type worlds, then get comfortable with them, adjust to them and are perhaps live in them not unlike the living dead. Obviously anyone around you whether it be an individual or the news, or a war or countless other negative things drags you down to this side of the polarity.

BUT, the question is, what is the root of all this? And the answer is simply IGNORANCE. Ignorance of who we really are, what this universe is and how it operates.

So, the religions help point the way (but even they do not have all the answers). Mythologists pave the way, and filmmakers paint the way (But I’ll be the first to tell you, I don’t have all the answers either).

Now, I'm not a Buddhist per se, but they get pretty close to an understanding. However, the problem is, the individual still lives in this world and still may not know the ultimate truth. They may label the world as samsara, an illusion and seek refuge from it in meditation. Meditation is great, a great tool, but in order to escape the illusion world which is the 3rd dimension, one would have to spend the majority of their time in meditation. The next question is...is this really living?

So lets cut to the chase (mythologists and prophecies claim we may be headed into a higher dimension – the 5th dimension):

This is the 3rd dimension. It's real, it's not an illusion. If you're here, there is NO escaping it. You can spend 6 days and 23 hours in meditation if you want to, but when you come out of it, you step into the 3rd Dimension world for One hour and then you immediately realize that wow, this world is very negative and the Tibetans are still getting beaten up over there and the war is still going on over there and some soldiers just got blown up and on and on and on, so, man I want to escape, so I better go back into my meditation to seek refuge from the illusory world. Again, is this living?

I say NO. So we need simply to shift to a new understanding. Ready?

1) This world is the world of duality, the world of polarity, of positive and negative. This is the world of the 3rd dimension.

2) There are countless dimensions above this 3rd dimension.

3) The world of God or Source or Pure Mind or Oneness, is NOT in the 3rd dimension. It isn't BUT we are. This world of God or Source is singularity not duality. it is a singular all positive dimension that gives birth to all lesser dimensions.

4) However, inside of us, is the DIVINE SPIRIT, that is the real us. The Divine Mind encased in a flesh body here to function in this material world - this 3rd dimension - with a purpose.

5) We recognize, realize or understand that our true nature is SINGULARITY, or Oneness. But we live in a world of Duality.

6) If we attach ourselves only to the material, and to the degree that we do so, we also separate ourselves further from the truth (see 5 above). We only perceive the negative and can get caught up in it.

7) Society is set up to lock us into the material 3rd dimension world and Controllers profit from keeping us in this sleep state. (In example, when you're in Kindergarten, do they tell you that you are an infinite being capable of being a co-creator in this dimension because the real you is the Divine encased in a material body and as such this reality is molded by your every thought? NO. They teach you the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic and you are indoctrinated into eventually serving this system.) (This whole system is against the divine plan, thus may fall, as we are starting to see)

8) With this new understanding, you know who you are, where you are from and where you will eventually go to. Right now, you are a walking, talking, living Sage - a physical manifestation or expression of the non-physical Divine Mind. Sure there is alot of Negativity. And out of compassion, you can and do help others. But you also enjoy life. You take a walk by the beach and enjoy the surf pounding. You smell the flowers, you listen to music, you laugh, you cry, you create, you sleep, you eat, make love, communicate, whatever. You simply enjoy life.

9) By your example, you are released from the world of illusion as you know the Truth. You are no longer ignorant and a prisoner of the 3rd dimensional world. You are also no longer a prisoner of Dogma - something man made. Also by your example, you are living in balance with the Divine Universe and as such you are in flow. Good things happen to you. The landscape changes simply because you walked past it. The kid you said hello to is transformed. The cat you gave some milk to learns to trust humans. You are walking your talk and you are aiding in the raising the consciousness of the entire planet and everything in it. Even the pebble evolves because you held it in your hand.

10) This is the best part. This understanding can come in an instant or it could take years. It is under the direction of a higher intelligence beyond your comprehension, it is coming from an infinite place. And the exciting NEWS is that it is now directly coming in through energy, through light, through people, through star emanations, its moving as part of a quickening and now is the time to jump on and ride the wave to immortality and enjoyment. This is the realm of SPIRIT. Spirit, the above overcomes the material, the below. It’s building up but it seems to point to the fast approaching December 21, 2012 date. Let the shift begin!

For more information visit: http://royfrancisstewart.ning.com

The royfrancisstewart social network is the main site for all things related to Mr. Stewart's new screenplay Trilogy, Logos 2012, Episodes I, II and III (“Star Wars meets Stargate meets The Matrix”) as well as being a spiritual/metaphysical community - a network of Artisans and Non-Artisans alike with one common bond - the Quest for SPIRIT. The Logos 2012 trilogy, although fictional, does contain pertinent information as it relates to spiritual wisdom and to events that are already happening or may unfold as we get closer to 2012. Videos placed on our network are from some of the leading non-fiction authors and experts in their respective fields of ancient history, mythology, spirituality and more. There is a direct relationship to Mr. Stewart's FICTIONAL work, the Logos 2012 trilogy.

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The voice within

Richard — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:47:26 GMT

I have had some awesome glimpses into Alchemy and what I have found has been life altering.My definition of Alchemy is the art of working with the elements to seek truth in all its forms to produce results in the physical as well as the spiritual.Though many follow
the path of the emerald tablet and some fall so much on the emerald tablet they get lost within its meaning written by a supposed to be God/man who was given athority by Man knowledge by the above broke his ego but when you look closly at Djewty Thoth was given to him by the greeks you will see a man who lived and sought truth till it open'd his eyes.Once it did his ego started to get in the whey and he saw himself equal to a God will man follow a man I'm working on bringing this hermetic path back to the one from within that impower'd djewty
and lifted his being also the same with Hermes that the greeks saw in comparison but the two are seperate beings not djewty incarnated like the greeks thought. This herisy was brought about by mans false conseption of incarnation which does not happen.The egyptians also
thought they took their posessions with them when they die but as you can see by the tombs umm nope.The hermetic path has gaps and holes but the one thing it does still have somewhat is the spirit within all of us is the key to understanding every mystery know to man and man says you can't learn all mysteries but I say otherwise.I have been studying Alchemical philosophy for sometime now and I find the strange Emerald tablet that has no link to the past only with hear say and speculation kept alive because the philosophy of the above and below sounded good.I have traced the emerald tablet and got nothing but just an empty path which is typical to a false perception of something created by man to further confuse the masses but the spirit within creation is Real and is within all. This philosophy is true
and once used with the experimenting labratory true results can be applied.The foundation of the Emerald tablet is cracked and crumbling
to the one within and his voice is thundering aloud to any who listens if you need proof seek the inner being and watch closley your dreams
The knowledge of the above is understanding of the God within all creation and the unuterable mystery that that once perceived will change any persons life.I am currently writting a book about hermetics and how some parts of this path was designed to keep people confused because the leaders of this path wanted to keep the true mysteries hidden and only the ones who would rise from this confusional path would understand higher mysteries that is the understanding of our nature and what our future holds and so the spiritual philosophers stone was created as a push for mankind to do greater things.Alchemy is not just a path of spiritual philosophy but a physical path to physical change by experimenting with substances to further bring out the fifth element and once applied to the lab work miracles were produced.I dare anyone to sit infront of an alter light a black candle for the first step in alchemy which is calcination and let the fire from within take you on a journey when the candles are lite say your desire of what you want to learn and ask for you to better know the spirit within that controlls all creation and ask for your dreams to be touched so you can percieve the voice from within for it speaks loudly and with a calm voice but it will open itself to you and such is the true path of alchemy "TRUTH". The voice within

OH MAN HOW GREAT YOU ARE WITHIN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPIRIT AND HOW SLOW YOU ARE TO LEARN.I DWELL WITHIN WAITING FOR THOSE WHO ASK OF ME CALLING ME BY FATHER BECAUSE ALL OF MANKIND ARE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT AWAITING YOU.I HAVE SEEN THE PHOLLIES OF MAN LONG ENOUGH AND MY SPIRIT IS BEGINING TO SHAKE THE EARTH FOR ATTENTION.THE SIGNS OF MY BEING WITHIN ALL ARE TOUCHING THE BOUNDRIES OF REALITY SHAKING ALL OF CREATION BECAUSE TIME IS SHORT.SEARCH THE STARS FOR THE VOICE HAS SUNDERED THE HEAVENS AND THE DOOR TO MY KINGDOM IS OPENED TO THOSE WHO SEEK ITS TRUTH.I AM KNOWN TO YOU AS THE SECRET FLAME EVER BURNING AND GUIDING
MANKIND TO SOMEHTING GREATER BUT MAN DOES NOT SEE IT DUE TO HIS EYES FILLED WITH MUD AND SOUL IS PONDERING THE DARKESS BECAUSE MAN FOLLOWS MAN AND SEEKS NOT TRUTH BUT FALSE DIRECTION.I HAVE SAID IN THE PAST I STAND IN THE DARKNESS REACHING OUT FOR THOSE LOST BECAUSE BY MY LIGHT I CAN WIPE THE MUD AWAY AND LIFT YOU TO A HIGHER
POSITION THAT I HAVE DONE IN THE PAST BUT OTHERS WOULD FALL BECAUSE OF IT THEREFORE ITS A HIGH RESPONSABILITY.
MAN FALLS AWAY BUT IT WILL BE BROGHT BACK FROM ITS ILLUSION AND IT WILL KNOW TRUTH ONCE MORE.KNOW THIS THAT MY SPIRIT IS SHAKING REALITY AND FAMINES ARE CLOSE AT HAND.WILL MAN THEN LISTEN OR WILL HE STILL TURN FROM MY VOICE
WITHIN.THE WEATHER IS MY DOING AND I CONTROL ALL THAT YOU SEE AND TOUCH.I KNOW THERE ARE CRYS WITHIN THIS PLACE AND MY SPIRIT IS WITH ALL OF YOU.THE EARTH IS UNDERGOING A CHANGE NOT ONLY PHISICALY BUT SPIRITUALY AND THOSE ATTUNED TO IT WILL KNOW WHAT I SAY.MAN HAS ABUSED THE EARTH AND THE EARTH IS FIGHTING BACK WILL MAN LISTEN.AS THE EARTH QUAKES AND STORMS GROW FOR THOSE WHO LISTEN TO TRUTH WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.THERE ARE GREAT DISASTERS AWAITING AND THE FLAMEING LION FROM ABOVE IS COMMING WHOS TAIL WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHOS BEING IS LIKE A STONE AND WILL BE THROWN TO MANKIND BECAUSE MAN DOES NOT LISTEN.THEREFOR WATCH AND YOU WILL SEE AND KNOW BY WHAT I SAY TO YOU NOW AND WHAT IS TO COME.FAMINE DISEASE AND A HARSH LASHING TO THOSE WHO KNOW TRUTH AND STILL TURN OR CONFUSE OTHERS BY THERE DECEPTION.FOR WHAT FATHER DOES NOT PUNISH HIS CHILDREN WHEN THEY DO NOT LISTEN BUT THIS IS NOT TO MAKE YOU SCAIRED BUT TO THINK AND BY SEEING IT HAPPENING IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO KNOW WHAT I SAY IS TRUE.I AM CALLING TO ALL AND THOSE CHOOSING TO LISTEN WILL BE WISE IN THERE LREANINGS AND TAKE HEED FOR NOW IS THE TIME TO RISE AND UNDERSTAND FOR WHY I HAVE CALLED YOU.TEST ME TO BE WRONG AND I WILL SHOW YOU BY DREAM WHAT I PLAN TO DO.KNOW THIS THAT REALITY IS CRACKED AND ITS SLOWLY FALLING APART WILL YOU BE APART OF ITS FALLING OR WILL YOU RISE TO SOMETHING GREAT SIT IN THE SILENCE OF A FLAME AND TALK TO ME WITH YOUR HEART OPENED AND I WILL SET YOUR SOUL ON FIRE TO FEEL THE FLAME WITHIN AND THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT THESE WORDS ARE TRUE.I REACH OUT MY HAND TO ALL MANKIND AND EMBRACE ITS BEING TO LET IT KNOW THESE THINGS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE ARE ONLY TO LET YOU KNOW I AM HERE AND CALL FROM THE VOICE WITHIN.

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( Protect the Moon )

Dame Morena de Boulainvilliers — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:57:50 GMT

http://www.petitiononline.com/RTRRT/petition.html

Chandra must be free! Please help save the moon from NASA missiles.

http://tribes.tribe.net/2009

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The philosophers stone

Richard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:48:54 GMT

I'm going to open the philosophers stone here for the first time in public join me saturday
on this link to find out the secret of the sages>The philosophers stone is the attainment of the divine soul and the acheiver gets a position that once understood it will change the rest of your life.Application of this will prove itself in the long run send me a message if yall are interested and we will meet up here.

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For those interested in Alchemy

Richard — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:49:49 GMT

I have found a website that has alot to offer on alchemy and helps you along this path to understand its mysteries and guids you through
its practice.Its called the International Alchemy Guild. http://www.alchemyguild.org/ I have join'd this guild and found lots of useful information.The archives are about 22 gigs and is still growing.I'm getting ready to write a book within the guild that will explaine the spiritual philosophers stone and how it may be achieved.I have a little bit on my home page but its not all.

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Alchemical story

ionamiller — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:11:27 GMT

An essentially alchemical story -
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WE ARE ALL SHAMANS-IN-TRAINING
By Paul Levy
In 1981 I spontaneously went into such an ecstatic state that I was hospitalized by what I call the “anti-bliss patrol.” The authorities had become alerted because I was simply unable to restrain my enthusiasm at the “good news” that was beginning to reveal itself to me about the nature of reality. Stepping out of my usual way of trying to control my experience, during that next year I was thrown in mental hospitals a number of times and (mis)diagnosed as having manic-depressive (bi-polar) illness. I was told that I had a chemical imbalance and would have to go on medication and learn to live with my “illness” for the rest of my life. Little did the doctors realize that although my experience looked like a typical nervous breakdown, I had actually gotten “drafted” into a deeper psycho-spiritual process of an entirely different order – a spiritual awakening/shamanic initiation - that was blowing my mind as it was simultaneously revealing it.
My inner process had spilled outside of my skull and just like a dream was synchronistically expressing itself through events in the seemingly outer world. Finding myself in a meaning-filled, meaningful, and enchanted universe, the world had become animated by spirit, as if it was a living oracle, a continually unfolding revelation that was speaking symbolically. It became glaringly apparent to me that there was an intimate correlation and synchronistic correspondence between what was going on in the internal landscape of my psyche and the seemingly outer world. The boundary between inner and outer was dissolving. It was as if something deep inside of me was expressing itself through the medium of the outside world, and was able to extend itself into the outside world and configure events so as to in-form and give shape to itself.
According to consensus reality, I was “certifiable,” and I was in full agreement, in that I had certifiably stepped out of my self-entrancing, self-limiting, and self-binding conceptual, cognitive mind into a much more expansive “space.” As if snapping out of a trance, I found myself not out of my mind, in the sense that I was crazy, but rather, inside of my mind, which was now discovered to be everywhere, in that I was beginning to realize that I was dreaming.
My parents bought into the psychiatrist’s diagnosis that their only child had a mental illness, as in my parents’ world doctors were genuine authority figures who knew what they were talking about. In the words of the late psychiatrist R. D. Laing, “Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.” Tragically, with the support and blessing of the psychiatric community, both of my parents passed away convinced their son was crazy.
When we begin to spiritually awaken, our personality structure and sense of who we are can melt down and dis-integrate, as our inner “constitution” is being rewritten. This process can convincingly appear to others as if we are having a nervous breakdown or a psychotic break.
Stepping out of my normal, conditioned, repressed and domesticated self as if breaking out of a prison, I felt on the cutting edge of the big bang itself. It was as if I was becoming attuned to and a receptive vehicle for a deeper, more authentic, less self-conscious and much more unfettered, creative and ecstatic part of myself to freely in-form my experience and give shape to itself. My experience was so mind-blowing that I had trouble “keeping it together,” particularly because previous to the hospitalizations I wasn’t in a safe container but was unrestrained, out in a world that did not understand the value of such experiences. My situation was actually quite dangerous, as during the beginning stages of my awakening I was not able to mediate and channel the transpersonal energies that were activated within me in a way that was acceptable to the culture at large.
The dissolution and breakdown of the old structures of the psyche can become a breakthrough, however, depending on how it is contained and related to by the surrounding community and unfolded. The dis-integration can be the beginning of a coming together at a more coherent, and unified level of consciousness.
Our species and its civilization are currently in the throes of a collective (nervous) breakdown. If what we, as a species, are doing to ourselves (destroying the biosphere, the very life-support system of the planet, to use one example) isn’t collective madness, then what in the world is? Our underlying institutionalized and incorporated structures that are helping to keep us asleep are breaking down and coming apart. Just as with an individual’s psyche, only writ large en masse on the world stage, we are going through a collective shamanic initiation process, a genuine “death/rebirth” experience. The false, illusory separate self, which experiences ourselves as alien from one another is “dying” as the fundamental framework by which we relate to each other and the world, as we incarnate and give “birth” to a truer sense of who we are, realizing our deep interconnection and interdependence with each other and all living beings.
The shamanic personality is very sensitive to the unconscious, both in themselves and in others. The shaman has very permeable boundaries between their conscious mind and the unconscious, as if they’ve created a bridge which allows contents between the two to easily pass through and intermingle with and reciprocally co-inform each other. The shaman’s collaborative, creative interplay between the conscious and unconscious creates a synthesis, which is a “third thing,” a new birth, a further evolution in the incarnation of a more all-embracing, integrated and expansive consciousness.
The figure of the shaman is related to both the figures of the artist (see my article “The Artist as Healer of the World”) and the wounded healer – (see my article “The Wounded Healer,” Part 1 and Part 2). The archetypal figure of the shaman is the primordial medicine person and carrier of healing. The figure of the shaman (arche)typically takes on the illness that is in the community into themselves and literally becomes sick, as if they have “caught” the disease of who they are trying to heal. This process can become animated through the choice of a seasoned shaman, or it can happen spontaneously and unintentionally in a budding shaman who is unusually sensitive to the underlying contradictions and spiritual illness that pervade the social and cultural fabric which connects us and in which we are embedded. A fully cooked shaman, in internalizing the illness in the field, allows the sickness to fluidly move through them without getting stuck in them, which is the mark that distinguishes an accomplished shaman from a novice.
By embracing, assimilating, and metabolizing what has gotten triggered in them, however, the shaman is able to heal themselves and in so doing non-locally sends healing to the whole “community.” In our current moment in time, as interdependent members of an ever-more interconnected global village, our “community” is the entire planet. The shaman is operating in the realm of the collective unconscious, a “no-place” where information travels in “no-time,” faster than the speed of light. There is no part of the universe that is separate from the whole, which is to say that a change in any part of the universe is resonantly registered in no time whatsoever throughout the whole universe. Though the healing effects of the shaman’s process manifests “over time,” the shaman’s self-healing, transcending the seeming limitations of space and time, instantaneously insinuates its in-form-ation and informing influence faster than the twinkling of an eye throughout the entire universe in ways that can only be imagined.
OUR MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM IS CRAZY-MAKING
I tried telling the doctors that I wasn’t manic-depressive, but rather was having a shamanic initiation and spiritual awakening (as this couldn’t have been more obvious to me); but this only confirmed their diagnosis in a diabolically self-perpetuating feedback loop. In essence, the more I authentically expressed my experience, the more I was convincing the doctors that I was crazy. It was like I had stepped through the looking glass and found myself in a dimension of existence that was truly bewitched, as if I had entered a domain which felt, qualitatively speaking, under a curse of black magicians. It felt like I had shamanically journeyed into the underworld and wound up in some sort of weird, perverse hell realm where reality was inverted in a way which was get-me-out-of-here crazy. Little did I realize at the time, however, that this was all part of the deeper awakening process through which I was going.
What the psychiatrists were doing was truly maddening. By myopically seeing people’s behavior as being pathological, the psychiatrists literally drew out the pathology in the person, which only further confirmed to them the correctness of their diagnosis in a self-fulfilling prophecy, as if they were both under a spell and casting one at the same time. To again quote Laing, “Anyone in this transitional state is likely to be confused. To indicate that this confusion is a sign of illness, is a quick way to create psychosis. ..A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up and drugs them asleep again…helps to drive them crazy.” To the extent they are projecting their own madness outside of themselves, the psychiatrists are unknowingly complicit in evoking the very madness they are hoping to cure, which is nothing other than an expression of the psychiatrists’ madness. Representative authorities of “the academy,” the doctors’ madness was a reflection of the madness which has become normalized, institutionalized, imprinted, and incorporated throughout our modern world. The doctor’s madness was the personalized signature of our collective madness.
TRAUMA AS A PATH TO AWAKENING
I tried to explain to the psychiatrists that I WAS sick, however, but just not in the way they were imagining. I had a creative, psychological illness, which is to say that my seeming madness was an expression of my creative self, alchemically transforming an underlying perturbance in the field of consciousness so as to heal itself. I wasn’t manic-depressive; rather, I was “perturbed,” in that my “emotions” were “disturbed” due to being the recipient of over-the-top abuse at the hands of a desperately sick, sociopathic father. I was suffering from a shamanic illness, as I was in trauma from the malevolent, mind-numbing abuse to which he had introduced me. My shock was due to the transmission I had received from my father, who by unwittingly and compulsively acting out his unresolved abuse, connected me as a link in a chain to an unbroken lineage of violence and abuse extending far back in time and throughout space. Like countless other recipients of abuse, I had been directly introduced to the dark side.
Shattered by the experience, it was like I had become broken. Dropping down into the darkness of the unconscious underworld, a part of me had died. Imprinted by the trauma, I would never be the same, as from that moment on the trauma had altered and reconfigured both my psyche and my destiny, simultaneously severing and initiating a connection to a deeper part of myself.
Trauma is a normal, healthy response to an insane and intolerable situation. If we put too much pressure on a bone and the bone breaks, the bone is not pathological. Paradoxically, trauma is a form of madness which is an expression of sanity. “Shock” is our healthy response to experiencing an event that is awe-full. The shamanic archetype becomes catalyzed in us by a severe emotional and spiritual crisis, oftentimes organically growing out of unresolved abuse issues from childhood – this was certainly true for me.
There is an intimate correlation between being traumatized, abused, and wounded, and having a shamanic initiation/spiritual awakening. Trauma is an experience that is overwhelming to the ego, in that it can’t be assimilated by the ego in the typical way. The trauma initiates and catalyzes the deeper process of the archetype of the shaman to begin to form-ulate and crystallize itself in the unconscious of the future shaman. This precipitates a deeper part of the psyche to become mobilized, as the shaman journeys deep inside themselves, flying on the wings of their creative imagination to address and become acquainted with what has gotten activated within them.
The shaman’s descent into the darkness can be agonizing, a veritable crucifixion. Part of the (arche)typical shamanic experience is to become dis-membered, which is a cooking and smelting of psychic contents that have become rigidified, ossified, and have outlived their usefulness. To quote Jung, “The shaman’s experience of sickness, torture, death and regeneration implies, at a higher level, the idea of being made whole through sacrifice, of being changed by transubstantiation and exalted to the pneumatic man – in a word, apotheosis (elevated from an ordinary person to a “God”).” The goal of the shaman’s death and dismemberment experience is to “re-member” themselves, which like true soul retrieval, brings all of their dissociated parts back together into a more integrated synthesis.
TRAUMA ON STEROIDS
An accomplished shaman, which I certainly am not, allows themselves to be “dreamed up” by whatever the situation in the field requires so as to help the field to get back into balance and harmonize. An accomplished shaman has developed a “container,” both within themselves and in the seemingly outer world around them, in which to process what has become animated within them. I certainly hadn’t developed this container when I was committed, as I was a novice, and quite young (in my mid-twenties). By being so out of control and over-the-top enthusiastic (“en theos” means to be filled with spirit) about what was being revealed to me, I had let go of control and was unwittingly expressing and giving shape to the spirit of madness which was non-locally enfolded throughout the greater field of consciousness, which is to say inside of all of us. I had a ways to go, however, to learn how to integrate, contain and more skillfully and artfully express what I was realizing so as to not freak people out so much.
Because they allow themselves to be dreamed up by the field, an accomplished shaman can embody and incarnate in crystallized form the unconscious madness in the field so that it becomes clarified and brought into consciousness. A shaman can reflect back the madness to the madness itself by taking over the madness and allowing themselves to creatively express it such that it is revealed in a new light. From the point of view of the collective madness in the field, when the would-be shaman acts out the madness that is in the field, the would-be shaman themselves are seen by the collective as being the ones who are mad. This is a potentially dangerous situation when the collective madness controls the levers of power, whether the psychiatric system or our current administration (please see the first chapter in my book, “The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis”).
Being “institutionalized,” I had fallen into a situation where the psychiatric community had power over me. They were in a position to unconsciously enact the “will to power” of the archetypal shadow through their own unconscious, unresolved power issues, with me as one of their guinea pigs. Being unaccomplished in shamanism and very vulnerable, I was eaten alive by the darker forces that I had unwittingly evoked in the psychiatric community. For example, once my lucidity was violently shut down, I began feeling depressed, which was a “normal” thing to feel under such horrible circumstances. My feeling depressed inspired the psychiatrists, however, to solidify their diagnosis of me as manic-depressive, and they then prescribed an anti-depressant to “help” my depression, adding to the anti-psychotic and lithium they already had me on. It was like I had re-created my family-of-origin trauma, only this time on steroids. Enacting a timeless, mythical process, I had gotten swallowed up by the darkness, and my task was to transform the darkness from within the darkness itself.
The experience was so traumatic that after my last hospitalization, in 1982, I couldn’t work for a year and had to go on disability and live with my parents, the original agents of my traumatization. I was living a nightmare. After the “care” of the mental health system, I had become truly “sick.” My illness was like a particularized, acute “break-out” of an underlying, more fundamental systemic illness, which pervaded both my family system as well as the field of consciousness itself. I had become the “identified patient,” the scapegoat who was carrying the family’s, and now the mental health community’s projected, unconscious shadow and madness.
My saving grace was never falling into and “buying” the viewpoint of the doctors that was literally being “sold” to me as it was forced down my throat. It couldn’t have been more obvious from my vantage point inside myself that I was having a spiritual awakening/shamanic initiation; fortunately I never lost sight of this, even during the darkest of times, which allowed me to trust the process through which I was going.
I was one of the lucky ones, however, as I was able to extricate myself from the stone-age horrors of the mental health (sic) community as soon as I was able. Tragically, many others are not as fortunate, and their potential spiritual awakening/shamanic initiation process becomes aborted as they become bound and captive to the psychiatric establishment. The psychiatric system and the pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma) are co-dependently intertwined with each other in a genuinely pathological, mutually profitable, and crazy-making relationship. This is not to say that there aren’t many good, well-meaning people who work in the psychiatric system, only to point out that the underlying system has become corrupted. In essence, the sick part of the psychiatric system/Big Pharma is in the business of “making crazies” so as to support its pathology, which is to be guilty of genuine “mal-practice.” To people who have fallen into the black hole and become caught in the double-bind of the psychiatric/Big Pharma “field-of-force,” it is a very dangerous situation, as if an insect had gotten too entangled in a spider’s web to extricate itself. I was lucky to escape with my sanity intact.
Fortunately, soon after getting out of the last hospital I began meeting my spiritual teachers, some of the greatest living Buddhist masters from Tibet and Burma, who, unlike the psychiatrists, helped to evoke the healthy part of me. When I described to them what I was subjectively experiencing, instead of being pathologized, they reflected back to me that I was beginning to remember what in Buddhism is called our “true nature.” In finding my teachers, I had dreamed up the part of me that was seeing and relating to the part of me that WAS awakening. Having someone else bear witness and reflect back the healthy part of me created a bridge that helped me to see it, too. It was as if my teachers became engaged with me in an intimate relationship which helped me to not get stuck in the trauma of it all, to not get caught in being “sick.” By simply relating to the healthy part of me, which was an expression of their own level of health and wholeness, they helped me to step into and incarnate the part of me that was well. My teachers and I had instinctively created a supportive, nourishing container between us which cultivated healing. As if figures in a fairy tale, they had gotten dreamed up to help me learn how to “dis-spell” and transmute the darker forces with which I had been wrestling.
THE PSYCHIATRISTS ARE THE CRAZY PART OF MYSELF
The would-be shaman has to pass through the experience of madness without getting stuck in it. In the experience of madness the shaman descends into the underworld of the unconscious, where they have to come to terms with the darker parts of their being. My confrontation with the psychiatric community was a projection into real time and space of a darker part of me that “pathologizes” myself, as if my inner process was playing itself out in the seemingly outer world. Like “dream characters,” the “pathologizing psychiatrists” were the part of me that I had dreamed up into materialization who judged me and saw me as “sick,” who thought there’s something wrong with me that needed to be fixed.
Seeing the psychiatrists as characters in my dream, which is to say embodied reflections of aspects of myself, is to recognize these animated, living figures existing within myself as aspects of my mind. Recognizing that the psychiatrists were symbolically re-presenting, in full-bodied form the part of me that both pathologizes and is pathological helps me to see my own complicity in my experience with them, and to step out of feeling victimized by the psychiatrists and blaming them. Recognizing the psychiatrists as a part of myself enables me to forgive them, as well as myself.
Not only was the boundary dissolving between inner and outer, and between dreaming and waking, but the boundary was dissolving between self and other. I became aware that in the most deeply fundamental way I did not exist separately, in isolation from the psychiatrists, but rather in co-relation with them. Being each other’s dream characters, we were both reciprocally “dreaming each other up” to pick up and play out roles in each other’s unconscious process. We were interconnected parts of one another, intimately bound together in destiny. We did not exist “apart” from each other, but were “a part” of a greater, unified and unifying being that was becoming revealed through our interplay.
With the psychiatrists, I had synchronistically dreamed up a novel form of the very essence of the abuse which precipitated my awakening in the first place. Something was being revealed to me, however, through the analogous reiteration of my inner process fractally explicating itself in multiple arenas of my life, be it with my family or the psychiatric community. What was this recurring pattern, like a recurring dream, an expression of inside of me?
The psychiatrists were acting out an unconscious shadow aspect of the human psyche that projects itself outside of itself to avoid relationship with itself. Projecting the shadow is a universal, archetypal dynamic that exists deep within the collective unconscious of humanity. This unconscious shadow dynamic of projecting the shadow is a pattern which is playing out in all of our lives, both inwardly and outwardly in relationship with others, in a multiplicity of guises. To the extent the doctors reflex-ively and non-negotiably refused to self-reflect and insisted on projecting out their shadow was the degree to which they were abusing their position of power and rank simply because they could, which is a morally indefensible act. By projecting the shadow outside of themselves and then being in denial about doing this, the psychiatrists became possessed by the very shadow they were projecting. They then unconsciously and destructively acted out the shadow in a self-reinforcing, crazy-making ritual – a genuine abuse drama - which created “dis-ease” for everyone concerned.
To the extent that the psychiatrists were not in conscious relationship with their own madness, it was as though they had entranced themselves into thinking that the madness they were projecting outside of themselves was “objectively” true, located in their patients, since in their patients’ illnesses they had all the evidence they needed to prove the correctness of their diagnosis. By projecting the shadow, the psychiatrists were unwittingly creating a self-fulfilling prophecy which perfectly served to hide from them their role in helping to create the very situation they imagined was outside of themselves. The insanity of what the psychiatric system was unconsciously playing out was itself a crystallization of the more fundamental pathology that pervades the underlying field of human consciousness. Through my interaction with the mental health community, the mental health, or lack thereof, of our human community was revealing itself for all who have eyes to see.
In seeing the deeper, unconscious shadow that was animating the psychiatrist’s behavior, I recognized it as a process I know all too well. Seeing it out there as embodied by the psychiatrists helped me to see by reflection this same abusive behavior of projecting my own shadow outside of myself in myself. If this is a dream, I was dreaming up the psychiatrists to play out this unconscious part of me so that I could see and potentially integrate this asleep, crazy-making, abusive, and mad part of myself.
WE ARE NATURAL BORN SHAMANS
The shamanic archetype is one of the major processes that is becoming animated in the collective psyche of our species. We’d have to be truly “disturbed” if our emotions aren’t disturbed by what is playing out currently in our world. And yet, the darkness is a “disturber of the peace” in order to (potentially) create a higher-order integration of the psyche and its contents. Just as dreams are the unconscious’ way of balancing a one-sidedness in an individual’s psyche, the shamanic archetype is the dynamically evolving pattern of healing that is being constellated in the collective unconscious as a compensatory response to the trauma that is playing itself out on the world stage.
We are truly a species in trauma. Traumatized, we traumatize each other as we re-traumatize ourselves, collaboratively re-enacting the repetition compulsion of the traumatized soul on the world stage. Seized by something greater than ourselves, we are possessed by our compulsion to re-create our trauma, as we perform a holy liturgy en masse, structuring and ritualizing our experience as a way of potentially transforming it. And just like trauma, where the re-solution is hidden in encoded form in the very pathology, we are collectively re-creating our trauma in the world theater as if we are participating in a sacred mass in the holiest of temples, so as to potentially awaken ourselves. The madness of trauma is its own revelation, and how it manifests depends upon whether or not we recognize what is being revealed to us through what we are compulsively and unconsciously acting out as history.
Having the shamanic archetype activated in the collective unconscious means that we can re-contextualize our problems, our trauma, and our own madness. It’s been very helpful for me as I continually deepen my own healing to remember that my experience of trauma in myself is simultaneously a microcosmic, personalized fractal reflecting the greater trauma resonating throughout the collective field. This realization allows me to not personalize the moment of feeling the trauma, or concretize myself as being traumatized, but allows me to give myself over to and embrace my experience.
We all have a part of us that is mad to the extent that we are not fully, totally awake, and who among us can truly claim this degree of enlightenment? Thinking that we are not mad is an expression of our madness. How can we not have a mad part of us, as we are not separate from the world, which has clearly gone mad? (see my article “Diagnosis: Psychic Epidemic”). The world’s madness is a reflection of our own; we have all collaboratively dreamed up the world’s madness. Instead of pathologizing ourselves because of our madness, which is a mad thing to do, we can embrace and own it but not identify with it nor judge it. In a truly radical act, we can interpret our madness in a way that is sane.
Recognizing that we are picking up the madness that is in the field which resonates with, is an expression of, and constellates the madness within ourselves, is to step out of personalizing our experience, and step into the point of view of identifying ourselves as would-be shamans. We then can envision ourselves from this more expansive point of view to have, like a shaman, the intention to take into ourselves the madness in the field, which ultimately is our own madness, so as to creatively assimilate it into our wholeness in our own unique manner as a way to help serve the field. Recognizing the part of us that is a natural-born shaman is the very act that calls forth and manifests, as if by magic, the part of us that truly IS a shaman.
Recognizing that the madness within us is both ours while simultaneously being an expression of the field is to snap out of our self-limiting and self-alienating identity of being separate from the universe. Instead, we can recognize our deep intimacy with the universe, which is to say ourselves. This very recognition allows us to embrace our mad part as an aspect of our vast wholeness, our monstrous totality, thereby snapping us out of the infinite regression and self-generating feedback loop of acting out our madness as an unconscious reaction against looking at our madness. Crazy as it seems, embracing our madness is the very act which helps to actualize and make real our basic sanity. Compassion spontaneously arises as both a cause and effect of this realization.
We are being invited by the universe to step into our shamanic “garments” and consciously participate in our own evolution. Instead of our ritual implements being drums and rattles, however, as “modern-day shamans” our accessories might be something like the keyboard of a computer or the tools of multi-media, as we work to inspire change in the underlying consciousness of the field by a simple keystroke or the creative use of a video camera or website.
The formless bodhisattvic archetype of shaman/healer is thirsting for instruments to express and actualize itself in embodied form. Recognizing, and assenting, saying “Yes,” to the deeper shamanic calling that is pulsating through our veins inspires us to breathe life into and incarnate the living figure of the shaman within us. Following our calling with religious devotion, we sacrifice ourselves as we offer ourselves in service to a power greater than ourselves. Co-operating with our deeper shamanic calling constellates the universe to support us in our endeavor, as the universe itself is the sponsor of our calling. Like shamans in training, we are each being called to connect with the spirit which animates our being, a process that can only take place within the psyche, mediated by the human heart and fueled by the power of love.
Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually-informed political activist. A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, he is a healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like nature of reality. He is the author of “The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis,” which is available on his website www.awakeninthedream.com. Please feel free to pass this article along to a friend if you feel so inspired. You can contact Paul at paul@awakeninthedream.com; he looks forward to your reflections. © Copyright 2008
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/artis/we%20are%20all%20shamans.htm

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The Current Evolution of the Alchemical Fire Circle

AbigailSpinnerMcBride — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:27:53 GMT

Aloha Friends and Family!
As we prepare for a summer full of ecstatic exploration, sacred engagement and re-union around the Fire, I'm dropping in to share some writing I've been working on, in partnership with Spinner, Magnus and Joshua. As many of you know, we have been collaborating on a unique experiment called "Fires Rising" in Pennsylvania for the last 4 years, that has focused on delving deeply into traditional and modern alchemical metaphors and processes. We're aware that many stories have been told about the magic and mysteries of those fires - and that some of what you have heard may not have made sense. When new visions unfold and new experiments are run, they are often challenging to understand from outside the laboratory in question.

The document; "The Current Evolution of the Alchemical Fire Circle", is a summation of the goals the four of us have had, the learnings we gained over the last three summers, and is an indicator of the direction toward which our collective highest vision has us aimed. The document was written primarily for the purpose of coming to consensus with each other on what our current understandings and agreements are of this particular version of "The Work" going into Summer 2008.

If we haven't played together for a while, this is a way for you to at least get a glimpse into what the four of us have been brewing.

Many of the principles detailed also inform the Vegas Vortex Mayfire and Hawaii Fire Tribe Gatherings, and will be foundational to two new laboratories we are beginning to work in this year as we seed the Alchemical Fire Circle into the Free Spirit Gathering in Maryland ( http://freespiritgathering.org/fsg/index.html ), and the Wisteria Corn Stalk Festival in Ohio ( http://www.wisteria.org/cornstalk.htm ). Of course, we'd love to see you at Mayfire ( http://www.vegasvortex.com ), Fire Tribe Hawaii ( http://www.firetribehawaii.org/ ), or Fires Rising ( http://4qf.org/_FiresRising/index.htm ) as well!
Please visit http://vegasvortex.com/pages/evolutionfirecircle for a .pdf of the article.

Thank you for your interest :)

The four of us remain deeply curious about what learnings are happening among the other diverging and converging events in the Family of Fire, and we hope to read similar reports in the future.

May we all grow our Oneness through Diversity!

Spinner, Jeff, Michael & Joshua

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Making [up] HISTORY - so-called "Lost Book of Nostradamus"

ionamiller — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:30:22 GMT

Was anyone else totally disappointed in the over-hyped "Lost Book of Nostadamus"?

Written when Tarot iconography and Qabalism took root in Europe, it seems fully of typical, if poorly rendered symbolism.
But the "experts" insist that the typical Tower card IS 911 -
as if the seer couldn't have depicted 2 towers if the vision were true.

Typical alchemical symbolism is totally overlooked - alchemy got no nod.

The last 7 plates they did backflips over to describe an apocalypse were a planetary series.

They read the top half of pictures and ignored the rest of the iconography.
They arbitrarily attached quatrains to the pics.
They said Nostradamus KNEW that IMAGES were the medium of the century...
and on and on...
they claim he couldn't possibly have painted them himself, when a child could have done so, even copying from any emblem book.

And how many times were works attributed to otherwise famous authors?
First they say his son did the art, then claim it is at least a copy, once removed --
and if so, who KNOWS what the original looked like?
AND, it was unbound MS, so anything could have been slipped in...
and the final text was, much later.

But fake HISTORY Ch. can sell a zillion copies of its spurious report which is an AIRBAG of disinfo...
and make so-called history.

Anyone want to give their rendition of these plates ... vs. the wild speculations.

Iona

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Iona's new alchemy Super Portal link

ionamiller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:45:37 GMT

Alchemy SuperPortal 2008 at

http://spiritualalchemy.iwarp.com

Spiritual Alchemy, Alchemy 101, Universal Solvent,

Nigredo & Depression, Saint Germain, Modern Alchemist,

Psychogenesis Artshow, Conscious Alchemy

enjoy,
Iona

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Serpent Grail = Stone?

ionamiller — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:18:24 GMT

Anyone care to comment on the Serpent Grail version of the Philosopher's Stone?
The poison is the cure.

io

Using a "sacred" chalice initiates drank a mixture of venom and blood from the same snake in ceremonial worship of the serpent deity.
By taking this elixir the cult’s initiates were cured of disease and, it is claimed, their lives were prolonged. Indeed, Gardiner believes that this is the root source of the Elixir of Life legend.

The Serpent Grail also offers a unifying theory regarding snake imagery and symbolism that is present throughout the religions of the world. It demonstrates an alternative reading of myths and fables such as St Patrick driving the serpents from Ireland and show how the shadow of the serpent cult can still be seen in both Christian architecture and ceremonies. As Philip Gardiner himself said after a recent research trip to Rome: "Rome and especially the Vatican is littered with serpent imagery. Inside the Vatican statues and sculptures link the serpent to both the grail and the Ark of the Covenant. Even the name Vatican bears the etymological imprint of the serpent: Vati = place; can = serpent." Finally The Serpent Grail looks at modern scientific research to provide the proof for the historical theories. Today scientists from all over the world are discovering healing and life-extending properties in the complex proteins that make up snake venom – from treatment for tumours and cancers to relief from high blood pressure. "In the United Kingdom, the Cancer Research Campaign has welcomed research into Contortrostatin (CN), a protein found in the venom of the Copperhead Viper, which has proved effective in combating metastasis (the spread of a malignant tumour from its original site). In experiments on mice, CN reduced the spread of tumours by 90 per cent."

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The Alchemy of Psychedelics; new angles for a paper

Neptune Lord of the Sea — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:34:19 GMT

Hello all,

I'm writing a paper for about alchemy and would like to focus it on the connections between it and psychedelics. However there's already a lot of work done in this area so I'm trying to find an original angle on it.

I'm using a lot of Jung, drawing on Mckenna and some other sources but haven't found anything the jumps out at me so I thought I would open it up for ideas and see what I can hash out here.

Any thoughts?

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ormus gold

cassidy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:54:03 GMT

Any one have experience with the white powdered gold either producing or ingesting?

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Philosophers of Nature

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:13:22 GMT

Has anyone here had recent contact with this group? Their website and email are defunct. I'd like to know if their snail-mail address is still viable. Thanks.

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Alchemical Fire = biophotonic Light

ionamiller — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:30:21 GMT

Alchemical fire shares much with the Tibetan Buddhist notions of Primordial Field and Clear Light; and in physics terms with our biophotonic nature. http://photonichuman.50megs.com

The Secret Fire Part III

How do we find this fire or this image that dwell within us?

Our Fire needs to be worked on and tended to; it must be cared
for and fanned into flames. It needs to be awakened through psychic
exercise and mystical zeal. Vigil must be kept through aspiration,
prayer, invocation, visualization, concentration, imagination, tantric
breathing, longing and love for that which is the Divine in oneself.

What happens to us when we awake this fire in us?

From a Mithrian Ritual

" Oh Primal Origin of my originator; Thou Primal Substance of my
substance; First Breath of breath that is in me; First Fire, God-given
for the Blending of the blendings in me, of fire in me... . Translate me
now... by virtue of the Deathless Spirit . . . in order that I may become
reborn in Mind. . . . Initiate, that the Holy Breath may breathe in me;
in order that I may admire the Holy Fire."

Translate me now, means convert me, transform me, transmute me,
which is the power of the alchemists Stone.

How does our fire transform or transmute us?

Thomas Aquinas says, " The Stone is One, the medicine is one,
to which we add nothing, only in preparation removing superfluities. "
Such is the magic operation of our fire. It is a purifying and life giving
substance which needs our assistance. When we let it express itself it
will do all the work in her nature.

How would we then remove the darkness from this lantern ?

We would have to raise the intensity of our fire by kindling it, fanning
it and tending to it. Our Fire would then do all the work that is in its
nature for us. Our Fire would burn away the dross, the impurities, the
sooth and the darkness.

The Turba Philosophorum, it says of the Stone, " Cook it, therefore till
it be deprived of blackness, and whiteness appear."

Solomon Trismosin in Splendor Solis says " Heat turns every black
thing white." All we need to do is purify our consciousness with the
"Secret Fire".

So how do we find this Secret Fire?

Simon Magus, the great magician says, " The hidden aspect of the
fire are concealed in the manifest, and the manifest is produced in
the hidden". The closest thing to us that is manifest is our body and
Our Fire is concealed within it.

Georgius Venetus says, " Whosoever liveth, doth subsist by virtue
of its inward heat."

Basil Valentine says, " Natural heat preserves the life of man.
If his body loses its natural heat his life has come to an end".

Paracelsus says that life is a process of combustion. He said,
"if I said I cannot burn, it is as much as if I said, I cannot live."

In "Alchemy Unveiled" By Johannes Helmond,
This inner fire is called the Fire of Nature__

" The Fire of Nature is the Central-Fire of the Philosophers, which is
hidden in the Earth, and is also called the Central-Sun. "

" It is a fire, solar by nature, yet a little coarser than that (the fire) of the
heavenly Sun. This is why it is also called the Son of the Sun. He is the
archeus of nature who moves and digests the matter, when he is given
his Freedom; he does all the work in her (nature). In the interim, the
Central-Fire lies hidden under a hard shell, still weak and unable. It is
only a Fire in potentia, that will show its power as soon as it is awakened
through the external Fire. The Alchemists call it IGNIS, or at times, call it
their red Lion or Gabritius. It is the fire of the gold, the true goldsulphur,
the soul of the elements, the light of nature. Without its influence, the
intelligence would be weak, the power of the imagination would be
dead, the spirit would be unfruitful and the body would be lifeless."

He continues to say,
" The Son of the Sun deserves to be drawn out of the darkness;
to purify him and to bring him to a more mature position."

In alchemy we come to many references to darkness as the Saturnian
aspect of our being, this is nothing else than our unconscious aspect of
our being as is related to the soul being subdued by matter as the
hardness of our minerality, meaning our terrestrial aspect, the body.
The inner light is being imprisoned in the very depths of our being very
much as being locked up in the darkness of a dungeon. To be liberated
from this darkness are man's deepest desires.

This is a very traditional concept as far as the Hermetic Philosophy is
concerned and goes back to ancient of times. But let us look at the words
of a modern psychologist.

Carl Jung says,
"I understood that within the soul from its primordial beginnings there
has been a desire for light and an irrepressible urge to rise out of the
primal darkness. The longing for light is the longing for consciousness. "

Rosicrucian say that, "Light is an attribute of Being, for Being is always
luminous in the radiation of its energy caused by its ceaseless effort to be."

We have often heard it said that God is light. This is more than just a
metaphor. It is very striking when we consider that in mysticism it is said
that God is absolute, and in science and physics it is said that light absolute.
In mysticism it is said that God lies beyond the manifested world of matter,
shape or form, beyond space and time, In science and physics, so does light.
Our capacity for consciousness, then, truly must be an experience of that
which is the divine ?

TO BE CONTINUED

Steve Kalec

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The biophotons in the alchemical process

Joan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:22:02 GMT

The functions of the biophotons in he alchemical Work is explained here:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/forbidden_letters_24.htm

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Alchemy explained

Joan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:25:56 GMT

Alchemy seems explained in the Forbidden Letters to Philip Gardiner:

www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/forbidden_letters.htm

Here is a list of quotes that'll make it easy for you to understand the whole process (taken from a Forum):

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In his 1945 Festschrift for Gustav Senn, Carl Jung said that the Stone of Alchemy was ‘a great embarrassment to the alchemist, for since it had never been produced, no one could say what it really was.’ It was said it was ‘born from a living thing’ and ‘extracted from man,’ and ‘its connection with immortality was attested from very early times,’ but, again, ‘no one could say what it really was.’

For Jung the most probable hypothesis was, that that stone represented ‘a psychic experience.’ This suggests that he indeed missed ‘the deeper level of alchemy and thereby of resurrection.’
[de Renzi, Fenelon, de la Censerie]
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“I too have approached several alchemists about the Letters, and they all have been in favour of them; that what is being divulged in them is true. One said that the secrets of Alchemy are no longer secret. Simple as that.” [Gary Osborn on July 12 2007]
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Because through the Forbidden Letters we know now that the Stone of Transmutation is indeed a real stone. That it…

‘…grows from flesh and blood…’[Jung]

…that it…

‘…is produced about where the liver is…’[The Paris 4]

…and that it is…

‘…even pointy and about the size of a child’s fist.’[The Paris 4]

That it…

‘…ignites the Kundalini-fire…’[The Paris 4]

… and that the Phoenix is a metaphor for the alchemist in that fire. [see footnote 2]
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‘Following this thread, we found evidence that Alchemy is a demonstration of the physics at work in the galactic core [which resides in our microcosm, according to the Paris 4/Jonathan Rice].The true inner core of Alchemy appears in this light as the ability to apply the physics of creation to the task of personal immortality.’ [Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges]
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And this is very important too: if you produce that stone and were consumed and reproduced through that fire, you will achieve individual and physical immortality, and nothing less. Something for the End of Time therefore. Who ever died was not an alchemist and did not produce the stone.

By the way, your man is a gay man. Born on the 17th of January. In possession of that very special balance in microcosmic male and female forces. A balance never possessed by heterosexual men. And your stone is Christ (He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is near the fire is near the Kingdom). Also: 1 Peter 2:4.
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‘In view of the recognized frequency of this phenomenon [of homosexuality], its interpretation as a pathological perversion is very dubious. The psychological findings show that it is rather a matter of incomplete detachment from the hermaphroditic archetype, coupled with a distinct resistance to identify with the role of a one-sided sexual being. Such a disposition should not be adjudged negative in all circumstances, in so far as it preserves the archetype of the Original Man, which a one-sided sexual being has, up to a point, lost.’ [Carl Jung “Concerning the Archetypes and the Anima Concept,” CW 9i, par. 146./italics by me] [see footnote 1]
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It has been proposed by the Paris 4, although with reservations [see footnote 1], that only certain homosexuals [see footnote 2] possess the necessary balance of the microcosmic male and female [see footnote 3] to safely conduct the forces of resurrection[see footnote 4]. Resurrection being phase one of the Great Work of Alchemy: the furnace of Kundalini. A work serving deification of a human being from within, and possibly, through such a human being then, of all of creation in the end too, if creation is in reality microcosmic, and the world hence…

‘… my projection.’ [Schopenhauer]

This is intriguing, homosexuality being a requirement for apotheosis, since so little seems known about the cause of homosexuality. Because in spite of the fact that…

‘… the accumulation of evidence from independent laboratories across the world has shown that the biological differences between gay and straight people cannot be ignored…’ [Wilson and Rahman in Born Gay/BG hereafter]

… and we also know that…

‘…sexual orientation is largely determined by the time of birth, partly by genetics, but more specifically by hormonal activity in the womb arising from various sources…’[BG]

…it remains a mystery…

‘…how homosexuality could survive in the face of evolutionary forces*, especially given its genetic component.’ [BG]

[*Alchemy is evolution proper. [The CE2] [see footnote 5]

In their brain…

‘…gay men are found to be more like women, and lesbians show similarities to men.’ [BG] The brain of gay men and lesbian women…

‘…seems to be cross-sex shifted in certain respects, more than those of heterosexuals.’ [BG]
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Summarizing the resurrection.

1978 : Pope John Paul (de labore solis = of the work of the sun) comes to power. During his reign 90% of the work of the sun in our gay man is taking place.

March 1986 : testicle-pain starts (the work of the sun starts)

July 1986 : testicle-pain is at his height and stays at his height till a about a week after the resurrection (September 4 1986)

End of august till September 4 1986 : our gay man becomes a child. That is, psychologically during certain minutes. During those minutes, and to his own surprise, he even produces a child’s voice. (pupulus nudus means the naked young boy and this reminds us of the words of Jesus too: you must become like a little child again if you want to enter the Kingdom of God.)

September 4 1986 (little after midnight ’silentio noctis’ ( in the silence of the night): resurrection.

a) Our man is on the floor on his back. He had his eyes closed during the whole resurrection. A ‘thread’ (very thin) is closing around his neck. The head is decapitated by that ‘thread’.

b) The stone is produced about where the liver is. The stone ignites the Kundalini fire (the fire can actually be heard) and starts to move about, increasingly violently. Fire getting stronger. Arms and legs break into pieces.

c) The snake is driven out. Our friend doesn’t know where it went. Up the spine, but after that: no clue. (Into the earth?)

d) The wheel starts to spin and is raised to the forehead.

e) One starts to descend into the earth. After 2 minutes our man ‘fell asleep’ or passed out in another hypnagogic way. Hypnagogic, because he couldn’t remember that moment the morning after. If you lose consciousness you remember. So he ‘fell asleep’.

f) 10.30 in the morning. He woke up. Coccyx and back of the head firmly attached to the floor. As said before, it took him about 30 minutes to free himself.

g) September 5 1986 : the top-chakra opens.[The Paris 4]
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… like the authors of those letters do. What’s more, all the mysteries of alchemy seem solved. From the ludus puerorum to the decapitation, and from the role of the stone to the alchemist having to visit the center of the earth. Everything fits, and fits neatly. Even the Phoenix is explained, being a metaphor for the human body consumed and recomposed in kundalini-fire.’
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For you will remember too that in certain grail-lore heads are taken of and replaced by other heads. Now, we are not talking about the head of flesh to be taken of. That would be lethal ofcourse. It is the microcosmic, subtle head, interwoven in the head of flesh that is taken of and replaced after the fire by a new subtle head (the Christ).

We are closing for today. If you search in alchemy, at one point you will find the expression V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (= visit the centre of the earth and by rectification you will find the stone). The alchemist- writers are quite mistaking here. We recommend our 16 words from our first mail: first the stone is produced, then the journey to the inner earth starts. The stone is found in the body, not in the earth. Mind you, everything is, in the end, found in the body. If an alchemist travels through the earth, he’s doing that in the microcosmos of the body. Remember what we said: the real sun and moon (and earth) are in you. Not outside. And this explains why our friend could still hear common street noise outside his apartment when he traveled to the centre of the earth over 19 years ago with tremendous speed.

It will be more than clear to you now that nothing ‘Christian’ has happened in the year 33. Let alone something crucial. The acts of Jesus are as fictional as the acts of Parzival.[The Paris 4]
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“Anyone who thinks that the Paris 4 Letters are a fraud or a forgery is simply not paying attention.”
[Jay Weidner]
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14.

“Nonetheless, the real history of the world seems, in verba Jungi, to be ‘the progressive incarnation of the deity’. When Jung spoke of this incarnation though, he was speaking of a gradual one, and of the masses, where he should have spoken of the existence of a sudden one in the individual, the alchemist.” [JRA]

15.

“If the testimony of the Paris 4 is true, and I have no reason to assume it isn’t, are we then living in the ‘Latter Days’? Petrus Bonus, who still thinks one is to be resurrected from a grave by the way, Petrus Bonus tells us that the old philosophers discerned the Last Judgement in the germination and birth of the Stone of Alchemy, the agent to the Kingdom of God.” [JRA]

16.

“This is what the Kingdom of God is like: a man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” [Gospel according to Mark]

17.

“[That Kingdom] grows quite the way Jesus tells us it grows; like a plant, in the body, with the full grown chakra’s as the flowers in the end.” [The Paris 4]

18.

“The Paris 4 confirm that that seed sprouts and grows by itself. They tell us their gay man had no active part in his Work of the Sun. It was all done by the inner alchemist.” [JRA]

19.

“All by itself the soil produces grain. First the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.” [Mark]

20.

“But where does all this leave us, ‘ordinary’ people, not having been decapitated by Kali Ma? Are we the tares from Matthew 13 perhaps?” [JRA]

21.

“The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

The servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field [on September 4th 1986/Fox]? From whence then hath thy field tares? He said unto them, an enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” [Matthew]

22.

“Because every tree [i.e. spine and brain/Fox] that does not bear good fruit [i.e. chakra’s/Fox] will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” [Matthew]

23.

“Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately, to his own disciples, he explained all the things.” [Matthew]

24.

“It is clear that the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven are about alchemy. - But ‘why secrets?’(Nietzsche)” [Wood]

25.

“For whosoever hath [i.e. lightbody] , to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables.” [Matthew]

26.

“Is Spitzer right then when he claims that ‘a metaphysical theory is bogus, if that theory tells us that we are all, potentially or not, children or priests of God, and equal before Him?’ Or are we to trust the CE2 who wouldn’t be surprised ‘if the gold of immortality is fetched by some for the benefit of many?’”
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In other words, Gardiner and Osborn had failed to see that the Elixir of Life is produced in the lightbody of the victorious alchemist (the Shining One), i.e. man deified. That it is a purely microcosmic elixir therefore, and not a macrocosmic one, meaning one mixed in a skull for instance and presented to some patient. In yet other words: the Elixir of Life is not swallowed, it is exclusively produced and consumed in the body of a triumphant alchemist.[de la Censerie on the Forbidden Letters]
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[29]

‘In the human body is concealed a certain metaphysical substance which needs no medicament, being itself an incorrupt medicament.’ [Gerard Dorn]

[30]

‘The Naassenes considered Naas, the serpent, to be their central deity. (…) Eden, they said, is in the brain.’ [Carl Jung]

[31]

‘The Sethians, Hippolytus says, compared the Father with the cerebrum and the Son with the cerebellum and spinal cord.’ [Carl Jung]
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“You will be given ‘the right to eat from the tree of life [spine and brain/Bernier] that is in the garden of God,’[Revelation 2] and ‘of the hidden manna.’[Ibid] A purely microcosmic manna, dispensed by the human brain. After all, ‘Eden is in the brain,’ (Carl Jung quoting the Naassenes) and ‘the Father compared with the cerebrum.’ (Carl Jung quoting the Sethians)”

20.

“The nuptial union in the thalamus [Greek for inner chamber or bridal chamber/Bernier] signifies the hieros gamos (the alchemical wedding of the microcosmic male and female) and this in turn is the first step towards incarnation, towards the birth of the saviour who, since antiquity, was thought of as the filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon), the filius sapientiae (the son of Wisdom), and the equivalent of Christ.” [Carl Jung]

21.

“The word thalamus (bridal chamber) is Greek. We are told that the thalamus received its name in the second century from Claudius Galen, an Ionian Greek anatomist and Christian who had studied at the Great School in Alexandria, Egypt and was a doctor at the gymnasium attached to the local sanctuary at Asklepios.” [Gary Osborn]
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One of the respondents nevertheless went so far as to say that…

‘… the Forbidden Letters by the Paris 4 are the conclusion to the mysteries of alchemy.’
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‘You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.’
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‘In short, my friend, build a temple [meaning a Lightbody/Hume] from a single stone.’ [The alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis]
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http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/

P.S.

The two best articles IMO are the ones by de la Censerie and RFC.

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Two new articles have been published:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/Phil…etters_23.htm
http://www.world-mysteries.com/Phil…etters_24.htm
Plus the Second Newsletter by the Paris 4:
(left column of : http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/ )

And here are some extra quotes taken from the ‘de la Censerie’-article:

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‘Within the visible body there resides a spiritual body which Boehme compares to an ‘oil’ which must be set on fire.’[Aniane]

‘And at night, Isis (’who belonged to the cosmology of Heliopolis’ [Baring and Cashford]) placed the child in a fire to burn away all that was mortal in him.’[Baring and Cashford]

‘Texts about ‘burning Horus’ and his salvation are extant in various Egyptian and Greek documents.’[Burkert]

‘Throughout the Middle Ages, pilgrims visited Heliopolis to view the tree in whose shade, according to the Christian texts, the Holy Family rested on their flight from King Herod. [Quirke]

‘You are born once with a soul and a body, and a third agent, spirit, can come in to save that body and soul by making it immortal in the Work of the Sun.’[Hanno Temming in his article on the Forbidden Letters at World Mysteries]

‘Through baptism by fire, man, who was before dead, is made a living soul.’[Aurora Consurgens]

‘Let the dead bury the dead.’[Jesus in Matthew]

‘I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.’[John the Baptist in Matthew]

‘Nothing depends on baptism with water. Baptism with water only symbolizes the fact that we were born through water, meaning biologically born. We need two births to be saved. The one through water which gives us our spine and brain, the Tree of Life, that infrastructure for the Work of the Sun, and a second one through fire, when God plants our Tree of Life in that fire ‘to stand everlasting.’ So it’s silly to say that you need to be baptized. You need to be biologically born through water, and to be born again though fire. That fire being the alchemical one called Kundalini, that water being the water of the womb. People who practise baptism and think anything depends on that confuse the symbol with the real thing.’[Fenelon]

‘Whoever is near me, is near the fire, whoever is far from me, is far from the Kingdom.’[Jesus in Thomas]

‘Kundalini either saves or destroys.’[de Beaumont]

‘You Christ, who are all fire, have mercy on me.’[Ephraem the Syrian]

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Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Imortality

rawkcuf — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:54:45 GMT

Donald E. Teeter's book, "Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality" is now available in E-book format for free download at the Ambrosia Society's website. Please feel free to download it, make copies for your friends, and pass the word along. If you really dig the book and would like to help support The Ambrosia Society you can make a donation or just drop us a line and say thanks.

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"The Ambrosia Society founding members have been called to teach the secrets of the Sacrament to the world and to gather together a brotherhood of those who wish to serve the Sacrament. Eventually we hope to have Sacred groves to produce our own A m and our own Vineyards for The Sacred Wine, bakeries to grow and process the Living Bread, and Ambrosia Houses serving the Sacrament in every land. " - Donald E. Teeter

-RedBeard

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Achemy & Alchemists on CCG

ionamiller — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:24:13 GMT

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.

As always to access the program:

--Go to my homepage http://www.thegodabovegod.com/
--Scroll down until you see the Stickam screen (the eye with the bloody tear)
--Click the music icon and voila…'Coffee, Cigarettes & Gnosis 78— Alchemy & the Alchemists' will appear in its entirety!

There are over seventy shows for download at our homepage on all things Gnostic and its brethren in the Esoterica. We have some of the leading scholars and Gnostic sages of our days including Stephan Hoeller, Timothy Freke, John Turner, Marvin Meyer, Margaret Starbird, Bart Ehrman, Bierger Pearson, Acharya S., and Robert Price, just to name a few.

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.

Abraxas

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FRATER ALBERTUS LEGACY PUBLICATIONS

ionamiller — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:45:08 GMT

For those interested you may now purchase individual copies of Essentia Magazine, or in sets of a specific year. Also available are hardcover copies of Amo. For more information and prices please go to http://www.spagyria .com/specials/ FraterAlbertusLe gacyPublications .asp

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Liquor Hepatis

ionamiller — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:51:22 GMT

Liquor Hepatis

Liquor Hepatis was the name given to a sulfurous liquid used by the
alchemists. Considered the arcanum of the soul, Liquor Hepatis was
prepared by distilling a solution of sulfur, lime, and sal ammoniac.
The early alchemists secured lime (calcium oxide) by heating
limestone and made sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) by gently
heating camel dung in sealed containers. The distillation for Liquor
Hepatis produced a combination of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia
gases. Since no solids precipitated, alchemists considered this an
ascending reaction only. That was a significant fact to the
Egyptians, who associated the Liquor with the soul. They believed
the soul resided in the liver, and the reddish-brown color of Liquor
Hepatis convinced them they had isolated the soul's essence. The
name comes from "hepar," the Greek word for liver. The Liquor exuded
an unnatural, pungent odor that the alchemists found quite
mysterious. They assumed it was due to an ethereal presence
concealed in the sulfur and activated by the fertile principle in
ammonia. To the Egyptians, the odor symbolized a soul or a
spiritized presence hidden within the liquid. They solidified that
presence by adding wax and fat to Liquor Hepatis and turning it into
a thick paste. The emulsion became known as the Balsam of the
Alchemists or Balsam of the Soul. The possibility of coagulating an
invisible potential into a second body, like a balsam, became a
basic tenet of alchemy.

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alchemical gold and such

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:24:52 GMT

lifes lessons and really understanding them
extacy(the drug)
a hot shower
good sex
laughter
being loved and feeling it

list your own

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The Basilisk

ionamiller — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:16:50 GMT

Forgive the x-post; just looking for some topics.
io

The Symbolic Basilisk
Posted by: "elksnisandrew" elksnisandrew@yahoo.com.au elksnisandrew
Tue Nov 6, 2007 6:10 am (PST)

The Symbolic Basilisk

Much has been lost in translation from the Golden Age when simplicity
was more easily grasped. The Basilisk mythology contains some of the
most extremes in crucial loss of meaning, some of which will be
recovered here.

To illustrate the extent of misunderstanding it is easier to refer at
first to a more obvious area of animal sacrifices for the purpose of
offerings and purification both in the Hindu Vedas and Old Testament did
not originally refer to the killing of physical animals, but to the
clearing of foreign parasitic elementals and entities from the human
energy bodies, etheric and astral fragments of dead relatives. This is
what was meant by purification of the soul and the sacrifice which had
to be offered in order to achieve it. As these parasites' were
referred to as parts of the human animal soul, hence animal entities
which were meant to be offered to the `fire' referred to as the
Great White Light for dissolution rather than transferring to another
human host . When original knowledge started to become lost that texts
were interpreted literally rather than symbolically and animals were
slaughtered as part of offering and purification rituals. So the
essential knowledge of the Cockatrice/Basilisk was lost.

The basilisk had become a symbol of sin and hell, had been drafted into
heraldry, and had been used as a decorative feature on castles and
churches, like a gargoyle. Basilisks were finally pictured with bat
wings, and arrow-point on the ends of their tails, and either horns or
antlers.

This fall from a higher mode of knowledge is the central theme of
Basilisk Mythology. It is what happened to the Divine Feminine as it
fell into its negative interpretation. When the Goddess becomes a
Divine Beast.

For it is of such a character that if it is seen by a man before it can
see him itself, the cockatrice must die, and vice versâ. In the event
of the cockatrice getting the all-important first look, it will dart
venom from its eyes, deadly enough to kill any living creature.

The more dominant personal modality of awareness kills its less dominant
opponent. At a time of rampant religious inquisitions by fanatics who
thought they had a god given right to kill others over differing
opinions, the basilisk mythology is a warning to approach the
unconscious with the cunning wisdom of the Higher Self. As the same
history is being repeated in our present age the Basilisk serves again
as a relevant warning.

The price for not taking it as a warning is the potential loss of
immortality and succumbing to the second death, the fragmentation of the
astral soul.

This little lizard is held to be the king of serpents, hence its name.
The wart or hood on its head was thought to resemble a crown.

The kingly aspect and crown refers to the high potential for personal
transformation or death.

The basilisk cockatrice is symbolic of the personal unconscious in
which reside the feminine mysteries of eternity and great power, and
potential to produce the elixir potion of immortality by marriage with
its male counterpart, the normal male consciousness co-operating with
its own Higher Self. It is also comparable to being the earliest
representation of Mephistopheles and the Jungian Shadow.

A neglected unconscious becomes a tyrant master and the unconscious
fantasies dominating the everyday consciousness reveals the danger of it
externalising by becoming the evil eye's capacity to kill and
destroy balanced relationships. At a time of rampant religious
inquisitions by fanatics who thought they had a god given right to kill
the basilisk is a warning to approach the unconscious with the weasel
cunning wisdom of the Higher Self.

In alchemical symbology it is the black primal first matter which is
difficult to find from which the philosophers stone is made, or in many
other black stone mythologies such as the Cthulhu myth has its door way
as the black alter stone, and how essential to enlightenment are the
dark fiery wrathful deities of the Buddhists.

As a great power it is feared by ,most individuals who fail to discover
a positive way to engage in a productive relationship with it. They lack
the wisdom and cunning and the necessary skills of the weasel to ever
gain any advantage from the basilisk. The weasels cunning is the Higher
Self which assists the normal everyday male consciousness to get the
vital life force to achieve a transformed astral soul which becomes the
immortal body of the Higher Self.

The basilisk could only be killed by a weasel (which knew the secret
that Rue was poisonous to the Basilisk) who wet his teeth in the rue
plant's juice.

The weasels knowledge of the herb rue being a poison to the basilisk
should suggest to us that herbalism and alchemy play an important
assisting role in dealing successfully with the basilisk. The vital life
force is enhanced by alchemy improving the capacity for thje physical
human brain accessing the higher consciousness which is the Holy Grail
Golgotha in which the opposites of duality have to be brought together
to transform the astral soul from one which fragments at death to one
which becomes an immortal body for the Higher Self. We know from living
life in nature that the feminine aspect is responsible for creating all
new life, yet we have written Her out of common awareness and historical
existence. Now we have to face Her as the basilisk of the unconscious
mind, night terrors, the night Mare.

Basilisks are usually magically rather than normally bred. It is a
creature that is born from a spherical, yolkless egg, laid during the
days of Sirius (the Dog Star) by a seven-year-old rooster and hatched by
a toad.

The dragon was, of course, usually associated with the magical element
of Fire. In an experimental context the dragon could also represent the
application of heat or fire to produce magical personal transformation
as well as practical in cooking your dinner. Astrology also uses
"Modalities" : Fixed, Cardinal and Mutable. A winged dragon was sometimes
used to represent Mutability (change) , a wingless dragon Fixity
(stability). The serpent Ouroboros eating its own tail is frequently
found in alchemy. It represents the unity of all things and the circular
nature of the universe where things surprise you and return to bite you
on the bum.. Ouroboros also represents the universal unity of duality
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form a coherent whole. The basilisk mythology is the continuation of the
secret magical universal green language which is only magical because
it hides invisible symbolic meanings behind literal external facades.
Universal as a sphere, defining magical knowledge as a dog protecting
boundaries. Brought into existence from the sevenfold scale of
consciousness which spans from the frogs earth to the roosters heavens
singular clear purity. In the ancient past the basilisk symbolised
everything which moved people into great fear superstition and dread
before a visible threat became real, its capacity to bestow life or
death. It still does the same today as can be seen by the literal
interpretation given earlier inspires fear, but the symbolic knowledge
inspires hope and peace. The basilisk mythology is essential survival
information for the soul packaged under an innocent label as a
child's fable, as an external image which would escape violent
church authorities who refused to allow any modality of the souls
progress which made them irrelevant and redundant.

Sphinx head of woman, body of lion would kill you if you didn't know
the answer to her riddle.

The sphinx is a comparable mythology to the basilisk suggesting the
requirement of cunning wit and perception in comprehending the personal
unconscious to avoid death of the soul. The deadly breath of the
basilisk is the powerful challenging effect of the basilisks fire
element that turns away the ordinary person from even just entertaining
a small preview notion of its magical capacity for transformation power
and mystery. Its breath is similar to the breath of fire breathing
dragons suggesting the fiery nature inherit in the basilisk. Before it
acquires its capacity to kill with a glance, the fiery nature is an
aspect of the Quintessance nature of ISIS the divine feminine and the
Shekhinah of the Hebrew Kabbala.

The killing capacity of the basilisk by its glance.

When you are provided the life opportunity to see it into its prime
innocence and creative potential you refuse it and also to see your own
unconscious then by your denial of eternal life itself it kills you
with the rage of a woman spurned. Later in life when mid life crisis is
upon you the negative power of the basilisk has increased due to your
neglect, the only thing that can save you is introducing the basilisk to
your Higher Self the positive self mirrors that which neutralises the
negative self.

The tragedy of the human condition is that all it requires is one
single honest active human partnership to transform from the toxic
basilisk to the transcendence of uniting the human astral soul with the
higher Self. It is ignored by the male orientated patriarchal everyday
normal awareness, so as the unconscious it deteriorates and rots into a
deadly menace and killer of the personal soul by creating the very
opposite of what it was originally intended. But before it kills the
personal soul it externalises its toxicity creating the present
crisis of the humanity.

Pliny the Elder described it simply as a snake with a golden crown.
Basilisk are attested by a host of learned persons, such as Plyny,
Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna, Scaliger, and others.

The wise in all generations have known the truth always. When an
individual deciphers the grand cosmic riddle and gets the cosmic joke
humour is accompanied by compassion. Apart from mythology and the worlds
sacred texts these wonderful powers of the basilisk are attested by a
host of learned persons, such as Plyny, Galen, Dioscorides, Avicenna,
Scaliger, and others. Occasionally one would question some part of the
tale.

Jonston, a learned physician, sagely remarks, "I would scarcely believe
that it kills with its look, for who could have seen it and lived to
tell the story?

The wise who went deliberately in search of the basilisk took with them
a mirror, the true Higher Self which reflected back the only reality
which would satisfy and disarm deadly evil capacity of the basilisk by
neutralising it by its opposite, and by a kind of alchemy and poetical
justice voided the basilisk with her own weapon. In contemporary
psychology self observation and mirroring are methods used to reframe
personal inner toxic conditions, methods to slay the basilisk. It is
the dragon which hordes immortal jewels and riches, which patriarchal
cultures fear and misinterpret as the enemy of mankind for thousands of
years. This position has constantly been poisoning mankind's own
unconscious.

A basilisk can live for at least 900 years given an adequate food
supply, and as it can eat most vertebrates (including humans), this is
not difficult to achieve.

The vampiric archetype Gods are basilisks, monsters of our own creation.
The unconscious has to be loved and married by its opposite the rational
everyday male awareness. If it is not seen and engaged by the everyday
awareness then the unconscious putrefies and deteriorates back into its
more dangerous primaleval roots where it expresses itself as the
negative version of the Divine Feminine. Now justifiably it is to be
feared as a self for filling prophecy which by neglect it falls first
into a lower octave of degenerated life force symbolised as the wurm
worm, where its attracts other perverse energies which become parasites
which feed off the vital life force of the human body. The neglected
unconscious becomes a vampire basilisk. Either now voluntarily perform
the alchemy and expose yourself to the Divine Fire of the Goddess or
later involuntarily She as the basilisk will expose you to it.

Mark 9.49 For Everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice
shall be salted with salt.

Mark 9.44 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

Mark 9.46 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

Mark 9.48 Where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

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Mark 9.50 Have salt in your selves and peace with one another.

[Basyllikus the Dream Thief]
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Even the look of its eyes could kill.

Shelley, in his "Ode to Naples," full of the enthusiasm excited by the
intelligence of the proclamation of a Constitutional Government at
Naples, in 1820, thus uses an allusion to the basilisk:

"What though Cimmerian anarchs dare blaspheme

Freedom and thee? a new Actaeon's error

Shall theirs have been,- devoured by their own hands!

Be thou like the imperial basilisk,

Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds!

Gaze on oppression, till at that dread risk,

Aghast she pass from the earth's disk.

Fear not, but gaze,- for freemen mightier grow,

And slaves more feeble, gazing on their foe."

The basilisks were called kings of serpents because all other serpents
and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be
burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the distant hiss of
their king, although they might be in full feed upon the feast.

Illustration by American artist Mahlon Blaine of a basilisk, from
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers (The John Day Company, New York, 1929).
"...When the pale night has fallen, then the basilisk comes slinking by.
It is she who in a most curious fashion was birthed by the cold Moon,
eternal spirit of infertility, and mothered by the arid sand herself, no
less fertile than the Moon. She is the secret of the desert. Some say
she is an animal, but that is not true. She is a thought and she grew up
suddenly where there was neither earth nor seed. She is a thought sprung
out of envious eternal infertility, and she must therefore take on a
chaotic form, unknown to orderly life. And that is why no one can
describe this creature, for she is as indescribable as nothingness

But what was to attack this terrible and unapproachable monster? There
is an old saying that "everything has its enemy"- and the cockatrice
quailed before the weasel. The basilisk might look daggers, the weasel
cared not, but advanced boldly to the conflict. When bitten, the weasel
retired for a moment to eat some rue, which was the only plant the
basilisks could not wither, returned with renewed strength and soundness
to the charge, and never left the enemy till he was stretched dead on
the plain.

Acid and alkaline neutralise each other. Everything is resolvable, now
is not too late. The wise cannot be as easily killed and renew their
strength by the art of alchemy which cannot ever be eliminated.

.

[Basilisk]
<http://www.pantheon .org/areas/ gallery/folklore /folklore/ basilisk. html>

"2012 The Season of the Basilisk".

The chikens come home to roost. The Basilisk spirit that has apparently
been operating since the beginning of time but which has been completely
unknown in the history of man. This spirit is given permission by God
every year to have a heightened power and authority from the 17th of
Tammuz to the 9th of Av in the Jewish calendar (remember God operates
on the Jewish calendar according to the prophets)."Apparent ly during
certain cyclical seasons, a tremendous increase in power is given to
this spirit to cause what is hidden to be revealed.
Dragons in Alchemy
Alchemy is a mixture of art, science and philosophy. Although it is
often associated with magic, it was a serious attempt to understand the
universe. As such it was an early forerunner of modern sciences such as
chemistry.

Lacking our modern vocabulary
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f82-a1da-48bb- b6f8-b5f2c65b1be 9> of science, the alchemists had to
invent their own which naturally reflected the beliefs of the time. It
was deeply symbolic and revolved around concepts such as the "four
elements". The creation of a new, allegoric vocabulary of symbols also
allowed the alchemists to preserve their secrets from outsiders.

Because there was no standard, concrete terminology for alchemy
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and were used in different ways. There is no single "meaning" of the
dragon in alchemy, it was used for a variety of different purposes. In
addition, alchemy was based around a synthesis of symbols to form a
whole rather than the analysis of individual symbols.

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Alchemical Healer Alfons Ven

ionamiller — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:42:10 GMT

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/AlfonsVen1.html

The Extraordinary Story
of Healer Alfons Ven
Belgian engineer turned homoeopath and alchemist Alfons Ven describes the journey that led him to discover that the invisible spirit world controls the visible physical world.
Part 1 of 2

Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 14, Number 6 (October - November 2007)
PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.com
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381
From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

Interview with Alfons Ven
Evolution Vision Foundation
Postbus 509
4645 ZW Putte,
The Netherlands
Telephone: +32 61 512586
Email: info@alfonsven.com
Website: http://www.alfonsven.com

by Willem de Ridder
© 1996
Website: http://www.willemderitter.com

The most incredible thing you could ever hear on radio is somebody claiming that you, the host, are not some extraneous being who is only there to turn your interviewee inside out. Most journalists are supposedly neutral. Yet they approach their subjects critically, trying to pin them down and exposing them to their lies or conspiracies. That is considered the task of a journalist. He cannot get involved personally. It is too dangerous.
So here I was interviewing an engineer from Belgium who specialised in control techniques. And he baffled me, telling me about the kind of knowledge he had developed. My body has a kind of steering system, he said-a system ensuring that I function perfectly; a system making sure that I am not some plant or animal but Willem de Ridder. It is a kind of computer or an instruction system. I did not understand a thing of it, and I said, "That is great! So you claim actually that you can give new instructions to this steering system and then my whole character will change-or at least have it remember its original state, before my parents began tinkering with it." He said, "Guaranteed. You know, when your character changes, your whole system alarms you through symptoms we call diseases. And as your character returns to its original state, the diseases disappear, too." It made me smile. I did not believe it. And I thought, "I'll get you."
I had asthma since I was two years old. Asthma is pretty hefty stuff. If you get an attack, you breathe like a man hanging from the gallows. You can barely catch air. You cannot lie down. You cannot move. You sit, needing all your attention for breathing. It makes you extremely tired. You cannot think. There is only one thing on your mind: surviving. That's all. And though no doctor says he can do anything about it, this man claims he can make it disappear, just like that. He says, "Yes. Guaranteed." I say, "Okay. Let's try it. We are doing this radio program, and a lot of people are listening. Why don't you try me out? If I get cured, everybody will know and you'll get a lot of people interested."
It was the first time he'd ever talked about these things on radio, he said. And lo and behold, I got some little white pills. I took them, one a day, for 28 days. It is two years ago now, and I have not had a single attack. In fact, I run up the stairs and am faster on my bicycle than anybody else. And indeed, I must agree, my character has changed, too.
Two years later, of course, his telephone is ringing off the hook. And now I am curious to know how he developed this remarkable knowledge, because the man is not a doctor. His name is Alfons Ven. He lives somewhere in the Belgian Ardennes, away from everybody, but right now he sits next to me.

Alchemical Homoeopathy
Alfons: And while I was practising all of this, a man came to me. He, too, had heard about me. His name was Jan. And Jan came to me with a spiritual problem. Jan was a member of the Rosicrucians. "Alfons," he said, "I am highly initiated. But it is not a blessing. It is killing me. It drove my wife away and my children. It only brings misery and I want to get out from under it." I said, "I know of other people who are Rosicrucians and do not have these problems." "It is all a matter of initiation," he said. "Can you help me?" I said, "Let me try."
Two, three months later he was "re-programmed" from his false beliefs and living a normal life again. I had never asked what his profession was. All I knew was his first name, Jan; John in English. And Jan asked me, "Can I do something in return?" I am a pragmatic mind, I am an engineer, so I said, "What are you? What can you do?" He said, "What do you want from me?" I said, "Well, I have this homoeopathic talent and this spiritual ministry. But the problem is that I am not getting better myself."
And then something struck me: the idea that if I could control myself, things would go better. Because, in fact, saying I am not completely myself is like saying I am not in control. So I told him, "I have always been controlling things, factories, automation, everything. Control is my speciality. If I can control myself, I think I will make real progress and find myself again." And he said, "This is complicated stuff."
We talked for a long time. And it turned out that he, too, was a fully qualified homoeopath. And not only that: he was also an alchemist. He told me, "Those things you are talking about can never be achieved by homoeopathy." He was also a PhD in chemistry-and a very brilliant one, for that matter. He had been a director of nuclear plants. A very keen man. And he said, "As far as my knowledge of chemistry goes, it is not sufficient. I think alchemy can help you. That's what you need."
Willem: Alchemy. He knew about that, too.
Alfons: I said, "You know about that?" I thought my life had changed by hitting on the knowledge about possession. And here was someone with mediaeval talk about alchemy. But I listened intently. He said, "Yes, I'm a doctor of chemistry and an alchemist, too. I have practised it for many years and I have seen many nice things happen."
Willem: And as director of a nuclear plant, he could not be a nitwit.
Alfons: No. Later I learned that alchemists from all over the world meet once in a while. There were ten or twelve, all PhDs. They were doctors in physics or something else. Some had two or three doctorates. They weren't just anybody.
Willem: And practising alchemy on the side.
Alfons: Yes. On the side. Jan had stopped his involvement in alchemy because of its esoteric side. He said, "Let us talk about it." And it was not just "let us talk about it". He stayed with me for almost five years. It was a long talk. Sometimes it was three or four in the morning when we stopped talking.
Willem: He lived in your house?
Alfons: Well, we had a little shack in the garden and that's where he lived and had his laboratory. So we lived separately on the same property. He told me a lot about the philosophy behind alchemy, particularly something fundamental to my present work with the VEN28 preparations. He said, "In all material matters we deal with spirit, soul and body. Let me give you an example: a glass of wine. We only see the liquid, the wine. It is the body which only came into being through fermentation of the grapes. Yet in the wine there are two subtle bodies which we do not see at all: spirit and soul. Everybody who can distill can get the spirit out. If you distill the alcohol out of the wine, you separate the spirit from the body."
Willem: That's why we call alcohol "spirits".
Alfons: In German it is Weingeist, spirit of the wine. In Dutch, "alchemy" is alscheikunde, Jan told me, which means "the art of separating all things". The first thing you do in alchemy is separate all things: spirit, soul and body. The body you can see readily, but you do not see the invisible things which determine the quality. You do not see the alcohol in the wine, which is the spirit. Neither do you see the soul which, too, contributes to the wine's quality.
Willem: So if the alcohol is the spirit, what is the soul?
Alfons: He gave an example. He showed that you may begin working on it only after the alcohol is separated from the liquid. The soul still is in the body. How do you get the soul out? It's a very complicated, refined procedure. You heat the wine very slowly, and you start working it with the four elements-earth, fire, air and water. This alchemic process takes a long time and it results in crystals which are so pure and white that the effect is dazzling. Really special. And that is the soul of the wine. So there they are: the invisible spirit and soul. And actually, it is these invisible things which control the visible.
This sounded very familiar to me. It seemed obvious. The invisible controls the visible. That is what happened when, as an engineer, I automated processes. In the early days, these processes used pneumatic technology, compressed air. You do not see the air, though it is pushing and moving things and opening valves-the invisible controlling the visible. Later, we got the now widely used electronic systems. Again, you do not see the electrons; you see the workings...
Willem: You perceive it is there, but you do not see it.
Alfons: If you put the plug in the socket, you do not see the power. Try to convince a child that there's something there. You may try as long as you can, but it sees nothing. It has to put something in the outlet to get a little shock. And not readily seeing the invisible doesn't mean the control is not there. At the time I told myself, "Now I have something to go by. This is my profession. Controlling things, pneumatically, electronically; telemetering used to be my job." And I felt good about it. If I could get this invisible thing into me to control the visible, the physical, let us say, then I could do nice things. I could find myself again, get control again, get hold of my life, restart. And as an engineer I knew the formulas, the cybernetic correlations, the correlation techniques. In 1973, our family business was already building process computers. We used our own computers, so I was pretty good at things on that level. Now I thought if I could put control into myself, that would be a different story.
Willem: That would be different indeed.
Alfons: I knew I would be able to get back to myself and start functioning more and more optimally. We talked a lot about alchemy, Jan and I. He made preparations, I tried them on myself and did not really get any better. I'm not saying that alchemy is not effective. For some it does well, for others not. So it lacks systematic results.
Willem: You can't really rely on it.
Alfons: No, you can not trust it. And when you try to talk about it, you meet with resistance, people thinking, "Those alchemists are magic sorcerers." Anyway, it brought me to the crucial understanding that the invisible controls the visible-something I knew from my profession. The question was, "How can I transpose and take this invisible information into me so that it might control me?" To make a long story short, I found the answer after many trials and errors. Trying this, trying that, I discovered how it works. And when I say "I discovered", I mean it is not new, it is not an invention, not even a finding. It is right there. It is a matter of picking it up. In order to pick something up, you have to be ready to pick it up. You must be prepared and think about it, assimilate it, boost yourself up to the level of "I want to find it, I have to find it".

About the Interviewee:
Alfons Ven was born in 1939 in Belgium. He is president of the non-profit Evolution Vision Foundation in The Netherlands which he founded in 1996. He maintains that everything that emanates from the invisible is controlled according to "the 12 aspects": sound, space, fire, light, elements, matter, organisms, plants, animals, men, communication, order.
He has developed his insights into a "cybernetic" health and lifestyle system, incorporating his 28-day "Ven-Cure" program.
Mr Ven can be contacted by phone at +31 30 233 3188, by email at info@alfonsven.com or via his website, http://www.alfonsven.com.

Editor's Note:
As president of a legal Dutch foundation, Evolution Vision, Alfons Ven works pro bono. He advises that the payment of 64 euros for a 28-day Ven-Cure covers the cost of subcontracting the practical work, and a small portion is invested in spreading the message. He conducts telephone and email consultations for free. A standard session by telephone takes 15 minutes.
Mr Ven states that most people require only one 28-day program to experience improvement. In the case of auto-immune disorders, he recommends two consecutive cures. He suggests that Ven-Cures be taken for the duration of any chemotherapy treatment. For constitutional disorders, he advises taking Ven-Cures twice a year. For terminal cases, Mr Ven provides special pellets for free, to help patients experience an optimum quality of life. He says that most mental problems are dramatically improved with one cure.
Every day, Mr Ven receives expressions of gratitude, but he is regarded by the Catholic Church as a persona non grata, by the medical world as a quack, and by the media as a crook. He was recently gagged by the Dutch Ministry of Health, which publicly attacked him and forced him to downgrade his website and revamp his product information at considerable cost to the foundation.
In early 2007, a Dutch national TV station, in cahoots with the Ministry and the cancer establishment, he maintains, presented an interview with him as if he were a charlatan, but Mr Vens has received many positive reactions and heartfelt support from users of his products.
Alfons Ven's mission statement reads: "By means of the 28-day Ven-Cure, I want to give people a chance to evolve. To unlock their personality. Boost their awareness (identity-consciousness). Free their spirit. Restore their soul. Improve their health. The Ven-Cure offers possibilities on these five levels. It is not meant as a therapy per se, although the therapeutic effects are often amazing. Wonderful are the positive changes in life and the getting back on track."

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Alchemy Conference Report

AbigailSpinnerMcBride — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:29:40 GMT

Greetings friends,

We've just spent the last weekend at the International Alchemy Conference, here in Las Vegas. This was the largest gathering of alchemists in 500 years, with two hundred and fifty people attending from all over the world. Our Alchemical Ritual Theater team, including me, Jeff, Nikki, Joshua, Deb, Robin, Draco, Morganne, Samina, Will-I-Am, Sheila Z, Erin, Christian, Liz Greene, Rhonda K, Matt P, Matthew C, Padme, Nekkid Shawn, and Katlyn were all there, holding the container and brewing up some incredible magic. Thank you all for showing up and adding your energy to this great work!

Our group was responsible for the opening night's Crucible Melting Pot ritual. We started out by drumming as everyone was coming in, and Jeff did some magic with lights to entertain folks who were arriving. Jeff introduced Dennis Hauck, (who many of you remember as our special guest from a couple of our Mysterium gatherings). Dennis and Jeff introduced all the speakers who would be presenting that weekend. This was one incredible group of people-- Thom Cavalli, author of Alchemical Psychology and past presenter at Mysterium was there, presenting a workshop called Egyptian Alchemy: Secrets Beneath the Sand, (which I found really informative and interesting). Also present were Dr. Werner Nawrocki, Dr. Stanton Marlan, Dr. Gudni Gudnasson, Dr. Bruce Fisher, our own wizard Gary Stadler, Paul Bartscher and Micah Nilsson, Daniel Coaten, John Michael Greer, Nicki Scully, Art Kunkin and, of course, Dennis Hauck.... What an outstanding line-up!

After the introductions, we had the entire group go through chaos into cosmos, moving their chairs against the wall, milling around the room, and forming a circle. We passed a caduceus around the room, and everyone had the chance to say their name and where they were from. We did a movement meditation that many of you are familiar with, "I Offer You Peace," and then Katlyn offered the following gorgeous blessing, which she had written:

Let this be a re-union of seekers
individual minds, like stars, come to together in constellation
Let this be gathering of Seerers, and Sages igniting a lantern of truth
individual hearts on a mutual path of illumination
Let this communion distill within us the essence the One thing
individual hearts and minds offered to one sacred flame
We come together as philosophers
honoring the wisdom of those who have come before us..

And then, everyone who wanted to called out the name of a teacher or guide whose work they wished to honor. Draco offered his Emerald Formula poem and members of the ART team, in masks and costumes, entered the circle with the alchemical banners that Duncan designed for us in a planetary procession. After the poem, the group chanted:
"from the One, toward the One, by means of the One,"
as the players moved out of the circle.... and then I led the group in a guided meditation to meet the wise alchemist within... and afterwards, people split up into groups of two to share their visions and experiences.... We ended the evening by singing:
"Fires burn, wheels turn, planets circle the sun
Lead to gold, new from old, many become One."
while the group re-formed a circle, and did a spiral dance into the center... It was a strong, powerful, fun opening ceremony, and everyone seemed to enjoy it very much.

The highlight of the weekend, by far, was our Alchemical Fire Circle workshop and indoor fire circle. During the workshop, we showed a clip from our recent documentary ENIGMA, focused on the fire circle and briefly explaining the planetary symbology. We spoke about the alchemical underpinnings of the fire circle ceremony, and gave a brief introduction to the four portals and how to access them.... And then, and then.... the group became connected through the breath, the circle was sung into being, the energies of the four directions were called, the way was opened and the magic began to spin... for almost four hours, there was drumming, singing, spontaneous offerings of spoken word and magic. The magic of the fire circle happens from our intention, regardless of whether we're indoors or outdoors, regardless of whether the fire in the center is electric candles or burning logs, regardless of whether the participants are seasoned fire family folk, or academic alchemists.... The magic is real, and our group did a phenomenal job of transmitting it, in the Palace Station casino in Las Vegas....

Our next event is Fall Fest, and free registration is still open at http://www.vegasvortex.com. I found this quote the other day, and it seems to speak exactly to what Fall Fest is all about.

"The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock
the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress . . .
The capacity for collective joy is encoded into us almost as deeply as the
capacity for the erotic love of one human for another. We can live
without it, as most of us do, but only at the risk of succumbing to the
solitary nightmare of depression....
Why not reclaim our distinctively human heritage as creatures who
generate their own ecstatic pleasures out of music, color, feasting, and
dance . . . There is no 'point' to it -- no religious overtones, ideological
message, or money to be made -- just the chance, which we need much
more of on this crowded planet, to acknowledge the miracle of our
simultaneous existence with some sort of celebration."
-Barbara Ehrenreich, *Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy*

We'll hope to see you there soon!!

Yours in the great work,

Spinner & Jeff

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Presto Manifesto

ionamiller — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:18:20 GMT

St. Germain was an alchemist renown for his longevity and youthful appearance. Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.

Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming.

Today, we might describe this resonance as accessing energy that regenerates the mindbody. Healing is an aspect of creativity; nature is within and without us. The Magus does not dominate reality but develops embodied psychophysical equilibrium, clarity, wisdom and compassion.

Creative work originates in the body and is projected out into the world. The projections are then internalized into awareness. The bodymind of the artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux nd LVX during the process of transformation. Awareness and consciousness form a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody. The mindbody is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.

Alchemy reduces all to the first state, the ground state of being - original experience that is timeless, infinite. The classical Void, the quantum vacuum is a carrier of information. The energy body or the field body connects us with the negentropic potential of the zero-point field. Radiant light literally emerges from this mystic void. Primordial structuring processes are common to both psyche and matter, working in the gap or empty interval between intention and action.

So, alchemy refines the way the mindbody generates and processes inherent light as medicine. It refines the aspirant's ability for tapping and amplifying Medicine Light. This primordial state is the luminous ground of our being, hidden deep in the heart of things.

All other goals are subordinate to this prime directive which includes meditative techniques for continuing consciousness after death. This Philosopher's Stone is also the Universal Medicine, the regenerative Elixir of Life. The greatest mystery is Life After Death: we don't die but continue in transcendent form. This is the secret of man and nature.

enjoi,
io

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Psychopomp Video Links?

Arun-once-was-ZyGoat — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:02:42 GMT

Greetings!
I am collaborating in a project that will involve the projection of Psychopomp and Between-The-Worlds video imagery onto a large apparition-screen at an upcoming Samhain celebration.

I am seeking any links to imagery of Psychopomp Soul-Guide archetypes from around the world. Hermes, Wotan, Garuda, Tehuti, Anubis, Virgil, etc. Also, any new manifestations of this archetype are welcome.
I am also seeking visual interpretations of between-the-worlds journeys...

These will be integrated into a multi-projector experience...
Most Appreciated and Autumnal Blessings to All
Arun

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new tribe : Stellar Sorceries

James — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:01:29 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/stellarsorceries
for magic of the planets, fixed stars, Mansions of the Moon... and more

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Biblioddyssey - great for antique alchemy scans

ionamiller — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:09:08 GMT

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/search?q=+st.germaine

These scans of Trinosophia are betteer than the Manley Palmer Hall book.

This site is bonanza of alchemy emblems, and lore.

check it out.

Iona
http://ionatopia.50megs.com

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Keys to St. Germain

ionamiller — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:23:20 GMT

http://trianglebook.50megs.com

"He [St. Germain] taught that man has in him infinite possibilities and that, from the practical point of view, he must strive unceasingly to free himself of matter in order to enter into communication with the world of higher intelligences." ~French writer Maurice Magre
"Whether beings love me or fear me is irrelevant. If beings give me their attention, I will take them to enlightenment and bliss.” ~St. Germain.

The winged dragon is a symbol that unites heaven with earth, a pictogram of "As Above; So Below." It is the Intelligence of Light and Life. In yoga the dragon energy is kundalini, the serpent power. Its wisdom is the secret of primal energy hidden in us all. The Adept is the reawakened Dragon who is the Universal Medicine, and living Stone. If you possess alchemical gold, nothing else is worth anything because it is psychic completion, peace of mind, Jung called it the self -- the light trapped in matter, the luminae de luminae, the light of light, the lux natura, the light drawn out of nature and condensed into a fixed form which then becomes the universal panacea.

THE KEYS signify the power and act of opening the way to the soul's progress in both the higher and lower nature. The Treasure is found therein. There are many keys to St. Germain that unlock different aspects of his woldview and secrets. The keys take us beyond the readily available legends of St. Germain's public life, and reveal the motivators of his secret life and soul goals. The keys reveal his secret lineage, education, health regime, and source of his sustaining energy and beliefs linking his line back to the dawn of history. His philosophy prioritized light, life, love and liberty in an era when isolated adepts began to study and practice together in brotherhood. St. Germain was their pathfinder. There are no Greater or Lesser keys to St. Germain, but it takes all of them together to unlock his Mystery -- magical revolution.

HERMETICS The Egyptian Hermes Trimegistus was thought to be the repository of mankind's knowledge prior to the Flood. In the Book of Hermes, Pymander appears to Hermes in the shape of a fiery dragon of "Light, Fire and Flame." Pymander is divine thought, personified. Thrice-born Hermes slew Typhon with the Caduseus, the kundalini of secret primal energy that sustains creation, hidden in us all. The Adept is the reawakened Dragon who is the Universal Medicine and living Philosopher's Stone, whose influence spreads and reverberates down the ages. This mystery school was a major influence on the Renaissance. The Hermetic Corpus is the most poetic and well-expressed body of ancient knowledge in the west. The whole cosmos is reflected in the human mindbody interface. Alchemists extrapolated from this internal perception of nature and psychological processes to external processes in the world.

ALCHEMY Alchemy, the search for the Philosopher's Stone, deals with the process of self-transformation, or transmutation. The popular view that it attempted to turn base metals into gold fails to do it justice. The transformation was primarily of the alchemist, and, if metal transmutation was achieved at all, it was no more than a symbol of what happened on a nonphysical level. There are no reports of transmutation ever being achieved for the purposes of greed. Significantly, kabbalah assigns lead to the lowest sephirah, Malkuth, and gold to the central sephirah, Tiphareth, which is usually assigned to the heart. Hence, the transmutation of lead into gold was, among other things, a metaphor for raising consciousness to the heart level.

QABALAH Blavatsky refers to a work no longer extant, the Chaldean Book of Numbers, as the basis for the Qabbalah. Tentative mention is also made of an alleged manuscript left by Count Saint-Germain giving keys for interpreting the Qabbalah. Blavatsky refers to ‘the Vatican MSS. of the Kabala – a single copy of which (in Europe) is said to have been in the possession of Count St. Germain’, and says that it contains more detailed teachings not to be found in any publicly available works (SD 2:239). Qabalah embodies the mysteries of the universe & the creation process. The Kabalah explained creation as a process of emanation, in which the divine force cascades down to the physical plane through 10 spheres, or sephiroth of The TREE OF LIFE: Kether, Chokmah, Binah, Chesed, Geburah, Tiphareth, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, and Malkuth. In the opposite direction, the sephiroth represent stages in the initiate’s search for the Divine, the Path of Return. Twenty-two paths among the sephiroth represent distinct experiences on the spiritual path, several of which involved balancing pairs of opposites. These paths correspond with the Major Arcana of the Tarot.

MAGIC Magic can be defined as the control of natural phenomenon by nonphysical means. It covers a broad field, from crude sorcery, all the way to sacramental ritual -- theurgy of the Magi or thaumaturgy. At the time of the Renaissance, magic was understood to cover an even broader field, including necromancy, the healing arts, mathematics, and even the design of mechanical devices. For example, building clocks was regarded as a branch of magic. Ancient knowledge of cycles, including the Precession of the Equinoxes was handed down from Mesopotamian and Persian sources. Crowley called magick the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will, which is not to say the egoic will, but that of the divine. Therefore, the safest and proper form of magick is for self-transformation, not selfish gain or desires.

REINCARNATION; LONGEVITY; YOUTHFULNESS St.Germain was most famous for his medicinal Elixers for life extension, but he also followed a largely vegetarian diet and didn't drink. However, the real secret to his longevity is likely the care and feeding of the Body of Light, which includes the astral and energy bodies, as well as the most developed vehicle of consciousness The Diamond Body, or Merkavah. Some contend the elixer is alchemical gold, monoatomic gold. "The Hermetic gold," said Robert Fludd, "is the outflow of the sunbeam, or of light suffused invisibly into the body of the world. Light is sublimated gold, and gold is thus the deposit of light, which of itself generates." Many Rosicrucians -- such as Paracelsus, Cagliostro and the Count de St. Germain -- claimed to possess the secret of prolonging life, a possibility which no Theosophist will deny. If nature is able continually to renew her wasted energies by absorption from the source of energy, why can't we do the same? Maybe the "fountain of youth" is no fable after all.

DRAGON BLOODLINE The Winged Dragon is the emblem of St. Germain's TRIANGLE BOOK. St. Germain is likely related to the Dragon bloodline through his Transylvanian ancestors. This line of kings and queens Traces from Scythia to both Egypt and Sumeria, the mystery schools, and through the bloodline of Jesus to the European Fisher Kings.

THE GREAT FLOOD The Great Floods of ancient times are not mere myths, but the racial memories of mankind's struggle with melting glaciers, rising coastlines, and cosmic intruders, such as meteorites and comets that disturb the atmosphere, climate and contours of life on earth long after they impact. The flooding of the Black Sea is often mentioned as a candidate for Noah's flood, but the Sumerian records implicate a massive impactor 4800 years ago, who's remains lie in the recently discovered Burckle Crater off the coast of Madagascar. This is the infamous "South Storm" of the Enuma Elish and Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian/Babylonian creation myths.

LOST TREASURES The lost treasures of the prehistory of humanity have been found and restored. They include the pharaoh's wisdom of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, Pyramid Texts, Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trimegistus, and Corpus Hermetica, and the creation story of the Sumerian Enuma Elish and Epic of Gilgamesh. Mankind had a primordial meditation practice for feeding the energy body and attaining an alchemical transformation to build an indestructible Diamond Body for immortality. The Triangle Book echoes this ancient wisdom way.

CIPHERS That the Comte de St. Germain was also a Rosicrucian there is no doubt. Constantly, in the Masonic and Mystic literature of the last century the evidences are found of his intimacy with the prominent Rosicrucians in Hungary and Austria. This mystic body originally sprang up in the central European States; it has, at various times and through different organisations, spread the Sacred Science and Knowledge with which some of its Heads were entrusted--the same message from the one Great Lodge which guides the spiritual evolution of the human race. Traces of this teaching, as given by our mystic, are clearly found, and are quoted by Madame Blavatsky, who mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript"as being in his possession. She emphasizes also the entirely Eastern tone of the views held by M. de St. Germain.

ESPIONAGE St. Germain was employed as a spy by various factions, and he did his own espionage for his own hidden agenda -- to forward certain historical interests of his homeland. His family historically fought the Hapsburgs and Papists.

SECRET SOCIETIES The late Librarian of the Great Ambrosiana Library at Milan says:--"And when, in order to bring about a conciliation between the various sects of the Rosicrucians, the Necromantists, the Cabalists, the Illuminati, the Humanitarians, there was held a great Congress at Wilhelmsbad, then in the Lodge of the "Amici riuniti" there also was Cagliostro, with St. Martin, Mesmer and Saint-Germain."
M. de St. Germain was travelling in Leipzig and Dresden under that name of Comte Weldon. According to Cadet de Gassicourt, he was travelling member for the "Templars," going from Lodge to Lodge to establish communication between them. M. de St. Germain is said to have done this work for the Paris Chapter of the "Knights Templar." Investigation proves him to have been connected with the "Asiatische Brüder," or the "Knights of St. John the Evangelist from the East in Europe," also with the "Ritter des Lichts," or "Knights of Light," and with various other Rosicrucian bodies in Austria and Hungary; and also with the "Martinists" in Paris.

One of St. Germain's adherents in Vienna was Count J. F. von Kufstein, in whose Lodge (in the house of Prince Auersberg) magical meetings were held which generally lasted from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. St. Germain was present at one such meeting and expressed his satisfaction with the workings..He belongs to the picture of 'Old Vienna' with its social mysteriousness; where it was swarming with Rosicrucians, Asiatics, Illuminates, Alchemists, Magnetopaths, Thaumaturgs, Templars, mystagogues, who all of them had many and willing adherents. He visited the famous laboratory of the Rosicrucians in the Landstrasse behind the hospital where he instructed for some time his brethren in the sciences of Solomon.

From the time of Robert the Bruce, the Knights Templars (exiled from Europe) became the appointed Guardians of the Kings of Scots. Various branches of the Order evolved, including the Elder Brethren of the Rosy Cross (1307) and the Chapitre Primordian de Rose Croix under the Comte de St. Germain (1747). The Order of the Templars of St. Anthony (which now incorporates these Rosicrucian branches) was constituted for the House of Stuart in 1561 during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1590 and 1593 land was granted to the Order by James VI of Scots for the development of social welfare centres, one of which was the King James's Hospital at Leith. (Gardner)

THE CODE OF ST. GERMAIN

St. Germain wrote two books, Trinosophia and the hidden treasure Triangle Book, concealed from the public to this day. Typical of the literature of its time, it was full of ciphers and secret levels of meaning. What is said of most texts of the time is moreso for The Triangle Book. There is much more to them than meets the eye. The Third Eye is needed to discern their depth and meaning.

Fulcanelli writes in The Dwellings of The Philosophers:

"With their confused texts, sprinkled with cabalistic expressions, the books remain the efficient and genuine cause of the gross mistake that we indicate. For, in spite of the warnings... students persisted in reading them according to the meanings that they hold in ordinary language. They do not know that these texts are reserved for initiates, and that it is essential, in order to understand them, to be in possession of their secret key. One must first work at discovering this key.

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JEFF MAGNUS MCBRIDE: RITUAL FIRE MAGICK ON A&E MINDFREAK

jeff — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:13:43 GMT

Greetings Fire-Friends and Tribe-Mates!

All is well in Vegas. I am home for a few days in between tours and wanted to share with you, my friends, what I did on my summer vacation...enjoy the clip!

Experience Jeff McBride’s Shamanic ‘”TRIAL BY FIRE” from the BURNING MAN episode of Criss Angel’s MINDFREAK on A&E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=B9xq52x4Sh0

I would like to give my special thanks to all of my friends in the VEGAS VORTEX for helping me with this TV project.
Joshua, Rabin, Morganne, Renee,and Paul...and Jazz too!

Thank you, thank you I love you!

Jeff Magnus McBride )0+

You can email me at Jeff@McBridemagic.com

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Sigma 666

ionamiller — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:42:03 GMT

Be aware, we now have 666 members in this Tribe ;~D

Iona

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Schedule complete for Alchemy Conference

Sibylla — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:48:46 GMT

Join Us in the Great Work!

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet and work with practicing alchemists from around the world! Practitioners will share both practical and spiritual techniques in this intensive, multimedia event. The emphasis is on real alchemy, and the goal is to inform and empower individuals with the ancient wisdom. Practical methods of transformation in both laboratory and inner work will be featured throughout the event. There will be lots of opportunities for informal meetings, plus free prizes, entertainment, and other fun surprises.

Largest Gathering of Alchemists in 500 Years!

• Practicing Alchemists from over a Dozen Countries
• Reunion of Frater Albertus Graduates from Around the World
• Famous Authors, Consultants, and Researchers
• Lectures on All Aspects of Alchemy from Lab Work to Meditation
• Alchemy Students and International Alchemy Guild Members
• Certification Workshop in Spagyrics (Herbal Alchemy)
• Reception and Lunches with Speakers plus Free Entertainment
• Official Alchemy Guild Functions and Informal Meetings
• Dozens of Unique Vendors with Hard-to-Find Products
• Special discounts on books, artwork, tinctures, lab supplies, etc.
• . . . and much more!

The alchemists tried not only to change base metals into gold but also rejuvenate their bodies, integrate their personalities, and perfect the very essence of their souls. Although they spoke of retorts, furnaces, and chemicals, they were really talking about changes taking place in their own bodies, minds, and souls. Learn the secrets of alchemy as they were meant to be transmitted – from the Masters themselves!

Learn!
• Discover the secret history of alchemy and how it is practiced today.
• Learn the secret formulae and processes of the alchemists.
• Learn how to set up an alchemical laboratory in your own home.
• Be able to recognize hidden “signatures” of people and events.
• Learn to make tinctures and elixirs that capture spiritual energy.

Experience!
• Resonate with the magical power of alchemists’ symbols and drawings.
• Awaken powerful energies to fuel your continuing transformation.
• Understand how the ancient principles work in your own life.
• Learn how to transmute chaotic emotions and thoughts into purified consciousness.
• Take part in meditations and experiments demonstrating esoteric principles.

Accomplish!
• Discover ways to harness the life force for continuing health and rejuvenation.
• Earn advanced credit in the Alchemy Home Study Program through Flamel College.
• Learn to make alchemical tinctures, oils, and elixirs in your own kitchen lab.
• Become a certified alchemical practitioner or apply the principles to your present career.
• Transform the lead of everyday life into the gold of lasting health, wealth, and purpose.

The conference will take place at the Palace Station Hotel Conference Center in Las Vegas over the Columbus Day holiday weekend. Complete information is at www.AlchemyConference.com.

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Court of the Dragon

ionamiller — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:30:11 GMT

The St. Germain Code - Pt.2: St. Germain & the Dragon
The dragon of alchemy "devours, fertilizes, begets, slays,
and brings itself to life again."
In the Book of Hermes, Pymander appears to Hermes in the shape of
a Fiery Dragon of "Light, Fire, and Flame."
Pymander is the "Thought Divine" personified.

Secrets of the Dragon

The untold tale of St. Germain and the Dragon is hinted at in the first sentence of his Triangle Book: “The Holy Magic revealed to Moses discovered within an Egyptian monument and preciously preserved in Asia under the emblem of a winged dragon.”

This is the secret "hidden since before the Great Flood"…a dual secret of mythic immortality and divine lineage. At first this might seem like a strictly alchemical statement, but then we know there is no such thing for alchemy has many layers of meaning, and ciphers add more. Nothing is simply what it seems.

So, we must ask specifically, what did this winged dragon mean to St. Germain? What does it mean in the context of the Triangle Book? Where did the book come from? Was it an heirloom of his family, a treasure from the Medicis, or St. Germain's own artistic alchemical manifesto -- a virtuoso piece, uniting all his fantasies about his family, his heritage and his aspirations for life extension and magical illumination.

The Medicis who later fostered young St. Germain were the first to print the Corpus Hermeticum (1460). They thought it was ancient Egyptian though the writings are from 100-300 CE. Whatever their origin, the young Count could not have avoided reading them with great interest and embracing their philosophy.

Alchemy, magic, royal bloodlines, Dragon cult, Life Extension, Spies, Secret Societies, Vampires, more.

Iona
http://ionatopia.50megs.com

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Brainstorming with our founder on Triangle Book

ionamiller — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:56:07 GMT

Hey Gang,

Does anyone remember who was the causin' of it all for our little alchemy Tribe? Our fearless founder?
Well, "Sebastian K", well-known but undercover alchemy publisher skulked through my town this week and we got to renew our friendship in the meatbody at the local metaphysical library. We have a mutual interest in the elusive Triangle Book and brainstormed on pursuing it further. I've given it it's own site now at http://trianglebook.50megs.com So if any of you other 666 adepts (ahem) have any corrections, further points of trivia to add to that, pls let me gno.

peace in,
Iona

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member 667

William — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:24:03 GMT

the number 666 called me out ...what can I say.

Reading posts....enjoying it.

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New Tribe for those interested in current sciences and Thelema

Arun-once-was-ZyGoat — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:14:55 GMT

I have just started a new tribe specifically for discussions of advances in the sciences of biology, physics, chemistry, neurology, psychology, etc. since the time of Crowleys writings....and how they apply to, challenge, enhance, or change the metaphors and models of Thelema.
we know so much more now that can be applied to "Scientific Illuminism" . This is a place to discuss this evolving world-view completely outside of the context of lineages, groups, orders or related historical disputes.
My ulterior motive for starting this tribe is that i want to update my own limited understanding of these fields of knowledge, and benefit from the brilliant and studied minds that pass through these spheres.

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Alchemist on the playa

Yosef — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:24:05 GMT

How many of you are going to come to the burn, if so should we all get together and meet sometime somewhere?

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Top Secret St. Germaine MS REVEALED

ionamiller — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:32:20 GMT

Top Secret St. Germaine Alchemical text revealed

In my archives I had these 6 photos of an unidentified top secret triangular St. Germaine MS. The photos were taken by a girlfriend of Israel Regardie's in a secret vault. WHAT they were had been unknown. I got them from a reliable source who worked extensively with Regardie, but did not know the details of MS origin or locale itself. I was able to crack the case on them today, finding their story at Adam McLean's site. They are thus known but have remained unseen...untill now. More later or upon inquiry. Naturally, they have the gratuitous 'curse' attached to them.

The frontpiece and story are on my blog today, as well as a full translation of the encrypted text.
Anyone further [seriously] interested can contact me here or by regular e-addy, iona_m@yahoo.com

See my blog 8-12-007 for the story and frontpiece from my archive.

peace in,
Iona

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Alchemy Conference -- Show of hands?

Sibylla — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:11:08 GMT

www.alchemyconference.com

Ok, who's going?

I plan to be there.

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BOTA Homophobia

michaelg — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:58:19 GMT

I don't ordinarily crosspost, but a thread is developing on "Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth" that some members of this tribe may be interested in. It is about Builders of the Adytum's (B.O.T.A.) policies with respect to higher initiations. I don't view initiations as taking place primarily in ritual work, but in Aesklepian dreamspace, where the hermetic function is all-important. For more, see http://celestialearth.tribe.net/thread/fe37477e-797e-45a9-88a6-7f3caa650b45 .

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Secrets of Alchemy DVD

ionamiller — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:33:30 GMT

Heh,
I showed this SECRETS OF ALCHEMY for Spiritual Cinema night at my metaphysical library last week.

It's sure different than the title implies - more like 2012 stuff. But just when he gets way out there in his interpretations he reigns it in and it makes sense, somehow ;)))

Has anyone else seen this or other alchemy dvds by the same man?
Or - what do you think of this premise on Fulcanelli?

Iona
http://ionatopia.50megs.com

In this visually compelling and thought-provoking documentary, author, scholar and modern-day Indiana Jones, Jay Weidner uncovers some of the deepest secrets of the ancient western tradition of Alchemy - the knowledge of the fatal season of the apocalypse, the end of time and the great and imminent transformation of humanity. Using the work of the mysterious twentieth century French Alchemist, Fulcanelli, as his foundation, and his discovery of a three hundred fifty year old Alchemical Cross in the South of France, Jay Weidner describes the experiences, insights and powerful evidence that opens the door to a new view of the intimate relationship between myth, history, science and the true destiny of humanity. In doing so, he reveals the ultimate meaning underlying the resurrection of Christ, the message of the Book of the Revelations, the vision of Ezekiel and the Kabbalistic concept of the "Restoration of the World."

Join him on this remarkable adventure as Jay Weidner journeys from the shores of Southern France through Alchemical Europe, Ancient Egypt and Peru, to decode the powerful and haunting message of the Great Cross of Hendaye.

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New live chat room for our non profit to be

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:07:42 GMT

Hey there, just wanted to drop another note about our tribe at http://tribes.tribe.net/alchemicalnurserycommune

This is a discussion forum we set up a couple months ago for a long term goal and vision we have for a wholly sustainable urban style eco commune and healing arts center/ nature conservancy. There's a whole lot to the vision, and a whole lot more to the process of planning, networking, and finding just the right people to hop on board and help make it happen...

Maybe you are one of those people!

Come check us out! We have just set up a chat room which we will be using for our board of directors meetings online, and the non profit website can be found at: www.luminist.org/alchemicalnursery

Love and light
Liz

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sirius dog star in stone?

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:45:43 GMT

when you find one of these and it comes with no directions , what would you do with it??
hmmm, anyone? no I have no pics to show... just say if I had found one...if... ( : steve...

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placebo , fact or fiction.... well here is my story on the subject..

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:33:53 GMT

http://people.tribe.net/mayaone/blog

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Alchemical Presentation at the Stone

Ouroboros Press — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:23:25 GMT

The Alchemical Bestiary
Alchemical Animal Symbolism in Renaissance Hermeticism.
Book Release: Turba Philosophorum

Ouroboros Press editor William J. Kiesel will give a talk on the enigmatic symbolism associated with the Animal Kingdom as employed in Alchemical texts during the Renaissance. Hermetic philosophers drew from mythological and biblical sources while depicting their alchemical emblems to explain the process of making the Philosopher’s Stone. Key symbols for interpretation will be discussed and accompanied by a slide show of alchemical imagery from rare books and manuscripts.
This presentation is given on the occasion of a new edition of the Turba Philosophorum, just released by Ouroboros Press. Copies of the book will be available for signing after the presentation.

8pm sharp Sunday 8 July 2007
The Stone [New York]
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street.

[The Stone Website]
http://www.thestonenyc.com/index.html

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