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Alchemy
Alchemy
ALCHEMY, the secret art of the land of Khem, is one of the two oldest sciences known to the world. The other is astrology. The beginnings of both extend back into the obscurity of prehistoric times. According to the earliest records extant, alchemy and astrology were considered as divinely revealed to man so that by their aid he might regain his lost estate. According to old legends preserved by the Rabbins, the angel at the gate of Eden instructed Adam in the mysteries of Qabbalah and of alchemy, promising that when the human race had thoroughly mastered the secret wisdom concealed within these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man might again enter into the Garden of the Lord. - Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Books about Alchemy
Articles about Alchemy
3: The Metallic Planets of Alchemy
This is a transcription of the audio lecture 3: The Metallic Planets of Alchemy, which you can download for free. This lecture follows the previous two which we gave; this is related with physiology or the way in which the energies relate with our physical body, our mind, psyche and spirit. Now, we are going to enter directly or to repeat something a little bit more in detail about the metals. Remember that we said that the metals of the earth, the metallic veins of the earth, its metallic kingdom, are like the nervous system of the planet earth. In the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Genesis, we read a sentence that states...
4: Work with the Mercury
This is a transcription of the audio lecture 4: Work with the Mercury, which you can download for free. We understand that at the base of all creation is the womb of the Divine Mother. This is called Prakriti in Sanskrit. That womb manifests from itself a light, which is the light of the Christ, or the Ray of Creation. And this ray is an energy or a “going forth” of a creative impulse which gives rise to all existing phenomena. That fundamental “suchness” or fundamental expression, which gives rise to creation, is known in Gnosis as the Solar Logos. Solar, because it's related to the sun, or the source of life and light. And Logos, which in Greek means “word” or “verb.” We use the term Logos because the word that we speak is the expression or the manifestation of thought. The thought is the unmanifested impulse. When it becomes manifest, it is the Logos....
Alchemy and Tantra: Sacred Sexuality
At the base of all human activity one finds the central importance of sex. Religion is no exception. However, the public has not been introduced to the sacred role of sexuality in the esoteric or "secret" knowledge hidden inside every religion. Thus, in modern times sex has become desecrated and defiled, while it was once known to be the entrance into the mysteries of the Divine.
Moses, the Great Kabbalist and Alchemist Magi
We need to learn how to be aligned on the path that leads all of us to the final liberation. Since very ancient times, in the Bible we have seen esotericism, alchemy, magic, astrology, philosophy, mathematics, etc. I.e. if we carefully study the book by Moses called Exodus - and in the rest of the Old Testament - we discover esoteric prodigies: exorcisms, resurrection of the dead, sortileges, bewitchments, transfigurations, levitations, healings by mean of concentration in the magnetic field of the root of the nose or by means of magnetic passes, or by means of water, or by means of consecrated oil, or by means of a small portions of magical saliva placed over the affected area, etc. Thus, by carefully studying the book Exodus by Moses, one discovers in it - as in ancient times - the practical magic of the Egyptians. Moses himself was a great magician. Obviously, Moses was born in order to fulfill a gigantic mission. No one ignores that he was a cousin of the Pharaoh, and that he was a...
Solutio Perfecta
The solutio perfecta (“perfect solution”) for the problem of suffering is found in the mysteries of sexual transmutation, which as depicted here in this alchemical painting, occurs between the two trees of Eden (Kabbalah and Alchemy), in a sacred crucible (the Holy Grail), from which is born the golden child, or soul. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and...
The Alchemical Arts
The Alchemist stands between the two forms of the Alchemical science: the Alchemy of Nature (left) and Mechanical Alchemy (right). From the pursuit of Mechanical Alchemy (represented by the laboratory) there rises a building devoid of warmth or beauty. It is instead a sterile and cold environment. Even the oven is devoid of fire and life. This is Materialistic Science, the bastard child of the Alchemical tradition. This is our modern chemistry and all of its branches; this is the Alchemy of the intellectuals and scientists, the Alchemy of the five senses. From this pursuit there arises no spiritual life, therefore it is a dead art, an art that will never create the Soul. ...
The Alchemical Citadel
A Brief Introduction to The Alchemical Citadel of Heinrich Kunrath, 1602. In the midst of humanity there is a most precious treasure; knowledge that transforms the common individual into something beautiful and rare. But this knowledge is full of terrible power and the method it requires demands the best of a human being, thus they are rare who can take this knowledge and use it properly. Therefore this knowledge has been well-protected, and only those who are worthy have been allowed to see even the cloak that covers its secrets. This engraving allegorizes the entrance into the True Universal Knowlege of Alchemy. Humanity wanders around the citadel, engaged in all the vain activities...
The Alchemical Mountain
Engraving by Theophilius Schweighart, Speculum sophicum Rhodostauroticum, 1604. The light of the consciousness (the flame of the lamp, top center) is born in us when chiseling the stone (sex; bottom center) with sapentia (wisdom; written on the column), thus transforming it into the central pillar or column (the Kundalini in the spine) of our interior temple, accomplished by means of the sun (man) and the moon (woman). Through this immaculately clean (chaste) mystical union (Sexual Alchemy), the initiates are born again of the womb of the Divine Mother (center). The initiate comes to know his own true spiritual nature that is hidden in the scriptures when the he prays in sincere humility (the initiate on his knees, top center) and offers his hermetically-sealed vessel (the sexual organs) and his...
The Archeus
In order to create the internal bodies, some artifice is necessary. This artifice is the secret secretorum of ancient Alchemists. This secret secretorum is the Arcanum A.Z.F., which can be synthesized as follows: “Sexual connection without spilling the semen (without orgasm), without the ejaculation of the Ens Seminis.” This is how the creative energy is transmuted. Firstly, let us know that Mercury is nothing more than the metallic soul of the sperm. [Editor: In Alchemy, sperm is the sexual fluid in both males and females]. However, in Alchemy, the physical sperm is brute Mercury. It is stated that when this sperm or brute Mercury is transmuted, then we can elaborate Mercury, which is the metallic soul of the sperm. Consequently, there are three types of Mercury. Firstly, there is brute Mercury, which means the Exiohehari, or sacred sperm. Second, there is the metallic soul of the sperm, which is the result of the transmutation of the sexual...
The Mute Book
Mutus Liber, 1677. The final plate of the wordless alchemical treatise “Mutus Liber” (Mute Book) representing the goal of alchemy: reunion with the Divine Spirit. Heracles (the prone figure at bottom) incarnates in the initiate who enters the Straight Path and subsequently receives the Venustic Initiation, the entrance of the Universal Cosmic Christ into the human being. The Christ, inside the Human Soul, must labor and sacrifice. Here he is shown psychologically dead (no ego at all) after completing his work. The result is the Perfected Stone, the square formed by the union of the man and woman and the Father above. The man and woman have achieved equilibruim (the Sun and Moon have switched places between them). From their mouths come the words Oculatis Abis: “Thou departest seeing.” The work is finished: the ladder to Heaven (in...
The Seven Planets of Alchemy
Although it may appear to be incredible, it is true and factually certain that the science of Endocrinology is closely related to Sexual Alchemy. Endocrinology is bound to produce a true creative revolution. Scientists already know that the sexual glands are not sealed capsules. The sexual glands absorb and secrete hormones. The hormones of secretion are called “conserving,” because they perpetuate the species. The hormones of absorption are called “vitalizing,” because they vitalize the human organism. This process of hormonal absorption is transmutation; it is Alchemy: the transformation of one type of energy-matter into another type of energy-matter. Trans • mutation: the change of one element into...
The Seven Roses
by Abraham Eleazer, Ultraltes chymisches Werk, 1760 "The Sacred Fire activates the seven magnetic centers. The Kundalini coordinates the activity of all seven chakras in a marvelous manner. We could illustrate all of this by a stalk with seven fragrant and beautiful roses. The stalk would represent the spinal column, and the seven roses would represent the seven chakras, or magnetic centers. The delicate stems of these seven roses of ardent fire are the fine threads which unite them to the spinal column." - The Perfect Matrimony The accomplishment of the work is only possible by combining two sevens: the two rows of seven trees each. Each row represents the seven bodies of the man and the woman. The two...
The Transmutation of Sexual Energy (1)
To touch in medical terms upon the most profound aspects of the mysteries of sex is similar to Odysseus opening the bag in which Aeolus gave him the trapped winds. - Samael Aun Weor Introduction An Excerpt from The Mystery of the Golden Blossom All of us possess some electrical and magnetic forces within, and, just like a magnet, we exert a force of attraction and repulsion... Between lovers that magnetic force is particularly powerful and its action has a far-reaching effect. Sexual Magic (The Sahaja Maithuna) between husband and wife is based on the polar properties which certainly have their potential ...
The Transmutation of Sexual Energy (2)
What there may still be left for me to say, here in this talk, is how one can turn the sperm into energy. It will be my pleasure to explain to you a singular, very special craft that medieval alchemists used to teach to their disciples. The artful device I am going to teach you was also taught by different scientists, such as Brown-Séquard in the United States. Dr. Krumm-Heller, colonel-physician in our glorious Mexican Army, taught it too, and so did Carl Jung. It is also taught by the Asian schools of Eastern Tantra. It is not something I have made up, by myself and for myself: I have learned it from all those sages and I, in turn, pass it on to you, but not as something to be blindly believed, or as an unshakable dogma. Accept it if you want, or do not accept it if you do not want to. Many schools have accepted it and many have ...
