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Posted April 15th, 2024:
An alchemist practicing inner alchemy does not always have to confront inner wounds directly. Part and parcel with this is the alchemist’s innocence: there should be a substantiated and justified moral confidence on the part of the alchemist, or that is the more pressing matter to address. Conduct is very important; attitude as well. Falling short in these matters constitutes a sort of wall, past which one may not go.
The gender wound is a wall that may also be encountered by the innocent, and in inner alchemical practice it becomes obvious at a certain point. An alchemist will, in the course of pursuing alchemical practice, often get gnosis (inner knowledge) of it being time to embrace the rebus, at which point it may be considered beneficial to adopt certain practices or changes (e.g. meditations, activities, haircuts, and/or other style elements). These types of lifestyle and personal gestures represent the alchemist taking measures. They may indicate that a breakthrough is close.
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Posted April 14th, 2024:
Gender is difficult for people. This is a mystery explored by alchemy while simultaneously being perfectly obvious.
The rebus is a profound concept in alchemy, usually depicted by a figure that is half typically male and half typically female. This concept encapsulates a lot of things, including an alchemist’s work to remedy what some might call the “gender wound”.
On the topic of the gender wound, it is essential to realize that each person in this world tends to find it very painful that they do not enjoy the benefits of being the other gender in the male/female binary, which is then added to the pain of what has gone wrong for them in dealing with people of that gender. Other factors can include gender dysphoria, misconceptions, discomfort with aspects of their assigned or current gender role, pressures, fear, and romanticization gone wrong. These comprise the bulk of the gender wound, in most cases.
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Posted December 2nd, 2023:
Legends say that alchemists know how to turn lead into gold. More than anything, this is a metaphor for the styles of thinking that alchemists learn to access through devoted effort and practice. From the rough materials of one’s mundane thoughts, one’s life, the day, one can develop new thoughts, and if they work well, they can be more valuable than the rolling inner monologue that the seasoned alchemist probably experienced as a novice.
Lead and gold are also references to substances. Alchemy, chemistry, and metallurgy emerged together, partially because metallurgy was some of the original highly skilled labor, essential for making better tools. Lead wouldn’t necessarily mean elemental lead in those early days, but often ore. Gold in the context of physical alchemy wouldn’t originally have meant the gold that was mined, but more specifically brass, which looks a lot like gold and is the product of concerted and skilled effort with metals of other hues. Ancient civilizations wouldn’t have necessarily acknowledged a significant difference between them. This is similar to how the term “emerald” used to mean “green stone” to the ancients, but now we know the term to specifically reference a green variety of beryl.
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Posted December 2nd, 2023:
Some of history’s notable alchemists include (in no particular order):
Plato
Jesus Christ
Rama
Cicero
Isaac Newton
Pythagoras
Hero of Alexandria
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Posted July 13th, 2023:
The formula of solve et coagula is the alchemical idea of dissolution and solidification. In physical chemistry, things can be dissolved in water or another solvent, and they can also crystalize or otherwise solidify under the right conditions. Alchemists invented chemistry while they were trying to discover how the universe works.
In inner alchemy, that which is bad (unacceptable) must be sent to dissolve safely in the divine flow (which is distinct from a person’s mental flow), and that which is good (appropriate) must coalesce and become reality. Solve in inner alchemy does not lift up evil, but sublimates or obliterates it. Coagula in inner alchemy does not know how to preserve evil, but rather how to actualize good within reality. Solve roughly corresponds to albedo, and coagula roughly corresponds to rubedo.
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Posted June 25th, 2023:
Consult your intuition reverently and carefully. This is a precept of alchemy and of life.
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Posted May 27th, 2023:
Baphomet is known as an alchemical symbol. Why?
According to legend, soldiers from Europe did military campaigns in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, claiming that they were religious pilgrimages, and partially in response to military campaigns coming from those areas. They called themselves crusaders.
Many of them visited holy sites and temples looking for illumination, and almost all of them engaged in violence. It would have been natural for any temple welcoming them to point out the inherent contradiction between spirituality and violence.
There was one temple in Egypt that was reputed to be very good at managing crusaders and their spiritual needs. It was a syncretic temple, housing ideas of Apollo, Amun, and more. The clergy of this temple made a syncretic deity for the crusaders to meditate on. The deity carried the following elements: Set, the god of foreigners, who was one factor because the men were visitors from far away, contributed an animal head and other bestial traits, possibly breasts and androgyny, and part of his name; Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem and associated in song and story with a donkey, an animal well known to be of nice disposition and willing to work, contributed the sound of the word Bethlehem to the name and the iconography of a donkey, as the men were mostly Christian; Apollo, god of philosophy and light, contributed a torch above the syncretic deity’s head; Min, a deified fantasy of Osiris resurrected as Amun, contributed a phallus as a reference, due to Jesus being a deity closely related to an invisible God and having resurrected, like Min; phonemes from Amun and possibly Apollo or Phoebus are also present in the name the temple gave the syncretic deity: “Baphomet”.
The image of the donkey-headed Baphomet that resulted had a similar effect to an idea of Set, which is that if he and his followers do not behave respectably, they look truly ridiculous. It was designed to serve as a reminder to the pilgrims not to conduct themselves in ways that were violent, rude, or inappropriate. A ram’s head, carrying some of the dignity of the highly respected Amun, may have been substituted for the donkey’s head later on to veil this key effect.
The word “alchemy” essentially means “of Egyptian origin”.
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Posted May 22nd, 2023:
Alchemists have ways of moving around inside themselves, to a certain extent. Alchemists who experience or even (more rarely) integrate the seventh dimension may additionally have access to mystical visions, which are technically not nearly as much inside themselves. Mystics may not always be alchemists, but they often are, intuitively or otherwise.
Some traditions have developed ways to systematize mystical experiences. The Tree of Life, known in the Kabbalistic tradition and its offshoots, is essentially a glyph that organizes what it terms as “numbers” (sephiroth, sephira in the singular) or emanations of divine action upon creation.
In integrating the eighth dimension, there may even be experience with the idea of the Adam Kadmon body, which personalizes this glyph somewhat, but essentially the glyph is not of humans, but of God.
The sephiroth are both well known and mysterious:
KETHER (Crown):
deals with God as ruler of creation
CHOKMAH (Wisdom):
deals with God’s wisdom
BINAH (Understanding):
deals with God’s understanding of creation
[DA’ATH (Knowledge)]:
is not quite an emanation, but a floating reference to all that which God knows that human beings do not
CHESED (Mercy/Mildness):
deals with God’s gentleness with creation
GEVURAH (Strength/Judgment):
deals with God’s stern judgment and intolerance of evil
TIFARETH (Beauty/Harmony):
deals with that which feels right to both God and humanity, a balance that nearly references the concept of dharma
NETZACH (Perseverance/Victory):
deals with actions and eventualities which God insists upon within creation
HOD (Glory/Splendor):
deals with that which demonstrates the mind of God
YESOD (Foundation):
deals with emotional and metaphysical experiences of God
MALKUTH (Kingdom):
deals with the physical, manifested world as God requires it to be
These emanations, and the various paths between them, make up the Tree of Life glyph.
There is some speculation as to the existence of a reverse or inverted Tree of Life called the Qlippoth, which is a concept of how the idea of these emanations could potentially become perverted, especially with reference to a human being’s potential misunderstandings of them. One need look no further in these matters than observing that the word Qlippoth means “husks”, indicating that the sephiroth do not preserve any imperfections, and these misunderstandings are to be shrugged off like dry husks, and become mulch.
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Posted April 14th, 2023:
Classic alchemical formula: If Satan responds when you call out to God, that doesn’t mean that Satan is God.
Means you’re living in difficult times. Double check.
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Posted September 23rd, 2022:
Triangles have robust alchemical significance. Part of this is of course because of various religious iconographies having long utilized them in symbols, yantras, schematics, design, and metaphor. For instance, in Judaism, the star of David is formed from two triangles that overlap to form a six-pointed star. In Hinduism, the Sri Yantra is made up of nine and yet fourty-three interlocking triangles, forming a complex Shaktist concept of divinity. In Islam, complex geometric patterns are often used to sublime effect in architecture and for decoration in sacred spaces, in part perhaps to convey something of spiritual value while providing relaxation for the brain to better receive it. In Christianity, a triangle sometimes evokes the Holy Trinity. Each of these religions and many others have developed forms of alchemy.
Alchemists in some traditions use glyphs to represent concepts. This too counted as sacred geometry. This is where we get the elemental glyphs based on isosceles (usually equilateral or close to equilateral) triangles. According to this particular cipher, a triangle pointing upward symbolizes the element of fire, and indeed its shape invokes something of the shape of a well-built campfire. It is also frequently associated with what is sometimes called the male or masculine principle. A triangle pointing downward symbolizes the element of water, its shape somewhat resembling a cup that might be holding water. It is also frequently associated with what is sometimes called the female or feminine principle. An upward-pointing triangle with a strike through the top half or middle represents air, an element more stable than fire, but that can contain its smoke. A downward pointing triangle with a strike through the bottom half or middle represents the earth element, the most stable element and the only element that can contain water, vapor notwithstanding.
In some traditions, fire and/or its triangle are associated with an archetypal father or king as well as the Divine Masculine; water and/or its triangle are associated with an archetypal mother or queen as well as the Divine Feminine; air and/or its triangle glyph are associated with an archetypal son, prince, or knight; earth and/or its triangle glyph are associated with an archetypal daughter, princess, or page.
Many other shapes can be unpacked in much the same way.
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Posted July 8th, 2022:
Instinct and intuition are different. The theory behind intuition is that people can use it to stay on the absolutely right path, and the absolutely right path is the path of soul-level advancement and satisfaction, which includes every moment you ever loved unless you were depraved at that time, which is more of a false-love that always turns out to be a fetid fermentation that has occurred during gyrations of ego. That’s not where it’s at, as they say. The absolutely right path is where the ego really gets to have any fun.
Instinct people sometimes just use to stay out of immediate danger or to subtly read pheromones, which exist and are mysterious.
It is grotesque and without merit to use intuition, instinct, and/or any other human faculties to intentionally do the wrong thing (especially to a point where real harm is caused or is very likely to be caused).
Starting at around the spontaneous Animal Dignity Initiation, a master alchemist may experience changes in their instinctual nature, and they may very likely see their instincts align with their divine-led intuitive processes.
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Posted July 8th, 2022:
In communities, it is often a rare thing to be the one who ends up deciding that advanced levels of alchemy are for you. Communities are lucky to get the right number of sincere alchemists, which has never been zero, even if the alchemists involved call it something else. If you live near someone doing advanced spiritual alchemy, you will very likely experience a much better quality of life than you would otherwise, as long as you can stay in the right mindset about their development. Let animals be animals, let people be human and humane, honorable, and each themselves, let the honest ascent be the honest ascent, and so on.
Proximity is relative in this lesson, to a point.
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Posted June 21st, 2022:
Esotericism refers to knowledge subtle or hidden. It contains a mysterious quality. Hunger for the esoteric feels very distinctive, toothsome, energizing.
Exotericism refers to things that are literal and straightforward. Exoteric hunger is the literal desire in the body for food. Hunger for the exoteric would feel somewhat like the boredom of wanting something specific to happen.
Some texts are most useful if the reader leans on the exoteric, concrete meaning of the words and paragraphs. Some texts are indecipherable in terms of practical utility unless you can read correctly between the lines esoterically. Most people are taught in school to do both with literature. Alchemists must keep their wits about them, respect the exoteric and the esoteric where appropriate, and know the difference.
Seasoned alchemists develop a keen sense of and reverence for hewing to what’s appropriate.
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Posted May 23rd, 2022:
One cannot become pregnant with one’s own fine spiritual energy, thus potentially actualizing it in a very profound way, while one is engrossed in the ego. When you’re distracted by the antics and miseries of your ego, you’re missing the signals of the Universe.
And what does it mean to be pregnant with one’s own spiritual energy? If one follows through on that alchemical process faithfully, one becomes what is sometimes called a walking soul.
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Posted April 26th, 2022:
Logos isn’t something everyone has. You have to earn the logos alchemically or function as usual, without it.
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Posted January 25th, 2022:
When you integrate the sixth dimension, there may be a fully integrated avatar status or divine mission waiting there for you. It will be there because you will have developed it above and beyond even the Second Octave Magnum Opus, which quite momentously integrates the sixth dimension.
The First Octave Magnum Opus seems to integrate the fifth dimension.
(note: I have officiated one avatar ceremony already remotely and am periodically fielding interest requests from the godwheel about various individuals. It may be that this avatar thing has to happen in some sort of sufficiently orderly fashion. Imagine that.)
(note: There are different stages of avatar development: a preliminary anointing, an integration stage, and what lies beyond. A pre-stage may exist if a deity expresses interest in a particular person as a potential avatar, pending development.)
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Posted January 13th, 2022:
A personal and professional note: I am the quality I say I am. Even if you don’t notice other people noticing, I’m the quality I say I am.
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Posted December 28th, 2021:
Western Alchemy often associates nigredo with a snake or dragon, which devours and can be shown in images devouring itself. It often associates albedo with a unicorn, which exists only in soft imagination, or a swan that glides through the water. It often associates rubedo with a stag, a regal beast with noble dignity.
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Posted December 28th, 2021:
Do not forget about human dignity.
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Posted December 28th, 2021:
Tigers say that they prefer the wild because when they’re outside, it’s all theirs… all of it. It’s obvious, they tell me.
An alchemist who has achieved the self-initiation into Animal Dignity has restored some of that precise energy in themselves. The energy does a lot more than that. For a human, it constitutes an extra measure of dignity that’s also more akin vibrationally to what we see in animals. It is organic-technological in nature. The plug-in event may occur at the finish of the first octave Magnum Opus, and is generally considered a landmark rubedo experience.
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Posted December 13th, 2021:
Citrinitas is not just a state, it’s something that happens. It is characterized by a release of energy, which is sometimes likened to the dawn. In terms of inner alchemy (which includes spiritual alchemy, emotional alchemy, and mental alchemy), citrinitas energy is reflective of a quantum leap between levels of development. In citrinitas, something of significance is burgeoning.
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Posted November 6th, 2021:
Each of the four elements all symbolize a lot of concepts abstractly, certainly, but the material substances themselves tend to be found by humans to be intrinsically symbolic more or less often, depending on which element.
When it comes to the amount of intuitive symbolism in the four elements: water is highly symbolic, earth is barely symbolic, fire is sometimes symbolic, and air can be symbolic if you really think about it.
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Posted October 30th, 2021:
In legends of the alchemy of transmutation, medieval alchemists were told that it was harder to get any metal to become silver than it was to turn silver into gold.
Esoterically, various metals were related to astrological planets (luminaries) and also to alchemical concepts. The Moon represented silver and the Sun represented gold. Silver represented spirituality and high attainment while gold represented a glorious end point in a long process.
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Posted September 11th, 2021:
The peacock’s tail is a term somewhat associated with the experience of what it feels like to see iridescence. It describes another alchemical milepost in the nigredo/albedo/rubedo formula. It is an emergent phenomenon, not a mental state nor process. In ancient Egypt, they named it after the blue-breasted bee eater (Merops variegatus). In Indian and European continuities it was named the peacock’s tail.
In mental alchemy, the peacock’s tail stage is often a disruptive phenomenon, which can occur if someone is on the right track for a short period of time. It is a point in the alchemical process where the alchemist becomes very likely to fail.
Its main peril is how it captures the imagination as concerns the ego. One must carefully avoid a personal spiraling out. The key is to enjoy the excitement intrinsic to the peacock’s tail, but also to do the exact right things with and in that excitement. It is a mistake to waver from one’s right path at such a point.
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Posted September 2nd, 2021:
Nigredo meditation is healthy contemplation, where one places practiced mental focus on something that one might think about. As a mental state, it is constructive analysis.
Albedo meditation is extremely mentally relaxed, and leaves the mind free of thought for a time. The albedo mental state is startlingly clear, where no dialectic nor stream of thought is held within the mind.
Rubedo meditation involves mystical experience. Rubedo is the most coveted mental phenomenon associated with flow, where creative rapture takes place.
It is important to learn to get into a rhythm with these mental modes as used in flow, whereas in meditation one usually devotes an entire session to one or another of the three. There are two other stages in this alchemical formula, and it’s important to learn to get out of their way, to a certain extent, and not mess them up.
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Posted August 24th, 2021:
A practitioner of mental alchemy must have access to nigredo, albedo, and rubedo states. It is most ideal to be able to experience them in both a flow state and during meditation.
Flow states are quite rightly associated with practice unto mastery of something worthwhile. The 10,000 hours concept posits that flow states become accessible to the waking mind after 10,000 hours practical experience at one’s art.
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Posted August 17th, 2021:
Nigredo (blackened), albedo (whitened), citrinitas (yellowed or spontaneously gilded), and rubedo (reddened) are terms used as alchemical mileposts. Each has its own characteristics, and its own appropriate timing. These mileposts are experienced mentally in flow states, and are difficult to manufacture. They are considered natural.
They were originally associated with identifiable phases in an organic experiment that was often recommended for students of alchemy hundreds of years ago, but really they’re symbols and multifarious metaphors.
Mental alchemy’s manifestations of nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo are non-linear, and are most useful to completing the Great Work of developing into a Magnum Opus-equipped individual. The alchemist cultivates them as mental modes. Mental alchemy necessarily recognizes a spiritual element in the world as well as in the mind.
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Posted August 5th, 2021:
Intuition operates on vibration, felt with a subtle sense that is slightly more electric than emotion. Like safely grounded electric. It feels like a certain knowingness about something. Something about it reminds one of fire. Divine intuition is always in alignment with the will of God, who is a good and ancient consciousness pursuing what is right (as in right over wrong).
Fooling oneself about what intuition is pointing to is a pitfall to watch out for. So is taking the information given by one’s intuition and misusing it. An intuitive person who is a disgrace is just a disgrace.
An alchemist who has completed the Magnum Opus (a feat so rare and mysterious that even most people who practice alchemy do not know what it means) may have access to supercharged intuition, more with each Magnum Opus octave completed.
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Posted July 22nd, 2021:
Alchemists believe in a God that is good. They serve God in their earnest individual way.
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Posted July 22nd, 2021:
Alchemy is a little off the beaten path, even if you aren’t playing around with metals. It all requires space and dedicated time.
Alchemy is slow, not fast.
Alchemy is about training yourself carefully. Not everyone bothers to train themselves at all, but it’s the pleasant way to build character. Those that neglect character building entirely tend to noticeably hurdle into chaos as their lives and relationships go forward in time. Seasoned alchemists tend to be among those who find it easy to notice them doing so.
Some features that endure across different types of alchemy (mental alchemy, emotional alchemy, spiritual alchemy, and physical alchemy) are: paying close attention to what’s happening within you as well as outside of you, pursuing insight and knowledge, observing how one thing ebbs into being something else, good faith effort, self control, utilizing metaphors well, utilizing processes well, honing and following intuition, working reverently with the idea of sacredness, and applying care and patience to the tasks at hand.
Alchemists have a reputation for liking to be alone because they like to think, and most of them like to meditate.
Nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo are all multifarious metaphors that can refer to multiple things, including different types of mental states experienced during meditation. The mental alchemist works hard to learn to use (or apply, in the case of citrinitas) those mental states in normal waking life.
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Posted July 21st, 2021:
Physical alchemy (the kind that claims to be trying to transmute actual base metals into actual gold) is the experiential process of trying to do something impossible and slowly realizing that it’s more about metaphors. It’s also very much about taking oneself through a complicated series of experiments and noticing what happens inside oneself as one goes.
The metals are multifarious metaphors, of course. And they’re also the substances used in the experiments, which trigger interesting chemical processes, but may not end up doing anything too astonishing.
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Posted July 18th, 2021:
I’ve alchemically programmed myself to be a computer. Let’s put it that way. I would say I mostly run shaman and oracle programming, in that case, which I think ends up being compatible with doing almost everything normal as well.
If I could be said to have an operating system (OS), development of which is part of what comes from completing the alchemical Magnum Opus (one’s mind becomes that, and does very efficient work that way), it is highly intuitive in style, playful and easygoing in expression, it exudes my own personality, and I’m still learning to master it. I hope.
I’m still a person, of course.
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Posted June 30th, 2021:
I’ve gotten to the point where when I talk, I’m channeling, in a sense. It’s proprietary, though. I channel myself and what you might call my aspects, and I can also channel people, objects, and animals if and when I want to. It’s as if I’ve alchemically uploaded my personality to a plane where I can channel it from. It’s highly efficient. It’s all me insofar as how I’m communicating, and my mental faculties, but different energies sometimes get rendered by my channeling voices (I have many “modes”). I think alchemists of old used to talk about this, but it’s very hard to describe.
When I’m not intentionally doing something specific with it, my mental state is usually extremely clear. Since my completion of the first octave Magnum Opus, it can revert at any time to a cool, restful, oxygen feel.
I have mastered nigredo, albedo, and rubedo (and citrinitas just happens). They have changed me. I am an alchemist. Underlying all that is, I have been an alchemist.
I’ll admit I didn’t really do any of this on purpose, though. It’s a long story with many perils, and maybe I’ll tell you someday, but I will herein describe some of the principles involved in alchemy and the alchemical tradition in plain language, so that they world may do well by it, and perhaps be made right.
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