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01-09-2008, 07:52 PM
The Alchemists Green Vitriol/Prima Materia.
Reconciling Extreme Cosmic Opposites.
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9 Moon (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Moon2.html)
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Basil Valentine’s VITRIOL emblem.
Ninth Astral Plane
Also known as 'Nirvana' or nothingness where the soul is purged of everything ready for the return to God, but in an most unexpected way. Considering the Emerald Tablet says;
8. It ascends by means of earth into heaven and again it descends into the earth, and retakes the power of the superiors and of the inferiors.
9. Thu, you have the glory of the whole world.
10. Therefore may it drive-out of you, all obscurity.
It is suggesting once heaven has been reached the natural cycle makes all things to descend again, as Basil Valentine is suggesting we see into the purified earth to find the secret stone.
The jewels of immortality we are after, are always guarded by a dragon (an old one). Just as in the Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the quest was to enter a dragons cave and take that which was the precious, away from the golem (personal shadow, negative ego).. I am convinced that western alchemy tradition has been left alone due to its mystical complexity from being tampered and distorted by interpretations. It draws inspiration heavily from the Hebrew collection of mystical commentaries the Zohar which is responsible for the tree of life matrix the Kabbalah, which describes the fiery action of the three mothers purifying the Earth element.
Apart from the chemistry implications of what is the green vitriol is, after reading Daniel Pinchbecks excellent book on 2012, I was inspired to explain weird green visions I have had in a different light.
What is the genuine green vitriol of the alchemists? We are led more closely to an understanding by trying to understand the meaning of the word 'vitriol'. 'Vitriolum' is a contraction of the initial letters of the following Latin sentence:
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Inveniens Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam. Or in one of the possible translations:
"See in the interior of the purified earth, and you will find the secret stone, the true medicine".
Thus the fluoro green coloured vitriol was a code name for the original substance of the starting crude prima material of the philosopher's stone, the lost divine sparks, the life force of the human shadow/soul.
What is the genuine green vitriol of the alchemists? Answer, it is you, your shadow.
I have read the above quote for years and misunderstood its real meaning till very recently experiencing lack of sleep due to cancer pain. One of many pain fever delirium’s with eyes shut, horrible moving fluorine green images set against a black background would constellate merging in and out with ghoulish faces in my minds eye of the astral gloom of my being.
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“ABHORRENT “ by Brian William Hastings
This thing of Darkness I acknowledge as mine. Prospero in the TEMPEST.
Only the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the souls habitation hence forth be built. Bertrand Russel.
file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image007.gif According to Carl Jung, green gold is the colour that alchemists saw as an expression of the life spirit permeating man and matter. Green Death by Odilon Redon 1905.
C.G. Jung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.G._Jung) identified "The Emerald Tablet" with a table made of green stone which he encountered in the first of a set of his dreams and visions beginning at the end of 1912, and climaxing in his writing the Seven Sermons to the Dead in 1916. Contemporary rendering of Latin text
1. True, without error, certain and most true
2. That which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to perform the miracles of the one thing.
3. And as all things were from [the] one, by [means of] the meditation of [the] one, thus all things of the daughter from [the] one, by [means of] adaptation.
4. Its father is the sun, its mother[,]the moon, the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
5. The father of all the looms of the whole world is here.
6. Its power is integrating if it be turned into earth.
7. Separate the earth from the fire, the fine from the dense, delicately, by [means of/to] the great [together] with capacity.
8. It ascends by [means of] earth into heaven and again it descends into the earth, and retakes the power of the superior[s] and of the inferior[s].
9. Thus[,] you have the glory of the whole world.
10. Therefore may it drive-out of you, all obscurity.
11. This is the whole of the strength of the strong force, because it overcomes all fine things, and penetrates all the complete.
12. Thus[,] the world has been created.
13. Hence they were wonderful adaptations, of which this is the manner.
14. Therefore[,] I am Hermes the Thrice Great, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
15. What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun has been completed.
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance. It claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus) "Hermes the Thrice-Great", a legendary Egyptian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt) sage or god.
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Green Lion: The stem and root of the radical essence of the metals and the soul, and raw crude and unpurified energy of nature and the soul. Symbol of the living life force sought in the First Matter. The beginning of the work, a fluoro green energy is seen with eyes shut in the astral gloom. It is the Shekhina life spark trapped in the Earth element entombed by ghouls and gnomes reflected off your own personal destructive energy. It is this which is watched and seen to change colour as the soul transforms. In the tattwa colour cards system the process starts at its crudest with the yellow of the earth element and reaches the blue of the air element making this very bright fluoro green, which is when enough freedom has been leveraged from the gnome elementals to see your own soul energy, hence the green lion. Then the green advances into the red of fire cancelling each other out into a purple black void of the quintessence signals the souls freedom from entombment by the earth elementals and complete escape from the Earth element and entry into the element of water .
. The alchemy symbol of the living life force spark sought in the First Matter. This image can be used to indicate a beginning of the work on a practical or physical level withinin the earth element, both doing practical, creating an elixir or tincture, as well as a mandala for meditation to begin the process of cleansing the soul or body of the spiritual alchemist in the Ninth Astral Plane Also known as 'Nirvana' or nothingness where the soul is purged of everything ready for the return to God.
The following insight on the earth elementals is from reading Daniel Pinchbecks excellent 2012 The return of Quetzalcoatl, page 140.
According to Rudolf Steiner,” gnomes and ghouls of the mineral earth element always work beneath the surface of the planet in earth mineral layers and take on a similar role in our dream lives. The gnomes are at work in our psychic soul life in our subconscious depths. Anyone who gets to the stage of experiencing dreams in full consciousness on falling asleep is well acquainted with the gnomes. Steiner noted for somebody unprepared, the experience would be an alarming one; at the moment of falling asleep he would behold a host of goblins coming towards him…
The form in which they would appear would be reflections, images of the qualities of the individual concerned that work as forces of destruction. He would perceive all the destructive forces within him, all that continually destroys.” If we were able to remain conscious of what we dreamed, what we would perceive would be a kind of entombment by gnomes in the astral world.
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Behind the more innocent appearing children’s book characters of gnomes hide more sinister forces which shamanic cultures hold responsible for soul theft. The whole purpose of alchemy and the western mystery tradition comes to a final focus of reclaiming the lost human shadow soul from the Earth elementals.
At the age of 45 I was diagnosed with a terminal cancer, and given 8 years to live.
As I write , I am now in my seventh year. I will spare you from the obvious pain and depressing details, but preserve the lessons I learnt in an orgiastic synchronicity of revelations into my predicament.
Because of the pain I could not properly sleep for the first two years. Friday and Saturday nights were the worst. In the beginning of one of many fever delirium’s with eyes shut, horrible fluorine green images set against a black background would constellate merging in and out with ghoulish faces in my minds eye of the astral pits of my being. I totally agree that these are only seen of the reflection of my own destructive energies as Daniel correctly states in part 3 of chapter two, Lucifer and Ahiriman. I felt I was abandoned inside the intestines of something bigger. Forced to watch a cosmic play within the green astral gloom and being squeezed along by a cosmic peristalsis along with these astral ghouls. For two slow years I had noticed the horrible process was making slow progress. Then a faint background image which I mistook for a frightening shape in my fear and ignorance. It was appearing now not of the green fluoro colour of the horror faces but a fire of golden crimson in symbol of the alchemists mercury or the philosophers stone. If I focused upon this symbol with all my pathetic strength which was really weakness, the ghouls would diminish and the intensity of the symbols fire would appear to come closer, and a positive uplifting illuminating commentary about its meaning would communicate itself as joy to me. file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image017.gif
I did not know it then but it was what the Jews call the Shekhina ( there is fire). Something they too only discovered through extreme suffering.
The Zohar says the more a male (yang) soul sins the further away the Shekhina (Divine Feminine Fire) moves from that soul. My suffering had produced an alchemical calcining of my destructive energies and the positive progressive direction my yang soul had taken within the astral gloom had allowed Her to draw closer.
The jewels of immortality we are after, are always guarded by a dragon (an old one). Just as in the Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the quest was to enter a dragons cave and take that which was the precious, away from the golem (personal shadow, negative ego).
The jewels of immortality are the fire of the Shekhina your own opposite Yin soul trapped and held captive by the dragon which is the personal destructive energy, the cave is the earth element and elementals who are negative yin seeking their opposite as your own unbalanced negative yang soul.
Notice that the gin gnomes and greys never steal hippies and yin yang balanced people. They are only after the negative opposite of which they lack the male biased yang souls.
Remembering that I was saved from the astral gloom of ghouls by regaining my yin opposite fire the Shekhina. This is the true medicine.
On what is eating us all.
The Sick Rose
O rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm.
That flies in the night
In the howling storm.
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
—William Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience, P 37
Obscure poems and saying which meant nothing before were now making real sense.
The culmination of the suffering consciously in the astral gloom process I went through was to become totally nauseated by the extreme bias of my own male yang soul. In the Naked Lunch Burroughs is playing shooting games and killing his female partner (yin self).What was suggested by our contemporary William, William Burroughs in his novel the Naked Lunch, he tried to generate a sense of a state of total emergency while you can still act against the ethric and astral parasites, giant insects which he called Martins, are stealing your orgons (life force), so that you would never notice them doing it they give you a false emotional mood which makes you hate silence (the void) and stillness. To counter act the voids silence and the capacity for self reflection this mood always keeps you busy and makes you feels safe in a white kitten fantasy. William Burroughs Reader p.202- 217
Back to page 140 of Daniel Pinchbecks 2012. I have another insight to contribute. The initial stage of the Bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead IS THE SAME EXPERIENCE as Rudolf Steiner,s gin and gnomes description of conscious dreaming
as an entombment by gnomes in the astral world. It is curious to note that in most mythological history of all cultures it is always the same dynamic, the dark earth elemental’s the gin or yin gnomes are only stealing yang male biased human souls of either sex. If a soul energy is in perfect equilibrium , it is free of the dark yin of the earth elementals.
Sophie Scholl stood up against the Nazi’s for exterminating the protesters, the ill, deformed, and Jews for the rich contribution “the suffering” could make for better understanding of humanity, my own suffering has yielded riches which only those who have encountered similar suffering would see as riches.
The Pit of karmic destruction for an alchemist holds an exciting confirmation of the years of struggle and work. As the green lion and the green life spirit reveal a historic starting point of transformation of the personal shadows most destructive soul energy. It is identical to the concept of the Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death. The dead experience the processing by the four elements in the Bardo of becoming where they are purified by the fire of the elements towards the souls liberation and an exact parallel process is described in European alchemy starting with the fluoro green lion.
Our soul is reborn in hell, the pit , the virginal birth of our soul is purified in the earth element by living in the human body and voluntary conscious suffering recognising ones own destructive energies the crude green lion, and then we have the eyes to discover the greatest secrets, the purified earth. This is an actual place that lies lower than the first plane and is darker and more loathsome than the lowest of the astrals. This is the place we on earth call 'Hell', although it bears no resemblance to the hell depicted in the Bible and taught to us by church leaders and parents. Only very greatest evil part of each person can find itself there, evil that has practically lost its semblance to humanity, it is a composite ethric shadow form resulting from the lost souls of past incarnations.
Dantes nine levels of hell are three elements water air fire working in their destructive modality. Here the function of the divine fire is reversed from creative construction of immortality to perform destruction of the energy of the negative ego, transmutation of the crude raw life force within the Earth . Nature provides extensive examples of sustainability being facilitated by balance. Each individual self judges themselves as it is they who chosen to assemble qualities of equilibrium of opposites or imbalance which perishes of itself.
Divine humour has its joking quality hide away alchemy’s biggest secrets in the pit of hell or in the destructive energies of the Earth Element, among the patriarchal ghoulish gnomes.
Where the upper octave is inhabited by peaceful deities which teach wisdom to the voluntary initiate who engages the divine fire as a peak experience of continuous unfold revelation, the pit contains wrathful deities earth elementals which are charged with the karmic destruction of involuntary individuals negative male biased ego by the very same divine fire which assembles the immortal body. Where the stages of intensity of the initiating fire are gauged by the elements water, air, fire, so the levels in the pit serve the same initiatory function.
All mystical texts agree that every individual at some point in their souls past evolution have to pass through the destructive energies of the pit according to their individual correction required.
The fools bridge in the pit between water and air is a grace and a last chance of escape and crossing to the return cycle which reflects the same opportunity missed in the above octave. At this point exist the Fundamentalist traditions perched upon a precipice of final destruction. Here there is no circulation of energies as in the upper circle, with so little contact and comparison with the upper energies allowing any warning of impending destruction due to excessive imbalance. The qualities of duality are at this point at maximum effect and are self reinforcing to justify a precarious position whose real predicament is only redeemed by a divine shock.
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Between the two horns set top and bottom is the fiery environment ;
creative annihilation leading to immortality
destructive annihilation leading to karmic deletion
"It Is Finished When Seven Are One" is an Alchemical treatise. When the Alchemist amalgamates these 7 planetary dimensions and achieves the divine mixture it represents his own transformation and his soul ascended.
All are born and begin the journey within the Saturn/Shadow element and go out from it to gather all the other elements as tools for the great work and then return back to where you began to transform the Saturn/Shadow element within you.
Planetary Seals
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3 Saturn (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Saturn.html)
4 Jupiter (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Jupiter.html)
5 Mars (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Mars.html)
6 Sun (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Sun.html)
7 Venus (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Venus.html)
8Mercury (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/mercury.html)
9 Moon (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Moon2.html)
Third dimension - crude patriarchal orientated Earth element. Saturn.
Fourth dimension - evolved feminine orientated values Water element. Jupiter
Crossing the Void - transition across the Royal Arch to the higher octave of the Mysteries.
Fifth Dimension- the souls ascension work Air element. Mars.
Sixth dimension- the souls completion work Fire element. Sun.
Seventh dimension- receiving the Quintessence the universal lotus opening. Venus
Eighth dimension- the cosmic void, Daath, Wisdom duality becomes unity. Mercury
Ninth dimension- the Divine Presence. Moon.
The big picture: Condensation of Energy into matter
The Hyle or Chaos enamates from the point called Kether in the Creator. This point is the SEED of the entire creation which is summarised in Figure1 below.
Figure1
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Condensation of Energy into animated matter on Earth relates to the stone
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The above process is repeated in the creation of each of the 4 universes (mentioned later) and finnally the same process applies to ‘life’ (the stone is also live, so are many other things) on earth. It is invisible as awave form and made physical by the pureified mind.
For Earth, chaos is the Solar Ether containing sunlight and the sun is the point of its source. Sunlight is the major part of Solar Ether that contains solar fire. Each plant seed, egg or fertilized mammalian egg has a point in space inside it, that acts as a portal through which solar fire (and other fires) flows and animates life. This point is the real SEED. The SEED is a point in space inside an egg or inside a plant seed. It is not physical. Solar fire flows through this SEED. The flow of solar fire is triggered by
the moisture (water)
and heat in the structure surrounding it
and the structure itself (form and function principle)
and astrological conditions which includes the seasons.
So water is a trigger only and not the source of the solar fire but rainwater can carry solar fire. The solar fire is lost from rainwater once it is grounded (elemental fire is electrical see figure2)
The structure surrounding the SEED is the ‘meat’ of the seed of plant and egg. The triggers activate the SEED and causes germination and growth. In minerals and in-animate material one has to create the molecular structure that activates the point for the solar fire to flow. That is why alchemist say the stone is alive. Its action is different from animal and plant life but it is alive. In fact water is live!!!! Everything is alive if you can perceive the motion in everything. When one sees things in this manner then everything is God. There is simply nothing else. This whole existence is a vibration!!!
There are 4 types of elemental fires one may work with as one begins to gain control. They are in order of ascension:
Star fires for the physical universe. Each star has its own specific fire. The whole of the electromagnetic spectrum and more is included here. Our sun is a star. So solar fire is specific to solar system, and hence for our earth. One may begin by controlling solar fire. I believe that’s the stone we are working for.
Mental fire for the astral universe
Psychic fire for the causal universe.
Spiritual fire for the spiritual universe.
Solar fire is in the sunlight and other fires are even more subtler states of energy than sunlight and, as far as we are concerned, these other fires are space. These fires have the same geometrical structure of waves but higher frequencies as one ascends. (Elemental airs, waters and earths also have same structural and frequency characteristics)
The 5th type of fire is physical fire (burning coal, wood, gas etc or by electricity) Physical fire also produces solar fire in the form of light of same frequency as the sunlight but other radiations are not present. The physical fire (incubators, ovens, furnaces) can be used to separate and combine the elements of nature from a material but not to animate matter.
Just like beams of light from 4 torches will occupy the same space, the 4 universes (mentioned earlier) occupy the same space. So all 4 universes are here and the difference is in the vibrating frequency of the energies and our ability to percieve. The universes get bigger as you ascend. The physical universe is the smallest and it does have a boundary. All the universes are here and you don’t have to go anywhere to see them. You have to develop more eyes to see them.
The space contains 4 grades of elements (fire, air, water and earth) each relevant to its universe. We have 4 bodies: physical, mental, psychic and spiritual (the human anatomy includes the charkas or sephoric centers and the aura – not by accepted science though). Each body has the fives senses of its own.
The physical eye sees the physical universe. Can train the eye to see better.
Activate the mental eye by resonance and you will see the astral universe and control the mental fire.
Activate the psychic eye by resonance and you will see the causal universe and control the psychic fire.
Same goes for the spiritual fire.
These activations work through the activations of the charkas. One method of activation is done directly by alchemical initiations which is simply taking of elixirs in a methodical manner.
Modern science has taken one to quarks and to the revelation that the apparent “empty” space is in fact the “most chaotic state of energy” yet known!!!!! One may see that all alchemical references to the chaos, including the Golden Chain Of Homer, connect to the discovery of quarks in space here in the labs on earth. Paraphysics may help extend modern concepts!!??
So how do we connect it to the stone? Like so
Figure2
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Reconciling Extreme Cosmic Opposites.
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9 Moon (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Moon2.html)
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Basil Valentine’s VITRIOL emblem.
Ninth Astral Plane
Also known as 'Nirvana' or nothingness where the soul is purged of everything ready for the return to God, but in an most unexpected way. Considering the Emerald Tablet says;
8. It ascends by means of earth into heaven and again it descends into the earth, and retakes the power of the superiors and of the inferiors.
9. Thu, you have the glory of the whole world.
10. Therefore may it drive-out of you, all obscurity.
It is suggesting once heaven has been reached the natural cycle makes all things to descend again, as Basil Valentine is suggesting we see into the purified earth to find the secret stone.
The jewels of immortality we are after, are always guarded by a dragon (an old one). Just as in the Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the quest was to enter a dragons cave and take that which was the precious, away from the golem (personal shadow, negative ego).. I am convinced that western alchemy tradition has been left alone due to its mystical complexity from being tampered and distorted by interpretations. It draws inspiration heavily from the Hebrew collection of mystical commentaries the Zohar which is responsible for the tree of life matrix the Kabbalah, which describes the fiery action of the three mothers purifying the Earth element.
Apart from the chemistry implications of what is the green vitriol is, after reading Daniel Pinchbecks excellent book on 2012, I was inspired to explain weird green visions I have had in a different light.
What is the genuine green vitriol of the alchemists? We are led more closely to an understanding by trying to understand the meaning of the word 'vitriol'. 'Vitriolum' is a contraction of the initial letters of the following Latin sentence:
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Inveniens Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam. Or in one of the possible translations:
"See in the interior of the purified earth, and you will find the secret stone, the true medicine".
Thus the fluoro green coloured vitriol was a code name for the original substance of the starting crude prima material of the philosopher's stone, the lost divine sparks, the life force of the human shadow/soul.
What is the genuine green vitriol of the alchemists? Answer, it is you, your shadow.
I have read the above quote for years and misunderstood its real meaning till very recently experiencing lack of sleep due to cancer pain. One of many pain fever delirium’s with eyes shut, horrible moving fluorine green images set against a black background would constellate merging in and out with ghoulish faces in my minds eye of the astral gloom of my being.
file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image005.gif
“ABHORRENT “ by Brian William Hastings
This thing of Darkness I acknowledge as mine. Prospero in the TEMPEST.
Only the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the souls habitation hence forth be built. Bertrand Russel.
file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image007.gif According to Carl Jung, green gold is the colour that alchemists saw as an expression of the life spirit permeating man and matter. Green Death by Odilon Redon 1905.
C.G. Jung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.G._Jung) identified "The Emerald Tablet" with a table made of green stone which he encountered in the first of a set of his dreams and visions beginning at the end of 1912, and climaxing in his writing the Seven Sermons to the Dead in 1916. Contemporary rendering of Latin text
1. True, without error, certain and most true
2. That which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to perform the miracles of the one thing.
3. And as all things were from [the] one, by [means of] the meditation of [the] one, thus all things of the daughter from [the] one, by [means of] adaptation.
4. Its father is the sun, its mother[,]the moon, the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
5. The father of all the looms of the whole world is here.
6. Its power is integrating if it be turned into earth.
7. Separate the earth from the fire, the fine from the dense, delicately, by [means of/to] the great [together] with capacity.
8. It ascends by [means of] earth into heaven and again it descends into the earth, and retakes the power of the superior[s] and of the inferior[s].
9. Thus[,] you have the glory of the whole world.
10. Therefore may it drive-out of you, all obscurity.
11. This is the whole of the strength of the strong force, because it overcomes all fine things, and penetrates all the complete.
12. Thus[,] the world has been created.
13. Hence they were wonderful adaptations, of which this is the manner.
14. Therefore[,] I am Hermes the Thrice Great, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
15. What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun has been completed.
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance. It claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus) "Hermes the Thrice-Great", a legendary Egyptian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt) sage or god.
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Green Lion: The stem and root of the radical essence of the metals and the soul, and raw crude and unpurified energy of nature and the soul. Symbol of the living life force sought in the First Matter. The beginning of the work, a fluoro green energy is seen with eyes shut in the astral gloom. It is the Shekhina life spark trapped in the Earth element entombed by ghouls and gnomes reflected off your own personal destructive energy. It is this which is watched and seen to change colour as the soul transforms. In the tattwa colour cards system the process starts at its crudest with the yellow of the earth element and reaches the blue of the air element making this very bright fluoro green, which is when enough freedom has been leveraged from the gnome elementals to see your own soul energy, hence the green lion. Then the green advances into the red of fire cancelling each other out into a purple black void of the quintessence signals the souls freedom from entombment by the earth elementals and complete escape from the Earth element and entry into the element of water .
. The alchemy symbol of the living life force spark sought in the First Matter. This image can be used to indicate a beginning of the work on a practical or physical level withinin the earth element, both doing practical, creating an elixir or tincture, as well as a mandala for meditation to begin the process of cleansing the soul or body of the spiritual alchemist in the Ninth Astral Plane Also known as 'Nirvana' or nothingness where the soul is purged of everything ready for the return to God.
The following insight on the earth elementals is from reading Daniel Pinchbecks excellent 2012 The return of Quetzalcoatl, page 140.
According to Rudolf Steiner,” gnomes and ghouls of the mineral earth element always work beneath the surface of the planet in earth mineral layers and take on a similar role in our dream lives. The gnomes are at work in our psychic soul life in our subconscious depths. Anyone who gets to the stage of experiencing dreams in full consciousness on falling asleep is well acquainted with the gnomes. Steiner noted for somebody unprepared, the experience would be an alarming one; at the moment of falling asleep he would behold a host of goblins coming towards him…
The form in which they would appear would be reflections, images of the qualities of the individual concerned that work as forces of destruction. He would perceive all the destructive forces within him, all that continually destroys.” If we were able to remain conscious of what we dreamed, what we would perceive would be a kind of entombment by gnomes in the astral world.
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Behind the more innocent appearing children’s book characters of gnomes hide more sinister forces which shamanic cultures hold responsible for soul theft. The whole purpose of alchemy and the western mystery tradition comes to a final focus of reclaiming the lost human shadow soul from the Earth elementals.
At the age of 45 I was diagnosed with a terminal cancer, and given 8 years to live.
As I write , I am now in my seventh year. I will spare you from the obvious pain and depressing details, but preserve the lessons I learnt in an orgiastic synchronicity of revelations into my predicament.
Because of the pain I could not properly sleep for the first two years. Friday and Saturday nights were the worst. In the beginning of one of many fever delirium’s with eyes shut, horrible fluorine green images set against a black background would constellate merging in and out with ghoulish faces in my minds eye of the astral pits of my being. I totally agree that these are only seen of the reflection of my own destructive energies as Daniel correctly states in part 3 of chapter two, Lucifer and Ahiriman. I felt I was abandoned inside the intestines of something bigger. Forced to watch a cosmic play within the green astral gloom and being squeezed along by a cosmic peristalsis along with these astral ghouls. For two slow years I had noticed the horrible process was making slow progress. Then a faint background image which I mistook for a frightening shape in my fear and ignorance. It was appearing now not of the green fluoro colour of the horror faces but a fire of golden crimson in symbol of the alchemists mercury or the philosophers stone. If I focused upon this symbol with all my pathetic strength which was really weakness, the ghouls would diminish and the intensity of the symbols fire would appear to come closer, and a positive uplifting illuminating commentary about its meaning would communicate itself as joy to me. file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image017.gif
I did not know it then but it was what the Jews call the Shekhina ( there is fire). Something they too only discovered through extreme suffering.
The Zohar says the more a male (yang) soul sins the further away the Shekhina (Divine Feminine Fire) moves from that soul. My suffering had produced an alchemical calcining of my destructive energies and the positive progressive direction my yang soul had taken within the astral gloom had allowed Her to draw closer.
The jewels of immortality we are after, are always guarded by a dragon (an old one). Just as in the Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the quest was to enter a dragons cave and take that which was the precious, away from the golem (personal shadow, negative ego).
The jewels of immortality are the fire of the Shekhina your own opposite Yin soul trapped and held captive by the dragon which is the personal destructive energy, the cave is the earth element and elementals who are negative yin seeking their opposite as your own unbalanced negative yang soul.
Notice that the gin gnomes and greys never steal hippies and yin yang balanced people. They are only after the negative opposite of which they lack the male biased yang souls.
Remembering that I was saved from the astral gloom of ghouls by regaining my yin opposite fire the Shekhina. This is the true medicine.
On what is eating us all.
The Sick Rose
O rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm.
That flies in the night
In the howling storm.
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
—William Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience, P 37
Obscure poems and saying which meant nothing before were now making real sense.
The culmination of the suffering consciously in the astral gloom process I went through was to become totally nauseated by the extreme bias of my own male yang soul. In the Naked Lunch Burroughs is playing shooting games and killing his female partner (yin self).What was suggested by our contemporary William, William Burroughs in his novel the Naked Lunch, he tried to generate a sense of a state of total emergency while you can still act against the ethric and astral parasites, giant insects which he called Martins, are stealing your orgons (life force), so that you would never notice them doing it they give you a false emotional mood which makes you hate silence (the void) and stillness. To counter act the voids silence and the capacity for self reflection this mood always keeps you busy and makes you feels safe in a white kitten fantasy. William Burroughs Reader p.202- 217
Back to page 140 of Daniel Pinchbecks 2012. I have another insight to contribute. The initial stage of the Bardo in the Tibetan Book of the Dead IS THE SAME EXPERIENCE as Rudolf Steiner,s gin and gnomes description of conscious dreaming
as an entombment by gnomes in the astral world. It is curious to note that in most mythological history of all cultures it is always the same dynamic, the dark earth elemental’s the gin or yin gnomes are only stealing yang male biased human souls of either sex. If a soul energy is in perfect equilibrium , it is free of the dark yin of the earth elementals.
Sophie Scholl stood up against the Nazi’s for exterminating the protesters, the ill, deformed, and Jews for the rich contribution “the suffering” could make for better understanding of humanity, my own suffering has yielded riches which only those who have encountered similar suffering would see as riches.
The Pit of karmic destruction for an alchemist holds an exciting confirmation of the years of struggle and work. As the green lion and the green life spirit reveal a historic starting point of transformation of the personal shadows most destructive soul energy. It is identical to the concept of the Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death. The dead experience the processing by the four elements in the Bardo of becoming where they are purified by the fire of the elements towards the souls liberation and an exact parallel process is described in European alchemy starting with the fluoro green lion.
Our soul is reborn in hell, the pit , the virginal birth of our soul is purified in the earth element by living in the human body and voluntary conscious suffering recognising ones own destructive energies the crude green lion, and then we have the eyes to discover the greatest secrets, the purified earth. This is an actual place that lies lower than the first plane and is darker and more loathsome than the lowest of the astrals. This is the place we on earth call 'Hell', although it bears no resemblance to the hell depicted in the Bible and taught to us by church leaders and parents. Only very greatest evil part of each person can find itself there, evil that has practically lost its semblance to humanity, it is a composite ethric shadow form resulting from the lost souls of past incarnations.
Dantes nine levels of hell are three elements water air fire working in their destructive modality. Here the function of the divine fire is reversed from creative construction of immortality to perform destruction of the energy of the negative ego, transmutation of the crude raw life force within the Earth . Nature provides extensive examples of sustainability being facilitated by balance. Each individual self judges themselves as it is they who chosen to assemble qualities of equilibrium of opposites or imbalance which perishes of itself.
Divine humour has its joking quality hide away alchemy’s biggest secrets in the pit of hell or in the destructive energies of the Earth Element, among the patriarchal ghoulish gnomes.
Where the upper octave is inhabited by peaceful deities which teach wisdom to the voluntary initiate who engages the divine fire as a peak experience of continuous unfold revelation, the pit contains wrathful deities earth elementals which are charged with the karmic destruction of involuntary individuals negative male biased ego by the very same divine fire which assembles the immortal body. Where the stages of intensity of the initiating fire are gauged by the elements water, air, fire, so the levels in the pit serve the same initiatory function.
All mystical texts agree that every individual at some point in their souls past evolution have to pass through the destructive energies of the pit according to their individual correction required.
The fools bridge in the pit between water and air is a grace and a last chance of escape and crossing to the return cycle which reflects the same opportunity missed in the above octave. At this point exist the Fundamentalist traditions perched upon a precipice of final destruction. Here there is no circulation of energies as in the upper circle, with so little contact and comparison with the upper energies allowing any warning of impending destruction due to excessive imbalance. The qualities of duality are at this point at maximum effect and are self reinforcing to justify a precarious position whose real predicament is only redeemed by a divine shock.
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Between the two horns set top and bottom is the fiery environment ;
creative annihilation leading to immortality
destructive annihilation leading to karmic deletion
"It Is Finished When Seven Are One" is an Alchemical treatise. When the Alchemist amalgamates these 7 planetary dimensions and achieves the divine mixture it represents his own transformation and his soul ascended.
All are born and begin the journey within the Saturn/Shadow element and go out from it to gather all the other elements as tools for the great work and then return back to where you began to transform the Saturn/Shadow element within you.
Planetary Seals
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3 Saturn (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Saturn.html)
4 Jupiter (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Jupiter.html)
5 Mars (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Mars.html)
6 Sun (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Sun.html)
7 Venus (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Venus.html)
8Mercury (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/mercury.html)
9 Moon (http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Planetary%20Correspondences/Moon2.html)
Third dimension - crude patriarchal orientated Earth element. Saturn.
Fourth dimension - evolved feminine orientated values Water element. Jupiter
Crossing the Void - transition across the Royal Arch to the higher octave of the Mysteries.
Fifth Dimension- the souls ascension work Air element. Mars.
Sixth dimension- the souls completion work Fire element. Sun.
Seventh dimension- receiving the Quintessence the universal lotus opening. Venus
Eighth dimension- the cosmic void, Daath, Wisdom duality becomes unity. Mercury
Ninth dimension- the Divine Presence. Moon.
The big picture: Condensation of Energy into matter
The Hyle or Chaos enamates from the point called Kether in the Creator. This point is the SEED of the entire creation which is summarised in Figure1 below.
Figure1
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Condensation of Energy into animated matter on Earth relates to the stone
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The above process is repeated in the creation of each of the 4 universes (mentioned later) and finnally the same process applies to ‘life’ (the stone is also live, so are many other things) on earth. It is invisible as awave form and made physical by the pureified mind.
For Earth, chaos is the Solar Ether containing sunlight and the sun is the point of its source. Sunlight is the major part of Solar Ether that contains solar fire. Each plant seed, egg or fertilized mammalian egg has a point in space inside it, that acts as a portal through which solar fire (and other fires) flows and animates life. This point is the real SEED. The SEED is a point in space inside an egg or inside a plant seed. It is not physical. Solar fire flows through this SEED. The flow of solar fire is triggered by
the moisture (water)
and heat in the structure surrounding it
and the structure itself (form and function principle)
and astrological conditions which includes the seasons.
So water is a trigger only and not the source of the solar fire but rainwater can carry solar fire. The solar fire is lost from rainwater once it is grounded (elemental fire is electrical see figure2)
The structure surrounding the SEED is the ‘meat’ of the seed of plant and egg. The triggers activate the SEED and causes germination and growth. In minerals and in-animate material one has to create the molecular structure that activates the point for the solar fire to flow. That is why alchemist say the stone is alive. Its action is different from animal and plant life but it is alive. In fact water is live!!!! Everything is alive if you can perceive the motion in everything. When one sees things in this manner then everything is God. There is simply nothing else. This whole existence is a vibration!!!
There are 4 types of elemental fires one may work with as one begins to gain control. They are in order of ascension:
Star fires for the physical universe. Each star has its own specific fire. The whole of the electromagnetic spectrum and more is included here. Our sun is a star. So solar fire is specific to solar system, and hence for our earth. One may begin by controlling solar fire. I believe that’s the stone we are working for.
Mental fire for the astral universe
Psychic fire for the causal universe.
Spiritual fire for the spiritual universe.
Solar fire is in the sunlight and other fires are even more subtler states of energy than sunlight and, as far as we are concerned, these other fires are space. These fires have the same geometrical structure of waves but higher frequencies as one ascends. (Elemental airs, waters and earths also have same structural and frequency characteristics)
The 5th type of fire is physical fire (burning coal, wood, gas etc or by electricity) Physical fire also produces solar fire in the form of light of same frequency as the sunlight but other radiations are not present. The physical fire (incubators, ovens, furnaces) can be used to separate and combine the elements of nature from a material but not to animate matter.
Just like beams of light from 4 torches will occupy the same space, the 4 universes (mentioned earlier) occupy the same space. So all 4 universes are here and the difference is in the vibrating frequency of the energies and our ability to percieve. The universes get bigger as you ascend. The physical universe is the smallest and it does have a boundary. All the universes are here and you don’t have to go anywhere to see them. You have to develop more eyes to see them.
The space contains 4 grades of elements (fire, air, water and earth) each relevant to its universe. We have 4 bodies: physical, mental, psychic and spiritual (the human anatomy includes the charkas or sephoric centers and the aura – not by accepted science though). Each body has the fives senses of its own.
The physical eye sees the physical universe. Can train the eye to see better.
Activate the mental eye by resonance and you will see the astral universe and control the mental fire.
Activate the psychic eye by resonance and you will see the causal universe and control the psychic fire.
Same goes for the spiritual fire.
These activations work through the activations of the charkas. One method of activation is done directly by alchemical initiations which is simply taking of elixirs in a methodical manner.
Modern science has taken one to quarks and to the revelation that the apparent “empty” space is in fact the “most chaotic state of energy” yet known!!!!! One may see that all alchemical references to the chaos, including the Golden Chain Of Homer, connect to the discovery of quarks in space here in the labs on earth. Paraphysics may help extend modern concepts!!??
So how do we connect it to the stone? Like so
Figure2
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