Esotericism: Hermetic Notes
Tria Prima:
- SULFUR "Omnipresent Spirit of Life" - MERCURY "Fluid connection between High and Low" - SALT "Base Matter"
--- 7 Primary Metals GOLD - (Sun) "Willpower / Sense of Self" (Heart, Spinal Column, Heat Distribution)
SILVER - (Moon) "Water / Growth / Emotions / Sub-conscious / Instinct / Fertility / Uni-consciousness / Genetics / Rhythmic Cycles" (Brain, Female Organs, Stomach, All Body Fluids)
COPPER - (Venus) "Herbalism / Magic / Arts / Music / Design / Harmony / Proportion / Integration / Meditation of Polarities Into One / Odors / Love" (Skin, Kidneys, Sweat, Transformation and Enrichment of Substances In Body, Sexual Organs, Smell)
IRON - (Mars) "Intense or Violent Energy / Psychic Ability / Physical Power" (Muscular System, Male Sex Organs, Blood Formation, Adrenaline, Purging of Body or toxins to maintain health)
TIN - (Jupiter) "Good Health / Wealth" (Liver, Abdomen and Stomach arteries, Digestion and Assimilation of Oxygen and Nutrition, Anti-biotic Functions, Cell Growth, General Energy Levels)
MERCURY - (Mercury) "Communication / Commerce / Initiation Into the Mysterious / Alchemy / Kabbalah / Astrology / Magic / Writing / Information Transmission / Nerves / Dexterity / Mental Skill / Speedy Distribution of Energy" (Nerves, Speech, Hearing, Spiritual and Physical Manifest, Coordination, Thyroid, Nervous System, Spinal Fluid)
LEAD - (Saturn) "Old Age / Chronic Disease / Karma / Learning" (Bones, Teeth, Spleen, Hair, Minerals In the Body, Joints, Flexibility)
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ALCHEMIC STAGES
1 CALCINATION - (Aries)
Chemically: Heating a substance until reduced to ashes
Arcane: Sulfuric Acid (Vitriol)*Reacts with all metals except Gold*
Psychologically: Destruction of Ego/Material Possession
Physiologically: Metabolic Discipline, Aerobic Activity
Planetary: Fire of Creation(Formation of living space after lava and volcanic ashes)
Society: The Revolutionaries, Conquerors, Authority-Challenging Warriors
Begins with base ROOT CHAKRA
- 2 DISSOLUTION - (Cancer)
Chemically: Dissolving the Ashes with Water
Arcane: Iron Oxide (Rust) * Illustrates the potentially corrosive power of water on very hard metals
Psychologically: The breaking down of the artificial structures of the psyche, total immersion in unconscious, irrational feminine, or objective parts of our minds
Physiologically: Continuation of Kundalini
Planetary: Great flood, cleansing of the inferior
Society: Controlled/Agricultural Based dissolution in water
Takes place in SACRAL CHAKRA, involving lung and spleen
- 3 SEPARATION - (Scorpio)
Chemically: Isolation of components from dissolution by filtration and discarding ingenuine material
Arcane: Sodium Carbonate (Natron)
Psychologically: The process of rediscovering self essences previously rejected by the masculine rational side of our mind * What to discard and what to reintegrate * Letting go of restraints for our full nature
Physiologically: Controlling the breath of the body as it maneuvers spirit and soul, to birth new energy and renewal
Planetary: Formation of land masses/islands from the four elemental forces
Society: The establishment of clans, cities, and nationalities
Begins in NAVEL CHAKRA (Iron)
- 4 CONJUNCTION - (Venus)
Chemically: Recombination of saving elements from separation into a new substance
Arcane: Salt of Petra/Stone Salt (nitrate compound)/Potassium nitrate (Salt)
Psychologically: The empowerment of our true self, union of masculine and feminine sides of our personalities into a new intuitive state of consciousness and being
Physiologically: Using the body's sexual energies to perform transformation
Planetary: Primordial life forms created from the energies of the Sunlight
Society: The growth of crass and technologies to master the environment * Referred to as "Lesser Stone" by alchemists * The individual will be able to know what to do to maintain lasting enlightenment * Union of self/Synchronicities
Takes place at HEART CHAKRA (Copper)
- 5 FERMENTATION - (Capricorn)
*A two-step process of putrefaction of old being in conjunction with its death and resurrection to a new level of being
Chemically: The growth of a ferment bacteria (wine, curds for cheese)
Arcane: Liquor Hepatis (Liquor of the Liver) * Smells pleasing referred to as "Balsalm of the Soul"
Psychologically: Inspiration of spiritual power from above that rejuvenated the alchemist
Planetary: The evolution of life to produce higher states of consciousness
Society: Basis of religion
Based in THROAT CHAKRA -
6 DISTILLATION - (Virgo)
Chemically: Boiling and condensation of the fermented solution to increase its purity, like wine into brandy
Arcane: Black Pulvis Solaris
Psychologically: The agitation and sublimation of psychic forces as necessary to ensure that no impurities of the expanded ego follow into the final stage
Physiologically: The raising of life force repeatedly from lower regions of the body to the brain, "The Circulation of the Light"
Planetary: The realization of the power of higher love as the life force from the entire planet that gradually seeks to share this truth
Society: A science or objective experimentation
Said to culminate in the Third Eye area in BROW CHAKRA (Silver)
- 7 - COAGULATION - (Taurus)
Chemically: Precipitation or sublimation from the purified ferment from Distillation
Arcanum: Red Pulvis Solaris *Sulfur and Mercury compound "Powder of the Sun"
Psychologically: A confidence beyond all things
Physiologically: The releasing of the elixir or, "Heavenly food", in the blood that rejuvenates the body into perfect health*Released through the interaction of light from the Pineal Gland and matter from the Pituitary Gland
Planetary: The return to the Garden of Eden
Society: The living wisdom that everyone exists in the same light of evolved consciousness and knowledge of truth
With confidence and Coagulation's physiological impression, the second body of solid light that emerges through the CROWN CHAKRA (gold) --- Consciousness is the “Materia Prima“
The 'Materia Prima' is Carbon, (6) (Number of Balance, Hexagon) which is compressed and heated, turning into an impenetrable diamond
"The Great Work" to transcend the impression of duality
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Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo, Cauda Pavonis
Nigredo (Before one can grow spiritually, they must remove all ideas of limitations)
Albedo (Purification of the subject, after initial euphoria, a means for control may come, elevating and expanding the consciousness)
Rubedo (Spiritual knowledge gains value, and must be put into practice/Old ideas must be transcended)
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* Masculine to Sun/Sulphur
* Feminine to Moon/MercurySpark of Soul to Salt
* Alchemists portrayed "As Above, So Below" with physical material alchemy in relation to spiritual alchemy.
