A definition of Alchemy

[Guest guest]

This is my take on alchemy as a physician and laboratory alchemist.

 

There are three major schools of alchemy; Western, Chinese and

Indian, each with a somewhat different emphasis.

 

The common definition that they share when properly practiced is as

follows;

 

the study, modeling and sustainable application of the energies

resulting from the polar nature of creation resulting in matter and

energy being used to liberate it's divine spark (in the Lurianic

sense) and benefit the evolution of the practitioner and his/her

surroundings.

 

There are the interactions that generate creation; ie Eternity

generates time and space. Time and space return to Eternity on one

hand.

 

There is an energetic disposition that is analogous to archetypes

and an actual disposition as things are. The difference motivates

creation.

 

This is somewhat analogous to the Qabalistic Worlds before and after

the fall and the Chinese Ho T'ou and Lo Chou. Or, in Hermetic

science, the Golden Chain of Homer or the creation models proposed

in the Corpus Hermeticum.

 

As the reality of the IDEA (somewhat akin to the divine creative

impulse) is difficult to perceive, and the reality of the world of

shadows (our world as we remember it )is constantly changing. Only

the changes are perceived objectively and can be worked on.

 

Operative alchemy conducted by a competent practioner involves an

awareness of the above mentioned motivating forces. These are

harnessed in the lab to conduct a work that is in harmony with

creation and because of this, the objective quality of the matter

worked on is enhanced keeping in mind that the " state of

consciousness " is enhanced at the same time.

 

Laboratory manipulations are part of a process involving

prayer/meditation and observation of nature (including scientific

research and experimentation).

 

Ora et labore is the guiding principle. This can manifest in

different ways such as " finding " important data, making a seat of

the pants change in a protocol, intuition etc. I would say that once

a link is made, or that the alchemist becomes the link in between

what is refered to as the two worlds discussed above, the work tends

to proceed in a smoother fashion.

 

The existential paradigm of creation happens in a continuum. It does

not suddenly change from one platonic wold to the other. I'm talking

in the sense as documented of Chardin's noosphere, Jung's Collective

Unconsciousness and Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonnance.

 

Cheers,

 

Dr. G.