Alchemy :: Prima Materia (Lucifer) :: Projection :: Philosophers Stone

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Alchemy :: “The Dark Art”

Gnosis means Knowledge :

da’ath (Hebrew)

tantra (in East)

alchemy (in West)

The greatest minds of antiquity believed that gnosis was the foundation of all religion.

1 CORINTHIANS 3 : CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION (Isaiah 28:14-22; 1 Peter 2:4-12)

10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.12Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 14If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

The creation of an elixir of immortality;

the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease;

and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent.

The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus and,

in the Hellenistic and western tradition, the achievement of gnosis.

In Europe, the creation of a philosopher’s stone was variously connected with all of these projects.

The Philosophers Stone is the Sorcerer’s Stone

Luke 20:17

(17) And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected ,the same is become the head of the corner?

Revelation 18 : The Fall of Babylon

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

The Owl Represents being able to see in Darkness:

Alchemy, the Dark Art

Jesus is the stone the builders rejected because

He is the spiritual stone,

not the philosopher’s stone,

the prima materia hidden in Matter

Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based gentlemen’s clubknown as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world.^[1]^[2]

The main encampment area consists of 160 acres (65 ha) of old-growth redwood trees over 1,000 years old, with some trees exceeding 300 feet (91 m) in height.

The Bohemian Club’s all-male membership and guest list includes

artists, particularly musicians,

as well as many prominent business leaders,

government officials,

including former U.S. presidents,

senior media executives,

and people of power.

Cremation of Care

In 1881, the ceremony of the Cremation of Care was first conducted after the various individual performances, with James F. Bowman as Sire.^[5] The ceremony was further expanded in 1893 by a member named Joseph D. Redding,^[6] with a Midsummer High Jinks entitled The Sacrifice in the Forest, or simply “Druid Jinks”, in which brotherly love and Christianity battled and won against paganism, converting the druids away from bloody sacrifice.^[7] Redding formed the framework of the ceremony but the main actors, including George Tisdale Bromley as High Priest, were asked to supply their own major speeches.^[7] In 1904, the prologue to William Henry Irwin’s Grove Play The Hamadryads included text such as “Touch their world-blind eyes with fairy unguents.”

Owl layout in Washington

The play depicted the intrusion, the battles, and the symbolic death of the maleficent Spirit of Care.^[8]

The ceremony involves the poling across a lake of a small boat containing an effigy of Care (called “Dull Care”).

Dark, hooded figures receive from the ferryman the effigy which is placed on an altar, and, at the end of the ceremony, set on fire.

This “cremation” symbolizes that members are banishing the “dull cares” of conscience.^[14]

At the time the script was developed, the primary meaning of the word ‘care’ (< O.E. cearu, “anxiety, anguish”) was synonymous with ‘worry’, having more negative connotations than in modern times when it tends to be associated more positively with compassion.^[15]

Owl on Dollar

The ceremony takes place in front of the Owl Shrine, a 40-foot (12 m) hollow owl statue made of concrete over steel supports. The moss- and lichen-covered statue simulates a natural rock formation, yet holds electrical and audio equipment within it. During the ceremony, a recording is used as the voice of The Owl. For many years the recorded voice was club guest Walter Cronkite.^[16] Music and pyrotechnics accompany the ritual for dramatic effect

Chemistry originated from Alchemy,from the Arabic world meaning “from Egypt” ,

or from the land Kemet, meaning “DARKNESS”.

EPHESIANS 5:11

have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

JUDE : GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE UNGODLY

11Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whomis reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

EPHESIANS 6 : THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD

10Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put onthe whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

COLOSSIANS 1

13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:

PSALM 119

105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.

LUKE 8 : THE LESSON OF THE LAMP (Mark 4:21-25)

16No man, when he has lighted a candle, covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed; but sets it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. 17For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. 18Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.

1 CORINTHIANS 4

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

What in the world was happening before the flood, at Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah, and in Egypt?

What are the nations seeking after?

Atlantis,

Arcadia,

Columbia,

the Golden Age,

the Golden Fleece,

the Holy Grail,

the Philosopher’s Stone…

These are all legends of a quintessential “something” that was sought after, lost but still possible to restore.

Myth speaks of a former time and place, of fabulous deeds by men of renown,

and of an object of wisdom that was highly prized but dangerous to procure.

A tree with golden fruit is the symbol of that lost quintessence;

the “god” of the fruit tree is the bestow-er of lost knowledge.

Some of the greatest philosophical influences transferred to Western Europe from Constantinople was the work of the Neo-Platonist’s.

This philosophy continued the ideas of Plato,

who believed that all the workings of knowledge and civilization

had been conveyed to humanity from a divine source,

and was not conceived by the mind of man.

Through a series of disasters on a world scale, civilizations and the knowledge that had produced it was lost.

The names of the Space Shuttle Missions,

“A Columbian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis and all Challengers shall be destroyed”

In Plato’s Timaeus, is the story of Atlantis,

the greatest and oldest civilization the world has ever seen,

that had disappeared “in a single day and night of misfortune”.

(This is there way of describing the flood)

There exist no earlier sources of the legend of Atlantis besides the world of Plato.

Timaeus was one of the most copied and widespread of Plato’s works in the Renaissance.

In the Neo-Platonic philosophy,

the story of Atlantis was considered allegory with underlying truth, or in some cases, a true historical account.

It applied the framework from which the Neo-Platonists searched for lost knowledge.

Manuscripts of Hippolytus, Proclus, Arisophanes, Plutarch, Apuleius, and many others from antiquity

developed the theme that knowledge had been given to man from a divine source.

Through its misuse resulting in the corruption of mankind, it was lost by a subsequent judgment from heaven.

Neo Platonic views of the time also sought to link the celestial and natural world with the divine, an idea borne out of a reawakening to the scientific value of the ancient texts of the Greeks.

Ancient religious, scientific, and esoteric works were reassessed within the context of Judaic-Christian thought.

The Scientific Revolution was united with an Occult Renaissance.

Geometers,

mathematicians,

chronologists,

philosophers,

and theologians

of the age searched the texts of the ancients for the “Lost Pure Knowledge”

or Prisca Sapienta that would “merge all sciences”

μάγος mágos, mag’-os; Wise Men; Magi; a Magian,

i.e. Oriental scientist;

by implication, a magician:—sorcerer, wise man.

Soothsayer

γνῶσις gnōsis, gno’-sis; knowledge, science.

from G1097;

knowing (the act), i.e. (by implication) knowledge:—

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”)

is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge

in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Isaiah 47 : The Fall of Babylon Predicted

1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 2Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bore the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man. 4As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; on the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke. 7And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end of it. 8Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwell carelessly, that say in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come on you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me. 11Therefore shall evil come on you; you shall not know from where it rises: and mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you shall not know. 12Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. 13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come on you. 14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.15Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you.

“Alchemy is philosophy; it is the philosophy, the seeking out of the Sophia in the mind.” ~Israel Regardie

Plato, following his teacher, Socrates (and, it is likely, the older tradition of Pythagoras),

understands philosophy as (philo-sophia, or, literally, a friend of Wisdom).

G5385 φιλοσοφία philosophía, fil-os-of-ee’-ah; “philosophy”,

from G5386;

the love of wisdom

used either of zeal for or skill in any art or science, any branch of knowledge.

Colossians 2 : Built Up in Christ (Revelation 3:14-22)

1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

Alive in Christ

6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy ^G5385 and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

This understanding of philosophia permeates Plato’s dialogues, especially the Republic.

In that work, the leaders of the proposed utopia are to be philosopher kings:

rulers who are friends of sophia or Wisdom.

Sophia is a goddess of wisdom to the gnostics

JUDE : GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE UNGODLY

JUDE 1

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

ENOCH 8 : TEACHINGS OF THE WATCHERS

1 And Azazel taught men:

to make swords,
and knives,
and shields,
and breastplates,
and made known to the them the metals of the earth
and the art of working them,
and bracelets,
and ornaments,
and the use of antimony,
and the beautifying of the eyelids,
and all kinds of costly stones,
and all 2 colouring tinctures.

And there arose much

godlessness,
and they committed fornication,
and they were led astray,
and became corrupt in all their ways.
Statue of George Washington

Thou seest what Azazel hath done,

who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth
and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven,
which ⁷ men were striving to learn:
And the whole earth has been corrupted ⁹
through the works that were taught by Azazel:
to him ascribe all sin.’

LEVITICUS 16 : THE LAW OF ATONEMENT

5And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 6And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 8And Aaron shall cast lots on the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.9And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 10But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

THE SCAPEGOAT FOR ISRAEL’S SINS

20And when he has made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: 21And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22And the goat shall bear on him all their iniquities to a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

Baphomet (/ˈbæfoʊmɛt/; from Medieval Latin Baphometh, Baffometi, Occitan Bafometz)

is a term originally used to describe an idol or other deity that the Knights Templar

were accused of worshipping and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions.

It appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 14th century.

The name first came into popular English usage in the 19th century,

with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.^[2]

Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a “Sabbatic Goat” image drawn by Eliphas Levi

which contains binary elements

representing the “sum total of the universe”

(e.g. male and female, good and evil, etc.).^[4]

GENESIS 3 : THE SERPENT’S DECEPTION

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowinggood and evil.

Statue in Detroit

Lévi’s depiction of Baphomet is similar to that of The Devil in early Tarot.

Lévi, working with correspondences different from those later used by S. L. MacGregor Mathers,

“equated the Devil Tarot key with Mercury,”

giving “his figure Mercury’s caduceus, rising like a phallus from his groin.“^[48]

Lévi believed that the alleged devil worship of the medieval Witches’ Sabbath was a perpetuation of ancient pagan rites.

A goat with a candle between its horns appears in medieval witchcraft records,

and other pieces of lore are cited in Dogme et Rituel.

The Knight’s Templar order’s higher echelons in particular had also acquainted themselves with-and incorporated into their practice-beliefs based on the mystic teachings of the Cabala, the influence of the Bogomils, and Luciferians, thus leaving Christianity behind. According to the Templars, Jesus was a god ruling in another world, with little or no power in our present one. Satan was the lord of this material world of ours.

Now the rumors were confirmed: Candidates for the order were indeed required to deny God, Christ and the Saints, committed sacrilegious acts, spit and urinate onto the holy Cross, be kissed square on the mouth with the “Oscolum Infame” or “The Kiss of Shame” on the navel and buttocks by the more senior Knights Templars, during the initiation ceremony.

That they freely practiced homosexuality and other sexual perversions, that the Grand Master wielded total authority over everything, that they practiced rituals of sorcery and used Cabalistic symbolism was clear evidence that the order had had become a sect blasphemous to Christianity. Their questioning revealed yet another of their unorthodox practices: Without being specific, they had admitted to idolatry, but during their ongoing interrogation, it gradually emerged that without any doubt, they were worshipping Satan.

Sex Abuse Statistics

1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse;

Self-report studies show

that 20% of adult females

and 5-10% of adult males

recall a childhood sexual assault or sexual abuse incident;

During a one-year period in the U.S.,

16% of youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;

Over the course of their lifetime,

28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;

Children are most vulnerable to CSA between the ages of 7 and 1

EPHESIANS 5 : CHILDREN OF LIGHT

8For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10Proving what is acceptable to the Lord. 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatever does make manifest is light.

Aleister Crowley (who styled himself “The Wickedest Man Alive”)

The Baphomet of Lévi was to become an important figure within the cosmology of Thelema,

the mystical system established by Aleister Crowley in the early twentieth century.

Baphomet features in the Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church

recited by the congregation in The Gnostic Mass, in the sentence:

“And I believe in the Serpent (Leviathan)

and the Lion, (the lion of Babylon)

Mystery of Mysteries,

in His name BAPHOMET.“

Crowley asserted that Baphomet was :

a divine androgyne

and “the hieroglyph of arcane perfection”:

Seen as that which reflects. “What occurs above so reflects below, or As above so below”

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man,

but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil;

He bade ‘Know Thyself!’ and taught Initiation.

He is ‘The Devil’ of The Book of Thoth,

and His emblem is BAPHOMET,

the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection…

He is therefore Life, and Love.

But moreover his letter is ayin, the Eye,so that he is Light;

^[H5869]עַיִן ʻayin, ah’-yin;

and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus,

that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty.^”

The Great Work (Latin: Magnum opus)

is an alchemical term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher’s stone.

It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition,

attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes,

used as a model for the individuation process,

and as a device in art and literature.

The magnum opus has been carried forward in New Age and neo-Hermetic movements which sometimes attached new symbolism and significance to the processes.

Mercury

Alchemists thought of mercury as the First Matter from which all metals were formed.

They believed that different metals could be produced by varying the quality and quantity of sulfur contained within the mercury.

The purest of these was gold,
Caduceus, Hermesstab, Heroldsstab, Merkurstab. Äskulapstab, Asklepiosstab, Chakras, Chakren

and mercury was called for in attempts at the transmutation of base (or impure) metals into gold,

which was the goal of many alchemists.

Hg is the modern chemical symbol for mercury.

It comes from hydrargyrum, a Latinized form of the Greek word ὑδράργυρος (hydrargyros),

which is a compound word meaning “water-silver”

(from ὑδρ- hydr-, the root of ὕδωρ, “water,” and ἄργυρος argyros “silver”)

– since it is liquid like water and shiny like silver.

The element was named after the Roman god Mercury, known for his speed and mobility.

It is associated with the planet Mercury;

the astrological symbol for the planet is also one of the alchemical symbols for the metal;

the Sanskrit word for alchemy is Rasavātam which means “the way of mercury”.^[15]

Mercury is the only metal for which the alchemical planetary name became the common name.^[16]

Prima Materia

In alchemy, prima materia or first matter,

is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher’s stone.

It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence, or aether.

Esoteric alchemists describe the prima materia using simile, and compare it to concepts like the anima mundi.

Alchemical authors used similes to describe the universal nature of the prima materia.

Arthur Edward Waite states that all alchemical writers concealed its “true name”.

Since the prima materia has all the qualities and properties of elementary things, the names of all kinds of things were assigned to it.^[5]

A similar account can be found in the Theatrum Chemicum:

They have compared the “prima materia” to everything,to male and female,

to the hermaphroditic monster,

to heaven and earth,

to body and spirit,

chaos,

microcosm,

and the confused mass;
Leviathan :: The Serpent

it contains in itself all colors and potentially all metals;

there is nothing more wonderful in the world, for it begets itself, conceives itself, and gives birth to itself.

Comparisons have been made to Hyle, the primal fire, Proteus, Light, and Mercury.

Martin Ruland the Younger lists more than fifty synonyms for the prima materia in his 1612 alchemical dictionary.

His text includes justifications for the names and comparisons.

He repeats that, the philosophers have so greatly admired the Creature of God

which is called the Primal Matter, especially concerning its efficacy and mystery,

that they have given to it many names, and almost every possible description,

for they have not known how to sufficiently praise it.

ROMANS 1 : GOD’S WRATH AGAINST SIN (Jeremiah 6:10-21; Jeremiah 25:15-33; Jonah 1:4-10; Acts 27:13-26)

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 24Why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Job 41: The Power of Leviathan/Serpent

Leviathan :: The Serpent

1Can you draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

2Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

.34He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Isaiah 27:

(1) In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,

even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

26For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

11/14/2014

Large quantities of mercury discovered in tomb of Temple of Feathered Serpent (Quetzecoatl)

AMERUCA (AMERICA): LAND OF THE FEATHERED SERPENT AND ANCIENT DRAGON

Mercury was found in Egyptian Tombs (1500 BC)

Nebuchadnezzar = “may Nebo (Mercury) protect the crown”

Nebuchadnezzar was the King of Babylon.

The Original King of Babylon was Nimrod

babel or babylon “confusion, by way of mixing“

Gender Identity Issues

Mixing Male and Female. Androgyny.

Gender Neutrality

Just as Babylon is referred to as many names

Atlantis,

The City of Gold

A Land before Time

Arcadia,

Columbia,

Shinar,

Meru,

etc.

Nimrod which means “Rebellion”, who built the Tower of Babel, and the Great City of Babylon

when God Scattered the Languages he became known as :

Baal to the Caananites

Osiris to the Egyptians

Quetzecoatl to the Mayans

Apollo to the Greeks and Romans

Cernunnos to Celts

Shiva to India

Lucifer to Americans

In the Bible He is also known as the

Scapegoat (Pan)

The Assyrian

Leviathan (Serpent)

The Devil

Satan

The Whore of Babylon.

His pagan religion of Knowledge, Alchemy, Chemistry, Math and Science was dispersed all over the world.

Jeremiah 2 : Judah’s Apostasy

      8“The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’
            And those who handle the law did not know Me;
            The rulers also transgressed against Me,
            And the prophets prophesied by Baal
            And walked after things that did not profit.

9“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” declares the LORD,
“And with your sons’ sons I will contend.

      10“For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see,
            And send to Kedar and observe closely
            And see if there has been such a thing as this!

      11“Has a nation changed gods
            When they were not gods?
            But My people have changed their glory
            For that which does not profit.

JEREMIAH 51 : INSTRUCTION TO EXILES

6Flee from the midst of Babylon
And each of you save his life!
Do not be destroyed in her punishment,

For this is the Lord’s time of vengeance;

He is going to render recompense to her.

17All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

18They are worthless, a work of mockery;

The Egyptian Staff of Osiris

Pope Francis has his degree inCHEMISTRY :: The Pope’s hat is styled afterNimrod’s fish hat

“And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus…and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.” ~ Pope Francis

Keyhole to the abyss with giant obelisk in middle at the Vatican

Phallus of Osiris :: Washington Monument.

[H4906] מַשְׂכִּית maskîyth, mas-keeth’; 6x a figure (carved on stone, the wall, or any object);

from the same as H7906;

figuratively, imagination:—conceit, image(-ry), picture, ×wish.

show-piece, figure, imagination, image, idol, picture

Leviticus 26:

(1) Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image^[H4906] of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.

Numbers 33

(52) Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures ^[H4906] and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

[H4676] מַצֵּבָה matstsêbâh, mats-tsay-baw’; 32x in 31v something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone);

feminine (causatively) participle of H5324;

by analogy, an idol:—garrison, (standing) image, pillar.

Exodus 34:

(13) But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images,^[H4676] and cut down their groves:

Leviticus 26:

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image,^[H4676] neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 7:

(5) But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images,^[H4676] and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Deuteronomy 12:

(3) And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars,^[H4676] and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

Deuteronomy 16:

(22) Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image,^[H4676] which the LORD thy God hateth.

1 Kings 14:

(23) For they also built them high places, and images,^[H4676] and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 3:

(2) And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image,^[H4676] of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 10:

(26) And they brought forth the image,^[H4676] out of the house of Baal, and burned them. (27) And they brake down the image,^[H4676] of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.

2 Kings 17:

(10) And they set them up images,^[H4676] and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

2 Kings 18:

(4) He removed the high places, and brake the images,^[H4676] and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:

(14) And he brake in pieces the images,^[H4676] and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2 Chronicles 14:

(3) For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images,^[H4676] and cut down the groves:

Isaiah 19:

(19) In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar,^[H4676] at the border thereof to the LORD.

Jeremiah 43:

(13) He shall break also the images,^[H4676] of Bethshemesh, that [is] in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

Micah 5:

(13) Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images,^[H4676] out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

ENOCH 65

1, 2 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: 3 and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear me.’ And I said unto him: ‘ Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight 4 and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it ‘ And thereupon there was a great commotion , on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘ Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping

6 And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth

that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels,
and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers
– the most secret ones –
and all the power of those who practice sorcery,
and the power of witchcraft,
and the power of those who make molten images

7 for the whole earth:

And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth,
and how soft metal originates in the earth.
For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first:
- it is a fountain that produces them,
- and an angel stands therein,
- and that angel is pre-eminent.’ (renowned)

And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ‘ Go, for I have 10 asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me: ” Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed. “ And these-they have no place of repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets. 12 And He has destined thy name to be among the holy, And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth, And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours, And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.

AL (Arabic, as in Allah) means “God.”

CHEM or KHEM (ancient name of Egypt),

is from kimia (Greek),

which means “to fuse or cast metal”

The synthesis is therefore Al-Kimia: “to fuse with God”

Alchemy aimed to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects.

Common aims were chrysopoeia:

the transmutation of “base metals” (e.g., lead)

into “noble metals” (particularly gold);

ISAIAH 14: TRIUMPHANT EXULTATION OVER BABEL

3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,4That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal.

The final material is usually identical chemically to the original one, only its purer

Metallurgy is also the technology of metals :

the way in which science is applied to the production of metals,

and the engineering of metal components for usage in products for consumers and manufacturers.

The production of metals involves the processing of ores to extract the metal they contain,

and the mixture of metals, sometimes with other elements, to produce alloys.

Metallurgy is distinguished from the craft of metalworking, although metalworking relies on metallurgy,

as medicine relies on medical science, for technical advancement.

“Everything is achievable through technology” ~ Iron Man 2

^H4541 מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh 28x molten image

a pouring over,

i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image);

by implication, a libation,

i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out):

—covering, molten (image), vail.

from H5258;

1st 6 uses (all from Moses Law)

Exodus 32 : The Golden Calf (Deuteronomy 9:7-29)

1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten ^H4541 calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 5And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Exodus 34:

(17) Thou shalt make thee no molten ^H4541 gods.

Leviticus 19:

(4) Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten ^H4541 gods: I [am] the LORD your God.

Numbers 33:

(52) Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten ^H4541 images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Deuteronomy 9:

(12) And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image ^H4541 …

(16) And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten ^H4541calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 27:

(15) Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image ^H4541 an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

מַדָּע maddâʻ,  intelligence or consciousness:

—knowledge, science, thought.

from H3045; ^h3045 יָדַע yâdaʻ 947x  To know (properly, to ascertain by seeing);

a primitive root;

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing);

used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.):

Which is where “Yoda” comes from in Star Wars.

Using “the force”

The greenish looking reptilian (serpent)

1st 5 occurences of יָדַע yâdaʻ

GENESIS 3 : THE SERPENT’S DECEPTION

5 For God doth know^h3045 that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing^h3045 good and evil.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew^h3045 that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know^h3045 good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

GENESIS 4 : CAIN AND ABLE

1 And Adam knew^h3045 Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Numbers 24:Balaam’s Fourth Oracle

15And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said: 16He has said, which heard the words of God, and knew^h3045 the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 17I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. 18And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. 19Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the city.

JUDE : GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE UNGODLY

TUBAL-CAIN :: the last descendant of Cain mentioned before the Flood.

He was a city builder whose statue is seen here in Birmingham, AL…”The Iron City”.

He has even been described as the first chemist.

He made weapons of war.

Expert and famous in martial performances.

He made inventions to reduce the effects of the curse.

He is Vulcan to the pagans.

He was the King of Ur 3200 B.C.

He was the holder of Plutonic theory (knowledge of the actions of internal heat), and was, therefore, a prominental chemist.

Tubal-Cain is the password given in the Third Degree of Master Mason.

Cain’s heritage was that of the Sumerian metallurgists — the master builder —

and the supreme Master of the Craft was Cain’s father Enki,

described as the manifestation of knowledge, and the craftsman par excellence,

who drives out the evil demons who attack mankind.

“The day has come when Fellow Craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion , which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. Man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly.

When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his Craft. THE SEETHING ENERGIES OF LUCIFERARE IN HIS HANDS, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare.”

~ Manly P. Hall, 33rd ° Freemason, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

@ 25:00 mark

“they serve something immaterial, prima materia, what they call Lucifer“

“I was called to participate in these sacrifices abroad, that was the breaking point…children“

RITUALISTIC BAAL WORSHIP, in sum, looked a little like this:

Adults would gather around the altar of Baal.

Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity.

Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh,

congregants – men and women alike – would engage in bisexual orgies.

The ritual of convenience was intended to produce economic prosperity

by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of “mother earth.”

The natural consequences of such behavior – pregnancy and childbirth –

and the associated financial burdens of “unplanned parenthood” were easily offset.

One could either choose to engage in homosexual conduct or –

with child sacrifice available on demand –

could simply take part in another fertility ceremony to “terminate” the unwanted child.

Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor.

While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art,

its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar.

The mystery of the craft in applying energy means “human sacrifice”

I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifuge, Prince of Demons, that each year I will bring unto him a human soul to do with as as it may please him, and in return Lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfill my every desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him.

Signed…{Invocant signs pact with his own blood}

~ Manly P. Hall, 33rd ° Freemason,

Isaiah 14 : Triumphant Exultation over Babel and lucifer

3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve, 4That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. 6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders. 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10All they shall speak and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like to us? 11Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

12How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!

13For you have said in your heart,

I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will be like the most High.

Lucifers 5 Point Plan

Alchemist simulated and emulated the process of divine creation

That is why everything now is CONTRIVED…ARTIFICIAL…FAKE.

Artificial :: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural.

Rainbow Made by God :Natural vs Rainbow made by man

Artificial Ingredients have been put in all our foods.

Artificial Intelligence runs all the technology. which produces an artificial reality

h6754 צֶלֶם tselem, tseh’-lem; 17x in 15v to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance

from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom,

i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance;

hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:—image, vain shew.

Genesis 1:

(26) And God said, Let us make man in our image,^[H6754] after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (27) So God created man in his [own] image,^[H6754] in the image,^[H6754] of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 5:

(3) And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image,^[H6754] and called his name Seth:

Genesis 9:

(6) Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image,^[H6754] of God made he man.

Numbers 33:

(52) Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images,^[H6754] and quite pluck down all their high places:

1 Samuel 6:

(5) Wherefore ye shall make images,^[H6754] of your emerods, and images,^[H6754] of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. … (11) And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images,^[H6754] of their emerods.

2 Kings 11:

(18) And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images,^[H6754] brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 23:

(17) Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images,^[H6754] in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Psalm 39:

(6) Surely every man walketh in a vain shew,^[H6754] surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 73:

(20) As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image,^[H6754]

Ezekiel 7:

(20) As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty:

but they made the images,^[H6754] of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein:

therefore have I set it far from them.

Ezekiel 16:

(17) Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images,^[H6754] of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

Ezekiel 23:

(14) And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images,^[H6754] of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

Amos 5:

(26) But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images,^[H6754] the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

NIMROD

HOLLYWOOD :: GRAVEN IMAGE OF BAAL AT THE KODAK THEATER

Kokak Pictures

Hollywood: Home of Motion Pictures

LUKE 17:20

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come,

he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

“when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat.”

The lie first told in the garden :: “You shall be as gods”

‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’

~Bill Gates on dangers of Artificial intelligence:

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said artificial intelligence:

“could spell the end of the human race.”

“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like yeah he’s sure he can control the demon. Didn’t work out. “

~ Elon Musk

15Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. 20You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. 22For I will rise up against them, said the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, said the LORD. 23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, said the LORD of hosts.

God’s Purpose against Assyria

24The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. 26This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations. 27For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall cancel it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Albert Pike, one of the most revered Free-Mason’s with his statute in Washington.

The following sources attest to the fact that Freemasonry is Luciferian:

“Lucifer, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!^iv”

~ Albert Pike

“That which we must say to a crowd is—We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32^nd, 31^st, and 30^th degrees—The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?

Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil.^vii

~ Albert Pike

Gnostic teachings invert the truth, making Satan the god and God the enemy.

ISAIAH 5

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him

Alchemy is divided into two denominations: Operative and Speculative.

Operative Alchemy

is the science of transmuting lead into gold,

and while this lofty goal was perhaps never achieved by the operatives,

their work became the precursor to modern Chemistry.

Speculative Alchemy

is the science of transmuting our own being

from its rough and imperfect state into its exalted and all-perfect state.

This is a synopsis of

the mindframe,

the goal,

the hope

of a speculative alchemist

THE SACRED ART OF ALCHEMY

Much to his astonishment, C. G. Jung discovered that

the ancient art of alchemy was describing,

in symbolic language,

the journey that all of us must take towards

embodying our own intrinsic wholeness,

what he called the process of “individuation.”

As Jung wrote, “I had very soon seen that analytical psychology [the psychology Jung developed] coincided in a most curious way with alchemy. The experiences of the alchemists, were, in a sense, my experiences, and their world was my world. This was, of course, a momentous discovery. I had stumbled upon the historical counterpart of my psychology of the unconscious.”

The alchemists, over the course of centuries,

had generated a wide range of symbolic images

which directly corresponded to the anatomy of the unconscious

which Jung had been mapping through his painstaking work with thousands of patients.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Jung, in illuminating a psychology of the unconscious, can himself be considered a modern-day alchemist. Jung continues that “the entire alchemical procedure….could just as well represent the individuation process of a single individual.”

The alchemists had little or nothing to contribute to the field of chemistry, least of all the secret of gold-making. Only our overly one-sided, rational and intellectualized age could miss the point so entirely and see in alchemy nothing but an abortive attempt at chemistry. On the contrary, to the alchemists, chemistry represented a degradation and a “Fall,” because it meant the secularization and commercialization of a sacred science. Jung makes the point, “The alchemical operations were real, only this reality was not physical but psychological. Alchemy represents the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratory terms.

The opus magnum [“great work”] had two aims:

the rescue of the human soul, and the salvation of the cosmos.”

2 Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. … 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

The alchemists were dreaming big.

Jude 1 : God’s Judgment on the Ungodly (Genesis 4:1-7; Romans 2:1-16)

3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. 4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day. 7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke you. 10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

The ancient art of alchemy was chiefly concerned with

changing something of seemingly little value into something precious,

of transforming lead into gold, thereby creating the

“philosophers’ stone” (the “lapis philosophorum”).

The “stone,” or “lapis,” is not a material substance, however,

but is an awakened consciousness,

which, though seemingly immaterial,

pervades, in-forms and gives rise to all creation.

The philosophers’ stone doesn’t just redeem the individual alchemist,

it nonlocally influences the field to such a degree that it was considered to be able to redeem the entire cosmos.

The lapis, as Jung emphasizes,

is “a psychological symbol expressing something created by man and yet supra-ordinate to him.”

Alchemy is a timeless, sacred art,

as the alchemists’ art is tobecome an instrument forthe incarnating deityto make itself real in time and space.

Alchemy is all about creating wealth.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

The alchemical gold and the philosophers’ stone

had thousands of names,which was an expression of its all-embracing, numinous and miraculous qualities that cannot be adequately described by language.

Regardless of what it is called,

the creation of the stone is the goal of the alchemical opus.

Alchemy is a mystical art-form, a genuine spiritual path.

Jung elaborates,

“The mystical side of alchemy, as distinct from its historical aspect, is essentially a psychological problem.

To all appearances, it is a concretization,in projected and symbolic form,of the process of individuation.”

THE PRIMA MATERIA

The “famous secret,” and the basis of the alchemical opus

is the unique prima materia,

which is the chaos and raw material

out of which the refined substance or “gold” is produced.

To the alchemists,

there was a spirit

hidden in the darkness

of the prima materia,

a divine spark

buried in the darkness of matter.

The CERN collider is composed of some 9,600 super magnets – which are 100,000 times more powerful than the gravitational pull of Earth – that fire protons around a circular track at mindboggling speeds. A beam might rotate for up to 10 hours, travelling a distance of more than 10 billion kilometers, enough to make it to the far reaches of our Solar System and back again. Travelling just below light-speed, a proton in the LHC will make 11,245 circuits every second.

One year after CERN’s grand opening, Sergio Bertolucci, former Director for Research and Scientific Computing of the facility, grabbed headlines when he told aBritish tabloidthe super collider could open otherworldly doors to another dimension for “a very tiny lapse of time,” mere fractions of a second. However, that may be just enough time “to peer into this open door, either by getting something out of it or sending something into it.”

“Of course,” added Bertolucci, “after this tiny moment the door would again shut; bringing us back to our ‘normal’ four-dimensional world … It would be a major leap in our vision of nature… And of course [there would be] no risk to the stability of our world.”

From Cern’s Website:

Galaxies in our universe seem to be achieving an impossible feat. They are rotating with such speed that the gravity generated by their observable matter could not possibly hold them together; they should have torn themselves apart long ago. The same is true of galaxies in clusters, which leads scientists to believe that something we cannot see is at work. They think something we have yet to detect directly is giving these galaxies extra mass, generating the extra gravity they need to stay intact. This strange and unknown matter was called “dark matter” since it is not visible.

DARK MATTER

Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot. In fact, researchers have been able to infer the existence of dark matter only from the gravitational effect it seems to have on visible matter. Dark matter seems to outweigh visible matter roughly six to one, making up about 27% of the universe. Here’s a sobering fact: The matter we know and that makes up all stars and galaxies only accounts for 5% of the content of the universe! But what is dark matter? One idea is that it could contain “supersymmetric particles” – hypothesized particles that are partners to those already known in the Standard Model. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) may provide more direct clues about dark matter.

Many theories say the dark matter particles would be light enough to be produced at the LHC. If they were created at the LHC, they would escape through the detectors unnoticed. However, they would carry away energy and momentum, so physicists could infer their existence from the amount of energy and momentum “missing” after a collision. Dark matter candidates arise frequently in theories that suggest physics beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetry and extra dimensions. One theory suggests the existence of a “Hidden Valley”, a parallel world made of dark matter having very little in common with matter we know. If one of these theories proved to be true, it could help scientists gain a better understanding of the composition of our universe and, in particular, how galaxies hold together.

DARK ENERGY

Dark energy makes up approximately 68% of the universe and appears to be associated with the vacuum in space. It is distributed evenly throughout the universe, not only in space but also in time – in other words, its effect is not diluted as the universe expands. The even distribution means that dark energy does not have any local gravitational effects, but rather a global effect on the universe as a whole. This leads to a repulsive force, which tends to accelerate the expansion of the universe. The rate of expansion and its acceleration can be measured by observations based on the Hubble law. These measurements, together with other scientific data, have confirmed the existence of dark energy and provide an estimate of just how much of this mysterious substance exists.

CERNunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the “horned god” of Celtic polytheism.

Cernunnos was a Celtic god of fertility, life, animals, wealth, and the underworld.

The town in France where CERN is partially situated is called “Saint-Genus-Poilly.”

This is where the ancient Temple of Apollo, the Roman sun god, and the gateway to the underworld is located.

Nimrod to Babylon

Osiris to Egyptians

Apollo to Romans/Greeks

Cernunnos to Celts

Shiva to India (the graven image that stands at CERN)

All the different names of worship of the same god

that got spread all over the world

when God came down and scattered the languages

at the first tower built at Babylon

This is the same as Pan / Azazel / Baphomet

Jesus built His church at the Base of Mt. HERMON where the Temple of Pan was and where He said the Gates of Hell would not prevail.

BASE OF MOUNT HERMON : TEMPLE OF PAN

During rocket tests, Parsons often recited Crowley’s poem “Hymn to Pan”as a good luck charm.^[165]

He took to addressing Crowley as his “Most Beloved Father” and signed off to him as “thy son, John”.^[177]

Pan the Horned Goat playing the flute ::Horned Serpent

Luke 7:

(31) And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

(32) They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying,

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

The United Nations Disengagement Force sits on top of this mount

Matthew 21 : Peter’s Confession of Christ (Mark 8:27-30; Luke 9:18-20; John 6:66-71)

13When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?14And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.15He said to them, But whom say you that I am?16And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.17And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven.18And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19And I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection (Mark 8:31-33;Luke 9:21-22)

21From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.22Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, Lord: this shall not be to you.23But he turned, and said to Peter, Get you behind me, Satan: you are an offense to me: for you mind not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Revelation 9

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Abaddon/Apollyon = “destruction”

Shiva = “the destroyer of worlds”

The Hebrew word “Abad” = “till”, work, serve

“On” aka “Heliopolis” was the centre of sun worship in Egypt

God of All Things (G.O.A.T) :: Shiva “the Destroyer” statue outside of CERN

Shiva is the Hindu version of Apollo :: Osiris :: Baal :: Nimrod :: Lucifer

Just as Nimrod (Apollo) tried storm the GATES OF HEAVEN at the Tower of Babel.

2016 was the end date of their “great work” as seen on the “Great Seal” of the one dollar bill

Their “Great Work” and “Capstone“. The all seeing eye of Ra at the top of the pyramid

Their Great Work’s objective is to restore what was Lost through their own works.

Matthew 7 : The Narrow Gate (Luke 13:22-30)

13Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Speaking about a spirit being hidden in matter, Jung clarifies,

“The psychological equivalent of this theme

is the projection of a highly fascinating unconscious content

which, like all such contents, exhibits a numinous – ‘divine,’ or ‘sacred’ – quality.”

The much-prized prima materia is

the psychic flypaper which catches every imaginable projection buzzing around in the human mind.

Genesis 6:5 The Flood

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Daniel 12 : Michael’s Deliverance and the End Times (Revelation 1:1-3)

1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

the psychic flypaper

In 1989, under the guidance of Tim Berners-Lee,

CERN began the World Wide Web project,

which led to the first webpage in history.

On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.

Genesis 8:21

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour;
and the LORD said in his heart,
I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake;
for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Deuteronomy 29:19

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Deuteronomy 31:21

And it shall come to pass,
when many evils and troubles are befallen them,
that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed:
for I know their imagination which they go about,
even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Jeremiah 3:17

17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD;
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it,
to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

Jeremiah 7:24

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart,
and went backward, and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:14

14 But have walked after
the imagination of their own heart,
and after Baalim,
which their fathers taught them:

Jeremiah 11:8

8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear,
but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart:
therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant,
which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

Jeremiah 13:10

10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words,
which walk in the imagination of their heart,
and walk after other gods, to serve them,
and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle,
which is good for nothing.

Jeremiah 16:12

12 And ye have done worse than your fathers;
for, behold, ye walk every one after
the imagination of his evil heart,
that they may not hearken unto me:

Jeremiah 18:12

12 And they said, There is no hope:
but we will walk after our own devices,
and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

Jeremiah 23:17

17 They say still unto them that despise me,
The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace;
and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart,
No evil shall come upon you.

Luke 1:51

51 He hath shewed strength with his arm;
he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Symbolically speaking, the enigmatic prima materia

represents the unknown substance within us that carries the projections of the unconscious.

Hebrews 11 : Faith is Being Sure

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

The Faith of Abel, Enoch, Noah

4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.

5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. 7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Acts 17 : Paul at Athens

16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection. 19And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is? 20For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

Paul Before the Areopagus

22Then Paul stood in the middle of Mars’ hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. 23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I to you. 24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:31Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.33So Paul departed from among them. 34However, certain men joined to him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

It is the psychic emulsion or medium

in which the subconscious contents within us are encoded.

The prima materia is thus a symbol for the unconscious itself.

The obscure prima materia re-presents and reflects back to us

(through our inner experiences as well as

our experiences in the outer world),

our underdeveloped, inferior function,

our growing edges,

the places where we are not consciously related to ourselves.

To the extent we are unwittingly identified with our unconscious,

compared to being consciously related to it,

is the extent to which we will act out our unconscious,

which is the prima materia in action.

Psychologically speaking,

we become inflated when,

as an ego,

we unconsciously identify with the Self

(the wholeness of our being,

which includes both

conscious and unconscious elements).

When we become inflated we act out our unconscious in the world and live beyond our means, beyond the boundaries of who we are as human beings. Not separate from our own mind, the prima materia, like an instantaneous feedback system, will then shape-shift and nonlocally reflect back our state of unconscious “inflation,” so as to keep us in balance. The prima materia in its lead-like aspect contains the spirit of depression, a downward movement into the depths of our being which is felt as melancholia, and which corresponds to the encounter with the shadow in psychology. Just like a dream compensates a one-sidedness, when we are unconsciously inflated, be it personally or collectively, the prima materia constellates a circumstance that will shock and awe us into humility so as to puncture our spell. When we are inflated, the prima materia will “ground” us so as to bring us back down to earth. Hopefully the “crash” won’t be too hard.

The elusive prima materia needs to be found before the opus could begin.

Psychologically speaking, the mysterious prima materia re-presents,

and is to be discovered in, the parts of the psyche that we deny,

dis-own and marginalize, the aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of,

revulsion for and turn away from in disgust.

In Jung’s words,

this “means that the thing which we think the least of,

that part of ourselves which we repress perhaps the most,

or which we despise,

is just the part which contains the mystery.”

We typically want to get rid of the shadow aspects of our personality,

but the alchemists understood that our wounded,

inferior and unconscious parts aren’t an accident or error,

but rather, has a value and cosmic perfection to them that is stunning.

Our wounds, the base material of the work,

are indispensible for the accomplishment of the opus,

for without these shadow parts there would be no way to make the alchemical gold.

“And just as, in Christianity,

the Godhead conceals itself in the man of low degree,”

Jung writes,

“so in the ‘philosophy’ [alchemy] it hides in the uncomely stone.”

Symbolically, this is the stone “rejected by the builders,”

which ultimately becomes the cornerstone.

It is an archetypal, universal idea that

the highest value is to be found in the lowest,

that the blessing is to be found in the curse,

and that the wisdom is to be found in ignorance.

It is an archetypal experience that the highest value –

what Jung calls the Self,

and others call “The Messiah” –

unless recognized for its divinity,

is typically contracted against and reacted to with scorn,

revulsion, contempt, and disgust.

An ancient alchemical text expresses this idea when it says,

“Christ had no form nor comeliness,

was the vilest of all men,

full of griefs and sickness,

and so despised that men even hid their faces from him,

and he was esteemed as nothing.”

It is an archetypal, shamanic idea that we have to descend into the unconscious,

making a “nekyia,” a night sea journey,

into the depths of our own darkness

so that we can discover “The Pearl of Great Price,”

another of the stone’s many names.

Matthew 13:

(45) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

(46) Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The initial stage is the “nigredo,” the blackness of death,

the darkness darker than dark,

which is actually the seed

for the future birth of the living opus.

“The good tidings announced by alchemy

[analogous to the “Good News” of the Bible] are that,

as once a fountain sprang up in Judea,”

Jung contemplates,

“so now there is a secret Judea the way

to which is not easily found, and a hidden spring

whose waters seem to be worthless and so bitter

that they are deemed of no use at all.”

Jung continues, “…man’s inner life is the secret place,”

where the “medicina catholica or panacea,

the spark of the light of nature, are to be found.”

The tantalizing prima materia had a dangerous,

toxic aspect, however, and was considered “bedeviled,”

causing insanity if not approached with the highest regard.

Daniel 4 : The Second Dream Fulfilled

28All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar. 29At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.30The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? 31While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from you. 32And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make you to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will. 33The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Nebuchadnuzzer = “may Nebo (Mercury) protect the crown”

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Though potentially deadly,

the prima materia contains within itself its own medicine,

which is to say that the alchemical process is its own solution.

The prima materia is a quantum phenomenon,

in that it is of an indeterminate nature of open-ended potentiality,

and contains within itself both the poison and the medicine.

The more virulent the poison,

the more powerful are its potential healing qualities.

Accomplished alchemists are able to

transmute the poison into healing nectar,

just like when a peacock eats poison,

its multi-colored plumage gets even brighter.

The prima materia is a higher-dimensional phenomenon

which serves to unite both of the opposites –

dark and light – into a higher synthesis.

How the mercurial and shape-shifting prima materia actually manifests depends upon how we dream it.

Jung contemplates, “Yet nobody has ever known what this primal matter is. The alchemists did not know, and nobody has found out what was really meant by it, because it is a substance in the unconscious which is needed for the incarnation of the god.” Contemplating an indescribable divine mystery, according to Jung, “the alchemists did not really know what they were writing about,” certainly not with their conceptual mind. Not knowing what they were trying to articulate, the unconscious itself was simultaneously living through the alchemists as it revealed itself to them. This explains the alchemists’ oftentimes confusing, contradictory, and inscrutable description of their art. This lack of consistency and intellectual rigor has led the overly rational and intellectually-minded scientific community to completely dismiss and reject alchemy as being unscientific, irrational nonsense. In their rejection of alchemy, however, modern day scientists are acting out in the world their very rejection of the irrational prima materia within themselves.

In its original form, the paradoxical prima materia

contains the most incompatible possible opposites

inherent in the human psyche

within itself in uncombined form.

An eruption of the unconscious,

the prima materia is often symbolized as a dragon,

as it is the personification of the instinctual psyche.

The prima materia is an “increatum,” an “uncreated,”

autonomous, self-generating, spirit-like entity

which is the root of itself and rooted in itself

and is dependent on nothing.

Jung tells us,

“It is a characteristic of the arcane [esoteric, secret]

substance to have ‘everything it needs;’

it is a fully autonomous being,

like the dragon [uroboros] that begets,

reproduces,

slays

and devours itself

…a being without beginning or end,

and in need of ‘no second.’

Such a thing can by definition only be God himself.”

Speaking of the ineffable prima materia, an alchemical text says,

“Thus the supreme artist [i.e., God] has prepared a great uncreated mystery.”

The ungraspable prima materia is considered to be

the virginal mother which gives birth to the lapis.

The prima materia is also considered to be an orphan

because it is so completely unique

and utterly one of a kind.

It is seemingly hard to find because it is found everywhere.

To quote an ancient alchemist, the prima materia is :

the Subject of the “Great Stone of the Philosophers,

which the whole World has before its eyes yet knows not.”

Matthew 21 : The Parable of the Wicked Tenants (Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-18)

33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and dig a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to farmers, and went into a far country: 34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35And the farmers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did to them likewise. 37But last of all he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 38But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40When the lord therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers? 41They say to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other farmers, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

42Jesus said to them, Did you never read in the scriptures,

The stone which the builders rejected,

the same is become the head of the corner:

this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

43Therefore say I to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.44And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 45And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them. (because they were Kaballists) 46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

The Owl Represents being able to see in Darkness:

Alchemy, the Dark Art

Statue of George Washington

Jesus is the stone the builders rejected because

He is the spiritual stone,

not the philosopher’s stone,

the prima materia hidden in Matter

Layout of Capital Hill in Washington

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Jung clarifies this idea when he says,

“The prima materia has the quality of ubiquity,

it can be found always and everywhere,

which is to say that projection

can take place always and everywhere.”

The prima materia is found in

the projections of our unconscious,

which are located inside of our head

and outside in the world at the same time,

as the inner and outer are an undivided continuum.

PROJECTION

Jung makes the important point that

“The real nature of matter

was unknown to the alchemist.

Inasmuch as he tried to explore it

he projected the unconscious

into the darkness of matter

in order to illuminate it.

Ezekial 9 : Vision of Idolatry in the Temple

1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there on me. 2Then I beheld, and see a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber. 3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 4And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

5Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6He said furthermore to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations.

7And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dig in the wall, behold a door. 9And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about. 11And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the middle of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the earth. 13He said also to me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.

14Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15Then said he to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.

Tammuz is the Babylonian version of Horus: the child of the Sun

16And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, see, they put the branch to their nose. 18Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

[Exodus 23:24 KJV] 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
[Exodus 34:13 KJV] 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
[Leviticus 26:30 KJV] 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
[Numbers 33:52 KJV] 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
[Deuteronomy 7:5, 25 KJV] 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. … 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
[Deuteronomy 12:3 KJV] 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
[2 Samuel 5:21 KJV] 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
[1 Kings 14:9, 23 KJV] 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: … 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
[2 Kings 10:26 KJV] 26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
[2 Kings 11:18 KJV] 18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
[2 Kings 17:10, 16, 41 KJV] 10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: … 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. … 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
[2 Kings 18:4 KJV] 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
[2 Kings 23:14, 24 KJV] 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. … 24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
[2 Chronicles 14:3, 5 KJV] 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: … 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
[2 Chronicles 23:17 KJV] 17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
[2 Chronicles 28:2 KJV] 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
[2 Chronicles 31:1 KJV] 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
[2 Chronicles 33:19, 22 KJV] 19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers. … 22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
[2 Chronicles 34:3-4, 7 KJV] 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. … 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
[Psalm 78:58 KJV] 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
[Psalm 97:7 KJV] 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
[Isaiah 10:10 KJV] 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
[Isaiah 17:8 KJV] 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
[Isaiah 21:9 KJV] 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
[Isaiah 27:9 KJV] 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
[Isaiah 30:22 KJV] 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
[Isaiah 41:29 KJV] 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
[Isaiah 42:8, 17 KJV] 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. … 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
[Jeremiah 8:19 KJV] 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
[Jeremiah 43:13 KJV] 13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
[Jeremiah 50:2, 38 KJV] 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. … 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
[Jeremiah 51:47, 52 KJV] 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. … 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
[Ezekiel 6:4 KJV] 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

In order to explain the mystery of matter

he projected yet another mystery

– his own psychic background

– into what was to be explained.”

The alchemists’ experiences with matter were revealing to them their own mind.

Jung continues,

“I am, therefore, inclined to suppose

that the real root of alchemy

is to be sought less in philosophical doctrines

than in the projections of individual investigators

…. while working on his chemical experiments

the operator had certain psychic experiences

which appeared to him as the particular behavior

of the chemical process.

Since it was a question of projection, he was naturally unconscious of the fact that the experience had nothing to do with matter itself (that is, with matter as we know it today). He experienced his projection as a property of matter, but what he was in reality experiencing was his own unconscious…Such projections repeat themselves whenever man tried to explore an empty darkness and involuntarily fills it with living form.”

To put it simply,

the alchemists had unconsciously

stumbled onto and were participating

in the divine secret

which has now become understood

in quantum physics (albeit in different terms),

that what we are experiencing right now

as matter is inseparable from our own mind.

The act of projection

is an unconscious, involuntary process,

as it is a circuitous route

by which to become conscious of ourselves.

Jung comments that

“there must have been something

in the unconscious of the alchemists

which lent itself to projection

(i.e., had a tendency to become conscious

because of its energy charge),

and on the other hand found in

the alchemical operations a ‘hook’ that attracted it,

so that it could express itself in some way.”

Something in the alchemists’ minds

wanted to make itself known

and become conscious,

and it projected itself into matter to do so.

The Self,

the intrinsic wholeness of the human psyche,

wanted to actualize itself,

o it created the art of alchemy

as a medium for

and symbolic expression of its realization.

An unconscious, split-off, and autonomous content leads a life of its own in the subterranean levels of the psyche, and, in Jung’s words, is prone to “instantly projecting itself whenever it is constellated in any way – that is, whenever attracted by something analogous to it in the outside world.” A sheen of our unconscious projections overlays the seemingly externalized world, acting as both a filter through which and a mirror in which we see ourselves. “So, although the alchemists failed to discover the hidden structure of matter,”Jung appreciates that “they did discover that of the psyche, even if they were scarcely conscious of what this discovery meant.” It took Jung’s unique genius to appreciate and be able to bring to light the real hidden value, meaning and profundity of what the alchemists’ had discovered.

“But the principle of the unconscious,” Jung explains,

“is the autonomy of the psyche itself,

reflecting in the play of its images

not the world but itself,

even though it utilizes the illustrative possibilities

offered by the sensible world

in order to make its images clear.”

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

The sensory datum of this world are autonomously selected, exploited, and configured by the psyche, so as to give shape and form to itself and thereby reveal its own underlying structure.

In other words, the unconscious is

revealing itself through its very projections

onto the world, which is to say

that the unconscious is synchronistically

revealing itself through our experience of life itself.

The unconscious is its own self-revelation.

All we need to do is to recognize what is being revealed.

So many people become entranced by their perceptions,

convinced that how they are seeing things is objectively true.

“Practical experience shows us again and again,” Jung elaborates,

“that any prolonged preoccupation

with an unknown object

acts as an almost irresistible bait

for the unconscious to project itself

into the unknown nature of the object

and to accept the resultant perception,

and the interpretation deduced from it, as objective.”

To the extent we are asleep,

we are reacting to our own projections

as if they objectively exist in concretized

form outside of ourselves.

Alchemy is an inspired,

visionary art form that works with

the projective tendencies of our mind

in order to help us dis-spell,

consciously see through

and liberate our projections.

The art of alchemy is like a

psycho-spiritual multi-vitamin

and mineral elixir secreted by

the cosmic mind to help heal

the collective madness

that has infected our world.

SATURN

Alchemy is an expression of the fact that

light is hidden in darkness,

that the deepest blessings are found

in the distressing dark shadows of the human psyche.

Jung amplifies the darkness when he writes,

“The prima materia is ‘saturnine,’

and the malefic Saturn is the abode of the devil,

or again it is the most despised and rejected thing,

‘thrown out into the street,’

‘cast on the dung-hill,’

‘found in filth.’”

The alchemists were having

a deepening experience of God

which included both light and dark,

good and evil,

an experience which was

a projection of a deep process

of integration that the alchemists

must have been going through within themselves.

Jung points out that,

“…in alchemy an attempt was made

at a symbolical integration of evil

by locating the divine drama of redemption

in man himself.”

This involved a process of coming to terms

with the unconscious,

which always becomes a necessity

when we are confronted with its darkness.

This confrontation forced itself on

the alchemists as soon as they

made a serious effort to find the prima materia.

The prima materia was a genuine numinosum,

a holy, psychic/spiritual substance

which allowed the alchemists

to consciously experience

both the light and dark sides of God

within themselves.

As Jung puts it,

“the individual is confronted with

the abysmal contradictions of human nature,

and this confrontation in turn leads to

the possibility of a direct experience of light and darkness,

of Christ and the devil.”

In the prima materia,

the alchemists were literally dreaming up

a “Holy Grail-like” receptacle to hold,

embrace, reflect, embody, integrate

and potentially liberate

all of their vast range

of often contradictory projections.

This sacred substance included

and united their image of God and the Devil,

thereby helping them come to a fuller understanding

of the vastness of the Self,

the totality of our being,

which includes both light and dark.

Symbolically speaking, the prima materia corresponds to lead, which relates to Saturn-Chronos, the negative father. One of the prima materia’s many symbols is a weak and infirm old man, the mythic dying king, or “senex,” who has lost touch with feeling, with eros, with relatedness, with creativity, with compassion, and with love.

This figure of the rigid-old-man-negative-father is symbolic of a calcification of consciousness which, out of fear of its own weakness, holds onto and becomes addicted to power and control. The dying old man represents a dominant position in consciousness which has outlived its usefulness, and thus becomes an obstacle to the growth and development of consciousness. This archetypal figure is in need of being liquefied and de-solidified, of being given an alchemical bath in the healing waters of the psyche.

There is an alchemical saying “solve et coagula,”

dissolve and coagulate

(which correspond to the alchemical operations

“solutio” and “coagulatio”).

“The Goat of Mendes or BAPHOMET is a Goat Headed deity,

being formed of both male and female principles,

with a Caduceus of Mercury in oplace of its Phallus.

One arm points up and one down ,

with the Latin ‘ Solve et Coagula’ written on them

The alchemists were dissolving

and regenerating elements

of their experience

and their identity both over time,

as well as in each and every moment,

so as to potentially distill, re-constitute

and create something new within themselves.

De-solidifying, de-literalizing

and de-constructing their experience

in each moment empowered

the alchemists to actively participate

in their own transformation and evolution.

The alchemists saw the essence of their art

as both analytic and synthetic,

as it involved separation,

discrimination and analysis on the one hand,

and synthesis, consolidation

and integration on the other.

Saturn, the corrupted patriarchy,

mythologically speaking,

is the governor of the prison,

the one who binds us

and seemingly limits our freedom,

while simultaneously being

the supreme tester and great purifier.

Paradox is the language of alchemy,

as it is an expression of the unified point of view

in which the seeming opposites

are not so opposed to each other after all.

The archetype of the dark father has to do with domination and force over others, as compared to being in relation. The archetypal, negative patriarchy has to do with the suppression of the feminine, of feeling, of spontaneity, of life itself. The negative patriarchy, synchronistically, just so happens to be the deeper archetypal process which is animating events in our world today. Alchemy is a collective dream of our ancestors which also happens to be profoundly relevant for our world today. The archetype of the negative father is initiatory, which is to say it is revealing something to us which is most important for us to know. Seen as a compensatory dreaming process, the figure of the negative father, with its willful lust for, and abuse of power, is challenging us to connect with our intrinsic, God-given power.

Acts 7 : Stoning of Stephen

42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43Yes, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Moloch = “the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom”

Remphan = Saturn “an image” or “pillar”

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Our true power

is a power infused with

the spirit of eros,

with relatedness,

feeling and relationship,

with love and connection,

all of which are elements

in the magic elixir

which transmutes

the poisonous aspect

of the draconian figure

of the negative father.

To be under the spell of Saturn-Chronos, the dark father, “Father Time,” is to be entranced and absorbed in linear time at the expense of the timeless dimension of our being. To recognize that we are playing out on the world stage the mythic process of the negative patriarchy is to have an expansion of consciousness in which we step into a mythical dimension where time is not “chrono-logical.” When we snap out of the spell and logic of linear time, we wake up to “dreamtime,” where time is experienced as a radial-matrix whose center is here and now. Dreamtime is not linear but circular, not fixed but fluid, not mechanistic but natural, not historical but a-historical. Dissolving the figure of father time, of living by the clock, we become introduced to the “syn-chronic” order.

The synchronic order,

whose timing frequency

is a universal factor of synchronization,

is a realm of infinite interconnectedness

and inter-resonance between everything

and everything else.

In the synchronic realm

the microcosm and macrocosm

are synchronistic,

mirrored reflections of each other,

different iterations of the same underlying,

harmonic fractal.

his inter-nested fractal reflects a singular nowness eternally unfolding in endlessly diverse and novel patterns.

To the alchemists,

creating the philosophers’ stone

was analogous to waking up to

the dreamlike nature of the universe.

Becoming lucid in the waking dream

is seen as a reflection of God’s

ongoing creation of and incarnation into the world.

Just like every little piece of a hologram

contains the whole hologram,

each individual is a reflection of the whole.

Jung wrote,

“For the alchemists

the process of individuation

represented by the opus

was an analogy of the creation of the world,

and the opus itself an analogy of God’s work of creation.

Man was seen as a microcosm,

a complete equivalent of the world in miniature.”

Recognizing the co-respondence between

the microcosm and the macrocosm,

between the inner and outer is

the birth of “symbolic awareness,”

which is to recognize that this universe

is not speaking literally but, like a dream,

is speaking to us symbolically.

This is the meaning of the famous alchemical maxim,

“As above, so below.”

What is happening in the world

is a symbolic reflection

of what is happening inside of ourselves.

A true hermetic art,

alchemy requires a hermeneutics

(a methodology of interpretation) of symbols.

This is a mode of apprehension

which takes place in the faculty

and under the tutelage of the creative imagination,

in which sensory data

are transmuted into living symbols,

allowing the universe to fulfill its revelatory

and theophanic (God revealing) function.

Symbolic awareness is the very expansion

of consciousness which nonlocally dissolves

the rigid and fixed archetypal figure of Saturn-Chronos,

the negative father, throughout the whole field,

like pouring water on the wicked witch of the west,

only in this case the whole world becomes “fluid,”

and thus ripe with new possibilities.

A genuine transformation mystery,

alchemy is about transforming the negative patriarchy,

the dark side of God, the wrath of God,

into a loving God.

In this way, alchemy is simply a further iteration of the Christ event, of an old testament turning into a newer one, a genuine “second coming,” only this time the “Incarnation” is happening within and through the unconscious of all of humanity.

Alchemy, as Jung explains, “…involves a mystery consummated in and through man. It is as though the drama of Christ’s life were, from now on, located in man as its living carrier. As a result of this shift, the events formulated in dogma are brought within range of psychological experience and become recognizable in the process of individuation.” Drafted into being instruments of the Incarnating deity, we find ourselves as a species genuinely imitating Christ to an ever increasing degree.

The alchemists’ goal, however, was, as Jung points out,

“…to realize the idea ‘Christ’

on a plane far transcending

a mere imitation of him.”

The alchemists imitation of Christ, to quote Jung,

wasn’t “…an intentional straining after imitation,

but rather, an involuntary experience

of the reality represented by the sacred legend.

This reality comes upon him in his work…

The Passion happens to the adept,

not in its classic form…

but in the form expressed by the alchemical myth.

It is the arcane substance that suffers

those physical and mental tortures;

it is the king who dies or is killed,

is dead and buried and on the third day rises again.

And it is not the adept who suffers all this,

rather it suffers in him, it is tortured,

it passes through death and rises again.

All this happens not to the alchemist himself but to the ‘true man,’

who he feels is near him and in him and at the same time in the retort…

it is the real experience of a man

who has got involved in the compensatory contents

of the unconscious by investigating the unknown,

seriously and to the point of self-sacrifice.”

It is the arcane substance,

the “true man,”

i.e., the Self,

which is undergoing transformation

and incarnation within the individual alchemist.

By alchemically containing this experience,

the alchemists became their own retort,

their own hermetically-sealed vessel.

Participating in the transformation of the deity,

the alchemists developed a relationship with,

became assimilated into,

and thereby a channel for,

the incarnation of the emerging Self.

Jung continues,

“the opus Christi is transferred to the individual.

He then becomes the bearer of the mystery,

and this development was

unconsciously prefigured

and anticipated in alchemy.”

Alchemy is like a precognitive dream of

the psyche itself, reflecting and revealing

the divine incarnation process

into which the human ego has found itself drafted.

THE LAPIS-CHRIST CONNECTION

The idea of the philosophers’ stone

crystallizing into and out of

the creative imagination of

the alchemists is analogous

to the Incarnation of Christ

into our third-dimensional world.

As Jung contemplates,

“…a real experience of the opus

had an increasing tendency

to assimilate the dogma or

to amplify itself with it.

That is why the text says that Christ

was ‘compared and united’ with the stone.”

The function that Christ played

in Christianity had found,

in the philosophers’ stone,

a new domain and format in which to operate.

It was as if the philosophers’ stone and Christ were inseparable differentiations of each other, which when fully differentiated, revealed their inseparability.

The Christian point of view is that

we are in need of redemption

and leaves the work of redemption

to an autonomous divine figure.

The alchemists, on the other hand,

were having the epochal,

revolutionary,

and evolutionary realization

that we are all collaboratively playing

a crucial, participatory role in

the Incarnation of the divine being.

Both points of view are true, as they are complementary and unifying aspects of a greater whole.

From the alchemical perspective, as Jung clarifies,

“…man takes upon himself

the duty of carrying out

the redeeming opus,

and attributes the state of suffering

and consequent need of redemption

to the anima mundi [world soul] imprisoned in matter.”

Alchemically speaking,

it is the arcane substance,

the true man, the Self,

which suffers, is tortured,

transformed and rises again.

This realization can help us re-contextualize and reframe our experience of suffering. Instead of personally identifying with our suffering in a way that is limiting, problematic and reinforces it, we can recognize that the origin of our suffering is transpersonal and archetypal. “Who is it inside ourselves who is actually suffering?” becomes a relevant question, as we begin to recognize that we, not as ego but as Self, are participating in a divinely-sponsored passion play. Through our suffering we can recognize that we are not isolated entities separated in our suffering from the rest of the universe, but rather, are playing roles in a divine incarnation process which is not a product of our ego, but is a manifestation of the Self. We are going through a symbolic crucifixion experience, sharing in the suffering of Christ so as to share in his glory.

Our suffering is our “share”

of helping to free

the anima mundi,

the imprisoned world soul.

This realization instantaneously enlarges our perspective, snaps us out of the self-generating, narcissistic trance of the separate self, and connects us with each other, as we are all in the same boat, all on the same side. The expression of this realization is compassion.

The alchemists were saved not so much by their own work,

but by their participation in

the birth of the savior within themselves.

“For the alchemist,” as Jung emphasizes,

“the one primarily in need of redemption

is not man,

but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Only as a secondary consideration does

he hope that some benefit may accrue to himself

from the transformed substance as the panacea,

the medicina catholica…

His attention is not directed to his own salvation

through God’s grace,

but to the liberation of God

from the darkness of matter.

By applying himself to this miraculous work

he benefits from its salutary effect,

but only incidentally.”

In venerating the highest value,

the alchemists are serving something

beyond their limited ego,

which is a state of pure potential and grace.

The alchemical art is truly divinely inspired and blessed.

Says an alchemist, “The art has no enemies, except the ignorant.”

Instead of coming down from the heavens,

the alchemical deity came up from below,

from base matter, from the earth,

from the “underworld” itself.

The alchemists’ “aspiration” had to do with, according to Jung,

“the transformation of the god

brought about through man,

man being the retort in which

the god is transformed,

where he descends into uttermost matter

and where the spirit develops out of matter.”

In the act of becoming lost in matter,

God, with our help,

is born out of and into humanity.

Paradoxically, humanity is a living,

breathing alchemical vessel in which spirit

has seemingly become trapped,

while simultaneously being

the very instrument through

which spirit becomes materialized

in time so as to be liberated.

Spiritually speaking,

freeing the spirit which is imprisoned in matter

is to not identify with our thoughts,

but to simply recognize their insubstantial,

dreamlike nature and allow them

to effortlessly transform,

dissolve and spontaneously

self-liberate of their own accord. A

thought-form is like a whole,

self-contained universe.

When we identify with a thought-form’s contents

and point of view, we become absorbed in

and incarnate that particular dreamlike universe

in a way that limits our creative freedom.

Our creative spirit has then

seemingly become trapped in matter;

as we’ve unwittingly used our creative power

against ourselves in a way that binds us.

Recognizing the illusory and yet,

reality-creating power of our thoughts

allows us to create with our thoughts,

instead of being created by them.

Recognizing that we never experience

this moment except through

the creative imagination empowers us

to alchemically transform our experience of ourselves,

and, by nonlocal extension, the whole universe.

Psychologically speaking,

God hidden in matter symbolically re-presents

the Self hidden in unconscious identification with the ego.

This unconscious ego-Self identity,

where there’s not a conscious relationship

between the ego and the Self

but an unconscious,

compulsive acting out by the ego,

contaminates the potential union of opposites,

seemingly obstructing the whole point of the work.

This contamination, however, is none other than the prima materia itself, without which we couldn’t make the gold.

The prima materia is a living paradox in the flesh…our flesh.

[Romans 8:3-4, 8-9, 12-13 KJV] 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. … 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. … 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
[Romans 9:8 KJV] 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

…The Sacred Art of Alchemy (continued)

Jung reflects,

“It was clear to the more astute alchemists

that the prima materia of the art was man himself.”

To the alchemists, the philosophers’ stone,

their son of God,

was not begotten in the womb of the Virgin Mary,

but in the womb of Mother Nature.

Jung reminds us that

“Nature is not matter only,

she is also spirit.”

In one sense, the opus is a work against nature,

an “opus contra naturam,”

a work against nature which nature itself desires.

The prima materia is an “imperfect body” in need of being perfected.

The alchemists are

helping nature do

what she cannot do herself.

An alchemical maxim states,

“What nature left imperfect,

the art perfects.”

Although the impulse to consciousness exists in nature – within the unconscious of humanity – an ego is needed as a transformative vessel to realize and perfect this natural urge.

Self-reflection, an act in which we recognize ourselves in the mirror of life, is a bending of consciousness back upon itself, and is hence, a work against nature. In the moment of self-reflection, the psycho-spiritual necessity for evolutionary growth over-rules the biological compulsion of unreflective animal instinct. Though an ego is needed for its actualization, reflective awareness occurs not by the will of the ego, but by the promptings to individuation originating from the Self (which is equivalent to the philosophers’ stone). Our very impulse to be reflective, as well as our impulse to resist reflection, for that matter, are both expressions of the philosophers’ stone.

In alchemy,

we have to start with

the philosophers’ stone

in order to make

the philosophers’ stone.

In a mutual opus,

the ego and

the Self reciprocally,

and collaboratively redeem each other

– The ego needs the guidance and support of the Self,

while the latent Self needs the co-operation

and participation of the ego

in order to incarnate in embodied form.

The ego is the child of the timeless Self,

as the Self is the source of the ego’s being.

At the same time,

the realized Self can only be

born in time and space

through an ego.

This is why Christ,

who symbolizes the Self,

in addition to being called the “Son of God,”

is also referred to as the “Son of Man.”

The formless Self

emerges in embodied, incarnate form as a result of

an encounter with a conscious human ego;

the Self is therefore called the son of man,

or the child of the philosophers.

The alchemists’ art allows God

to know Itself by

creating Itself through

the individual alchemist.

To quote an ancient alchemical text,

the “Stone can only be brought to its proper form by Art.”

Through their sacred art, the alchemists’,

in discovering the philosophers’ stone,

were literally creating consciousness.

Individuation is Incarnation.

The alchemists were having an archetypal imagination

that it was God Itself

that had become imprisoned in matter,

absorbed in the dream,

entranced by the dogma of literalism,

bewitched by Its own genius for reality creation,

and needed the help of the alchemists to become liberated.

And the alchemists,

to the extent that they didn’t realize

that what was the matter with matter

was their own imagination,

became similarly bewitched.

As Jung tells us,

the alchemists had to come to terms

with the fact that they

“were chasing a projection,

and that the more they attributed

to the substance

the further away they were getting

from the psychological source

of their expectations.”

If the alchemists didn’t realize

they were chasing a projection,

it eluded them like an ever-receding rainbow,

as they tried to grasp the ungraspable.

Jung concludes that

“the alchemists came to project

even the highest value – God – into matter.”

When we are unconscious of something,

we always project it outside of ourselves,

where it gets “dreamed up” into materialization.

Jung clarifies this important point when he says, “…everything unconscious, once it was activated, was projected into matter – that is to say, it approached people from outside.”

Jung continues,

“It is therefore not surprising

if the unconscious appears in projected and symbolized form,

as there is no other way by which it might be perceived.”

Inasmuch as a projected content is only apparently severed from the wholeness of the psyche by the act of projection, the conscious mind is secretly tied to its projections by a fascination, attraction, and unconscious identification.

Projection affects the recipient of the projection,

in this case the mysterious stone,

influencing the recipient,

who “carries” the projected content,

to embody the projection even more,

which serves as evidence

to further solidify the projection,

which then literally becomes “written in stone.”

When we are projecting our images of God,

how our projection turns out

– in delusion or realization

– depends upon if we recognize

what is being revealed about ourselves

through our projection.

To the extent that the alchemists realized

they were projecting outside of themselves

their own divinity so as to recognize

it within themselves,

was the extent to which the alchemists

were unlocking the key

to their own self-empowerment.

If an alchemist realized

the reflective and revelatory nature

of what he was experiencing

in his miraculous lapis,

which he himself equated with Christ,

to quote Jung, he would

“have been obliged to recognize

that he had taken the place of Christ

– or, to be more exact,

that he, regarded not as ego but as self,

had taken over the work of redeeming not man, but God.”

He would then have had to recognize

not only himself as the equivalent of Christ,

but Christ as a symbol of the self.”

Compared to Christ,

who, as the Word made flesh,

was the full-bodied incarnation of the Light,

each one of us are instruments for

the reunion and re-uniting of

the paradoxical God

which contains both light and dark.

We are the alchemical vessels

prepared by God

expressly for the purpose

of uniting the opposites

intrinsic to Its nature.

Jung reflects that,

“Whereas in Christ God himself became man,

the filius philosophorum [the son of the philosophers,

i.e., the stone, analogous to the son of man]

was extracted from matter by human art

and, by means of the opus,

made into a new light-bringer

[interestingly, the archetypal “light-bringer” is Lucifer].

In the former case the miracle of man’s salvation

is accomplished by God;

in the latter,

the salvation or transfiguration of the universe

is brought about by the mind of man

– ‘Deo concedente’ [God willing],

as the authors never fail to add…

Man takes the place of the Creator”

The sacred, meta-physical art of the alchemists

was to liberate the creative spirit of the cosmos,

which they could only accomplish with

the blessing of the creative spirit which is God.

Creative artists of and for the soul, the alchemists were being a channel for the universe to autopoetically re-create itself in a uniquely evolutionary way.

In Jung’s words,

“…man is indispensible for the completion of creation;

that, in fact,

he himself is the second creator of the world.”

In exploring their unconscious through the material world,

the alchemists were potentially waking themselves up to

the dreamlike nature of reality.

In becoming lucid in the dream of life,

they were realizing how they could transform

the world by transforming themselves.

We are all potential alchemists-in-training to the extent we are consciously participating in giving creative expression to our experience of the unconscious. When enough of us become accomplished in the sacred art of alchemy, we can connect and “conspire to co-inspire” each other, I imagine, to activate our collective genius and create real magic, changing the world in the process. As the alchemist Gerhard Dorn proclaims, “Transform yourselves into living philosophical stones!”

END OF …The Sacred Art of Alchemy

PSALM 119 : 119

119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love your testimonies.

סִיג çîyg, seeg; refuse; scoria:—dross. waste, rubbish;

the scum produced when smelting metals.
a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal or dispersed in the metal,

DANIEL 3 : NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S GOLDEN IMAGE

1Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was three score cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

דּוּרָא dûwrâʼ, doo-raw’; circle or dwelling; Dura, a place in Babylonia:—Dura.

“equated the Devil Tarot key with Mercury,” giving “his figure Mercury’s caduceus, rising like a phallus from his groin.”

The Circle with dot is the alchemical symbol for Gold

Statue of Baphomet / Azazel in Detroit