Alchemy Part V

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Alchemy Part V

 

Crystals and the Alchemical Soul of the Mineral Kingdom

 

 

 

 

For the alchemist all of Nature, seen and unseen, organic and inorganic is

divine, as indeed is a part of the Divine Mind. Alchemical Cosmology holds that

there is but One universal spirit that is differentiated through adaptation to

produce the variety of forms that we see, One Mind, One Substance in all things.

 

An exercise many new Hermetic Science students is given to bring this point home

is flame work. The student distills spirits from wine that they made themselves,

or instead of distilling the spirits they use a very strong rum like Bacardi

151, and pour it into different shaped containers. The student is to mediate on

this noticing how the one substance takes on the shape of the container it is

poured into, its potential manifestation shaped by the container it is poured

into. Much as the containers of time which encase each cycle, and age contains

within it, un-manifested potential waiting to take shape. To see the varying

manifestations hidden within, the student then pours the liquid into either a

porcelain bowl or a small glass corning ware dish and sets it alight, and turns

out the light. Now before the student dance multiple tongues of flame, each

separate one from the other, yet issuing from the same common substance. Is this

not like our own consciousness of ourselves, and the world around us? Each

tongue of flame sees itself as a separate entity, coming into existence for a

time, only to fade and be replaced by another tongue of flame. Each though in

their supposed uniqueness blind to their common origin.

 

In alchemy the One Spirit, your spirit, my spirit, is said to have created the

entire universe, its involution moving first through the mineral kingdom, then

the plant kingdom, and finally in the animal kingdom. Hence the spirit and soul

contained in the mineral kingdom is the oldest and some would say the most

potent in our world.

 

In nature there exist two states of matter; one being the crystalline network

representing order, the other being the amorphous, representing chaos. Both of

these states of matter are imbued with energy, but the crystalline network is

very special because it is here that we find the first manifestations of the

conscious direction of energy. The reason for this is the repeated matrix formed

by the minerals as they crystallize, this repeated form is considered to be an

awareness of self of the minerals on a very basic level. Indeed a thing, which

has no awareness of self, can not produce a repeated pattern.

 

In alchemy we are for the most part interested in the crystalline structure of

minerals, specifically, those salts bound up in organic matter. Indeed without

mineral salts life as we know it could not exist. You might raise your eyebrow

in doubt about this last statement, but think for a moment. There is not one

metabolic function that occurs in your body that does not involve at least one

mineral salt. Without the mineral carbon we would not have organic life and the

mineral sulfur is present in every single cell of the human body. In fact, of

the nine chemical elements, (calcium, carbon, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen,

phosphorous, potassium and sulfur) that compose 99% of the dry chemical weight

of plants, humans and animals, 7 are minerals.

 

The human body cannot produce the minerals so vital to its very own continuance.

They must be brought into it from an outside source. In fact the human body

cannot even store the minerals once they are introduced into it. On the surface

of it all it would seem that the minerals play a function as transponders and

transducers of electrical energy to aid in the function of the metabolic

process. They continue this functional aid as they are carried through the body

via the circulatory system, until they reach the end of their journey and are

excreted in the urine and the feces. This is how it appears on the surface, but

what if the body was actually extracting something from the minerals?

 

As I said earlier in this paper the mineral kingdom is seen to have the oldest

and some would say the most powerful soul and spirit of the three kingdoms of

Nature, because of its length of time spent absorbing the energetic waves of

energy that flood our planet continually. Indeed it is from the most perfectly

formed crystalline structures that the alchemist seeks to extract the true

alchemical Essential of Sulphur or Soul from the mineral subject. This

alchemical Sulfur shows itself as a red oily substance, which the alchemist

indeed either extracts from the mineral in question, or if the true Philosophers

Mercury is in their possession a separation of the Essentials from the subject

matter is brought about. I’ll cover the topic of separation vs., extraction in

another set of documents. This soul or essence of the mineral is said to contain

all of the curative and spiritual properties associated with the mineral or

crystal. When prepared properly this substance does not contain any trace of the

original mineral by quantitative analysis. This is not because it has been put

through a homeopathic dilution, but rather its essence has been spiritualized

and ascended off of its course body, leaving behind the mineral salts which in

most cases also contain toxic substances. In this way alchemist where able to

make extraordinary medicines for healing the body and accelerating spiritual

work from silver, mercury, copper, gold, iron, tin, lead, antimony, and quartz

crystals, free of all toxic and harmful effects.

 

Though many people claim to be able to produced oil of metals, most do not know

how to make it at all, or only know the first part of extracting the oil. The

second and most secret part of causing it to be come spiritualized and fly over

the head of the alembic, in what Basil Valentine called a " dexterous

distillation " they are wholly ignorant of. I say this only as a word of warning

to those who come across persons claiming to have for sale alchemical oils of

metals.

 

Fortunately we can still benefit from the intense energy contained in minerals,

from a completely safe source, which indeed every healthy meal should contain,

and that is fruits, vegetable, and herbs from the plant kingdom. Now you may not

normally associate products from the vegetable kingdom with minerals but believe

one can get some rather beautifully grown minerals from vegetables, as we will

see tomorrow. The picture at the top of this paper are the purified, crystalline

mineral salts from rosemary, and the picture of the test tube below shows the

extracted alchemical sulphur of those crystalline mineral salts.

 

 

 

Text and images copyright John H. Reid III

 

JHR3

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