Why Alchemy nowadays ?

 This is an extract of my article in VITRIOLUM book 2 of Alchemy Forums.

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"Le Médecin guérissant Phantasie," Mattheus Greuter, 

1620 (Bibliothèque nationale de France).

What is Alchemy ? A concise definition.

From Nature’s point of view : Life occurring at every levels, everywhere, every now and heading toward evolution.

Evolution : and making evolve matter to make it going back to nothingness. Closing the cycles.

From a true spiritual and alchemical point of view : fixing the human condition, healing the kingdoms of Nature, helping the primordial goal of Nature at every levels, everywhere, every now.

From an ignorant human point of view : “making gold from lead”, - in order to make money and gain power - when alchemy is admitted as possible. Otherwise it is a “foolish science”. Proto chemistry.

Alchemy, from human point of view : the various goals and gifts.

Alchemy is a way to rediscover a lost world. We are playing the professor Challenger, alike the character of the novel of Conan Doyle. We find a country, long forgotten, inhabited by monsters, chimeras and wild creatures, but also, a vast land of natural opulences. A world full of potential adventures.

It is now a common opinion that alchemy is a lost science, partaking of a remote past. An obsolete discipline, put back in the closet since a long, very long time. But Newton’s theories about physics are not so old, and he was a fervent student of the Old Science of Alchemy. In fact, almost 80% of his writings concern this subject. And of course, no one speaks about this, as if it were a shame, or a kind of taboo.

Those who break the taboo,

are killed, or banned from

the human society.

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A counter culture, and a superior science : an act of resistance.

Alchemy as a discipline, is an act of moral, ethical, scientific, philosophical, social, humanist and ecologic resistance.

It broadens the vision, the thought, the understanding and personal philosophy. As such it has on one’s life, a tremendous impact. Yes, we put under the microscope of experiments the scientific and spiritual knowledge, and we can try to verify by ourselves, instead of believing everything without truly questioning it.

We thus, test, try, fail, get a new logic with extensive and profound experiments. Transmuting elements into others, at room temperature, without radiations. Yes, it is possible. Making liquid a solid metal, or the reverse ? Yes, again, this is possible. Or putting into primordial elements a matter, that even the most advance spectrometer will not be able to detect, or reducing a metal to a state that it is no longer a metal and impossible to reduce to its first state… but more that that. Making plants to grow very quickly, or rejuvenate a person, or heal seemingly not curable illnesses… all this is in the spectrum of researches of alchemy. It is not because something is not yet scientifically possible that alchemy never did it. This is why we are confronted to a mystery, and this is a marvellous thing. This is the core value of Alchemy, why it makes it so special, and tremendously important for humankind. As all important things for humanity, it tends to be put aside by the vast majority.

By a spirit of total contradiction, Alchemy offers a counter culture to the ambient loss of soul and intelligence that this century offers us, not only far from the new-age things, or reality show, or soap operas, and others. But for all that, is Alchemy a contradiction to today's society, to consumerism and to the whole disposable, to the growing virtuality ?

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Fulcanelli got it clearly. He had a transcending vision, and this is why, by putting all the pieces of the puzzle together that he wrote the “Finis Gloriae Mundi”. But, for him it was a big result coming out of years of hard efforts, and the reader could have just reject it, and put discredit on the author, it was too much for a human, unprepared, brain.

His book was about cycles, floods, end of the wolrd/universe, reverse of poles, probably some other secrets that are very important. It was really in advance on his time. Clearly way too much. This is why – among other things - he took back the manuscript from Eugène Canseliet, his proof reader and secretary.

Yes, there is an impact of the matter on the psyche and body of the operator. The cycles of death and resurrection are painful and interesting in order to grasp “what is going on”, and where are we going. Because, after all, do we really know where we are heading to ?

Alchemy has a simple answer : evolution and perfection. Maybe after all, what the popular image promote about alchemy doing “gold from lead” is not that bad. A simple image, a simple concept. It is how branding works no ?

We could admit that in lead there is gold as potential. The same in human being. It is a Zen like logic. A Zen practice : fixation of the volatile mind and emotions. Resting in peace, here and now, coagulated as pure consciousness. Everything makes “Zense”.

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