Grasp the essence of the Art before your bunsen beak.

As a beginner you'll rush on labware, on protocols and recipes, you are eager to create tinctures and different products and most importantly, to test them in order to have results.

You want to express your creativity and your inner genius in your practical work with what (the little) you know. But, you have no experience yet, you don't even know how these products will work, some keys are obviously missing. Of course they miss because they are not found in books, or you can have them by an initiator. (and I wonder why it's always a kind of "101"- a lot of stuff on this blog, very important 'details' and informations, coming out of my practical experience in the lab was exclusive and new, and I wonder why, if all the authors have been actually working in the lab, why then, they don't express all this knowledge in their books, rarely, very rarely old authors speak about the inner contact with the matter in the flask, the contacted "archetypes"/beasts, the feelings and experience you can have in such situation, as if, a whole side of Alchemy was hidden or only existing as symbols in engravings, but it is a far more vast Science).

It is important to grasp the essence of the Art before being a technician in Alchemy. You technique is just a mirror of what you have inside yourself. At the beginning you have nothing personal (as experience and philosophy) in you, what you have can come from others via books, teachers, conferences, blogs ... but all this must be checked in the reality, and must pass the test of truth : Matter Never Lies. This is why Alchemy is one of the most concrete and palpable spiritual path. If the Matter shows you the Truth, if you don't see it, it is because of your inner chaotic vision. You cannot grasp a message when you don't understand the language, and when you are not able to decipher it.

Here are the two main problems : How to make the matter speak, how to understand what it says. Both depends of what you understand of the Art. Both can be solved by the Hermetical Vision or the True Understanding of Nature.

All this takes time & work, also a lot of engagement, dedication and energy are needed by the neophyte in order to have some advancement in this Art.

In order for you make matter speak, you need to open it, to make it evolve, and for this you need to know the Fires. Once you master the different Fires, you can witness changes. And then you can try to understand what Nature is trying to tell you. We can really touch cosmical concepts with that.

Empty techniques will yield nothing philosophical. You need to act philosophically in the Lab, and to make a conjunction of Lab, and Oratory in order to really have a Laboratory work. Only one will give nothing, both complete each other and are the complete philosophy. Alone they give nothing striking, but together they will generate a deeper impact on your psyche. And this is important.

Not all that shines is Gold, not all that is red is the Stone. Fool’s Gold is not just a pyrite, but an important principle. Discrimination can only be done by the mind’s eye, and not by the physical eye. Only the essence of the Art will give you this understanding of the real level of a production you have. Alchemical Science encompass a lot of levels of powers, from the simple extraction to the multi cycle evolved Pure Spiritus Mundi upon itself, which is the highest level of Stone. Between them you have a variety of productions, more or less powerful. Only the knowledge of the levels can give you a reference point for what you get.

Being an Artist is being a philosophical technician, with this Wild, Wise and Wide Vision of Nature in yourself, in a communion with the process you launch. You are just an agent of Nature, an applier of the Fires.

Matter never lies because it is an impossibility. Matter is the engraving of signatures, cycles, energies, process, evolutions, forces... and will express it as they are, directly under a language of forms. This is how God.ess speaks down here. The imprint, or fingerprint of Life is directly stamped into shapes and events, qualities of the matter. You see it or not. Having the Hermetic Vision is having access to this level of language. At first you find the language, and then you can speak it. The matter is the body of God.ess, as such, it is a precise vehicle of principles, the tables of laws were engraved into the rock, the laws are engraved into matter, this is the same thing. You can see specific things in the lab, and you can, will and should, broaden your vision by encompassing everything that is. You can decipher the whole creation. You can clearly find the Ariane's string into the labyrinth. Explaining this Vision in the detail would take a whole book, and one should have a strong stomach to digest all the principles and complexities of such language...but to the brave heart, everything is possible !

Some people are like Mercury.

Being an Alchemist is *always* a problem in regard to other categories of persons in this society - it surely always was after all, we know the story of the poor Edward Kelly, alias Edward Talbot (the medium of John Dee). (Take a look at his biography here) A lot of wandering Alchemists were present in Europe during the golden age of Alchemy (15 - 18th cent). Some, very powerful, like Lascaris, were lways moving, changing place and identity. Not every 50 years, after rejuvenation, but each time they felt "something". Which was very often. Some were established and with social rank (like Gualdi, but this one two disappeared suddenly, and reappeared some time after coming from a foreign country under the name of Prince Hualtazob).

Some people are like Mercury. They play a role of menstrum and you are the subject of their extraction. They will try to get out of you all your sap, all you that you know, everything and even more.

Some people would pay you, some would try to read in your mind while you're asleep, some would try to be close to you, and kind/manipulative in order to extract you some process, in the worse cases some would threaten you, some would threaten your familly and friends, would kidnapp you, would torture you (some black magus can do that easily at distance), and some would kill your familly by a way or another - astral mafia. Some Alchemists had nocturnes visits of high demons for example. I imagine it is the game.

What I know is that some succeeding alchemists, or even advanced one are under a Big Brother Eye (more like a Sauron's one ...), a French Alchemist died several years ago, and some people runned into his house in order to take his production, unknown people, coming out of "nowhere"... fortunately one of his friend came before and took the most important things.

This is not paranoïa. Alchemists are not psychotic.

This mafia is a real problem for those who don't know how to protect themselve, but we can perfetly blind them. We can see their action clearly. They want what we produce because it is Power, and everything they are not able to create. They want it because they do not deserve it. And because they do not deserve it, such Power is in their hand totally out of control, which will, by the end, destroy the owner. It is an intelligent Power, you have to Master (domesticate it) totally, otherwise, at such level, it will kill you, or push yourself to kill yourself. If you don't even know what to do with it, all its potentilities, all the applications, and how to handle it ... don't !

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Je suis désolé pour mes lecteurs français qui ne lisent pas l'anglais, l'inspiration (et donc l'expiration sur ce blog) me vient en anglais, et je n'ai absolument pas l'espace-temps nécessaire à la traduction des articles en ce moment, un jour probablement, je les laisse aux malencontreux et distordants soins de notre ami Google traduction ... en espérant que vous saurez vous en contenter pour l'instant ! Mes amitiés.

The Book of Nature's Elucidation - I was blind now I see the P.O.L.E.

The Book Of Nature's Elucidation : B.O.N.E. And the P.O.L.E concept.

Once upon a time, I was blind. I say once upon a time, because this BONE is like a fairy tale (again, yes). It's imaginary, it's a story, it's a world. Exactly where we are now. Now.where.

I already said it : if you don't have the eyes of a baby, blossoming to this world, you'll have old structures in front of your eyes, acting like opaque glasses, filters and blinders - you'll not see. Remove them and everything is clear. It's indeed so clear that it can blind you. Alike Plato's Cave example, if you come back and speak to people of what you saw, they will not accept your speach. It's out of their possible understanding because it must be an experience of life, and not a meer mental concept.

This is a root experiment. This vision is induced by a personnal, profound, deep and structural rearragement in the alchemist/hermetist/;"guy.girl"'s psyche and bodies.

Rearrange inside, and everything rearrange outside. And you can see it.

In my daily life I speak a lot of Laws, Hermetical Principles applied in the cycles, compositions, structures, signatures and natures of living beings present in this matriochka universe.

The vision of 'It cannot be otherwise' is an impressive one. Because when you see clearly the BONE, and when you have it, the veil is being removed. Once the BONE is worked in daily life and subconsciously understood, a whole new array of experiments are opened to you, and a new quality of life also.

Of course BONE is a pun. It's because you have to perceive the whole thing/game to the deepest possible core of Nature Herself. The BONE is something palpable, you can touch it, smell it, see it, draw it, look at it evolve, and interact with it. BONE is the program of creation, preservation and destruction of everything/anything, every/anywhere, every/anytime. 

Thing = something poping out of Nothing.

Where = here (here is everywhere).

Time = now (and now is always).

It means that BONE deals with the Now. Where in No.thing.

Of course, it also deals with the Some Where out of Some.thing.

The Book Of Nature's Expression vision is vast, it's embracing everything, it is the pure philosophy of this world, without religion, without unverified concepts or theories, without culture infused in it (which is a chaotic factor because it is with blinders and taboos, etc). It's based upon Principles Of Life's Expression : P.O.L.E.

POLE is base upon ... polarities (tadaaaammm !! I wouldn't suspect it), POLE and BONE are the same thing in a different level of expression, one deals more with duality and this world (POLE) and the other one embraces everything even POLE itself. You need POLE to understand BONE and BONE to understand POLE.

POLE and BONE are one and the same thing after all... It deals with EVERYHING in this Nature's Expression. As I said earlier : "cycles, compositions, structures, signatures and natures of living beings present in this matriochka universe."

When you find a POLE expression/Law (to make it short), it's because you reached its level. When you reach a new level the Patterns Of Life's/Light Expression (this POLE = the first POLE cause it's the same) is seen in a clearer way and you world vision expand a little bit. Each time a little bit. And you can "discover" amazing things !! Hard time for blinders ...

Hermetism is not new. Alchemy is not new, it's only new to you, to me. Everyday it new for me. Fortunately it is. Hermetism is a label. Alchemy is a label. I would prefer to use POLE and BONE, it's speaking far more to me. Alchemy is too much full of history and cultures and social concepts, it's not pure "BONE".

All this is part of the Oratory part, these concepts must be understood because they have a direct impact upon the Lab expression of an Alchemist, because it is a reflection, a mirror of the interior level of perception of the BONE !
The perception and understanding of the Book Of Nature's Expression depends a lot of the Hermes in the Hermetist. The Hermes is this "something" you have, this knack and this fire in the deepest place of your heart for the breaking/understanding of the Matrix. What is the Hermes if it's not a spirit ? It is the abaility to see through the old vision. The old vision is the cultural one, the parental one, the delusionnal one. The one that makes you believe in false things. This hallucinatory state is based upon a vision without understanding of what surrounds you. It's like living a in chinese dictionnary and not understanding a single word !! (or Hebrew one ... ;) ) When you begin to perceive ... damned ! You begin to have the code ! There IS a code ! There IS a designed and functionnal Pattern. Oh WOW, S**t !! This happened by the medium, the hermes is you, able to unlock the locks in you. It will not unlock something out of you, but you will then be able to unlock things in this world (I didn't said out of you, because it's not the case, there is nothing out and nothing in... because what's in is alike out, and vice versa... so look at your life and tell me what's in you !!).

Anyway, seeking the "lost" Book Of Nature's Expression is passionnating. And it is a marvellous quest. It's very very rewarding spiritually.