Know where you are, and accept it fully.

In the process of Spiritual/Alchemical evolution or initiations, you can maybe wonder where you are wandering now. At first, you should feel and see clearly what's happening in you. Do you feel depressed ? Or maybe you are learning new things and enjoying social life, you could feel meditative and very detached or feeling balanced, or maybe you have a feeling of accomplishment ? You have to see what's going on in your existence. And then you can put a label on the phase/colour where you are. This is not an easy task at first, I admit it. Simply because you have first to look deeply in you, with some distance, and you also have to understand what are the characteristics of the four major colours.

When it is done, and you think you are in such or such colour, try to feel how you live this special colour. Is it fun ? Is it painful or problematic ? Do you enjoy the process or do you tend to refuse it in some way ? Do you fully live the colour ? Do you have problems with the living of this colour, maybe with friends, parents, relatives, etc ? What is happening in you, and around you while you are in the colour ?

Of course we can have reactions in our surrounding concerning the way we live the process. Most part of the time people will not understand what is going on in you. They don't even know that the inner cycle exist. So, how could they understand ? We have to explain what is happening. To say that it is normal. It is a quickening (yes, almost like in the "Highlander"). We receive an energy, we have to surrender to it in order to be initiated, and to evolve more in our human and Divine potential. If they don't understand, present the cycle as a natural and psychological process, you can use Jung, in order to explain the seasons of the Soul. Keep your explanation simple and clear. And remind them often what is going on in you. A lot of persons having a Black, a Green, a White, are worried, nowadays it is the Black that worries people. They don't know what is happening. They understand nothing. Lately, a woman was telling me that "she was lost, totally lost, impossible to know what to do, where to go" (perfect Blackness), another, in divorce, cheated by her husband (probably in the Green period of the 50 years old...), loosing her job, house, stability, etc. Well, when you have made something mature, like the red apple, it will one day, fall of the branch on the floor in order to putrefy and to give life to another existence. Every stability will call instability one day or another. I explained her, both, that it is normal, something is happening, that it is for something better, and sooner or later, she will regain joy and life. I explained the cycle in simple words, in optimistic words. You can't explain the cycle in the same way to everybody. Simply because you have to know where they are. According to their place in the cycle, and how they are living it, you have to change your point of view and words.

 

"After the Black, there is Green ! Keep your faith, light is coming, a new life !"

"After the Green, there is White ! Don't worry, you will not loose your freshness !"

"After White there is Red ! Finally you will have the fruits of your stability !"

"After Red, there is Black ! Prepare yourself to loose everything you are,

and have, but thanks Nature for that, because your wealth will be multiplied !".

This explanation should not trigger a flee from the present colour, you have to deal, and face the NOW, and nothing else. In the Black, it is understandable to have a need for green. It is perfect. It's the role of Black mostly at a certain time, to make this need. Maybe, it is also a part of the cycle to create this need for the next colour. But it must be clearly understood that you can help the colour, and then, the cycle itself, or you can interfere with it. It only depends of your inner flexibility, non resistance, and total, unconditional acceptance.

Your desire for something else than what is happening right now can make you feel bad. For example : You can reject your blackness, as we said before, (and most part of the time it is the case, because it hurts, but we don't have the force do get rid of it), you can reject your immaturity/greenness, because you never felt like that before, or you want to do very bizarre things, you have desires for experiences you are not accustomed to, and maybe it is not part of your cultural vision/ programming (by peers, and parents, relatives, etc), and it is also the case when you are surrounded by persons that are in some other colours. You could try to keep them close (in mind) to you, and it would not help the cycle ... you could do that because you could fear to loose them. Sometimes it is necessary.

So, you block, you strive, you suffer, you are torn, and moved by desires and needs, passions, etc. If ever you repress them, or push them, they will come back, with even more force a day or another in your life. There is no "time" in the subconscious for the cycle. You'll have to do, to live, what the cycle needs to be completed.

Arcana Arcanissima en francais

Vous pourrez trouver le livre de Maier, Arcana Arcanissima en francais ici.

Twenty times on the Fire, put back your Work.

I thought during a year or two that my Alchemical system was valid. I thought I knew something valuable, and I was very happy of that. But one day or another, you have to put back your Great Work on the anvil of Vulcan. If you don’t, you are forced to do it, a way or another, if you want it, or not. Personally I had no problem with that, I was happy that something new could manifest in my Lab and in my experience of Nature and Life. Some people can refuse and resist change. Fortunately, I already knew it wasn't "that", I had doubts. And it was easier to accept.

More you evolve in Alchemy, more the door leading to the next level is low, and more you have to bend yourself. Humility is the only state that can make you go through it. Of course it is closed. You can have the key, but not being able to bend enough, to make the voluntary effort, to go through the door. Do you even want to do this effort ? Do you even imagine what is behind this door ? Do you have enough courage to be able to loose what you 'are'. If you think you will be the same after being through it, you're wrong. Simply because you have to change before going through it ! But you can be sure you have freedom to go or not, to stay where you are, but, really, it's an impulse, you chose to evolve, even if you feel you are loosing something during the process.

You can see behind the curtain,

but you still can't go behind it,

and you'll have to drink the elixir Alice ...

So, I had a system, a vision. Now, the vision is changed, but what is amazing is that the "old vision" was in fact a necessity in order to make the baby of the new vision able to come into life, without it, impossible to reach the next level, and it is part of the new vision, but in a different way than before, before it was an end, now, it is a mean to another end. When I look back I see that every step is in the stairs leading to the goal. How marvellous ... amazing. A deep respect again, a glimpse of the perfect pattern of Life expressing Itself through my existence. The "Choice non Choice", again.


You can try consciously to recreate your vision of the world. Personally I doubt one can voluntarily. It must be part of the cycle/process of evolution.

Beliefs, are just what they are, and one day or another they can die, because they are part of the cycle. And new beliefs will come to the surface, and on, and on.

You can loose your faith. And it is necessary. Faith, truth and beliefs are linked. You think (faith) something is true for you, then you make of it a belief, or a reference point. A perspective. Change your perspective and your faith and belief will also change. If you cling to belief (idea) or faith, or your expression of truth, you will suffer. Be smooth, flexible. But a tender meat, is sometime beaten during a long time before... that's for immature meat, the immature you. And then you are cooked :)
I also wanted to say that Alchemy is a very personal path. Let me repeat it : It is a very personal path. It is selfish, but, (at the end if everything turns for the best) without ego. Another paradox I know. If you imagine you can save the world with it, you are wrong. If you imagine you can really save someone with Alchemy (we are speaking about ALCHEMY, and not spagerics, and we are speaking about SAVING someone, not just healing), you are wrong, you can't force someone to be truly healed, to be saved. You can just preach by your example, but Alchemy, the Stone and all this stuff is so special, that very very few can bear this Path. At a moment of your path, you can have the power, but the power is unstable. Like nitro-glycerine. Shake it and BHAM, heat it and BHAM, let it fall and BHAM, drink it and ... Okay you get it.

You have created : responsibility. You are handling something greater, and wider, and wiser, and ...and ... than you can imagine. And you don't even really know what's behind the next door !You need to be mature with power in your hands, otherwise, Bham... again. And Bham again, until you learned the lesson.

I'm wondering if this blog is of some utility. A friend told me that he enjoys it, personally I think you can enjoy what I write when you are going through the same door. Otherwise, you don't care because you understand nothing, and you don't see yet "the little door at the base of the volcano" or you don't care, because all this stuff "is old now".

This friend and I had a talk about the first Alchemist, that's why I mentioned it earlier in a previous article. We deduced that Alchemists should be like cavemen in ancients times, in the Stone-age, when culture wasn't yet really developed (cults = culture, you worship, for example : your Ipad, Ipod, your Iphone, you worship you "Iself" to make short, just a short cut to explain the culture, concepts, technology, hyper super tools for hyper super cultural men and women, ask them to debug your "Ismthng", everything is okay, but ask them to make a fire in the forest by their own ...), I have nothing against culture if you don't loose your vision of Nature. You have to see the Hermetical Nature's Technology first if you want to go somewhere in Alchemy.

Here I try to explain the idea of "virgin mind", like the prehistoric mind/cavemen. Nothing in it. No concepts, that's a virgin birth in a sense. To be totally lost in the world, trusting only what you can experiment and see. Now, you have the relevant information everywhere.
With all this cultural stuff, it's a tsunami of B.S about nothing really important. Of course, it is particularly important, but not universally important. The universally important is lost with the prostitute mind, embracing any seducing side of culture. A virgin mind for a culturalized man, can be very very scary. That's why only few of them reach it, and can stand it. It's simply a shock to see Nature naked after you never ever really saw it!

Merry Christmas

A Merry Christmas.

Mikhael Maier's Emblema.

The 'Christ Mass'. The Philosophers' Stone, or the corporealization and materialization of the Divine Light, creating a "self" in the dual world, or Creation.

How is it possible ? We know it is possible, but how ? Here is the most important secret in Alchemy, in spirituality. It deals with a how, and a where also.

How, when, where, by who is this secret possible ?

All the answers are in Nature. Where, if not in the Nature ? The first of all Alchemist may have found the Stone by accident, or maybe he found the laws first. But something is for sure : he wasn't initiated by some order or philosopher before, BUT, he was allowed (he had the ticket for the Stone) by the superior intelligence, Nature Her/Itself.

Maybe you see Nature, but you don't look, change your perspective, your point of view, your ideas, your vision, try another angle. Maybe you will grasp some truth.

It is very difficult to actually understand Nature. The human race tried it. Nowadays vision understand Nature from a "dead" point of view, there is only with quantum physics that Life can come again to the surface, but since it is not something you can hold in your hand ...
An Alchemist deals with the volatile, ungraspable, and he tries to fix it. Maier was very aware of this, and we can see it clearly in his emblem.
At some point of your travel, you loose your desire for the Stone. You also loose your desire for healing, yourself or others, and for transmutation, or any kind of "powers". Surprisingly, it is then that all these things tend to come to you. "You passed the audition" would say a friend of mine. You saw the gate keeper, the Dragon, and he lets you go into the cave, to find the treasure and the Princess. His breath is no more deadly for you since you master all the desires he represents. All the dangers are mastered. You don't loose your goals or interests, but you loose your desires, your passion, and your emotions.

Clearer and clearer, the end of the game.

It is a good way to explain it.

Here you see the codes/laws making the "curtain" of illusionary reality "looking real".

When things are getting clearer, you can feel the end of the game. You can see the curtain, you can see through it, you can see behind it. It happens in several steps.
At first you see there is a "curtain" like a reality put in front of your eyes, but you know it's not truth, but you don't understand it.
Then, you begin to understand the nature of the curtain, you see the laws making the world to be created, and working properly, how the world of illusion auto sustain it self, in order to be stable, and to exist.

Then, you begin to see the truth behind the curtain, where it is leading to, in a word : the Source behind the curtain ! You begin to see the Creator everywhere via the Creation, there is here a big respect for all life, and a universal understanding taking place in your head and heart.
After that you begin to grasp a special concept in your gut : everything created/the curtain, comes from ONE, then, I'm in the curtain, and then I'm ONE with the Source because the curtain comes from the Source, I am the Source. I'm everywhere !

Then it's time to get rid of your own personal piece of curtain. You have to go beyond the world of creation to go back into the Source. At first, you go there in Spirit, after some time, then, you disappear into Light when your body is tuned with the Source.
This is the real Apocalypse, when the whole creation is uncreated and go back into the Glory of God.

Here is another way to symbolise it, here, you go beyond the curtain. The veil that makes you think the world is cut from Life/God.

This is a discovery of Perfection ! This creation can seems messy. But it is so perfect in fact ! When you see it, you are really deeply amazed, deeply touched inside. And you are part of this Creation, of this perfection. It is indeed, made alike God, since it is the Body of God ! And you feel so ... little. There is after that a deep deep respect, joy and love for God, and everything (since it is seen as God).

For the moment, I'm integrating the laws of the "curtain" (after having found them) and seeing the Source in it and through it. Analysis and study of Nature via the Hermetism is the path I walk. All Philosophers/Alchemists said to study Nature, and they were right, but not in a materialistic sense, not like a scientific mind !

But when you don't actually live this, it is not really real. But, belief makes you able to live this. Believing before seeing. When you see, you can lead people to see if they are able to. And then they can believe. It is irrefutable proof.
I feel my contact with God now, I really feel it because it cannot be otherwise.
Before it was just a belief. Something I was taught.
Now it is "real".

Blah blah, speak, share, work, and then keep silent.

(White speaking, in fact, the white of green here, exactly what I saw in a vision)

It happens. One day you have your mouth shut. You are no more able to speak about true Alchemy, or just ... to say banalities, but I must admit one is quickly fed up with banalities.

I've been through several phases in my alchemical speach.

- The firt one is speaking, mostly of ideas, theories and works, experiments and experiences. Blah blah ...

And you keep sharing and working, until you discover some good stuff (you think it is).

- The second phase is a feeling, like : "it's so common for me", and it's problematic, because you can reveal things, and speak out loud too much. You have integrated a level, but, some things must be kept out of touch ! And you are sometime not aware of that. In this case one should close his mouth.

- The third phase is just speaking when there is a real need to share, or to rectify something about a subject, you just speak by little touches, a little here, a little there, you fill the voids, you put some light, but not too much ... it's like an intuition.

- And then, you find yourself unable to speak about Alchemy. There is nothing more to say, and it is almost really possible to share something since, there is nothing really new under the philosophers' sky, everything has been said, in different languages, books, cultures, dogmas, religions, orders, stories, myths ... what could I add ? It's almost boring to read topics on forums, and you can't really innovate or have new conversations with friends of the Art. Loops, and circles, conversations are like ouroboros... every time on a different level, but nonetheless, every time on the same topic, one day, we will remain truly silent, nothing new will be possible to be added. What a great joy ! :)

One day we stop searching, one day we stop chatting, one day we stop being an actor, and we are spectator. We are no more involved because there is no need to be involved anymore since there is nothing to add, nothing to be found, nothing to be chewed and digested or rejected. One day there is no need to open internet in order to read posts or mails on this topic, we don't care.

I'm speaking of it, surely because it is the second or third phase of this inner cycle.

The Choice - non choice.

It's like a zen riddle "Choice -non choice", you can imagine you choose, but in reality, the choice is not your. It was determined long long long time ago by your very nature.

What I'm speaking about here ? I'm speaking about Alchemy of course, but of a very special moment in Alchemy, the moment when you begin to see the whole pattern deeply. And when you see it, you have three possibilities : Lab work only, or, only oratory, or lab & oratory.

The good news is that all three possibilities lead to the goal. Just differently. It will depend of your own nature or 'signature' in a word.