where to start
A synonym is starting begin with , then let us search at the beginning, by the principle principles s and causes of natural things, since Alchemy is the science of nature to which he is also considered an art. It is a science because through observation and experimentation, helped by a methodology, it comes to the knowledge of the principles and causes that determine the creation, maintenance and destruction of natural things. And it is an art because it requires skill and dexterity rational by the alchemist to apply these principles so that you can produce something that in our science, is called Philosopher 's Stone .
This is, as its name implies, a stone. Is said to be a kind of glass or glass scarlet red made from a very pure substance is distributed throughout the Universe manifested. And it is only philosophers philosopher because Sages can make it.
Accordi ng to Aristot According Aristotle, le, philosoph philosophy y is the science that deals with the first principl principles es and first causes.
Adept in their treatises tell us that there is a substance that is the cause of the generation, storage and destruction of all things and all beings. We say it is a spirit because you can not see, but which we can manifest in the form of vapor or mist , and only with him and he can make the Stone, for which we must first condense in a water . The alchemists gave the name of " Spiritus Mundi " or Spiritus Universalis, ie, Soul of the World or Universal Spirit.
There is no treaty to explicitly discuss its manifestation, never any Adept has dared to reveal textually the biggest secret of Alchemy. However, it does give us small pieces of information about the causes and principles that come into play.
With this you can give us an idea of where to start; first by " Observing Nature ". Try toexplain how she produces things, how preserved and how destroyed, how he tries to develop them . Then, and for purposes of power take the first step in this science, we must ask:
What is the Spiritus Mundi thing? What are the principles and causes of its manifestation? How can we isolate it and condense it in its purest form?
Trying to answer slowly these questions and having read and re - read the treaties of the adepts can move to experimentation in our laboratory, trying to recreate and accelerate natural processes applying these principles and causes that we discover, and so ever closer to the source of our Living Water that someday we can reach it and drink from it. The first suggestion I made to achieve our first objective, which is the condensation of Spiritus Mundi , was that we should observe Nature, realize how she creates, preserves and destroys everything in our world, in the universe. Philosophers also suggest the same in most of its treaties, try to show it to us through their eyes trying to explain their processes.
But when one begins to observe, often we complicate our sofisticándolo thought with scientific and academic information we have gathered during our lives, ignoring what philosophers tell us. They say that Nature is not complicated in its processes, everything has a father and a mother, and that something is born is necessary that these two principles come together Opposites .
One of my favorite treaties is "Aurea Catena Homeri" or "The Golden Chain of Homer" in which the author exposes us clearly several experiments that have been conducted in an attempt to understand nature, but the most interesting are Hermetic Principles teaches us. In the first chapter of his first book he tells us:
" Nature is the mass of all beings that make this visible world, and the principle distinguished from God, but emanated from him, that animates it. God brought the Nature of nothing by virtue of his Word, that he had fathered for the whole eternity."
No need to complicate both try to imagine what philosophers want to tell us about nature because they us want to show what it is, but when you talk about things we can not see as a quality, God, Nothing, the Word, eternity, etc., it is necessary to philosophize and deepen it but without losing sight that Nature rejoices in simplicity.
Thus, the above paragraph tells us that nature is all that exists in this plane, giving the characteristic of visible , thus manifested and materials , to differentiate it from other planes that may be, also says it is a principle as it is the cause of development of forms in this plane and adds that it is distinguished from God because it is a differentiation of him. this is confirmed by saying that it is a divine emanation, ie ceased to be unseen , unmanifested ,spiritual , but without But
it contains within itself the divine essence cheerleader. with this ,the author refers to the principle of Polarity which says:
"Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; the like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree ; extremes meet; all truths are half - truths; all the paradoxes may be reconciled. "
That is, the invisible-visible, unmanifested unmanifested, spiritual-material Godemanations, dark-light, Father-Mother, Sun-Moon, etc.
Then, if we imagine Nothing like a vacuum and the Word as a vibration or movement, then Nature would emerge vacuum in vibration, it is not becoming subject matter because of the movement. But the movement produces heat and this is generated by the fire , a powerful fire and that is the virtue of which the author speaks, then we confirmed where continues:
" He wanted, and the verb begot a steam , a mist or a huge smoke, and imprinted on it virtue, that is, full of strength and power spirit. This vapor is condensed into water that the Philosophers have called universal and chaos, or simply chaos; It is this water that the universe was formed: it is she who has been, as it is still and will always be , first of all things matter. "
The will is potential power, and this will to exist or manifest itself is the cause of fire or virtuethat generates the need to get o ut of nothing or itself its counterpart, a vapor movement.This steam, being son of fire on the one hand, inherited the qualities of his father. his continuous generation and saturation causes it to condense on Water , considered the first matter of all things.
And they call it chaotic because it is undifferentiated, as yet n othing is produced from it.However, it contains the four required to generate all properties, so the fire in it is hot and dry, and its aqueous form is cold and wet. It is the union of opposites.
With this in mind we can go out and see how the wind is produced, how it germinates and grows a plant, how an embryo is formed, how it can be misted, rain, snow, hail, lightning, clouds, ocean currents, etc. And we will see that it is always the result of the interplay of polarities and their disposal.
A gni
In
means " fire " in Sanskrit.
Vedic
Pritiví
culture
(earth
was
the son
element
or
of
Diaúsh
essence
of
Pitri
(Father
of
heaven)
and
gni is matter). Therefore A
the
result of the union of heaven and earth, from the subtle to the dense, spirit
with
matter,
the
Sun
with
the
Moon,
is
the
reconciliation
of
opposites.
This fire is what alchemists have called Spiritus Mundi or soul of the world and that through Alchemy can corporificar in a " Water does not
wet
the
hands ". This
spirit
is
what
animates
the entire
manifested
universe without it life would not exist and forms and beings could not evolve. With this water, in its purest form , the alchemical Great Work, the Philosopher 's Stone is made.
This site is dedicated to the study and practice of Hermetic Art, mainly to
understand
and
apply
the
principles
that
come
into
play
in
the
condensation of Spiritus Mundi, the first objective to be achieved for the development of the Stone.
On
my
way
down
this
path
I
will
post
some
of
my
experiences
and
meditations, alchemical treatises that help us understand the miracle of manifestation, also results of experiments without mentioning details as extreme miracle
caution
is of
advised,
and
when
Nature
the
day
comes poured
to
showing
this
water.
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