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Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2021 14:25:46 GMT
"The alchemist realizes that he himself is the Philosopher’s Stone, and that this stone is made diamond-like when the salt and the sulphur, or the spirit and the body, are united through mercury, the link of mind. Man is the incarnated principle of mind as the animal is of emotion. He stands with one foot on the heavens and the other on earth. His higher being is lifted to the celestial spheres, but the lower man ties him to matter. Now the philosopher, building his sacred stone, is doing so by harmonizing his spirit and his body. The result is the Philosopher’s Stone. The hard knocks of life chip it away and facet it until it reflects lights from a million different angles."
― Manly P. Hall
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2021 15:43:50 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2021 15:46:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2021 16:18:42 GMT
Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley's Views on Occult Practice www.academia.edu/1432705/Varieties_of_Magical_Experience_Aleister_Crowleys_Views_on_Occult_PracticeYoga, Yoga Philosophy, Magic, William James, New Religions, Mysticism, Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion), Thelema, Occultism, Witchcraft, Religion and Magic, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Nineteenth Century Occultism, Transmission of Yoga lineage in the West, Globalization, Aleister Crowley, Mystical experience, Esoteric Movements
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2021 19:15:10 GMT
The alchemist of today is not hidden in caves and cellars, studying alone, but as he goes on with his work, it is seen that walls are built around him, and while he is in the world, like the master of old, he is not of it. As he goes further in his work, the light of other people's advice and outside help grows weaker and weaker, until finally he stands alone in darkness, and then comes the time that he must use his own lamp, and the various experiments which he has carried on must be his guide. He must take the Elixir of Life which he has developed and with it fill the lamp of his spiritual consciousness, and holding that above his head, walk into the Great Unknovm, where if he has beep. a good and faithful servant, he will learn of the alchemy- of Divinity. Where now test tubes and bottles are his implements, then worlds and globes he will study, and as a silent watcher will learn from that Divine One, who is the Great Alchemist of all the universe, the greatest alchemy of all, the creation of life, the main- tenance of form, and the building of worlds.
_Manly P. Hall
#Initiation #alchemy #alchemist #occult #gnosticserpent
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2022 15:42:02 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2022 15:45:44 GMT
Intermediary Beings (Ch. 64, The Occult World) www.academia.edu/10182703/Intermediary_Beings_Ch_64_The_Occult_World_This is the uncorrected proofs of a chapter on "intermediary beings" in the history of Western esotericism, published in Christopher Partridge (ed.), The Occult World (Routledge, 2014). It contains reflection on the categorization of different kinds of beings, broad-scale historical developments, the role of intermediaries in occult institutions, and current trends.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2022 15:38:27 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2022 15:13:34 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2022 18:13:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2022 15:57:39 GMT
Revelation Revisited: Thelema, Robert Anton Wilson & Timothy Leary www.academia.edu/38116425/Revelation_Revisited_Thelema_Robert_Anton_Wilson_and_Timothy_LearyNotes on Matt Cardin, “In Search of Higher Intelligence: The Daemonic Muse(s) of Crowley, Leary, & Robert Anton Wilson,” in Angela Voss & William Rowlandson (eds.), Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, 2013, pp. 266-281. Most musicians, artists, poets, adepts and shamans collaborate with the Muse. The Hindu knew the phenomenon as apauruseya, śruti, and ākāśavāni. We discuss it as prophecy, Dionysian ecstasy, Bacchus, the Jungian collective unconscious, race consciousness, and the Akashic Record. The metaphysics of the multiverses demand that we understand the Muse as an autonomous projection of human consciousness.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2022 15:52:26 GMT
Introduction: Occultism in a global perspective www.academia.edu/5451376/Introduction_Occultism_in_a_global_perspectiveGlobalization, History of Religion, History of Religions, Western Esotericism (Anthropology), Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion) More Info: Published in "Occultism in a Global Perspective", Edited by Henrik Bogdan and Gordan Djurdjevic. (Durham: Acumen Publishing, 2013), pp. 1-15. Publication Date: 2013 Publication Name: Occultism in a Global Perspective
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2022 17:55:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2022 13:58:25 GMT
Man must overcome the seven planets and transmute them into soul powers. Their negative forces are the seven deadly sins, which are overcome by a symbolic struggle with demons and dragons and, in turn, are transmuted into the seven cardinal virtues. This is the key to alchemy, for from the seven base metals, first spiritualized and then brought together as a secret compound, is produced the Philosophers’ Stone, the purified soul.
"In the journey of afterlife, when the lower nature has returned to the brutishness, the higher struggles again to regain its spiritual estate. It ascends the seven Rings upon which sit the Seven Governors and returns to each their lower powers in this manner: Upon the first ring sits the Moon, and to it is returned the ability to increase and diminish. Upon the second ring sits Mercury, and to it are returned machinations, deceit, and craftiness. Upon the third ring sits Venus, and to it are returned the lusts and passions. Upon the fourth ring sits the Sun, and to this Lord are returned ambitions. Upon the fifth ring sits Mars, and to it are returned rashness and profane boldness. Upon the sixth ring sits Jupiter, and to it are returned the sense of accumulation and riches. And upon the seventh ring sits Saturn, at the Gate of Chaos, and to it are returned falsehood and evil plotting.
"Then, being naked of all the accumulations of the seven Rings, the soul comes to the Eighth Sphere, namely, the ring of the fixed stars. Here, freed of all illusion, it dwells in the Light and sings praises to the Father in a voice which only the pure of spirit may understand. Behold, O Hermes, there is a great mystery in the Eighth Sphere, for the Milky Way is the seed-ground of souls, and from it they drop into the Rings, and to the Milky Way they return again from the wheels of Saturn. But some cannot climb the seven-runged ladder of the Rings. So they wander in darkness below and are swept into eternity with the illusion of sense and earthiness.
_Manly P. Hall
Image source unknown - pls mention #transmutation #alchemy #liberation #philosopherstone #ascension #gnosticserpent
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2022 15:55:07 GMT
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