This document discusses the art of alchemy and some of its fundamental principles. It states that alchemy requires months and years of experimentation and study in the laboratory, and is truly a life's work. It also notes that alchemy provides an "armor" against materialism because of the extensive purification and refinement required of the alchemist over a long period of time, similar to the refinement of materials. Additionally, it mentions that secrecy still surrounds some alchemical processes, which must remain so, and that personal greed has no role in alchemy, whose true aim is to relieve human suffering.
This document discusses the art of alchemy and some of its fundamental principles. It states that alchemy requires months and years of experimentation and study in the laboratory, and is truly a life's work. It also notes that alchemy provides an "armor" against materialism because of the extensive purification and refinement required of the alchemist over a long period of time, similar to the refinement of materials. Additionally, it mentions that secrecy still surrounds some alchemical processes, which must remain so, and that personal greed has no role in alchemy, whose true aim is to relieve human suffering.
This document discusses the art of alchemy and some of its fundamental principles. It states that alchemy requires months and years of experimentation and study in the laboratory, and is truly a life's work. It also notes that alchemy provides an "armor" against materialism because of the extensive purification and refinement required of the alchemist over a long period of time, similar to the refinement of materials. Additionally, it mentions that secrecy still surrounds some alchemical processes, which must remain so, and that personal greed has no role in alchemy, whose true aim is to relieve human suffering.
This document discusses the art of alchemy and some of its fundamental principles. It states that alchemy requires months and years of experimentation and study in the laboratory, and is truly a life's work. It also notes that alchemy provides an "armor" against materialism because of the extensive purification and refinement required of the alchemist over a long period of time, similar to the refinement of materials. Additionally, it mentions that secrecy still surrounds some alchemical processes, which must remain so, and that personal greed has no role in alchemy, whose true aim is to relieve human suffering.
Arcanum. Months and years of experimentation in your alchemical lab-
oratory will prove the truth of this statement. The fact that Alchemy is a life’s work will be accepted by those who have spent months and years behind books and retorts. It is this significant fact which provides our spagyric art with such an armor that no materialist can pierce it. If it were not for the cleansing, purging, and aging of the alchemist-to-be over a great length of time, like the subjectum he is working with, how could it be kept from the profane and the unworthy? Only that which has stood the test of fire has been purified. That there is still a cloak of secrecy cov- ering alchemical processes, and that this must yet remain so will have to be accepted by all aspiring alchemists. For personal greed has no place in Alchemy. The aim of all true Adepts is to help relieve a suffering mankind in its physical and spiritual misery. A nonacceptance of this excludes one automatically from the circle of Adepts. My friends of the medical profession, as well as the pharmaceutical chemists, will readily disagree with me when reading what follows. This must be taken for granted and, in fact, has been so since what is presented here is so foreign to the standardized teachings in present day medical colleges. Since I agree with them, on their terms, it is only fair to ask that they think of the contents of this book in the terms of an alchemist. If this is impossible, then the book should be laid aside for the time being and forgotten until it can be examined by an open mind free from prejudice. No attempt is being made here to write on allopathic therapeutics. This shall be left to those versed in this particular branch of healing. I am writing here about Alchemy because of the years of studies and experi- ments that have preceded this book, and because of the work that shall in all likelihood continue to follow. Since the scope of Alchemy is so immense, one earthly incarnation in many, if not most, cases is an insuffi- cient time for the full completion of the work. In climbing the alchemist’s ladder, there are many tribulations to consider involving time, money, heartaches—to mention only a few of the difficult steps. The aspirant