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http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/JO-TEP.html http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/PP/index.html http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/Dao.htm

@now is forever You're right. Do you have any good resources (preferably online) to study Ayurveda?

You're hearing only one side of the story. Alchemy is not about being mechanical. It's about how dichotomies such as mechanical/creative are harmonious. How something can be both and neither at the same time. It's about transcendence. How Water (Persephone) and Fire (Hades), or Air (Zeus) and Earth (Hera) can be a marriage. Ayurveda is a three-element structure, it has no dichotomies. It's more like body-soul-spirit. There are no opposites in a triangle, there is only a cycle.

In relation to my previous post: http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/RE.html

My wife asked me today what do I get out of studying alchemy. She was surprised that I suddenly became interested in the Humanities. I was just thinking about how would I rationally explain this, and here's what I told her. The quest of science is to see the connections between entities and express them in precise, verifiable theories. The point of these theories is simple - once you identify the entities that are described, you can solve problems mechanically, without creative thought. Creative thought, on the other hand is vague and open. When you're trying to express something, there is always this vast, nauseating feeling of directionlessness. Even if you interpret art, the code is always messy, convoluted and incomplete. Broken. You can always tell when a piece of art wants to say something, it draws you in, but it is not always clear what the message is. You have to contemplate it and relate it to yourself. Alchemy is a marriage of the two. It uses mathematics to show relationships between entities. These entities, however, are ambiguous symbols that can be fit in various places to show hidden connections, or establish new ones. One gets science out of Alchemy by pretending that entites are not symbolic, ambiguous. One gets art, when the structure is too loose, or nonexistent. The point of studying Alchemy is, of course, the Philosopher's stone: mechanical creativity.

Yes, exactly. The alchemical process is only convergent. It never arrives at its goal. The closest one can get is to see the strangeloop, that there is no middle Matryoshka. The next step is the Void, but that cannot be seen.

Of course we can forget it. I'm not mad at you, I just thought that you need some time and space. These two always come free with me. It was not a disc prolapse. I probably constricted an artery that supplies brain with oxygen while stretching my neck. I got a series of stretch exercises from the physiotherapist and they work wonders. Even my morning neck/head ache is almost gone. For now I'm studying a lot as you can see, so I probably won't have much to say about current affairs. I would like to keep this particular journal focused on chaos magic study/practice. I think I will start a parallel one as a pensieve. You're invited, obviously.

When it comes to my recent practices, I stopped flamegazing for a while and a few short sessions arose spontaneously. Yesterday I had a two sittings in a dragon posture in front of a mirror, eyegazing. I completely misunderstood the posture, according to this video. I was stilling myself in response to pain instead of channeling it to fuel my passion. Two days ago I had a spontaneous eyegazing session with my wife. It was very peaceful for me. She said that she altered between perceiving my smile and confusion. I couldn't help but notice that she blinks A LOT. She's like a butterfly. It connected with what I heard that the eye movements and blinking are related to intensity of brain activity. In both cases (Dragon posture and eyegazing), I was entering the colorless (white=black) space very rapidly.

As I'm rehersing the elements, I still have a hard time seeing Water for what it is, but I guess that is perfect. It finally clicked with me what are the three alchemical principles, their relationship with the elements and with the Quintessence. Basically, it goes like this: Salt is the principle that connects Earth with Water to form the Primal Mud. It corresponds with the gross body and it is not alive on its own. It is Soma. Sulfur is the principle of Fire. It is distinct from Fire itself in that it symbolizes the incarnation of it, the "Fire body", the Soul. It is the intelligence, intellect, intuition, the creative and also the discursive thought. It is the Higher Mind. Mercury is the the principle of Air. It is the Spirit, the messenger between the inreconcilable: Soma and Soul. It is the incarnation of that, which is Hot like Fire, but Moist like Water. It is flexible, yet separating. It is the indirect connection between Fire and Earth that closes the cycle. The Quintessence, Gold, is the embodiment of contradiction. It is Fiery (color) but Cold, Dry (rigid), but Moist (Flexible, Fusable). It is at the same time: the alchemical laboratory, the Alchemist and the Philosopher's Stone. On the square of opposition it corresponds with the increase in dimensionality. It is the incarnation of the tripartite human nature, us, nonduality. From here, I could return to the Alphabet of Desire and try to explicate some of the hidden connections.

Huh, someone deleted their journal again... Fickle little creature .

http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/AGEDE/Water.html http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/AGEDE/Air.html Augoeides is one of the arts in the white Chaos Magic. http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/AGEDE/Fire.html

@Zigzag Idiot Thank you for the quotes. It does indeed seem like Alchemy is the ancient system of development (potentially self-development) that can be used for enlightenement. _________ Of course, Leo posts a video that is relevant to my research: It is an application of Alchemy in terms of time. The thumbnail represents: Water, Air, Fire, Earth.

@Zigzag Idiot I watched this video yesterday and I thought that you would enjoy it.

http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/AGEDE/index.html

I have a very hard time understanding what is the ultimate goal of spiritual alchemy, the philosopher's stone, as explained by this article. Sublimation is a process by which the spirit of a substance can be transferred to another substance. The spirit that is to be transferred is the "Quintessence of gold", "Platonic form", "in its purest possible state". Gold seems so far to be the embodiment of paradox, something that is beyond the original formulation of the four elements and is contradictory in its terms. For now, I have no clue how to interpret sublimation and condensation and how exactly the imposition of the spirit on the purified matter should take place. There is, however a description of what the Philosopher's stone is. It seems to be a substance that can conduct the alchemical process on its own. It's like someone was trying to distill the rules of creativity and encode them into a mechanical process. The philosopher's stone is the device that turns other things into philosopher's stones. Is it a symbolic description of going meta? Here we have a description of what gold symbolizes. Gold is the incarnation of impossibility, something that is both water (fusible) and fire. It seems like Mercury is the principle of turning the water into more volatile form (air), and Sulfur is about turning the fire into a solid form (earth). It looks like Mercury and Sulfur are intermediate products between the original square of opposites and the result, which is Gold. They contain two of the four elements within them in an abstract, subtle form. Mercury is a combination of Water and Air and Sulfur is a combination of Fire and Earth. They both embody contradiction - they are Hot and Cold, but in reverse order. There is no mention of Salt, unfortunately, so there is no correspondence to the three alchemical principles that are found in the Alphabet of Desire. This paragraph describes how properties of Sulfur and Mercury interact to form Gold. I know too little about the symbols to make anything meaningful out of it for now. Matter cannot have contradictory qualities, so the Quintessence must be immaterial, pure spirit. The figure shows that no point on the circumference can be simultaneously Hot and Cold or Moist and Dry. If, however, the circle shrinks to the point at the center, it will have all qualities at once. This is where the immaterial Quintessence resides, and it is the goal towards which the rotation is directed. To ``have the whole magistery'' each step in the rotation must move closer to the central Quintessence, which contains the Platonic form of the qualities divorced from gross matter. This is achieved at each phase of the rotation by refining the element, preserving its own qualities while eliminating contaminating qualities. Thus, the first phase dissolves some of the Earth, converting it to Water, and leaves the rest as dregs. The result is that the Coldness of the Earth is preserved in the Water, but some of the Dry matter is lost, so the rotation spirals a little closer to the immaterial center. The second phase Warms the Water, converting some of it to Air, but preserves its Moisture, leaving some Water as a residue. The third stage converts some Air to Fire and releases the remainder as humid vapors. These first three stages ``volatilize the fixed'' by spiritualizing the matter. The final phase Cools the Hot vapors, and transforms some of the Fire back into Earth, thus ``fixing the volatile'' by materializing the spirit. This completes one cycle of refinement and moves closer to the Quintessence. Reducing the stone to four elements is the initial observation of the parts of the whole that interact. Then, we 'have the whole magistery' when we turn the wheel and purify the substance until we complete the cycle and move closer to the Quintessence. The text seems to suggest that the process is somehow lossy, but I'm not sure how that helps. The second paragraph seems to suggest that the substance loses its form to embody the contradictory requirements. It was previously said that:

@pluto Beautiful film. I've already seen shared on this forum though. Definitely worth reposting.

Here's a nice story about Fire and our egoic relationship with it: Or rather, how egoic will to live is ultimately subject to universal laws and serves to further death.

No | Element | Hot | Moist 1 | Earth | 0 | 0 2 | Water | 0 | 1 3 | Air | 1 | 0 4 | Fire | 1 | 1 Gray code can be used to generalize this 'mechanism' to more features (Hot/Cold, Moist/Dry), but the number of elements has to be a power of two. That is not Gray code, it's just regular binary code.

1. Earth: Dry > Cold 2. Water: Cold > Moist 3. Air: Moist > Hot 4. Fire: Hot > Dry (5.) Earth: Dry > Cold __________| Earth | Water | Air | Fire Primary | Dry | Cold | Moist | Hot Secondary | Cold | Moist | Hot | Dry Hot: Separation of compound into constituents and grouping into kinds, Subtlety, Lightness, Rise, Centrifugal Cold: Association of different kinds and mixing together into compound, Gross, Heaviness, Fall, Centripetal Moist: Fluidity and flexibility, Adaptation to external, Volatility, Expansiveness Dry: Rigidity, Self-defined boundaries, Fixation, Structure

Something happened to my fridge recently and the defrosted water is collected at the bottom of it. It seems like the drain is clogged and I had the opportunity to feel the really cold water when I was removing it. It is entirely possible to experience the shock of temperature and have the sensation of coldness and heat mixed up. It struck me however that freezing water has a quality that is reminiscent of how it feels to be kicked in the nuts. The common factor between the two is paralysis.

Source: http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/RE.html emphasis mine.

http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/LOM.html

https://blog.world-mysteries.com/ancient-writings/alchemy-ancient-writings/four-elements-alchemy/ http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/RE.html