Alchemy

Good Evening my Baby,

A hot one today. I just now got back from my walk and now I am barefoot in my apartment with my air conditioner running. One of my favorite times of day, the middle evening. I didn't go anywhere today, just hung out at home reading my book, playing guitar, the usual. I am reading Farrell's book about Alchemy, and I really didn't know much about it before beginning the book, just that it was the medieval practice of trying to turn base metals into gold through a combination of chemistry and magic. Of course, with Joe Farrell, you know you are gonna get a thorough education on the subject, so I am finding it quite interesting. The practice of Alchemy might date back to Egypt and Sumer, and then even further back to what Farrell calls "the paleo-ancient civilization" that very likely existed before the Deluge of antiquity caused an end to that era and sank continents like Atlantis and Mu.

When you research it, there is a great deal of evidence that suggests such an advanced civilization did exist, and that the civilizations of Sumer (what conventional anthropology takes to be the first civilization) and later Egypt were really "legacy civilizations" that picked up where the "paleo-ancient" civilization left off, trying to re-create their technology and sciences. I love this stuff, and it's fascinating to me. I am very interested in the idea that there is truth in mythology, that the Bible, Epic of Gilgamesh, Bhagavad Gita, The Vedas, Book Of Thoth, etc., aren't just stories but allegories about real events, and in every epic tale of antiquity there is a story of a Great Flood, and also of course there is geological evidence of same. The epic tales all tell of "gods" (plural) as well, and there are a lot of well-researched books in the modern day that look at the possibility that these "gods" were not mythological but in fact real beings, either from somewhere else or a form of human predating us. It is pretty clear, when you look at Stonehenge and the Pyramids, et al., that there were systems of science a very long time ago, that involved astronomy, astrology, lines of magnetic force in the solar system, rotational force, and that somebody had known about these sciences and either brought them here from somewhere else, like another planet, or that humans developed them themselves, which seems unlikely due to the mention of "god" like beings in all the ancient texts. Farrell, in another book, talks about the abundance of evidence to suggest that Yahweh of Old Testament fame was actually a physical being who existed several thousand years ago and was one of the Nefilim, who were the offspring of  "god" like beings and human women. The godlike beings were the Annunaki, who likely taught the Sumerians some of their advanced sciences.

But getting back to Alchemy, what it really aims to do is to break down materials such as different metals by means of extreme heat, over an extended period of time, to release what they called a "prima materia" or basic substance of the Universe from which all things originate. It was later called the Aether - modern science believes they have disproved it's existence, but I don't think so. Philosophically, it gets into Spengler territory. He is the German philosopher who talked about the idea of something pre-existing it's form. The alchemists believed that idea was the "soul" of every material thing - living or inert - and that, through the processes of Alchemy, by breaking a substance down far enough, that "prima materia" (or "soul" or idea) could be released and then separated and captured. Then, by adding another substance called the "Philosopher's Stone" (which was also a liquid and a powder), the "prima materia" of a metal, tin for instance, could be further changed into another substance, like Gold.

The whole idea of Alchemy, then, is that, behind all things material, even including empty space, there is a medium called the "prima materia" (aka the aether). Ideas pass through that aether and it becomes differentiated into all the different things in the Universe. But if you reverse engineer the process, anything can become "un-differentiated", i.e. reduced to idea-form, and that's what the Alchemists were trying to do. They always worked with metals because everybody wanted Gold, and when you took a basic metal such as tin or lead and superheated it to release it's idea, or prima materia, and then added a small measure of the Philosopher's Stone, it was elementally close enough to gold that it could be changed over.

Sorry to go off on such a tangent, lol, but this stuff fascinates me. I have always been interested in gold, too, and since I was a little kid I wondered why it was so valuable, besides it aesthetic value. We know it has practical uses as an electrical conduit (probably other uses that I am unaware of), but there is really no conventional explanation for why it has been so prized and hoarded over the millennia. Except............it might be possible to convert it to powder form, through lost processes, by which it could have astounding health and longevity capabilities. Or so believed the Alchemists.....

I am always interested in secret or hidden knowledge, the stuff that takes me closer to the bigger picture, and I love the possibility of the idea becoming itself, but pre-existing it's physical form.

I'm also really interested in the subject of catastrophism, from a geological standpoint, the possibility that Earth was collided with by a comet, eons ago, and that is what caused the Deluge, and possibly created the Moon. An author named Immanuel Velikovsky wrote a fascinating book on the subject back in the 1950s, called "Worlds In Collision". The comet in question became Venus. I guess what fascinates me the most is the possibility that there really was an advanced civilization here on Earth a very long time ago, and that they had figured out a harmony of life ( a "life science" if you will) that was truly in tune with the Universe.

Anyhow, that's all for today. I know I read a lot of stuff that people might consider weird, but I enjoy it. I am always wondering "what if".

I hope you had a good day. I loved that album artwork you posted, was it for Nhor? That was awesome, and it's what I am talking about - sort of. It's also kind of what I am talking about in your photo from your "special place", the wooded ravine with the sideways trees. In those two pictures, there is nature, and there are human beings, and what is being depicted is awe. And to me, it becomes clearer when I read books by Farrell or Velikovsky or Spengler, that the awe comes from the idea that was present before the differentiation.

One idea became a planet, one a tree, one a person.

One of the first things we will do is drive up to Big Sur to see the giant redwoods. I've never been there, so we will both be seeing it for the first time. And then, at some point, you can take me to the Special Place.

We need to see these things together.

I Love You, my Darling! I will say goodnight now (sorry I'm so weird, lol, but I can't help it! ). I send you a hug and a kiss, and I will see you in the morn.  :):)