Alchemy
Reflections of a Science Found
Di Fabrizio Tonna PhD ARS
The Royal Society - International Institute for Scientific Research in Alchemy and Spagyria
Part I
The treatment of a complex subject like alchemy involves not only a wealth of theoretical knowledge but also a not inconsiderable experience of such experienced practical and therefore can not be reduced to a sterile summary compendium of basic knowledge.
is why often the description of what is Alchemy, its origins and its principles and its actualization in the context and the contemporary scene, is likely to be deeply reductive. All this tends to fall frequently chosen field is not always consistent with the historical sources and credited gnoseo-epistemological this ancient science. Alongside the exhibition of exquisite taste rigorous academic, but often privileging one aspect of the problem, you have childlike visions often typical of a certain spin doctors from Babel telematics in vogue today, where the sacred and the profane are mixed without precise identification of their content values.
Faced with this highly fragmented, those who wish to approach this type of knowledge often run into newsgroups or mailing lists where the syncretism which is the master and in which the confusion of roles is particularly strong. It 's why we will not have a lot of work as that is the usual treatment of synthetic history, taken here and there in publications surface, so as to avoid a discussion of the basic doctrinal principles second interpretative choices that have little to do with reality. Aware of the fact that Alchemy is far from being the preserve of esoteric initiatory circles of mystic-religious brotherhoods and organized groups, a reality where you have to pay a prebend to be admitted and receive some sort of initiation, we will try to understand the content and the epistemological status dell'Alchmia from its practical action. This premise has led to a method characterized structurally placed a well-established discipline whose fundamental characteristic is that it is above all a perfect blend of philosophical and scientific knowledge, whose method has remained unchanged for millennia while enriching techniques and research methodologies. Although
along the axis of more than 5000 years of history it has undergone a series of revolutions and significant epistemological breaks and adattamentei it (an example are applications such as metallurgy and Spagyria), it is only since the nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of many schools of thought that are inspired by it without having understood neither the sense nor the end of last as well as the time without ever having addressed fundamental operational: the Laboratory. The embezzlement
that Alchemy suffered at the hands of fate and esoteric initiatory groups since the beginning of the nineteenth century until around the beginning of the twentieth century, a phenomenon totally unexpected and somewhat contradictory. On the one hand we see a considerable damage represented occult-esoteric interpretation of the second Discipline is that such type of initiation, and then reserved for the transmission of knowledge stored in various combinations inspired by an array filiativa, on the other hand, we witness instead to a strong stimulus to all serious researchers and from the academic world that engage in further study of the problem and then to a statement of the same discipline as independent thinking than the more esoteric thought in general.
However, in both cases there is far all'ipostatizzazione three erroneous interpretations of the Old Ars Regia, all inconsistent with the actual historical origin and the actual content of epistemological alchemy. We will see in this first part of our work to understand in depth the individual statements and to contextualize the best possible, then return to the true identity of Traditional Alchemy to a better understanding.
The first erroneous vision derives inspiration from many schools of contemporary Jungian and neo-Jungian, tending mostly to say that Alchemy has nothing to do with modern chemistry and any of its archaic form, at least from a point of view but not essential. This would be true if in part then the supporters of this argument does not immediately affirming that Alchemy is in effect a sort of "spiritual psychology" veiled in his language by means of a chemical symbol array Archaic. This concept is based on two premises: That the
alchemical literature mentions a traditional spiritual and psychological concepts in archaic form, as well as concepts of chemistry ancient
That these ancient concepts of chemistry, however, represent only a shell of protection than the first and most authentic principles. In short, the chemical symbol archaic in alchemical literature is purely cryptographic and was deliberately designed to hide the most secret knowledge related to intuitions on the principles of identification that otherwise would have been considered heretical.
This interpretation, however, has several weaknesses, first of all a lack of knowledge of bibliographical panorama of Alchemy Traditional. The error it was to have privileged the texts heavily symbolic reading of theoretical school and / or poetic than those which would be contrary to a greater percentage. Moreover, the concern of modern psychoanalysis was to decipher the illustrative material in support of the text as the text itself. The alchemists of the past had tutta'altro purpose other than what they would like the Jungian, and if it was not the transmutation of base metals into gold was certainly to investigate the nature and the psyche.
Then there are schools of thought originated from the school took home the Western occult theosophical movements of the late nineteenth century and which continued fragmenting in several other streams, for most of the twentieth century. Predominantly Anglo-Saxon origin, these schools in Europe gave rise to different movements magic-occult (Golden Dawn, OTO, school Telemar, etc..), And some even penetrated into Italy by influencing authors such as G. Kremmerz and others who gave rise to different movements airtight. According to this line of thought is essentially Alchemy Magic traditionally veiled sexual symbolism of archaic chemical. Therefore, the steps are the result of bodily processes and a system of investigation of nature. This concept is derived from a manipulation of the alchemical symbolism in order to make matrix Tantric techniques (also misinterpreted contemporary occultism) more digestible to the Western world. The justification of this school rests on the fact that there are numerous references in the texts to the copulation of male and female principles, references more often justified by a certain applicant iconography. Obviously, the fundamental error typically epistemological, was to rely on a really small percentage of lyrics (only 2% of all known and documented), just as it was for the followers of Jung in the psychoanalytic school then, and not contextualized in a broader context is analogous to laboratory operations.
Another school of thought, mostly a result of syncretism without any scientific foundation and history, is the modern trend that would see New Age Alchemy as an arcane knowledge, a philosophy wrapped in a mystery to cover, communicated by extraterrestrial entities, containing messages about the end of time and exhortations to improve our themselves and create a better world. This stream is often varied ways and for content, but typical of a thought childish and unserious offers a certain number of "Alchemy of Transformation" based on Reiki, Channeling and other disciplines of dubious origin and have no basis in historical documentary. Adherents to this kind of thinking are often devoid of all knowledge and / or notional surface-on the issue. Obviously, is the source of these interpretations is their contextualization does not deserve further study, as they are often the result of a system devoid of any intrinsic value.
But what led to all this and how can we get the objective value of Alchemy. The error, which for years has been committed, in the milieu of culture alchemical "living room", is the extremes of the principles and concepts relating to the right address Alchemical Science. On the one hand there was the reading of a discipline whose only goal was the transmutation of base metals into gold, through operation of prevalently Spagyric (or worse Archim) the content of which was devoid empirical data and the result of pure improvisation, on the other hand, there is a spiritual vision, philosophy and occult, when Alchemy was the result of an initiation process and then the magical-symbolic meaning in which each was to be traced back to a purpose type imaginal. The latter system, as already mentioned, also gave the start to so-called Hermetica Schools, one of the most harmful aberrations that the years between the nineteenth and twentieth century they could never produce.
The fact is that both these views are considered wrong. On several occasions the greatest historians of alchemy and Epistemology more we have proven otherwise. Just bend over at work monumental Joseph Needham (1900-1995), Science and Civilisation in China (Cambridge 1954), to realize how Alchemy was a science and philosophy and what time it was really far from any condition or initiation of aggregation-magic religious. The same applies for the same supporters of a certain alchemy spiritualism, which would certainly be David Gordon White, author of The Alchemical Body (The University of Chicago Press, 1996) the total refutation of their theories proved empty of meaning. Certainly, the symbolism and language to the contrary would seem to return, but in any event, Alchemy is not a mystical experience, not religion, is not esoteric knowledge-initiation.
The same applies to the keys of interpretation, for which the suggested method and code, which far from being hidden, through its universal modules, through its mode of expression-through dynamic interpretation and communication of a key multi- capable of a multiple award is the only one able to reveal the contents of the text. Hence the need of the original text, as a platform for essential research. Research and in any event not continue never separated from the practice of laboratory verification element and essential tool for progress in the acquisition method.
The point is that Alchemy was transmitted through a system encoded assumes that the shock of direct transmission. However, that delivery of the data is achieved at a level more commonly understood by a transmission from master to disciple. The initiation is represented by Alchemy practice itself and is developed mainly as a demonstration of the natural state of the Three Kingdoms, which involves the practitioner in all its internal and external groups.
After this step is necessary to understand if you got something or not, controlling, through practical action, if you have a perfect understanding of the natural state of the Three Kingdoms. The experience of the natural state of the Three Kingdoms is whether the initiative is no Master (real or presumed such) can deliver.
The purpose of the Ancients was a prerequisite to introduce a method all through immediate, as is, without any further processing philosophical and / or initiation. The next step was a symbolic language, a language technician at the time because there were no other categories of expression and scientific vocabulary was composed of similar terms. In this way both were guaranteed the integrity of the data and the continuity of the lineage. This peculiar feature Alchemy lineage beyond the different interpretations that it has suffered over the centuries and broke it preserved by processes of internal degeneration. The misinterpretation that gave rise to various alchemy are only the result of external origin and not an impoverishment of the Doctrine. The effect of direct transmission is the same analogy of a flash of light that strikes the retina, so that the mind does not stop recording the information forward it to cyclically neuroreceptors as a permanent phosphene.
knowledge manifests itself in Alchemy as a spontaneous act. The Alchemist does not need to meditate or contemplate, should not belong to groups of initiation, Masonic, esoteric-magical, it's enough to make a firm decision. By means of this decision is released in the Natural State of the Three Kingdoms, and then begins to understand. The lyrics speak for him, seem to have been written for him. The preliminary, of each entry in Alchemy is a fundamental option in which the practitioner is recognized as belonging to that lineage. The theory and practice do not appear as separate items or acts in operational sequence, but are the result of a simultaneous recognition of action in the Natural State of the Three Kingdoms. For this reason there is speculative and Alchemy Alchemy Laboratory. There is Alchemy, which is a science whose end is the real identity of the Light Corporificazione Pharmacia Catholic, for the realization of the universal palingenetic that leads to the simultaneous physical immortality and spiritual reality transubstanziata.
The true nature of Alchemy is in 'isolation and subsequent unification of the founding principles of matter and energy, their preparation for the completion of the acquisition of Light Corporificazione we said a moment ago. Indeed, nothing in nature must be subject to change and / or improvement. The logic is objectively more alchemical Gnostic logic, which raises a contradiction many theories that they want to Alchemy as a further elaboration of the principles of Gnosis. Chief among these is the principle that in Gnosis Matter is something corrupt and work of a demon, while Alchemy is the only means by which you can achieve redemption palingenetic.
Contrary to what has been believed for centuries, Alchemy is not a sum of processes leading to perfection of nature, as reality has lapsed and non-callable. In nature, everything is already there, just need to go out into the open, in light of the natural state of the Three Kingdoms. In a word, only perfected the medium, while the order remains pure in its natural state. Then there is a deep interaction between the mechanisms and dynamics of the hermeneutic tradition. If we were to sum up the meaning and nature of the alchemical tradition, we might say that:
it is a living tradition that is expressed in many forms: oral traditions, visual-plastic, minor and major literary, mythical, poetic and interpretive-actualizing, all in strong interaction between them;
it is a tradition that already in his manifest form a full consciousness of the canonical operational and experimental. The consciousness of canonicity constantly interferes in the formation of the same literary and artistic classics. They are images that literature, delivered directly by the laboratory experience though often not fully come to the final results and final;
the environment of this multifaceted tradition is life itself Alchemist, its definitive existential choices , its degree of spiritual maturity and technical-scientific account of the contents of the search;
the content of the Tradition is determined from the outset by a profound awareness of Election Special to the rank of Inquisitor of Science, is enriched thanks to the deep and persistent experimental research, interpretations and undergoes changes due to progression of the method expressed by the fruitful results Laboratory and practical value of their order and, after fixation of the texts, especially the forward real exegesis of the Classics.
Tradition then combines two complementary characters.
1. On the one hand stability: its basic elements are dynamic in the field of technical knowledge, the specific purposes of general epistemology, ethics and science ethics (those who think that in Alchemy there are no rules, did not understand anything about this subject).
2. On the other hand, progress: the operational techniques, research and laboratory criteria are developed, to the extent that new researchers complete the work of their predecessors, according to the specific needs required by the synthesis methods and discoveries relating to them.
By this we know, there was widely reported by Fulcanelli (which is more or less a historical figure may only affect those who have to defend schools of thought), that only through a philological analysis of the text operations of the Opera, however, and in any case, can only be understood in a rather marginal and peripheral. This should be enough for many who persist in trying to Cabal Phonetics interpretive tool. Moreover, the fundamental aspects of Alchemy are mostly contained within the universe of interactions between causes and wonderful phenomena, real cornerstones of the entire Great Work, that only the laboratory, we have already seen, it can uncover .
Assuming the category of communicability of the data is necessarily admits that the intelligibility of the object and therefore its objectivity. Science does not have the Alchemical then, at this stage of research, the result of analysis based on those authentic symbolic cosmologies on unverified, but information and data coming from scientific research. Any specific point in question can become a definition of Alchemy, articulated is true, but always able to explain fully the meaning given. All these elements can be condensed into a formula that expresses succinctly the nature of the Alchemical Science, its function and purpose for which it is made. You can then define the self-consciousness as reflected Universe Alchemy unit Man-Cosmos-Matter, emerging experimental joint survey of the various disciplines which constitute the human knowledge, that becomes a personal response, in a reasoned decision to acquire full knowledge of the own existence. How
any definition this is also marked by the contingency of language and limit any definition, by its nature possesses. In it, however, can be found and recognized all the essential elements that make up Alchemy as has been described here.
Reflected Self-awareness - refers to the epistemological horizon which is a critical knowledge Alchemical Science, methodical, systematic, and based on practical experimentation that is done through normal everyday activities and their knowledge of Man. So, nothing hidden or initiation, but many would like to appear on the pretense of establishing schools of thought closed and sclerotic.
Universe Unit Man-Cosmos-Matter - the holistic view and unified existence is a fundamental fact which is exactly the subject of privileged epistemic reflection of alchemy, because it reflects on today and the whole Man to be evolving relationship with the topological space that contains it.
emerging joint experimental investigation of the various disciplines ..... - Indicates that the Alchemy has no other dimension that the fundamental experimental investigation openness and cooperation with all other scientific disciplines.
becoming - becoming indicate the objective dynamic of scientific research, citing its normative models incorporation, is subject to a historical dimension of progress for the acquisition of new cognitive tools for the formulation of new models of learning and adaptation of the different results.
personal response - shows that the size of each as free and rational subject, including being part of a totality, either as researchers or as subjects of the research required to answer without any possibility of delegation.
in a reasoned decision - is the existential horizon, so the interpretation Alchemy provides the tools necessary to make visible the data included in the discussion and apply them to improving their personal Bioecology.
to gain awareness of their existence - it is time for customization of the data. The Science of Alchemy is not only the production of homeopathic medicines from the large value but is also conscious of the acquisition because of unity of all beings within a space that is objectified the Cosmo. The man, a psycho-physical, is a thinking subject and individual agents, but in close connection with each other without being a projection, or the result of countless other projections.
conclude this first part by saying that the Alchemist although not necessarily a man of faith in the theological sense of the term, however, acknowledges a certain "component thin from the beginning of his work. What is conventionally called Spirit, and that the supernatural as Ens is a reality for the Alchemist's energy matrix (as a meaning at once scientific and philosophical) that operates at the highest level of the wave without the operator there are personal attitudes (magic-esoteric techniques and / or rituals) are likely to cause. The surgery itself to the conditions inside the Alchemist which submits the matter. Conditions which the operator is able to establish in the laboratory. In the second part of our work we will try to explain briefly some of these capital transactions, the validity of which is certified by incessant practice in the Oven.
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