In everything there are two poles, especially in human consciousness.
Human consciousness can be regarded as operating on one scale, having two opposite poles, or opposite extremes of one and the same thing.
The one end is our individual consciousness, or unprocessed Mercury.
The other end is consciousness of the One Self, or Mercury of the Sages.
The purpose of Theurgy or Lunar Magic is to "simply" achieve a gradual shift in consciousness towards the realization of the Divine, which is already hidden inside us, because Man is the hermetic Arcanum.
This is the herculean task.
The more fixed our sense of human individuality, the more tedious the Work will be.
But a continuous purification of the metals will lead to a purification of perception towards the other end of the scale.
In classic alchemical tracts the alchemist is often demanded to search and look into the mysteries of Nature instead following obscure procedures laid down by so-called puffers.
This kept me wondering for a while.
I thought things like: shall i study agriculture now or go with reading glasses through meadows studying the interplay of flowers and bees and things like that?
But then it dawned upon me that the nearest and most obvious and easiest thing for me to study is human nature.
There are two substances mingled and conjoined in every human being and it is said that this conjunction is relative loose and can be solved by Art.
These two substances go with many many names.
It is Mecury and Sulphur, Water and Fire, Moon and Sun.
Translated to the body its blood and heat.
At the level of consciousness its Spirit and Soul.
These substances trapped inside the body cause a feeling of seperate identity.
A new born child does not have this identity.
And a child is generated by a process not unlike coction.
When the child is born, again a process not unlike gradual coction will produce this identity sooner or later. The older it becomes, the more fixed this identity will be.
And it is again a process of coction that helps to overcome the obstacles that are formed by the personality itself and to attain the famous Ravens head.
I can imagine that there are ways that work faster towards this attainment than others.
Its all a question of which Fires you use in your Work.
It is said that Mercury is everything that the Alchemist needs.
It is also said that Nature enjoys herself, and Nature overcomes herself.
So what are we doing when we train our minds and bodies with techniques for which we only need our mind?
Thought of the day.
Oculator Abis,
Frater L.e.N.e.
