Alchemy

Alchemy the science of self-transformation

The art of alchemy was accomplished through the centuries from Egypt and Arabia, Greece and Roma, and as a final point during medieval and renaissance times western and central Europe. The word is derived from the Arabian phrase “ulk-hemi” the chemistry of life, that comes from the Greek word “chemeia” juice extracted from a plant. Esoterically and hieroglyphically, the word refers to the dark mystery of the primordial or First Matter, the “Khem”.

An early form of chemistry and metallurgy were initiated and developed by Egyptians alchemists that used their art to create amalgams, dyestuff, perfumes and cosmetic, jewelry, and to mummify the dead.

The alchemy has commonly been related with the transmutation of base metals into gold that is one of the seven metals of alchemy (gold, silver, mercury, copper, lead, iron and tin), it represented the perfection of all mater on any level, including that of the mind, spirit, and soul; the prolongation of life - the elixir of Eternal Youth and Health- and the Stone of Knowledge - The Philosophical Stone- which refers to the mundane level or physical process. On a spiritual level, alchemists believed to perform the “gold” of enlightenment, they should purify themselves by eliminating the “base” material of the self.

The ancient Alchemists established in their writings that alchemy was the journey to reach the awareness and the expansion of insight and intuition. The substance of their transmutation was the human soul. Their purpose was the transformation of the base metals of human emotions and instincts within the subconscious mind into the gold of self-transformation. They offered to the adept a system of eternal, surreal, esoteric symbols that has the power to alter consciousness and connect the human soul to the Divine. The symbol for gold could also be used to represent the sun in astrology.