Heavens Within Earth

Ave Fraters and Sorors, I've been studying the Kamea and devising methods for using them in a system of practical magic....it seems that they've been used, for the most part, as reference material by modern Magicians of our tradition. From the research I've done, most of what seems to be out there ritually for the Kamea involves lighting a Candle atop a Kamea, and using said candle and it's associations to "activate" the Kamea. This works just fine-the lighting of the Candle is a physical sign of the mage's will to activate the Kamea. This also provides a convenient method to deactivate the Kamea-by putting out said candle at the end of the ritual. Yes it's simple, but it's an effective bit of ceremonial pageantry. It is not quite layered enough for me, so I've refined the simple technique in this fashion; First the LBRP,LBRH,Purification and then Invocation of the HDF. Next, I perform the Circulation of the Magic of the Light, creating the ...

Ave, On a recent Spagyric experiment, I received an interesting result. While calcining the Salts, the body changed from Black, to grey, to light grey...to Orange! I've never had the salts take on that color before. I don't know if this is common, and somehting that happens to others all the time-but it was new to me. It was especially interesting becasue I didn't spend more time performing the calcination than i usually do, and used the same heat source (a torch, burning at a somewhat steady 2300 degrees) to arrive at a different result. Perhaps this is a stage that I was unaware of. Definitely worth noting down. I've also had something of a breakthrough in my understanding of Alchemy...and have to say that Spagery was behind that increase in understanding. It was not the sort of thing that is communicable in words-a small matter of Gnosis instead of knowledge. Nothing earth shattering, but a connection that gave me another step to climb in my pursuit of understanding....

Hello all, Had a very interesting and somewhat disconcerting experience the other night, which resulted in a profound lesson. After performing most of the LBRP, and calling the Archangels, I usually look about with my inner vision at details to ground the vision in my Sight. This time, when I looked about, I was greeted with a suprise. The Archangels were not the large, androgynous powers they normally are-they were, instead, fully and joyfully expressing their sexuality! Ahh, the horror, the blasphemy!......was my immediate reaction, and I set about reprimanding myself for my perversion and forcing the Archangelic forms into their regular, pleasingly antiseptic bodies. As this flew across my mind, an immediate counter reaction took place-the counterpoint being that these were Archangels, and nothing they were doing could be considered unclean. Anything they do is, by their very nature, sacred and Holy! I was, for a very long and very short moment, completely obliterated by this parado...

So, I've been thinking.... ...much lately about the nature of Hermetic Alchemy. G.H.Frater L.E.S has stated a number of times that our tradition is analaguos to the Eastern tradition. This is interesting, in that the secrets and techniques of the Eastern Tradition have been made publicly available by Adepts like Mantak Chia and his peers/teachers. They have chosen to make this material publicly available-which I think is a good thing, as they take no binding vows to do otherwise. The whole secrecy bit is so complicated, and difficult-on the one hand, it is terrible to have the secrets of our Order profaned. On the other, had it not been for Crowley and especially Regardie, the vast majority of us would probably have never heard of the Golden Dawn, let alone become initiates. I'm not so sure there would be a Golden Dawn at all if not for Regardie's efforts. I certainly mean no disrespect to G.H.Frater LES, who is rightfully passionate about protecting the Egregore of our Ord...

Ave, I think that, in my focus on energetic healing, I missed something very important about Spagery-it's classical use in creating superior herbal medicines. Instead of dwelling primarily on the energetic root of the plant-going from inside out-I think it would be best to focus on using Spagery to influence the natural healing qualities of the plant, and to make superior medicines in that fashion. I'm going to change the focus of my manuscript accordingly.  The method for healing will involve first creating a "Garden" of healing medicines, but instead of focusing on the Energies, we will instead focus on stocking plants that cure a specific ailment or illness, and then evolving those plants and creating Elixirs through Spagery, which will serve as superior medicines. Then, we will conduct a healing ritual involving soothing incense, the Middle Pillar (with the Healer assisting with strong vibration) to address the energetic component. Finally, we will conduct a Rose-...

Ave, Unpleasant realisation today. I've been studying Philalethes' works-Metamorphysis of Metals, etc., and after an hour of bashing my brain against it realized that....I had no bloody idea what the man was talking about. While I love Spagery as an Art in and of itself, understanding it's methods have led me no closer to removing the veil of obfuscation around Hermetic Alchemy.  The 'Language of the Birds" spoken by the alchemists is seemingly impenetrable without a Guide.  What's interesting is that, before I studied Spagery, I thought I had some idea of what was going on in the Alchemical tracts and emblems. Growing to understand Spagery has made me aware of exactly how large a gap there is between Spagery and Heremetic Alchemy. They are more distant cousins than brother and sister. There is a connection between the ideas, but that seems to be where the parallels start. The processes alluded to in many of the Emblems are useless without context. While studyi...

Ave Fraters et Sorers, I completed a Solar Elixir yesterday-only allowing it to gestate for a week, and completing seven calcinations and distillations. I have had to do a lot more work with the Salts lately, as after calcination the original feces leaves little in the way of Salt to work with. After filtering out the Caput Mortuum, and leeching, there is Very little of the original Salt left to reappear. This won't do, and so I find that lately I've been augmenting the regular process with a Lot of extra plant matter. I'd like to make a Plant Stone here at some point, and so will need a decent amount of Salt to work with. I understand that one can make an artificial stone using sun-dried Sea Salts...but don't much see the point of that. It can't be that much more difficult to acquire more of the plant than it is to acquire the sea salts...It is very important, btw, to use distilled water for the leeching process-the purity of the Salt after leeching is directly pro...