Video: Hermetic Alchemy: The Great Work

[Paul Ferguson]

"In medieval laboratories. Behind locked doors. Surrounded by bubbling alembics and glowing furnaces. Men and women worked. Not to make gold. Though that was the claim. But to transform themselves. Transmute consciousness. Perfect the soul. This was alchemy. The Royal Art. The Great Work. Magnum Opus. To the uninitiated it seemed to be about metals. Turning lead into gold. Creating the Philosopher's Stone. Finding the Elixir of Life. But the true alchemists knew the outer work was symbol. The real work was inner. The metals represented stages of consciousness. The laboratory was the human body and soul. The fire was spiritual practice. The goal was not material wealth but divine perfection. Union with God. Immortality of spirit. Tonight, you will learn the complete alchemical process. The seven stages of transformation. The secret of the Philosopher's Stone. The meaning of solve et coagula. How to perform the Great Work. Not in a laboratory. But in your consciousness. In your life. In your soul. This is ancient wisdom dressed in chemical symbolism. Preserved through persecution. Available now to those ready to die, to be purified, to be reborn as gold."

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