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The Force is Strong With This One
I've been intimately involved with alchemy for the past 13 years. By intimate I don't mean just holding an interest and reading about it. I received formal tuition in a traditional path of alchemy, and learned both the inner way and the outer (lab) way. It quickly became my primary focus, and remains so; being responsible now for the education of others in this path, as I once was, it is very important to be able to identify bad information about alchemy, because so much of it has flooded into the mainstream.
I spend a surprisingly large amount of time and effort discovering and attempting to correcting erroneous and contradicting ideas that people have acquired regarding this Art. Against this is a seemingly endless supply of alchemy 'experts' in the media, most of whom don't even know what the basic alchemical principles are. A couple of good examples are Jay Weidner and the anonymous 'Author' of the Book of Aquarius.
In this post will present my own findings on the Book of Aquarius, and state some opinions regarding the effort surrounding it. These are my own views based on my knowledge and experience with alchemy, and time spent investigating the BoA research and its community first-hand.
The author of the Book of Aquarius admittedly has no education in alchemy from anyone with training in a surviving tradition, or even anyone with experience at all. He admittedly has no solid understanding of the underlying principles of alchemy or the inner work. Moreover, he makes no room for the consideration of the inner (spiritual) processes of alchemy, and deems it out of scope on the basis that the ancient authors of treatises anterior to the 17th century did not write about the inner work. The absence of (publicly known) writings on this subject, when we consider the secrecy of the Rosicrucian alchemists, makes perfect sense.
What we are looking at with the Book of Aquarius is (at best) an open-source research project to test the theories of an anachronistic experimenter. The method he provides creates a number of problems that do not produce the expected stages or phenomenon that the lab work should. The most obvious one is the abrupt calcination of carefully obtained organic material; while he is careful to distill it at low temperature to preserve the life force at one stage, he has no problem calcinating it at high temperature in the next, rendering it into a mineral salt (ammonium sodium phosphate). This mixture of methods for working in the animal path and the mineral path are the result of the Author's cut-and-paste recipe. His entire plan was cherry picked from a number of quotes and tracts from various alchemical manuscripts. How can this be taken seriously?
The other main problem is the stated intent; to give the philosopher's stone freely to the entire world. Even if it were possible to confect the Stone using the BoA method, doing this would cause, as Paracelsus said in his time, the corruption and collapse of human society. There are very good reasons why dangerous knowledge is protected from all but those who are properly trained and prepared to handle it responsibly - this is true for alchemy as well as modern chemistry, military intelligence, and even sex education. Its just common sense. Such precautions are thrown to the wind, as the Author discards this aspect of the tradition while rigorously preserving others.
At one point in the book, the Author states that bringing about an intentional collapse of human civilization is part of the plan for the Book of Aquarius see section 9. To collapse the current civilization with the presumption that you will usher in a new Golden Age (cycle of Ages be damned) and do it all by giving everyone a magic pill, is to assume that humanity as a collective organism is not capable of making its own improvements; that everyone has asked for your help, or is not where they should be in their learning processes.
I could point out more red flags than these, but my point is, the entire program is highly suspect from a traditional alchemy point of view, and is not capable of delivering its intended result from a conventional point of view, if the PTB and basic human behavior are to be taken into account.
If I were to look at the BoA as a possible cointelpro operation, it fits the description perfectly in my opinion. It is doing to the tradition of alchemy what 'The Secret' did to occult practice in general - provide an opportunity for learned helplessness when things don't work, and encourage a selfish motive for esoteric study. Alchemy is not intended to make vulgar people into wealthy immortals, it is a process for spiritual attainment.
In terms of who supports it - would you think there is any cointelpro involved if you were to learn that suspicious characters like Jirka Rysavy are financing BoA research, and alchemists are being brought into contact with himself and Jay Weidner? This is indeed happening, and certainly adds weight to the idea that there is cointelpro at work here. Perhaps someone with more experience with Jirka/Weidner projects can shed some light on this?
I spend a surprisingly large amount of time and effort discovering and attempting to correcting erroneous and contradicting ideas that people have acquired regarding this Art. Against this is a seemingly endless supply of alchemy 'experts' in the media, most of whom don't even know what the basic alchemical principles are. A couple of good examples are Jay Weidner and the anonymous 'Author' of the Book of Aquarius.
In this post will present my own findings on the Book of Aquarius, and state some opinions regarding the effort surrounding it. These are my own views based on my knowledge and experience with alchemy, and time spent investigating the BoA research and its community first-hand.
The author of the Book of Aquarius admittedly has no education in alchemy from anyone with training in a surviving tradition, or even anyone with experience at all. He admittedly has no solid understanding of the underlying principles of alchemy or the inner work. Moreover, he makes no room for the consideration of the inner (spiritual) processes of alchemy, and deems it out of scope on the basis that the ancient authors of treatises anterior to the 17th century did not write about the inner work. The absence of (publicly known) writings on this subject, when we consider the secrecy of the Rosicrucian alchemists, makes perfect sense.
What we are looking at with the Book of Aquarius is (at best) an open-source research project to test the theories of an anachronistic experimenter. The method he provides creates a number of problems that do not produce the expected stages or phenomenon that the lab work should. The most obvious one is the abrupt calcination of carefully obtained organic material; while he is careful to distill it at low temperature to preserve the life force at one stage, he has no problem calcinating it at high temperature in the next, rendering it into a mineral salt (ammonium sodium phosphate). This mixture of methods for working in the animal path and the mineral path are the result of the Author's cut-and-paste recipe. His entire plan was cherry picked from a number of quotes and tracts from various alchemical manuscripts. How can this be taken seriously?
The other main problem is the stated intent; to give the philosopher's stone freely to the entire world. Even if it were possible to confect the Stone using the BoA method, doing this would cause, as Paracelsus said in his time, the corruption and collapse of human society. There are very good reasons why dangerous knowledge is protected from all but those who are properly trained and prepared to handle it responsibly - this is true for alchemy as well as modern chemistry, military intelligence, and even sex education. Its just common sense. Such precautions are thrown to the wind, as the Author discards this aspect of the tradition while rigorously preserving others.
At one point in the book, the Author states that bringing about an intentional collapse of human civilization is part of the plan for the Book of Aquarius see section 9. To collapse the current civilization with the presumption that you will usher in a new Golden Age (cycle of Ages be damned) and do it all by giving everyone a magic pill, is to assume that humanity as a collective organism is not capable of making its own improvements; that everyone has asked for your help, or is not where they should be in their learning processes.
I could point out more red flags than these, but my point is, the entire program is highly suspect from a traditional alchemy point of view, and is not capable of delivering its intended result from a conventional point of view, if the PTB and basic human behavior are to be taken into account.
If I were to look at the BoA as a possible cointelpro operation, it fits the description perfectly in my opinion. It is doing to the tradition of alchemy what 'The Secret' did to occult practice in general - provide an opportunity for learned helplessness when things don't work, and encourage a selfish motive for esoteric study. Alchemy is not intended to make vulgar people into wealthy immortals, it is a process for spiritual attainment.
In terms of who supports it - would you think there is any cointelpro involved if you were to learn that suspicious characters like Jirka Rysavy are financing BoA research, and alchemists are being brought into contact with himself and Jay Weidner? This is indeed happening, and certainly adds weight to the idea that there is cointelpro at work here. Perhaps someone with more experience with Jirka/Weidner projects can shed some light on this?
