Having been having an interesting discussion on Eastern spirituality with a couple of friends.
Anyway the topic of the subject is esoteric alchemy. We have been introducing ourselves to several catechisms on the Alchemical art, most especifically the "Philosophical Alchemy", the alchemy of the spirit and not the vulgar pre-chemistry that is often labelled as such.
The main subject are Evola's and Pernetty's works on the subject. As I told my friend, Soma Vira, the Hermetic Tradition is a very comprehensive guide by Evola himself on how to study and deal with alchemical operations.
He starts, as always, by making us focus on the broad horizons of an ancient age. Forwarding his completely unorthodox (at least to us moderns) view, he says that there has been a progressive INVOLUTION, as opposed to EVOLUTION, of man's faculties and Being since remote pre-historical times.
One of the examples he cites is the awareness of the underlying spiritual principles of things. The modern dualistic view of things, he argues, is a fairly recent phenomenon. And man, once was able to grasp directly the underlying Aristotelian PRIMA MATERIA, or the PURUSA, the animating first matter behind the world of bodies that we can vulgarly grasp.
With time, however, the loss of the faculties of such intuition led to the use of a series of mysterious terms by the alchemists themselves, who began to speak cryptically of "OUR WATER", of "OUR FIRE" and so on, as opposed to the vulgar material water, fire and the likes. This is the main target of the study of alchemy.
For a quick remark of what we are talking about, let us read this:
"Both Samkhya[b] and Yoga schools of Hinduism state that there are two ultimate realities whose interaction accounts for all experiences and universe - Prakrti (matter) and Purusa (spirit).[3][10] In other words, the universe is envisioned as a combination of perceivable material reality and non-perceivable, non-material laws and principles of nature. Material reality, or Prakrti, is everything that has changed, can change and is subject to cause and effect. Universal principle, or Purusa, is that which is unchanging (aksara)[2] and is uncaused. "
"Philosophical" Alchemy, as exemplified by books written many centuries ago, like the Hermetic Triumph, Teatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by Arab and Hellenic alchemists, and so on... is thus concerned with finding this purusa, and is not a vulgar blacksmith's trade.
Next we'll talk about a blog I'm publishing in advance to cover my (hopefully long term) analysis and study of the subject.
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