KABBALAH PSYCHOSIS!

 

The Kabbalistic Tree of life seems as much as anything else to be a framework of different aspects of the psyche and the conditions therein. There is perhaps a reason why psychiatry is such an eminently Jewish science and also perhaps again an example of the practitioner imposing his view on a phenomenon for reasons known only to himself. Just as the psychiatrist imposes his own definitions so too, the Kabbalist impose his own definitions on God.

The Zohar is the central and most important book of the Kabbalah. Much of its discourse is based on secret interpretations of the Torah in such a way to bend, change or even contradict the original meaning. It does this by creating a whole secondary study on the meaning of the words used in the Torah by interpreting and ascribing some kind of mystical interpretation to the Hebrew letters themselves.

I have previously written on the fascinating origin of the alphabet as pictographic symbols, a fact many people are completely unaware of today except for students of linguistics; this fascinating study opens up vistas into our most remote past and confronts us with some intriguing mysteries. For instance, learning that the letter C represent a ‘Gamal’ or ‘throwing stick’ we might wonder how this ancient Egyptian hunting tool found its way to the Australian Aborigines. The word ‘Gamal’ is the Arabic word for camel and it is possibly the distinctive bent, or arched shape of the throwing stick and also the word for ‘bridge’ in Aramaic is ‘Gamla’, no doubt the distinctive ‘arched’ shape of the camel back being the inspiration but all of these words have their origins with the Ancient Egyptian word for a ‘throwing stick’ and the verb QMR or ‘qamar’ which meant ‘to throw’. We can see how with the passage of years consonantal shift may slightly obscure the origins. So ‘q’ and ‘g’ and ‘r’ and ‘l’ are largely equivalent and phonetically very close when it comes to the movements of the tongue and the mouth for their articulation.

The Study of the letters of our own alphabet also betray the Middle-Eastern, ancient Semitic origins of our letters. The alphabet we may consider to be Greek since the letters of ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’ are known, but the ‘Aleph’ and ‘Beet’ of the Hebrews may be less widely known. The Semitic ‘Beet’ represents the floor plan of a house and our letter B still shows us the two rooms of this house. Every letter in fact is a picture of something and often correlates with words which use that letter to convey that meaning.

Over the years the letters may have transformed somewhat by flipping either to the left or right or upside down. So the letter A, known in Greek as ‘Alpha’ and in Hebrew as ‘Aleph’, was originally a pictogram of an ox’s head. If you turn the letter upside-down and return it to its original orientation as an Egyptian hieroglyph and the two horns and face of an ox appear. In the Hebrew alphabet ‘Aleph’, like all of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, is supposed to have mystical significance. ‘Aleph’ is composed of two yods with a diagonal letter waw (or f) connecting the upper, hidden qualities of God and the lower visible presence of God in the visible world. 

In some instances, some of these symbolic interpretations may actually contain something genuinely insightful or even revelatory. The letter ‘Yod’ for instance or ‘Iota’ in Greek, as in ‘not one iota’ or ‘not one jot’ as the smallest letter represents the immense power of God and the single, smallest point of the microcosm from which all creation emanates; it is also significantly, the first letter of the ‘tetragrammaton’ YHWH or ‘Jahweh’.

In his book The Palm Tree of Deborah, Shelomo Alfassa describes the attainment of the highest level of the tree of life, Kether or Crown, though like so much of the Kabbalah this in itself is an inconsistent claim since it was said that in the Zohar that Moses himself had only perceived as high as Tiferet and the Patriarchs Malchut, so from this we are to assume that the higher Sefirot are probably off limits to humanity, yet Shelomo apparently is able to explain the attainment of Kether, the highest emanation closest to the infinite and unknowable Ain Soph.

“It does not raise nor exalt itself upwards; on the contrary, it descends to look downwards at all times. For this there are two reasons. The first is that it ashamed to gaze at its Source, but the Cause of its emanation looks continually into it to give goodness to it while it looks down to those beneath.”

The suggestion of being ‘ashamed’ to look at the source which is Ain Soph or the unknowable God suggests estrangement from God and evokes the fall of man in the Garden of Eden being where the first sign to God that Adam had disobeyed his commandment not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge was his shame and the fact that he hid himself when God came to look for him.  It can be no coincidence that the serpent is a stylistic representation of the journey up the Kabbalistic tree of life, and we may recall that the word snake in the Hebrew Old Testament is Nachash which also means occult.

According to The Kabbalah Experience by Michael Laitman, “a great part of the Kabbalist’s journey is spent in the worlds of ABYA (Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, Assiya), where the Kabbalist gradually turns intended and unintended sins into virtues, and thus justifies the works of the creator and His guidance."

We find what might be an interesting oblique reference to one of the key doctrines of the Kabbalah in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, that of turning vices into virtues, and although nothing is made explicit in the text, it ought to be understood that he who is not initiated into the Kabbalistic secrets of the Rosicrucians is unlikely to make any sense of events which might only stoke his curiosity and induce him to join the group but the real intention is to convey meaning to those who already understand what is being alluded to:

“Meantime the King and Queen, for recreation’s sake, began to play together, at something which looked not unlike chess, only it had different rules; for it was the Virtues and Vices one against another, and it might ingeniously be observed with what plots the Vices lay in wait for the Virtues, and how to re-encounter them again. This was so properly and cleverly performed, that it is to be wished that we had the same game too.”

The Kabbalist pursues mystical insight rather than intellectual beliefs or moral action though it seems to me to be a trick to escape the reality of moral judgement of the kind outlined in the Torah. The Kabbalah has many such semantic and legalistic tricks in order to redefine moral absolutes and continue to live a life which we might say, pleases man more than it might please God. This is best exemplified or instance in the Kabbalistic doctrine of what we might call ‘holy sin’ and is explained clearly by Laitman:

“..In the Almighty’s sight the repentant sinner has a higher status than the man who has never sinned. This is the meaning of the rabbinic teaching that in the place where the penitent stands the perfectly righteous cannot stand (Ber. 34b). The reason for this has been expounded by the Rabbis in the chapter ‘He Who Builds,’ where it is stated that the letter He is shaped like an exedra (Is a Greek word for exedra was a covered place in front of a house but open to the outside) so that whomsoever wishes to go astray may do so. That is to say, the world was created by means of the letter He and the Holy One, Blessed is He, created the world wide open in the direction of sin and evil. As the exedra, the world is not fully enclosed but is broken open towards the direction of evil (Sabbath).”

Reading from the Kabbalah Experience, where The Kabbalah is explained in a series of question and answers, we find the following passage about the cessation of perception of time experienced by the initiate into the Kabbalah mysteries:

“What about the lack of perception of time? It’s hard to understand the lack of sensation of time. But ‘time’ in spirituality is no more than the changing of emotions.”

The distortion of the perception, or even as Laitman suggests, the cessation altogether, is a classic symptom of some kind of neuropsychiatric and neurological disorder and in present in many mental impairment disorders ranging from Parkinson’s disease through to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. It is my contention that this is the goal of working with the Kabbalah and the results of travelling through the stations of the Tree of Life are tantamount to developing psychosis. Indeed, I maintain that this is the apotheosis and pinnacle of the mystery initiatory tradition and always has been, even more so to this day.

It is interesting to note that the Tree of Life bears no reference to anything taught or mentioned in the Jewish Torah and it ought to be evident that the two systems are not mutually inclusive: there is no mention of Jahweh in the Tree of Life, the Ain Soph is an impersonal definition for ‘eternity’ which is the closest thing to God in the Kabbalistic system. Kabbalah doesn’t really deal with a moral universe in the sense of right and wrong, and actively opposing duality, merely extols relative levels of awareness and has much more in common with gnostic systems revealed from the synthesis of Greek and Jewish thought in the centuries after the ministry of Jesus.

The Kabbalah then is the attempt to justify the backsliding of Israel through semantic tricks and word-play in order to justify many of the things which were specifically forbidden by the Torah, above all of them, being initiation into the occult mysteries which the Kabbalah specifically exalts.

There are many chapters of the Zohar which relate the supposed secret initiations of the Hebrew patriarchs, again as we have seen, using the selective use of passages from the Torah to give false justification for the exegesis.

“It is stated, 'He went on his journeys from the south even into Bethel, the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning'; he progressed and advanced in the divine life so that by the mental and spiritual illumination which he ultimately attained, he became fully initiated into the comprehension and understanding of the mysteries of the Hidden Wisdom and graduated to that degree termed 'teleiaor,' perfection, when it is written, 'And there Abraham called on the name of the Lord' (Gen. XIII. 4) and became a just man made perfect. Blessed are they who attain unto this degree of righteousness, for they become invested with an aureole of light and are jewels in the crown of the Holy One. Blessed are they in this world and in. the world to come. Of these it is written, 'The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day' (Prov. IV. 18)."

"On observing this general depravation of manners and modes of living, it is written, 'And Abraham went down into Egypt to sojourn there.' Here the question may arise, what was the reason and object of his going down into Egypt? It was because at that time Egypt was a great center of learning, of Theosophy and the science of the Divine Mysteries, and therefore referred to in scripture as 'the garden of the Lord like the land of Egypt.' In it, as in the garden of Eden, of which it is stated, 'From the right of it went forth a river called Pison that encompassed the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold,’ flowed a great mystical river of divine knowledge, very precious and unobtainable elsewhere. Abraham having entered into the garden of Eden and become an adept in the secret doctrine, desirous of passing through all its grades on two the higher mysteries in order to become 'teloios' or perfect, went down into Egypt where there was gold, or the Hidden Wisdom."

So, the implication is clear that the prohibition of initiatory or transformative rites of the pagans which are continually rebuked in the Torah are now reversed and such rites are specifically encouraged, indeed, such is the whole purpose of the Kabbalah.

The very fact of initiation is something forbidden in the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible the Septuagint. The name Septuagint comes from the story that Ptolemy II the Greek Pharoah of Egypt of the 3rd century BC, asked for a translation of the Torah from Hebrew to Greek to be included in the Library of Alexandria by 72 Jewish Elders.

“There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.” Deuteronomy 23:17

‘Initiated’ person is usually translated as ‘ritual homosexual prostitution’ and this line was added by the 70 Jewish scholars to further clarify the following verse.

“Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.”

The wages of a dog is also translated as “male prostitute's payment” and this is because this was associated with the mysteries of Anubis, hence the Septuagint’s reference to ‘initiation’.

With this in mind are we to assume that the biggest secret of secret society initiation is the homosexual sex act?

It is this force which now rules the world today through the proxy of Freemasonry which it infiltrated via Rosicrucianism and the general Alchemical sciences transmitted by those Kabbalistic Jews to the idealistic and perhaps well-meaning Christians to infect the West.

The Kabbalah uses the interpretation of letters to imbue new meanings in order to completely rewrite the fundamental parts of the Torah and it does this in order to justify its own initiatory system of mysticism. In the Zohar the Biblical phrase “Let us make man” is taken and the word Man or ‘Adam’ is analysed thus:

“…known to the angels the mystery and occult signification of the word Adam (man), the letters of which indicate his relation to both worlds, the seen and unseen, the known and unknown. By the letter M which is written as a final or closed mem, is found thus contrary to rule in the word lemarbeh, occurring in the verse, 'Of the increase of his government' (Is. ix. 7). Man is connected with the higher world, whilst daleth or the letter D, closed on the west side, indicates his relation to the lower and sensible world. The principles of which these letters are the symbols ultimated in their manifestation on the phenomenal plane of existence and the production of a blended and harmonious whole, viz., of man in the form of male and female until the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon him (Gen. ii. 21). The Holy One then separated them and having clothed the latter in a form most fair and beautiful brought her to man, as a bride is adorned and led to the bridegroom. Scripture states that He took one of the sides or parts (of the androgynous form) and filled up the place with flesh in its stead. In a very ancient occult book we have found it stated that what God took from the side of Adam was not a rib but Lilith, who had cohabited with him and given birth to offspring. She was however an unsuitable helpmeet for Adam and therefore Scripture states, 'But for Adam there was not found a helpmeet for him' (Gen. ii. 20). After the disappearance of Lilith and Adam's descent into the world plane of existence, then it was, as stated, 'The Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone, I will make him a helpmeet for him.'"

So here the Kabbalah is saying that Adam, or Man originally cohabited with Lilith and the Lilith was Adam’s first wife and she subsequently became a demon which persecutes children:

“She dwelled there until Adam and his wife sinned. Then the blessed Holy One plucked her form there, and she rules over all those children – small faces of humanity – who deserve to be punished for the sins of their fathers….She toys with them and kills them. This happens in the waning of the moon, whose light diminishes; this is me’orot (lights) deficient.”

According to Kabbalistic analysis of the passage above this means that God released the spirit of Lilith specifically to punish and murder children.

From this belief one can see how ritual child sacrifice has come into being and we can see how the Zohar has given rise to modern Satanic ‘theology’ and practice and I wonder whether child sacrifices are carried out to this day when the moon’s light wanes. If so they would be being carried out according to Jewish scripture. According to the Zohar Lilith was created by mixing the perfect light of Jahweh with the imperfect light of Samael.

Israel is often described as a prostitute in the Old Testament, an epithet God applies to Israel more than any other in the whole of the Old Testament. God also accuses Israel of adultery 40 times in scripture. The children of Israel frequently departed from the worship of the one God and into Ba’al worship, trafficking with demons and all kinds of immorality. Nothing has changed.

From the Zohar, in a chapter concerning the union of the higher and lower self which beguilingly begins with an excerpt from Genesis:

“Said Rabbi Eleazar: ‘It is written, “But with thee will I establish my covenant” (Gen. vi. 18): as the continuity of the covenant or good law on earth is the same as in the higher spheres, we infer from these words that when men become just and upright in this world they contribute to the stability of the good law in both worlds.’

Said Rabbi Simeon: ‘The words just cited have an occult meaning. The love of the male for the female is based upon jealous desire. Observe, when there is a just man in the world, or one whose higher and lower self have become harmonized and unified, the divine spirit or Shekinah is ever with him and abides in him, causing a feeling of affectionate attachment towards the Holy One to arise similar to that between the male and female. Therefore the words, 'I will establish my covenant with thee' may be rendered thus, 'Because of the union between thy higher and lower natures giving rise to a yet diviner life, I will abide with thee forever. I will never leave nor forsake thee. Come thou therefore into the ark into which no one unless he is just can enter.'"

The mystical union of the higher and lower self, or of the bride with the Bridegroom within the context of the Rosicrucian mysteries, is the key goal of any continuous initiatory programme. This mystical union involves process which eventually lead to a change in brain chemistry such that the right and left hemispheres of the brain are in continually equal activity and that the right brain, that is the subconscious mind which is the residence of the higher self, is brought into day-to-day awareness and not merely relegated to explicit activity during our sleeping hours. This essentially means that what is termed the astral aspect of consciousness, which the right brain specifically interacts with, is brought down to Earth. This leads to the classic symptoms of schizophrenia which include auditory and visual hallucinations; feelings of unreality, dream-like states, feelings of impending death or even of actually being dead and in some kind of limbo state. The reason for this is because the right brain, the dormant part of our consciousness is in full operation and reality has indeed become partially dreamlike because we have brought that part of ourselves, that ability to access the astral dream realm, into our day to day lives. In addition to the negative effects there are some secondary effects which are prized in the occult community such as the ability to contact spirits and even the performance of feats of precognition and premonition since there are feats which our mind is capable of in the dream-state where there is no sense of time and all events past and present can be accessed by the astral consciousness.

This unification of both hemispheres of the brain leads to the state of primordial being or Adam Kadmon, or Adam Auilah in Hebrew, where man supposedly has his fully divine spark awakened and is one with the creator and all ten Sefirot are manifested. It is arguable that Jesus Christ underwent a similar experience to achieve his miracles but most people who undergo this experience probably become schizophrenic but for the Kabbalist and the Gnostic, the primordial man is the image of the perfect man as he was before the fall and the fragmentation of his mind into two distinct parts.

The right brain element to our mind is referenced in the Siphra Dtzenioutha or the Book of Concealed Mystery and makes it clear that this aspect of ourselves is ordinarily hidden from our normal perception:

“THE Ancient One is hidden and concealed; the Microprosopus is manifested, and is not manifested. When the inferior man descendeth (into this world), like unto the supernal form (in himself), there are found two spirits. (So that) man is formed from two sides--from the right and from the left.”

We can readily understand that this explanation that man has ‘two spirits’ and ‘two sides’ to himself refer to the left and right hemisphere of the brain which are indeed two spirits in the sense that the two parts of our consciousness are usually more or less very tightly sealed or insulated the one from the other.

For instance, we may remember snatches of key moments from our dreams which we have managed to bring into remembrance in waking left brain consciousness, but we never remember the whole varied dreamscape and the events which played out in our minds during the night. Similarly, when asleep we tend to have a very reduced awareness of our everyday life, perhaps the odd few people from our physical lives appear from time to time, but it is also true that we may also see people whom we have not seen for many years.

While asleep we tend to forget about the many details of who we are while awake, and so when asleep we can suddenly find ourselves in situations that are entirely at odds with our personal situation in real life.

The Arikh Anpin, meaning: the Vast Countenance, otherwise known as ‘The Ancient One’ or Macroprosopus, is a term used to describe the attainment of Kether, the first and highest Sefira closest to the divine emanation of the Ain Soph.

The Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus or the Microcosm and the Macrocosm, are the meaning of the well-known hermetic principle from the so-called Emerald Tablet of Thoth which first appeared in Arabic in the late 8th Century, and is the foundational text of European Alchemy:

“That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles of the one thing.”

This is encoded in Eliphas’ Levi’s drawing of Baphomet with two fingers pointing upwards and two downwards while a caduceus of serpents, one black and one white are entwined around the middle. This is also represented by the two triangles of the Jewish hexagram, or Seal of Solomon, with the upper triangle representing spirit coming into matter while the lower triangle represents matter being elevated into the spirit world.

Incidentally Eliphas Levi, described the Sepher Yetzirah in his Histoire de la Magie as: “a Genesis of illumination, the Sepher Jezirah is a ladder formed of truths,” and that “The Zohar represents absolute truth, and the Sepher Jezirah provides the means by which we may seize, appropriate and make use of it."  

There is an interesting commentary by Samael Aun Peor, founder of Universal Gnosticism who was also a member of the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua movement:

“Binah is ruled by Shabbatai שבתאי, Saturn, we have an atom of Binah in the pineal gland, the door of heaven, which in the Male Goat of Mendes is represented with a torch upon a horned goat head (letter Shin ש). The two horns of the goat (as well as those of Moses) relates to Binah בינה and Chokmah חכמה. Binah relates to the left hemisphere of the brain and Chokmah-Uranos to Aquarius, the right hemisphere of the brain. They form the Tetragrammaton of Esh אש (‘fire’) in our Rosh ראש ‘head.’ This is why the name Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei יהוה, the Tetragrammaton, relates to Chokmah and Binah in the world of Atziluth. Above them in the torch or pineal gland is Kether, the crown, ruled by Neptune, the superior waters of Chaos; in other words, Pisces, the fluid emanations of the Theomertmalogos, the Christonic substance of the Solar Logos.”

Rav Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, writes intriguingly about the Zohar:

“This composition, called The Book of Zohar, is like Noah’s Ark, where there were many kinds, but those kinds and families could not exist unless by entering the ark. …Thus the righteous will enter the secret of the Light of this composition to persist, and thus is the virtue of the composition, that immediately when engaging, with his desire for the love of God, it will draw him as a magnet draws the iron. And he will enter it to save his soul and spirit and his correction. And even if he is wicked, there is no fear should he enter.”

This is a symbolic representation of the attainment of the Philosopher’s Stone, that is the unification of right and left hemispheres of the brain and the co-operation of the Microprosopus or the left brain rational logical physically oriented mind with the Macroprosopus of the right brain, the astral or spirit element of our mind.

The right brain as we know is concealed from our awareness except during sleep or as a result of the culmination of successful rituals and secret society initiations. In his introduction of his English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth’s Latin translation of some of the books of the Kabbalah, Macgregor Mathers writes:

“Of Him it is said that He is partly concealed (in the sense of His connection with the negative existence) and partly manifest (as a positive Sefira). Hence the symbolism of the Vast Countenance is that of a profile wherein one side only of the countenance is seen; or, as it is said in the Qabalah, ‘in Him all is right side.’”

In the Siphra Dtzenioutha or The Book of Concealed Mystery, another of the texts which make up the Zohar we find further clearer references to the distinction between the left physical brain hemisphere of the physical world and the right, astral or spiritual realm aspect of our consciousness and this is also something encoded in the left and right pillars of the Kabbalah, like the symbolic left and right pillars of Freemasonry Boaz and Jachin as well as the three principle degrees of Freemasonry which are also referenced in the Zohar:

“There are three degrees, yet each is independent even though they are one, connected into one and do not separate one from the other.”

“With respect unto the right side he had, Neschamotha Qadisha, the holy intelligences; with respect unto the left side, Nephesh Chiah, the animal soul. Man sinned and was expanded on the left side; and then they who are formless were expanded also. When both were at once joined together generations took place, like as from some animal which generateth many lives in one connexion.”

In the book of the Greater Holy Assembly of the Zohar we find a reference to what could be an allusion to some kind of chemical agent being pivotal to this transformation which could accord with the Hoffer Adrenochrome Hypothesis already outlined in this book. Perhaps this too gives the hidden meaning behind the title ‘Chymical Wedding’ where the chemical transformation is within the initiate, incidentally the website for Phoenix Masonry have seen fit to publish Mather’s translation of The Kabbalah Unveiled on their website, proving I think, the suspected link between Kabbalism and Freemasonry.

“And from that skull distilleth a dew upon Him which is external, and filleth His head daily. And from that dew which floweth down from His head, that which is external, the dead are raised up in the world to come. Concerning which it is written, Cant. v. 2: ‘My head is filled with dew.’ It is not written ‘It is full with dew;’ but NMLA, Nimla, ‘it is filled.’ And it is written, Isa. xxvi. 19: ‘The dew of the lights is Thy dew.’ Of the lights--that is, from the brightness of the Ancient One. And by that dew are nourished the holy supernal ones. And this is that manna which is prepared for the just in the world to come. And that dew distilleth upon the ground of the holy apple trees. This is that which is written, Exod. xvi. 14: ‘And when the dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the desert a small round thing.’ And the appearance of this dew is white, like unto the colour of the crystal stone, whose appearance hath all colours in itself. This is that which is written, Num. xi. 7: ‘And its varieties as the varieties of crystal.”

“And that membrane hath an outlet towards Microprosopus, and on that account is His brain extended, and goeth forth by thirty and two paths. 

This is that same thing which is written: ‘And a river went forth out of Eden’ (Gen. ii. 7). But for what reason? Because the membrane is (then) opened, neither doth it (completely) enshroud the brain.

Nevertheless the membrane is opened from below. And this is that which we have said: Among the signatures of the letters (is) ThV, Tau, Th; nevertheless He impresseth it as the sign of the Ancient of Days, from Whom dependeth the perfection of knowledge, because He is perfect on every side, and hidden, and tranquil, and silent, like as good wine upon its lees.”

The results of involvement in the programme of the Kabbalah are usually confined within the context of the Freemasonic and Illuminati organisations but there is a semi-public Kabbalah organisation founded in 1922 by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag called The Kabbalah Centre which has offices throughout the world but mostly in the United States, South America and Europe.

In the 5th October 2015 online edition of The London Evening Standard there is an article detailing some specific complaints about activities taking place at the London centre:

“The London Kabbalah Centre used by Madonna has been infuriating its neighbours who say they were disturbed by a 36-hour chanting session in the building's car park.

Residents near the Kabbalah Centre in Stratford Place W1, which also counts Gwyneth Paltrow among regulars, say loud prayers, clapping and chanting had kept them awake for an entire weekend.

Westminster City Council’s noise team launched an investigation after being contacted over the weekend, with officers ‘issuing advice’ to the centre.

Katherine Corbett, who lives in a flat overlooking the car park, said the building held mass open-air religious services between Friday evening and the middle of Sunday morning.

‘I was sitting listening to my own music and I still couldn’t hear for the noise,’ she said. ‘They were screaming and shouting. When I heard them on Friday night I took the video, shut my windows and slept in great heat, but I didn’t think it would go on all night.’

The centre is understood to have erected a temporary shelter in the grounds as part of its Sukkot celebrations, a week-long Jewish festival that marks the end of harvest and the Exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt.”

The BBC reported on 9th January 2005 how a:

“..senior figure in the controversial Kabbalah Centre - the sect championed by stars including Madonna and Demi Moore - seems likely to spark a storm of protest by saying Jews killed in the Holocaust brought their downfall upon themselves.

Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group, which promotes its own brand of beliefs, part ancient Jewish mysticism and part pseudo-science.

Talking about the wartime massacre of the Jews, Mr Yardeni said: ‘Just to tell you another thing about the six million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust: the question was that the Light was blocked. They didn't use Kabbalah.’

The same article also details cynically fraudulent claims about the Kabbalah Centre’s own brand of ‘healing water’:

“The probe also revealed how Kabbalah Centre representatives claimed bottles of ‘healing’ spring water sold by the group could help cure cancer - and how they sold a batch to a sufferer for hundreds of pounds.

A second investigator, who worked undercover as a Kabbalah Centre volunteer for four months, was told how the Kabbalah water worked, with a devotee explaining: ‘We start with the purest artesian water and then we do the various meditations, injecting energy into it.’

The Kabbalah Centre website explained that a process called Quantum Resonance Technology ‘restructures the intermolecular binding of spring water’.

The investigation discovered the water actually comes from CJC Bottling, a bottling plant in Ontario, Canada, which was the subject of a public health investigation in 2002 into how its water was tested.

CJC was ordered to improve manufacturing techniques, though there was no suggestion that they ever sold polluted water.

Regarding fundraising, the statement went on: ‘As a registered charity, the centre has to fund raise to cover administrative costs and outreach work, the effects of which are felt across the world on a daily basis.’

The centre has launched a US$1m campaign asking followers to donate money so it can send its own brand of Zohar books and water to the victims of the Asian tsunami.

In Israel, the authorities have refused to give the charity a certificate of proper management for three years running because of accounting inadequacies, and in Britain the Charity Commissioners have criticised the centre's accounts for ‘significant shortcomings in transparency’.”

A final article reported on the Judiaciaryreport.com website regarding the London Kabbalah centre is of a much more serious tenor. The article reports how Phiona Davis, apparently became a victim of mental abuse after becoming involved in Madonna’s Kabbalah centre in London. The website claims that Davis was conned out of 2 million pounds and was spied upon in her home with hidden cameras and illegal telephone wire-tapping. They then made it known to Phiona Davis at meetings what they knew about her. This is the key focus of the phenomenon known as 'Gang Stalking', to drive the victim to madness and despair, which, in their system, is the initiation to Kether and so called 'union' with God. The website doesn’t quite understand why they did this and is under the belief this was all in order to obtain money from Ms Davis, in fact the whole experience led to Phiona Davis becoming psychotic and this led to her murdering two people:

“Fashion student Phiona Davis reportedly confirmed to police that she had been attending Madonna’s Kabbalah centre in London and told police she was being ‘controlled’ and people from the Kabbalah centre were walking around her flat. A few months later she killed telephone salesman Keith Fernandez by stabbing him 58 times at her home in Green Lanes North London reportedly saying ‘God done good, for this is done through God.’  

The next day she killed her grandmother Mary Skerritt by stabbing her 130 times. She then tried to set fire to the flat. She then went outside the flat in Stoke Newington saying ‘I am God, I am the benevolent one, burn the demons inside her.’ ‘You can arrest me but you can’t punish me. Only God can punish me.’ She was also seen holding her arms out saying ‘I am the Messiah.’

Later at Stoke Newington police station she attempted to strangle herself and smeared crosses on the wall in blood and excrement. She shouted at the police, ‘I am the messiah and the King of Kings. I will forgive you all.’

She reportedly told the police she thought her former boyfriend Keith Fernandez was a robot and her grandmother was the devil. She was sent to Broadmoor and can be released only with the express consent of the home secretary.”

The purpose of Kabbalah is precisely to induce schizophrenic illness. This is the attainment of Kether and ‘union’ with God. Hence when Phiona Davis reportedly commented to police and firefighters that she was God/the Messiah in her delusion. As reported by Phiona Davis some month prior to her murdering two people, she was being covertly monitored, followed, spied on and harassed. This was the programme of the Kabbalah, to induce a change in brain chemistry through various personally and psychologically invasive means which can lead to entirely unpredictable consequences.  

 

The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz Decoded.

 

ALCHEMY AND YOU

 

In the Rosicrucian foundational text which appeared in Germany at the start of the 17^th century: The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, we find a curious evocation of early Communism in the form of a proclamation which the protagonist, known only as ‘RC’, hears in a dream prior to the commencement of his voyage to the Rosicrucian castle to take part in the Chymical wedding.

“The joyful time is drawing on, 
When every one shall equal be,
None wealthy, none in penury.
Who er'e receiveth great Commands
Hath work enough to fill his Hands.”

We have seen how the secret societies have been behind violent social-change in the name of ‘equality’ often with the result that those judged part of the reactionary former controlling establishment and those who had been successful within the previous system, were violently executed.

During the performances described in the text of the Chymical Wedding we find something somewhat disturbingly and rather unambiguously described as the ritual execution of six individuals described as kings.

“Mean time a little Bell was tolled, at which all the Royal Persons waxed so mighty bleak, that we were ready utterly to despair. They quickly put off their white Garments again, and put on entirely black ones.

Finally, there steps in a very coal-black tall Man, who bare in his hand a sharp Axe. Now after that the old King had been first brought to the Seat, his Head was instantly whipt off, and wrapped up in a black Cloth, but the Blood was received into a great golden Goblet, and placed with him in this Coffin that stood by, which being covered, was set aside. Thus it went with the rest also, so that I thought it would at length have come to me too, but it did not; For as soon as the six Royal Persons were Beheaded, the black Man went out again; after whom another followed, who Beheaded him too just before the Door, and brought back his Head together with the Axe, which were laid in a little Chest.” 

The ‘mysteries’ which are described in the Chymical Wedding are attended by a throng of what are called ‘virgins’. It is likely that this word is chosen because of the evocation of purity and even a certain sense of Christian sanctity, but it is deliberately used to convey a false impression. The fact that these events unfold within the ministry of some sixty ‘beautiful virgins’ and other epithets are used, like ‘gentle virgin’ as well as certain theatrical effects being employed such as being drawn on “a gloriously gilded Triumphant Self-moving Throne’ and wearing “a snow-white glittering Robe, which sparkled of pure Gold, and cast such a lustre that we durst not steadily behold it,” all worked in concert to create “a beautiful and moving spectacle’. But if the description used was merely ‘women’ and if we choose not to be emotionally swayed by the apparent grandeur and appearance of grace of the ritual and strip down the facts to the ritual murder by beheading of six people, followed by the beheading of the executioner himself, aided and abetted by a large group of women in cultic attire, then we can clearly observe that what the text really describes is something like a kind of early Satanic ritual murder whose affect is to traumatise and transform, and also implicate, those in attendance in the guise of initiates. 

 There are hints too at some kind of sexual element behind the Chymical Wedding, although of course since this text appeared in the early 17^th century and was also a description of essentially secret rites, the hints are obscure, but a certain ongoing sexual tension is certainly evident and this is used specifically to tease RC who is depicted as a man somewhat advanced in years:

“As soon as we were come again into the Hall; one of the Virgins began: ‘I wonder, Sister, that you durst adventure yourself amongst so many Persons’: ‘My Sister,’ replied our President, ‘I am fearful of none so much as of this Man,’ pointing at me; This speech went to the Heart of me: For I well understood that she mocked at my Age, and indeed I was the oldest of them all. Yet she comforted me again with promise. That in case I behaved myself well towards her, she would easily rid me of this burden.”

Is there a hint then that the ‘virgin’ will willingly engage in sexual intercourse with RC if he behaves ‘well towards her’? Yet another passage makes some kind of insinuation about ‘sports’ between the men and the ‘virgins’, which cannot be divulged owing to secrecy.

“Mean time a Collation was again brought in, and every one's Virgin seated by him, who well knew how to shorten the time with handsome discourses: But what their discourses and sports were I dare not blab out of School.”

It is likely that one of the ‘rewards’ of being involved in the Rosicrucian mysteries was sexual gratification just as it is a key part of such Wiccan and Satanic ceremonies. Though they do not apparently give themselves up without a little literal ritual humiliation:

“This the Virgin perceived, and therefore began, ‘I dare lay anything, if I lye with him to night, he shall be pleasanter in the morning.’  Hereupon they began to laugh, and albeit I blushed all over, yet I was fain to laugh too at my own ill-luck. Now there was one there that had a mind to return my disgrace again upon the Virgin; whereupon he said, ‘I hope not only we, but the Virgins too themselves will bear witness in behalf of our Brother, that our Lady President hath promised herself to be his Bedfellow to Night’: ‘I should be well content with it,’ replied the Virgin, ‘if I had no reason to be afraid of these my Sisters, there would be no hold with them should I cause the best and handsomest for myself, against their will.’

The women then contrive a casting of lots to decide who will spend the night with whom:  

“But now first arose a dispute how the business should be carried, but this was only a premediated device, for the Virgin instantly made the proposal that we should mix ourselves together in a Ring, and that she beginning to count from herself, the seventh, was to be content with the following seventh, whether it were a Virgin, or man; for our parts we were not aware of any craft, and therefore permitted it so to be; but when we thought we had very well mingled ourselves, the Virgins nevertheless were so subtle, that each one knew her station before-hand: The Virgin began to reckon, the seventh next her was again a Virgin, the third seventh a Virgin likewise, and this happened so long till (to our amazement) all the Virgins came forth, and none of us was hit; Thus we poor pitiful Wretches remained standing alone, and were moreover forced to suffer our selves to be jeered too, and confess we were very handsomely couzened.”

It is revealed then that the drawing of lots for be partners is a set-up, probably something which the women had pre-arranged in order to mock and humiliate the men, all within the long-term goals of the initiatory ordeal.

The initiate RC says “This indeed to me seemed a bloody Wedding, but because I could not tell what would yet be the event, I was fain for that time to captivate my understanding until I were further resolved.” In effect RC is refusing to make a conscious judgement about what he has seen, so he is entering a kind of hypnotised state where he is no longer capable of making value judgements about reality. This is very interesting and is the key to such rituals. That the person suspends their judgement and allow themselves to be guided. One can imagine what kind of atrocities might be possible by someone who surrenders their will and judgement to whatever occult influence has an interest in guiding it to suit their purposes.

Many of the ancient mysteries of Greece depicted ritualised murders and we can only guess whether actual murders took place or whether they were carefully staged enactments designed to resemble real murders. The Crata Repoa is a Masonic text from the 18th Century which supposedly depicts the mysteries of Ancient Egyptian Masonry but which resembles more a pastiche of haunted house adventures. This Egyptian revival formed part of the so-called Egyptian rite of Freemasonry and Manly P Hall, the celebrated 33 degree Masonic historian apparently chose to lend the Crata Repoa credibility by publishing it in his book Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians.

It is clear that the Crata Repoa is a lot of nonsense but it does reflect both what Freemasons believed might have taken place during Ancient Egyptian initiations and they could have drawn this conclusion by drawing on the broad themes of contemporary Masonic rites and what knowledge and rumour might have reached them about Greek mysteries, much of which has actually made its way into the current sphere of knowledge and is what are known as the great myths. One of the best examples of this is the myth of the Minotaur which in all likelihood, was probably a character in a ritual initiation which was said to be associated with King Minas’ palace of Knosos but may have taken place at the ancient quarries some 20 miles away on the same island of Crete where there was the Labyrinth Cave near Gortyn with a history of human settlement going back 7000 years; many islanders to this day consider the caves to be the labyrinth mentioned in the myth of the Minotaur.

All based on this ancient principle of staging a spectacle in order to invoke or provoke specific thoughts, feelings, and specific changes in mentality of the initiate we have the far more overtly sinister and destructive recent phenomenon of what is known as Trauma Based Mind Control.

As one of the ‘virgins’ tells RC: “this Death shall make many alive.” By which we can infer the meaning to be that the ritual deaths are designed to provoke the mind of the initiates in some way, to make them ‘alive’ that is, mentally transformed.

The following excerpt comes from a former Illuminati trainer known as Svali who was fairly active in conspiracy theory circles and gave several interviews within this community, but lately some of this specific information seems at risk of being lost in light of the wave of mass censorship which risks washing away all truth and ability to identify the evil hidden forces behind the stage of our society:

“I have seen set ups (oh, yes, they set up fake deaths, etc.) where a person was "burned alive" to teach the children not to tell. They are told that this is a traitor who disclosed, and now he is being punished. The person wasn't really a traitor and is in a flame proof vest, but the vision of a person on fire and screaming remains with 3 and 4 year old children for a lifetime. And, when they are adults, even if they DO leave, scenes such as this mean they won't tell many people for fear of being traced and punished.

Because I helped create a lot of set ups as an adult trainer, I became somewhat cynical and have chosen to disclose as a result, although I do fight intense fear even now at times. Try being buried in a wooden box for a period of time (it may have been minutes, but to a four year old it is an eternity), and then when the lid is lifted being told, "if you ever tell, we'll put you back in forever". The child will scream hysterically that they will NEVER EVER tell. I was that child, and now I am breaking that vow made under psychological duress. Because I don't want any other children to go through what I did or have seen done to others.”

https://www.wanttoknow.info/secret_societies/illuminati_bloodlines_svali#8

The crude and terrible purpose behind Satanic rituals fullfils many goals at once. In addition to implicating members in terrible and astonishingly evil crimes which guarantee to estrange them from decent society and bring them deeper into the Satanic fold, the purpose of mental and psychological transformation is rapidly completed. The brain-chemistry transformation which may take years to complete in conventional mystical secret society programmes can be achieved in a matter of days with the right shockingly unpleasant display in which the individual themselves may play a part. It is almost impossible to explain such a transformation to someone who has not experienced it but something like the desperate and profound personal transformation can be glimpsed in Dostoevsky’s great novel Crime and Punishment. It is likely that Dostoevsky himself could write so well about such a profound mental transformation since he himself was placed in an almost initiatory programme within the context of his impending execution for discussing banned books critical of Tsarist Russia, a sentence from which he was reprieved at the 11^th hour.

The Chymical Wedding is assuredly a ‘transformative’ programme and we can observe the various moments of extreme stress and uncertainty the protagonist, a knight of the order of the Golden Stone known as RC, is placed under for prolonged periods, only for a slow reversal of the conditions and instead find himself in a kind of worthy glory, only to have other pressures piled upon him, more uncertainties and even mockery, all of which is designed to make him question himself, place him in personal insecurity and slowly destroy his ego leaving him, somewhat like the alchemical allegory of the Phoenix, ready to be ‘reborn’ into a new reality and fresh identity.

The term ‘wedding’ in the transformative sense of wedding the soul to some kind of higher reality first appears in Plutarch’s essay On the Soul:

“Thus death and initiation closely correspond; even the words (teleutana and teleisthai) correspond, and so do the things.
At first there are wanderings and toilsome running about in circles and journeys through the dark over uncertain roads and culs de sac;
then, just before the end, there are all kinds of terrors,
with shivering, trembling, sweating, and utter amazement.
After this, a strange and wonderful light meets the wanderer;
he is admitted into clean and verdant meadows,
where he discerns gentle voices, and choric dances,
and the majesty of holy sounds and sacred visions.

That the wedding and close union of the soul with the body
is a thing really contrary to nature may clearly be seen from all this.”

So we find passages such as this where RC is placed in uncertainty, discomfort and the feeling of ‘imminent danger’:

“…he bound each of us in a several place, and so went away with our small Tapers, and left us poor Wretches in Darkness. Then first began some to perceive the imminent danger, and I myself could not refrain Tears. For although we were not forbidden to speak, yet anguish and affliction suffered none of us to utter one word. For the Cords were so wonderfully made, yet none could cut them, much less get them off his Feet: yet this comforted me, that still the future gain, of many a one, who had now betaken himself to rest, would prove very little to his satisfaction.”

Or indeed the psychological results of witnessing the ritual beheading of the six kings, which, understandably, prevents him from sleeping:

“.. his intention was to lull me asleep, which at last I well observed, whereupon I made as though I was fast asleep, but no sleep came into my Eyes, and I could not put the Beheaded out of my mind.”

Whether Johann Valentin Andreae wrote The Chymical Wedding is debatable, especially as in his later life Andreas considers alchemy to be a subject of ridicule and astrology not to be serious science, and this does not accord with the Chymical Wedding which is resplendent with opaque and obscure references to astrology and alchemy but then so the Fama Fraternitatis itself is also critical of many aspects of so called alchemy as perhaps a serious scientific community might be who wanted to distance themselves from quacks and charlatans:

“But now concerning, and chiefly in this our age, the ungodly and accursed gold-making, which hath gotten so much the upper hand, whereby under colour of it, many runagates and roguish people do use great villanies and cozen and abuse the credit which is given them; yea, now adays men of discretion do hold the transmutation of metals to be the highest point and fastigium in philosophy.”

It is possible that Andreas wrote the tract as a detail of his experience but again this seems unlikely since the story is written from the perspective of an old man and it would be a stretch for Andreas to reframe what must be a personal narrative in this way.

Alchemy, although more often associated with the search for the Philosopher’s stone and the transmutation of base metal into gold is actually just a previous incarnation of what we call chemistry. The alchemy in the Chymical Wedding, which is wrapped up in allegorical and metaphorical references to the Greek Phoenix, seems to be the description of an authentic scientific experiment with various chemical reactions which at that time were seen as something mystical and the scientific lexicon at that time being lacking, were described in unfamiliar terms which uses the language of metaphor. The experiment described in the tract is carried out with all the gravity of a religious liturgy including music and ‘virgins’ shrouded in white linen.

The nature of the experiment and the accuracy of the narrative cannot be certain, but the facts laid out by the narrator are: that the coffins of the six kings and the black executioner, apparently executed the previous day are brought to a tower containing a series of laboratories at each floor of the tower. That the narrator and his fellows enter a laboratory where they distil the essences from various plants and minerals and put these into glasses, believing that the experiment would be able to restore the bodies to life, meanwhile, the women wash the bodies of the men. RC sees seven flames rolling across the sea, which he believes to be the spirits of the departed men, these flames advance to the top pinnacle of the tower in which the laboratory is located.

The next morning, they awake, having slept on mattresses in the laboratory at the bottom of the tower, there they discuss what might happen next: whether the men would be returned to life, or whether the experiment would produce an elixir which would give longer life to all, or indeed whether the men had really been killed at all and someone had been killed in their place. They then make their way up to the next room in the tower above them which they have to do with the use of a ladder, ropes or wings, where they are greeted by one of the women and the narrator believes a container is brought in which contain the six bodies of the beheaded men.

A round object wrapped in taffeta which is believed to be the head of the moor who executed the six kings, is placed in a kettle and covered it with a lid full of holes.

One of the compounds they had distilled, presumably something strongly caustic is poured into the kettle which is then brought to the boil and from the holes the liquid rises out and reaches the bodies below where it dissolves them into a liquid. A tap at the bottom of the container containing the dissolved bodies was turned and a very red liquid was removed from the casket and filled a large golden globe. Then the casket containing the bodies was taken away and he wondered if anything was left of the bodies and whether it was disposed of, but he noticed that they were markedly lighter but the liquid extracted from the dissolving agents from the bodies was heavier and in large quantity and needed to be borne by six men and it took a lot of effort to move the golden globe outside of the room.

After a moment of rest and conversation they are again instructed to come back up into the room above which for some reason they have to do again with the ladder, ropes and wings, while the virgins and attendants have their own special access which they are not allowed to use.

In this room the narrator now describes the golden globe in the middle of the room along with a series of polished mirrors and windows by which the sun shines onto the mirrors and thus onto the golden globe which created such a dazzle of light and heat that they could not look at it.

After the globe had cooled it was opened and inside was found a snow-white egg. This egg was then taken away. A little while later they were instructed to climb to the next level in the tower through a third hole to the fourth level of the tower, where they found the ‘egg’ being tended and a large copper kettle filled with yellow sand was being warmed over a fire and the egg placed in it.

It is well worth noting that the Red King and White Queen are alchemical terms and the ‘chemical marriage’ is the joining of these two disparate gendered compounds. The Red King is sulphur and the White Queen is mercury. The Moors head, is the third element ‘negrido’

The egg hatches and a hungry bird emerges which they must feed on the blood of the beheaded kings and the ‘bird’ goes through several changes, turning black, then moulting all his ‘feathers’ which were replaced by white ones and the bird grew ‘tamer’ that is possibly, less chemically reactive. He was fed again and his feathers became all coloured. The water was evaporated off until a blue sediment or stone was left which was ground and painted onto the bird. After a break they were let into a fifth room where the bird was put into a milky looking bath and was covered with a fine white powder. The bath was heated slowly and they had to keep the bird from escaping from the hot bath. The bird lost all his feathers to the bath which appeared to be blue of colour.

The bird is a metaphor which represents both a chemical substance but also the alchemist involved in a transformative experience. The first stage observed was the black feathers, which is said by some traditions to represent the first stage of meditation when there is only darkness in the inner world. The next stage is the white bird, or white swan which is said to be the awakening of the etheric body of light. The next stage is the pelican, consciously being able to use the etheric body, followed by the Peacock which represents astral body consciousness and finally the phoenix which is the freeing of the spirit from the bounds of the physical.

Briefly, the alchemical transformation of the initiate is said to be a seven-stage process. The terms used to describe this transformation are also terms widely used in chemistry although a concept such a putrefaction, otherwise known as ‘negrido’ or blackening no longer has any particular scientific relevance, nor do the mediaeval chemical transformations of ‘whitening’ or ‘reddening’.

If we look at the alchemical process psychologically then it is clear we are looking at a transformation of a person’s character, behaviour and general outlook and from analysis the burning, melting and reconstitution terminology used it is clear that a very real ego-death is taking place. The question is how do you kill an ego and what does such a thing really mean or imply? Well, from examining the events of the Chymical Wedding we can see that confusion, foreboding, nervous tension, fear and terror, are all instilled in the….we might call him victim as much as initiate or candidate but I suppose like the term ‘mystae’ since this word represents he who undergoes the mysteries and fundamentally I believe all mysteries have had the same intention throughout the so-called religious cults of the ancient world, I say ‘so called’ because the beliefs of the Ancients cannot really be indulged with the term religion since its priests were knowingly using their secret knowledge of science to deliberately trick and mislead what we might call their flock of initiates. We have often heard how the priesthood exerted great power during the various periods of the roughly three-thousand-year period of generally acknowledged Ancient Egyptian history. Power is attained generally through knowledge though violence is another method though generally a much less reliable one, and even if violence is part of the acquisition of power, which in the case of the Arab conquests of the 7th Century, the acquisition of profound and deep knowledge following the violent conquest guaranteed the supremacy of the Arabs for several hundred years before the rise of the Turks who in their turn conquered through violence then knowledge.

To make things even stranger and more confusing, the experiment and the terminology used in the Chymical Wedding is strongly suggestive of the experiment described in the 16th Century alchemical treatise The Rosarium Philosophorum. The Name Rosarium or Rosary does not refer to the Catholic Rosary beads but to a ‘rose garden’ as a metaphor for wise-sayings but just as likely the Rosarium evokes the Rosicrucians since it is so close in its content to the Chymical Wedding.

The text is strongly suggestive of some kind of chemical experiment but with the suggestion of some kind of spiritual subtext, many commentators despair of making sense of the text and instead pay more attention to the series of twenty fascinating and strange woodcuts which accompanied the  appearance of the text in 1550.

Some of the images are said to have antecedents in other alchemical work in particular the German Book of the Holy Trinity produced in the early 15th Century by a German Franciscian monk. The book gives a specifically Christian treatment to what was considered occult and impious magic and the specific Christian context of this, and of the Chymical Wedding provided a broad acceptance in society of what had hitherto been treat with suspicion by the church authorities.

Adam Mclean with his well-regarded analysis of the woodcuts writes of the work:

“In that it sought to unite these two alchemical realms, the Rosarium set a style for alchemical literature of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, in which the physical process became a mirror for soul development, and the inner content of soul experiences became projected upon outer processes in the laboratory or the natural world.”

And this really is the accepted understanding of the significance of alchemical treatises, that they ostensibly describe a scientific process using contemporaneous scientific terms which also serve to simultaneously and obliquely describe spiritual, psychological and bio-chemical changes and transformations.

This may seem alien to us, this fusion of science and religion into an indivisible mass from which it is impossible to discern the glittering of spiritual truths from the solid lumps of science but as we have already discussed, in the ancient world science and religion were one and the same, because science was a jealously guarded secret and its mysteries were key tools for the priestly class to bamboozle, astound and enrapture their initiates.

The stages of the alchemical process of personal transformation are at the most basic, as follows: the first stage is calcination which is to subject something to extreme heat, so if we were to imagine how this metaphor might materialise within the context of some kind of initiatory mind-control programme then we would subject our mystae to extreme stresses and various other kind of pressures, in order to see which parts of him glow under the heat and which elements diminish and are burned off, figuratively speaking.

 

 

After this there is the sublimation or dissolution stage which is the chemical process by which a solid turns directly into a gas without passing through a liquid state. As this suggests, the calcination or burning causes extreme energetic changes in the person and they are entering a different stage of consciousness, one previously not experienced except during peak or extreme situations.

This is what is referred to by the bird losing its black feathers in the heat and turning to white as it is depicted in the Chymical Wedding. In the woodcuts which accompanied The Rosarium Philosophorum this stage is shown by the King and Queen sitting in a bath together, it is also represented by winged serpents and dark dragons. 

 

 Another image which appears in the Rosarium Philisophorum is that of a (green) lion eating the sun. In parallel to the actual chemical experiments carried out by the alchemists the sun represents gold which could be dissolved by sulphuric acid, represented by the (green) Lion.

 

 

The Green Lion is the purified Vitriol, possibly hydrated iron sulphate or the aqua regia acid that can dissolve even the noble metal gold. In one of the woodcuts, we see the Green Lion devouring the Sun and releasing red blood, the ‘blood’ represents the red philosopher’s stone being released from the reaction between aqua regia.

The next stage is separation and we can see that following the laboratory metaphor, impure elements are burned off or fused components separate into their respective elements. So, under the influence of what we can consider heat or agitation, the psyche in a sense, sees itself clearly for the first time. From this operation the ‘quintessence’ or ‘fifth element’ emerges, the hidden secret powerful depths of the mind and spirit.

The winged figure in the woodcut represents the integration of the psyche with all the impurities having been burned off.

Something which historically had been described as ‘the air of God’ and even finer than light. Perhaps this is the stuff of the electromagnetic soul itself, or perhaps the soul is beyond even electromagnetism, the most powerful and fundamental force in the universe.

The next stage, Conjunction, this is the part referred to as the marriage of the sun and moon. It is a unification of the forces of the spirit, or quintessence with the material forces. This is symbolised by the woodcut of the king and queen in sexual congress.

Fermentation, also known as putrefaction is where the spirit trapped in the body sees the Earth around as something dead and that real life is beyond. The feeling of timelessness is often a symptom reported by those undergoing psychosis: they feel time is frozen or has vanished altogether and that what they are really experiencing is the frozen nature of our reality while their mind has been set to a different time-zone, namely of the eternity of the spirit. The pure quintessence from the previous alchemical stage has now realised it is here trapped on Earth, and though it has wings it cannot fly, please excuse the flowery metaphor but these are precisely the images which have been evoked and used to describe this particular stage in the ongoing mental process. This is followed by distillation or purification.  

 

This alchemical process, can be applied to both the distillation and purification of a chemical substances like strong mineral acids from natural compounds, such as the elaborate distillation of sulphuric acid or what was known as oil of vitriol. Vitriol was so called because in nature it resembled glassy crystals usually found with gravel in mines where groundwater had drawn off iron-sulphate deposits. It was necessary to first calcify or burn the substance into ash, then dissolve or leech out the various compounds into water, then fermentation or putrefaction would have been the first stage of distillation which tended to create a highly malodorous substance as the organic compounds present in the sulphur for instance, would give the well-known smell of rotten eggs, which upon separation of the organic elements and distillation would produce the pure substance which could then be coagulated into a powder or ‘stone’ as it was then known. So, this alchemical process was basically a process of taking a natural impure compound, and through various treatments extracting the desired pure and rarefied compound, whether that be an acid, gas or crystal.

 

In the early 17th Century work The Azoth of the Philosophers we find what was later to become a Freemasonic moto which is often found inside the Masonic Chamber of Reflection, a small sombre room adjoining the main hall where the candidate awaiting initiation is placed. Along with the acronym there are several objects or representations of objects alluding to alchemical themes: “visita interiora terrae, rectificando que, invenies occultum lapidem which means ‘visit the interior of the Earth, rectify yourself and you will find the hidden stone’ which in turn is a metaphor for some kind of inner alchemical transformation and spiritual realignment which will reveal the secret substance of the soul.

Things however do not quite seem to go well in the end for our RC, or at least that is how it is made to appear, it is likely that events unfolded precisely as they were planned. Despite the feeling of ultimately being honoured with celestial visions and the great pomp and ceremony of the King and Queen and the untold number of finely attired ‘virgins’ RC commits, or rather is induced to commit an act reprehensible in the eyes of the King. He sees Venus naked:

"Here (said he) if you please, we may go further down"; "I still follow you" (replied I) so I went down the steps, where it was exceeding dark, but the Page immediately opened a little Chest, wherein stood a small ever-burning Taper, at which he Kindled one of the many Torches which lay by. I was mightily terrified, and seriously asked how he durst do this? He gave me for answer. As long as the Royal Persons are still at rest, I have nothing to fear. Herewith I espied a rich Bed ready-made, hung about with curious Curtains, one of which he drew, where I saw the Lady Venus stark-naked for he heaved up the Coverlets too) lying there in such Beauty, and a fashion so surprizing, that I was almost beside myself, neither do I yet know whether it was a piece thus Carved, or an humane Corps that lay dead there; For she was altogether immoveable, and yet I durst not touch her. So she was again covered, and the Curtain drawn before her, yet she was still (as it were) in my Eye.”

Throughout the 18^th Century Isis veiled was a metaphor for modern science and unveiling Isis was a metaphor for making scientific discoveries. So here with the discoveries in chemistry of the alchemists the analogy of seeing Venus naked would be another allusion which only the initiate would understand the deeper meaning of.

 

Despite his page deliberately leading him to the chamber and even lifting up the covers so that he might specifically see Venus naked, he admits to his fault and as a punishment is told that he must take the place of the gate-porter. Indeed, the previous porter whom RC replaces is described:

“Now in the first place I asked the King what the condition of this porter was. He friendlily answered me, that he was a very famous and rare astrologer, and always in high regard with the Lord his Father, but having once committed a fault against Venus, and seen her in her bed of rest, this punishment was therefore imposed upon him, that he should wait at the first gate for so long until someone should release him from it. I replied, ‘May he then be released?’ ‘Yes,’ said the King, ‘if anyone can be found that has transgressed as highly as himself, he must take his place, and the other shall be free.’ This went to my heart, for my conscience convinced me that I was the offender, yet I kept quiet, and herewith delivered the supplication.”

We can infer that there is a feeling that after experiencing the unique initiation into the mysteries and to have the whole court apparently at your service in furthering your wisdom and spiritual knowledge you must again, take your place in the mundane world, now serving the order in a mundane fashion bereft and even excluded from the palace for ever more and only serving to allow entry to the next initiates into the mysteries:

“After me the rest were called for too, and came jocundly out again, which pained me still more, for I imagined nothing other than that I must finish my life under the gate. I also had many pensive thoughts running up and down in my head, what I should do, and how to spend the time. At length I considered that I was now old, and according to the course of nature, had few years more to live. And that this anguished and melancholy life would quickly send me from this world, and then my door-keeping would be at an end, and by a most happy sleep I might quickly bring myself to the grave. I had many of these thoughts. Sometimes it vexed me that I had seen such gallant things, and must be robbed of them.”

So the story ends on a strangely glum note, and perhaps the feelings evoked at the end by RC reflect the feeling the Illuminated consciousness might experience, to know that there is indeed a spiritual world waiting for him, but first he must live through the rest of his life in the material world, metaphorically 'door keeping' as he waits for his life to end until his soul can be free once again.