The Laws of Death From Hermes

I. As it is below, so it is above; as on earth, so in the sky.Hermes

II. There are two states of being: one is mortal; the other is immortal

III. That which is mortal is dissolvable, and dissolvable bodies pass away like a midst in the morning.

IV. An immortal body is an essence which is eternal and incorruptible.

V.  But the twain, the mortal and the immortal, cannot exist together forever, but each returneth to the place from whence it came. (more…)

The Heart of Alchemy is Spiritual

“Alchemy has never been about working with metals such as turning real lead into shiny gold. These are allegories and metaphors to Quote - in the beginning was the worddescribe the true human alchemical process which has always been about the spiritual transformation of the soul.

It is the transmutation from lead which would be your body and ego into gold which would represent your soul and spirit. Your higher self.

This is the path. The Great Work in which we Gnostics and philosophers practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality.”  (more…)

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too

“This is why alchemy exists,” the boy said. “So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was Symbols - alchemy is lifein his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

The Greatest Of Mystery Schools

1GR-18-E1-1-1 G.A.Spangenberg,Schule des Aristoteles Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Hauptgebaeude der Universitaet, Treppenhaus. - Die Philosophie: Die Schule des Aristoteles. - Ausschnitt. Fresko, 1883/88, von Gustav Adolph Spangenberg (1828-1891). Aus dem Zyklus 'Die Vier Fakultaeten'. E: G.A.Spangenberg / School of Aristotle Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Main building of the unitersity, staircase. - Philosophy: The School of Aristotle. - Fresco, 1883/88, by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg (1828-1891). Detail. From the cycle 'The Four Faculties'.

By Manly P. Hall – “The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the

opportunity for all learning. It has its grades and its classes, its sciences and its arts, and admission to it is the birthright of man. Its graduates are its teachers, its pupils are all created things.

Its examples are Mature, and its rules are God’s laws. Those who would go into the greater colleges and universities must first, day by day, and year by year, work through the common school of life and present to their new teachers the diplomas they have won, upon which is written the name that none may read save those who have received it.

The hours may be long, and the teachers cruel, but each of us must walk that path, and the only ones ready to go onward are those who have passed through the gateway of experience,

GOD’S GREAT SCHOOL FOR MAN”

By Manly P. Hall ~ Forward to The Initiates of the Flame

The most dangerous form of black magic

By Manly P. Hall – “The most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal black magic
desire. Its less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. (more…)