ATDTDA (3) Alchemy 76-80

[Glenn Scheper]

That alchemy (also translated as "al-chem", "from Egypt", the "black" land)
was rooted in Ancient Egyptian magical practices should not surprise us.
  -- http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/emerald.htm

More of it:

Tabula Smaragdina the Emerald Table the "emerald" of the philosophers

In the Tabula, the elements are used to describe the process which allows one to 
operate the miracles of the One Entity. As everything is a transformation of 
this One, the spiritual process is described in terms of physical realities, 
which is the method of alchemy. Indeed, the transformation of lead (Saturn, 
Earth) into gold (Sun, Fire) is not to be understood as the making of gold out 
of the gross "prima materia" represented by coarse lead. Physical realities are 
used as physical means to append or affix processes of a psychological & 
spiritual nature. The alchemist is thus somebody who performs the miracles of 
the One Entity in his or hers own consciousness, but who describes this process 
in terms derived from chemical events. Indeed, as the miracles are at work 
everywhere, why not standardize certain physical things (like metals) and their 
co-relative events (purification, mortification, evaporation etc.) to create 
what seems the language of a physical science, but which actually is a means to 
describe (in physical terms) what happens in the subtle, psycho-spiritual 
(inner) world of the alchemist. That alchemy (also translated as "al-chem", 
"from Egypt", the "black" land) was rooted in Ancient Egyptian magical practices 
should not surprise us. In the "Ritual of Opening the Mouth" (used in the Old 
Kingdom and later to give live to the mummy), the Egyptian priests infused life 
in a cult statue. Here we see the principle described in the Tabula at work : a 
physical object (of clay, wood or stone), representing a natural law (a deity), 
is given "life" by associating it with a complex set of mythical, pre-rational 
and proto-rational patterns of thought, emotion and actions. Object (the 
physicality of the statue) and subject (its meaning for those who worship it) 
are fused. Complex incantations and rituals guaranteed that the physical statue 
triggered a co-relative spiritual state of consciousness. Once done, the "ka" 
(double) or "ba" (soul) of the deity in question could come down from the sky to 
dwell in the statue and assist those who offered to it.
  -- http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/emerald.htm

The last phase of the operation of the Sun touches upon the direct experience of 
the Divine, i.e. mysticism. The directness of this experiences implies that it 
is not mediated. No images or symbols of external things are used. The "stone of 
the philosophers" is not a stone. It is nothing as "all possibility", i.e. the 
unlimited set of all virtualities. This is called "a stone", because this 
ultimate consciousness is stable, unborn and unchanging as such. One enters it 
as it enters in one. Once there (which is nowhere) it is never left. Hence, no 
special care to maintain this station is necessary.
  -- http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/emerald.htm


It should be remarked that apparantly the Greeks and Egyptians used the 
term translated as `emerald' for emeralds, green granites, "and perhaps green 
jasper". In medieval times the emerald table of the Gothic kings of Spain, and 
the Sacro catino- a dish said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba, to have 
been used at the last supper, and to be made of emerald, were made of green 
glass [Steele and Singer: 488]. Translations From Jabir ibn Hayyan. 0) Balinas 
mentions the engraving on the table in the hand of Hermes, which says: 1) Truth! 
Certainty! That in which there is no doubt! 2) That which is above is from that 
which is below, and that which is below is from that which is above, working the 
miracles of one. 3) As all things were from one. 4) Its father is the Sun and 
its mother the Moon. 5) The Earth carried it in her belly, and the Wind 
nourished it in her belly, 7) as Earth which shall become Fire. 7a) Feed the 
Earth from that which is subtle, with the greatest power. 8) It ascends from the 
earth to the heaven and becomes ruler over that which is above and that which is 
below. 14) And I have already explained the meaning of the whole of this in two 
of these books of mine.
  -- http://www.levity.com/alchemy/emerald.html

Newton "Inferior and superior, fixed and volatile, sulphur and quicksilver have 
a similar nature and are one thing, like man and wife. For they differ from one 
another only by degree of digestion and maturity. Sulphur is mature quicksilver, 
and quicksilver is immature sulphur: and on account of this affinity they unite 
like male and female, and they act on each other, and through that action they 
are mutually transmuted into each other and procreate a more noble offspring to 
accomplish the miracles of this one thing". "And just as all things were created 
from one Chaos by the design of one God, so in our art all things... are born 
from this one thing which is our Chaos, by the design of the Artificer and the 
skilful adaptation of things. And the generation of this is similar to the 
human, truly from a father and mother".
  -- http://www.levity.com/alchemy/emerald.html

Burckhardt: "Alchemical fixation is nevertheless more inward... Through its 
union with the spirit bodily consciousness itself becomes a fine and penetrating 
power". He quotes Jabir "The body becomes a spirit, and takes on... fineness, 
lightness, extensibility, coloration... The spirit... becomes a body and aquires 
the latter's resistance to fire, immobility and duration. From both bodies a 
light substance is born , which.. precisely takes up a middle position between 
the two extremes". Schumaker: The product of the distillation and reunion will 
"dominate less solid substances, but because of its own subtlety it will 
'penetrate' and hence dominate, other solid things less pure and quasi-spiritual 
than itself".
  -- http://www.levity.com/alchemy/emerald.html

The history of the tablet was further complicated when its alleged author became 
associated with the Corpus Hermeticum in the Middle Ages. The seventeen 
treatises of the Corpus expand on the principles of the Emerald Tablet and 
appear to be records of intimate conversations between Hermes and his disciples. 
For over three centuries, they were thought by the Catholic Church to be very 
ancient and held in the highest esteem. The church fathers believed the Corpus 
Hermeticum lent support to Christian doctrines, and the documents were required 
reading for European scholars.
  -- http://www.alchemylab.com/hyper_history.htm

For instance, their sacred name "Hiram Ibif" refers to the first Hermes (Hermes 
Ibis or Thoth), who, according to Masonic tradition, arrived "in the year of the 
world 2670."
  -- http://www.alchemylab.com/hyper_history.htm

"In the mystic sense," summarized the nineteenth-century French scholar Artaud, 
"Thoth or the Egyptian Hermes was the symbol of the Divine Mind; he was 
incarnated Thought, the Living Word -- the Logos of Plato and the Word of the 
Christians.
  -- http://www.alchemylab.com/hyper_history.htm

Wierder, Atlanean take...
http://www.chapeltibet.cnchost.com/ct/Tablets.html

Less wierd, Atlantean...
http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_tablets14.htm?iam=metaresults&terms=emerald+tablet

...It looks like a series of pages:
http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_tablets10.htm?iam=metaresults&terms=emerald+tablet



Commentaries and/or translations were published by, among others, Trithemius , 
Roger Bacon , Michael Maier , Aleister Crowley , Albertus Magnus , and Isaac 
Newton . C.G. Jung identified "The Emerald Tablet" with a table made of green 
stone which he encountered in the first of a set of his dreams and visions 
beginning at the end of 1912, and climaxing in his writing the Seven Sermons to 
the Dead in 1916. Because of its longstanding popularity, the Emerald Tablet is 
the only piece of non-Greek Hermetica to attract widespread attention in the 
West. The reason that the Emerald Tablet was so valuable is because it contained 
the instructions for the goals of alchemists. It hinted at the recipe for 
alchemical gold, as well as how to set one's level of consciousness to a new 
degree.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

Chapter IV. That the Stone hath Father and Mother, to wit, the Sunne and Moone. 
And as wee see, that one living creature begetteth more living creatures like 
unto it selfe: so artificially golde engendereth golde, by vertue of 
multiplication of the foresaid stone. It followeth therefore, the Sunne is his 
father, that is, Philosophers Gold. And as in everie naturall generation, there 
must be a fit and convenient receptacle, with a certaine consonancie of 
similitude to the father: so likewise in this artificiall generation, it is 
requisite that the Sunne have a fitte and consonaunt receptacle for his seede 
and tincture: and this is Philosophers silver. And therefore it followes, the 
Moone is his mother.
  -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/hortulan.htm





I think I related here how I was on a phone call, and left over above my
computer appeared a hairy ape, masturbating. Now I realize it was Thoth!

I've spent a few evenings hanging out at the local library, perusing the
reference books on ancient religions, and find so many diverse stories
are exact replicas of the personal events in my life. It is clear to me
that the Rangornok, or Gotterdammerung, is the same as the Christian end,
and I think it is very close! I'll soon try to summarize it without raving.

Reading Hortunlanus' Chapters 4 and 5 make it clear to me what is meant
by the Sun, Moon, Wind, and Earth phases: The initial doubling is caused
by virginal, moreso, innocent, nocturnal emission irrigating the navel.
The bearing in Wind is the progression to autofellatio. The nourishment
of the earth (also the Egyptian split of Heaven and Earth following the
prior phase of air and....I'll have to go back to the library) is the
further discovery of male mammary auto-suckling; which also brought on
me the Egyptian birth-like experience, about 1980.

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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