Here again I am tempted to cry woe upon these foolish doctors whose consciences are seared with a hot iron, who do not care in the least for their patients, and will be called to a terrible account for their criminal folly on the day of judgment. Then they will behold Him whom they have pierced by neglecting their neighbour's welfare, while pocketing his money, and will see at last that they ought to have laboured night and day, in order to acquire greater skill in the healing of disease. Instead of this they complacently go on trusting to chance, prescribing the first medicine they happen to find in their books, and leaving the patient and the disease to fight it out as best they can. They do not even trouble to enquire in what way the medicines they prescribe are prepared. Their laboratory, their furnace, their drugs are at the Apothecary's, to whom they rarely or never go. They inscribe upon a sheet of paper, under the magic word "Recipe," the names of certain medicines, whereupon the Apothecary's assistant takes his mortar and pounds out of the wretched patient whatever health may still be left in him.
Change these evil times, oh. God! Cut down these trees, lest they grow up to the sky! Overthrow these overweening giants, lest they pile mountain upon mountain and attempt to storm heaven! Protect the conscientious few who quietly strive to discover the mysteries of Thy creation!
It continues...
"I will ask all my brothers in our Monastery to unite with me in earnest prayer, by day and by night, that God may enlighten the ignorance of these pseudo-doctors, that they may understand the virtues which he has implanted in created things, and may learn also that they can become manifest and operative only by means of that preparation which removes all harmful and poisonous impurities. I trust that God will answer our prayer, and that some of my brothers at least will survive to witness the blessed change which shall then take place on earth, when the thick veil of ignorance shall have been removed from the eyes of our opponents, and their minds shall have been enlightened to find the lost piece of silver. May God, who overrules the destinies of men, in His goodness and mercy bring about this consummation."
And an even bigger wow! Thanks for posting that!
Gregor Mendel was a monk too, the guy who basically was the discoverer of genetics - trait inheritances.
A bit of peace and quiet to read books and think things through, and you can figure stuff out... What does that imply about the horrible and relentless over-stimulation of smart phones and social media of today?
Some times, less is more.
For Mendel, I think is was more, peas and quiet...
Sorry
Are you kidding me? That was awesome! Lettuce applaud such a valiant effort, in these grim days a bit of unexpected humor just cant be beet.
Bee-autifully put impera!!
Most times, less is everything. Great comment.
And in the Middle Ages, if a woman was good at natural cures, herbalism etc they were burned as “witches”. The left would burn all Truthers and Christians today if given the chance. They hate those who “think for themselves”, and those who worship the one True God.
Now we know the reason why people was hunting "witches". I guess people that were led astray by the satanic pedophile Vatican and others were killing all of the herbalist healers of Europe. They needed their lies to work on the common peasant, can't have people cured. Castlevania is a good series which did highlight this "problem".
It takes but a single wisp of poison to profane the whole body.
Most organizations consist of relatively good people who simply do as they are instructed, hoping the ends will justify the means, as they were told from those who garnered their trust.
The ones who obscure the means are the venom of the serpent, slithering its way between the cracks of the stones of the Church looking for moments to strike at the heels who enter. By hiding the means, they seek to delay the ends.
With antidote in hand, we may excise the venom but it is to the Lord who will smite the serpent once and for all. Until then, sit content that the head of the serpent was thoroughly bruised when a little girl accepted to be His handmaid not so long ago.
The harvest closes, and the radiance of the Phoenix can be seen on the back wall of the cave, ready to snuff out the shadows.
Sorry, I just feel a little poetic today, I guess...
No apology needed. Beautiful.
Beautiful thoughts here by our wonderful anon family. 🤗
Thanks for sharing u/sleepydude!
You are dead-on 🎯
That's more of a counter reformation thing than middle ages. Middle ages were super libertarian and the church was generslly passed faire about peasant traditions
The entire medical community lost me at Covid, and nailed their coffin shut with Ivermectin.
Same.
I could, PERHAPS, excuse doctors who deferred to so-called "experts" when it came to covid first being announced. But after a few months, it became clear that the number of honest doctors were vanishingly few. The rest were in it for a paycheck or worse.
The ivermectin thing proves that modern medicine is not for the benefit of man. Quite the contrary! I will never consult an MD for my own health the rest of my life.
Wow! If written in today's English, it would be spot on for what is going on today! Pretty amazing that the medical field was suspect even that many centuries ago.
Not really odd at all. Doctors have always been suspected. In fact, there are many examples of kings who consulted doctors for whatever ailment they had and executed the guy for not curing them fast enough, whether the disease was curable or not. If you read old medical literature, they typically referenced Galen's four humors or what was effectively folk medicine. Homeopathy today is absolutely no better today. They offer "treatments" of things which are said to have similar characteristics to the thing they're alleged to treat. Frankly, I think a lot of what they did was entirely based on chance, and we didn't honestly see much of any improvement until the "Age of reason" and the advent of the scientific method.
What's going on today is a far cry from the medieval medicine of this monk's era. Most of that was born out of ignorance. I think much of what we see today is born out of patient's own laziness. They refuse to do the work of healthy living: diet, exercise, sleep properly, manage your stress, get appropriate sunlight and vitamin D. We sit all day. We snack all day. We eat garbage and far too much of it. And then we get all of these chronic diseases of an unhealthy lifestyle, and the doctor tells the patient they need to live healthier, but knowing they won't change because change is hard, he gives them a pill to take every day for the rest of his natural life. And our apothecary, Big Pharma, loves it because that means an endless revenue stream. So we get blood pressure pills, and statins, and diabetes medicines, and all this other stuff that doesn't actually cure the disease (because the cure is a healthy lifestyle), but which we take to try and delay the inevitable heart attack or stroke.
It's not every disease of course. Antibiotics are highly effective for curing bacterial infections for example, so we need to be nuanced in this discussion, but yeah, the industry responds to stimuli, but we have a lot of people making livings off of the $3.3T we spend every year on healthcare and it creates perverse incentives.
My wife goes to a "health care" professional who dabbles with homeopathy. The notion that the more dilute the "medicine" is, the stronger it is, is so ridiculous! I told my wife to just drink a drop of tap water every day, because it is essentially the most dilute medicine you could take, since there is probably a few atoms of every non-radioactive element in each drop :) (my wife wasn't too happy for me to call out the homeopathic nonsense :) ) I have been saying for years that medical doctors can't cure ANY disease, they only treat diseases (and infections aren't diseases). Medical doctors are trade-school graduates, who have been put on a largely un-deserved pedestal by society, and seem to have arrogance drilled into them by the medical schools.
The English here is surely a translation of the original Latin or German.
Side note: Basil Valentine wrote 'The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony' and is considered an excellent source for alchemical works.
It might have been 'Triumphant' my memory isn't too good :)
I'm reading alchemy manuals, and I found his quote in one.
The stuff I'm into, if true, and if it applies to the children and the Great Awakening...
Man, I thought with all I knew I was prepared for the Truth to come out, for the full declass. Yeah, no, I wasn't ready. I actually think I know now why it's taking so long. For the ones who really know what's been going on, I can't see how they can sleep at night -- knowing so much yet with so few honest and good with whom to converse.
You can't just learn this stuff by reading. You have to LIVE it. Those who know will understand.
It's so crazy, so fantastical, that I could straight up tell you and you'd just ignore me, as if I weren't even there and what I was saying didn't even reach your ears. It's to the degree where I almost wish I didn't know it, and if it weren't for several miracles which have occurred in my life with such surgical precision in how they relate to what I am reading today, I wouldn't.
Which means, either I'm on the right path or I sailed right past insane at least two years ago and didn't know it.
Kek 🤣😂 you can tell you are not insane if you can hold the possibility you could be insane.
Insane people only think other people are insane. See libs
I hope that holds true.
I mean, I can only conclude it is divine providence rather than insanity.
Something as benign as me remembering in very specific detail from a video I watched 4+ years ago that you can hammer pure iron by turning it over an anvil as you strike it until red-hot without it ever touching fire.
Little things, all added up one at a time, and whooosh -- off to wonderland.
How dare you open with the claim of such wondrous knowledge, and fail to reveal it.
Those Saints who "suffered" from the stigmata, the signs of the crucifixion, are said at times to smell of the most pungent, floral yet oddly oily odour. Pleasing to the senses, of no specific origin, and reminds one of taking in the air at the start of spring, or perhaps the start of harvest.
The same odour is also said to emit during the final stages of procuring the stone.
Pray on the matter, and only one conclusion will be found. If I told you any more than this, your mind will deceive you in an effort to explain such wonders and the Truth may be lost forever.
If you don't wish to seek the stone through alchemy, just attend Mass. The Truth of the stone is there every time, when faithfully reenacted.
Ohhh, so you're just saying that you're a totally noble and pure hearted super genius, super serious if I tell you though your vile and profane normal people brain will go into shock and you'll get more stupid, awe too bad.
Seems legit, where do I send the money?
Nope. I'm just as corrupt as you are. I'm no more intelligent than the next man. Intelligence means nothing if you don't act.
I'm just taking more of my time trying to learn just how corrupt I am so that I may correct those faults rather than lambasting others for efforts they've taken to share what they've learned.
It isn't that you (or anyone else for that matter) don't have the capacity to understand what I tell you; intelligence is not a prerequisite for learning the Truth.
It's that you don't want to.
I know this, because it is clear to me now that I didn't want to either. You are my equal in every way but time.
To show my good faith, I will send you a PM of the document I've very recently read that really shook me and confirmed all I had suspected. But, like I've said, only LIVED experiences can reveal the Truth to you. If you walk away after reading it in full and say "so what?" then the damage is done and the Truth may be lost to you.
There are metaphors and analogies in all these manuals that are far more worthy of praise than the chemical recipes. They can only be revealed through God and the miracles that happen each and every day in our own lives. We ignore so many of these miracles on a daily basis, and only until you apply them to the writings of the alchemists will you realize they all compound on one another.
Think of every memory you have; even the random ones you still have no clue as to why you remember the event or fun-fact. They are a roadmap to the Truth, emblazoned on your mind, scorched there by God as he had done with the Tablets on Mount Sinai. You have ALL the necessary tools to find the Truth, and what's more, you already have it, you just don't know it yet.
Once you recognize it for what it is; once you dispel it's benign and lackluster appearance, you can finally cherish it for what it is.
P.S. And no, it isn't "The real treasure was the friends we made along the way" or any other silly platitude, as true they may be in a vacuum. It's real, "physical", and in every breath you take. Nothing else in this world is taken for granted more than the Truth.
Love you, fren!
I believe I am patient and methodical enough to not dismiss offhand whatever it is you've read, and would like a PM as well, if you'd be so kind?
Symbolism and metaphor is somewhat of a lost art in our time. Much has been revealed to me since I've begun learning how to decrypt the incredibly dense information handed down to us from the past.
You speak the truth. People should really read and try to understand what you’re saying.
We would have some really interesting conversations. You feel insane because you see it and they can’t, and wonder why that is. I know because I’m right there with you. Even most of the people on GAW are asleep, and after reading your ‘poem’ - I know that you know what I mean. They have no idea how amazing and truly magical things could be. Do you?
Amen
Nothing new under the sun.
The prose is spectacular. Reading it as an impassioned speech from a desperate man, in Shakespearean tempo, it quickens and swells magnificently. A beautiful lament with new meaning today. Really amazing.
Can you imagine what this Monk thought of lawyers?
You win best comment of the day.
Amen.
Basil Valentine was WAY more than just a chemist. He found the Holy Grail.
Amazing! Thank you!
Thank you.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Amen....also kind of sad nothing has changed. I suppose it’s not the masses that are to change it’s our individual souls
Wow.... centuries ago... thanks for sharing this. Best thing I’ve seen all year.
link it
https://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/arr/arr07.htm
Excellent!! Great find - I will be using this in my declination statement for the Catholic Medical system I work for.