Yesterday's Post:

https://greatawakening.win/p/16ZqYwVVJx/proof-that-doctors-pushing-medic/c/

Here's the thing about Basil Valentine; he was an Alchemist.

Now, if you've seen some of my ramblings here in the past, you'll know I'm big into the alchemy shtick as of late. But, what does Alchemy really mean?

What do Alchemists believe in? Brewing potions? Crafting a Panacea(the cure-all)? Or some magic/anime stuff like in Full Metal Alchemist?

What did they actually believe in? Why the obfuscation and double-meanings? Why all the occult nonsense?

Tons of questions, and while I have serviceable answers, I wanna just focus in on WHAT Alchemy is at the root; what is the virtue of Alchemical principles.

Well, I sort of just pointed it out there...

Alchemy is, ultimately, the Science of Discernment. An attempt to utilize Discernment and apply it to the Natural World to relieve the toil of Man.

DISCERNMENT, noun The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment

What does that mean in application? What can YOU get out of these ideals? Any field of science, after all, has to have some practical use. The pursuit of useless knowledge is nothing more than folly.

Alchemy is Christian in Nature

Let me make it really simple.

Alchemy is the art of purification. A cleaning. A distillation. An extraction of inner virtue.

When you must clean a tool, you must first deconstruct the tool into it's components, clean each individually, and then reassemble them.

Of course, the more astute of you will have realized the exact process described is none other than the process of Christian Resurrection. Alchemists, by necessity, must adhere to the principles of a Christian world-view. Perfection, the ultimate purity, cannot be accepted unless you too accept that Man can be perfect, and summarily the proof of a Perfect Man is none other than Christ Jesus.

In that hope alone, I pray, might we all have an unwavering faith...

In particular, Jesus is the Unblemished Lamb and the One Without Sin. He is the tool of God which is taken in for maintenance only to find that his blade his honed sharper than any other, there is not a single stain upon his body, and he has performed the craft for which he was designed to the Master's expectations. Exceeding them, even. Jesus is the tool which has no need of maintenance; no need for fine tuning; and is minted perfect by the die as soon as it comes off the virgin press.

Christ, Jesus is the dream and hope of the Master Craftsman -- to nail the Magnum Opus, one's Great Work, in one attempt and sit there in reverence at the perfection wrought by one's own hand, after years of careful study and dedication. Jesus is the work of God by which He is MOST pleased; with no fault nor want from the Master's mind. Christ Jesus is just as he had envisioned in his mind before even the day of Creation was at hand.

How many plans have you set in the past had oft gone awry, such as among mice and men? I'd wager it's the norm.

How often has your plan come to fruition perfectly as you intended? I'd wager it's a rarity.

When Q says to "trust the plan" it should be obvious to which plan he is referring...

Alchemy in Practice

Once you accept there is a Perfect form for any thing, as proven by the extracted virtues therein, you need only work to isolate those virtues for practical use.

Again, let's simplify that.

A log is a log until it is a board. A board is a virtue of a log. A finely hewn board is the fulfillment of a virgin log -- and the materia by which other Great Works may be accomplished.

Therefore, in order to extract the virtue which is the board from the log, one must deconstruct the log. This requires some knowledge of the log. A gnosis, a knowing, of how a log is constructed at a primal level. To know and realize the full life of the tree; whence the log came from, how it grew, how it lived, how it died, and how its grain supposes a legacy which it now bears out before you... An appreciation is required to understand just how to carve a dead log into something that may yet again live to fulfill a greater purpose. Which is to say... hate cannot lend itself to Creation... Only true Love may do that.

Perhaps it gains new life as a table or chair? Maybe a mallet, such that it may serve the Craftsman in future tasks?

Deconstruction, Purification, Reconstruction.

Death, Purgatory, Resurrection.

Jesus, being a carpenter, was firmly aware of this connection to Nature and how that connection is a tether to the mind and glory of the Father. God intends for us to adhere to this template in order to follow in his footsteps, as a Craftsmen.

As a Creator.

In any pursuit, one must only follow that template to find success. In revering God and his Creation, you may emulate him in his glory. To take something from a lesser state and bring it into greater heights is the act of Ascension.

What else did Jesus do for His People other than lift them up? He took valleys that were low and raised them. He took high mountains and leveled them. All this, so that we may rise out of the pit of despair as He brings the impossibilities that rest at the greatest heights to within our reach.

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Should you want a table, then you must fell the tree, hew it into stock material, and then take that material and breathe new life into it by the labor of your hands.

If you want to craft a noble brew, you must extract from an herb its essence. First you grind the herb, purify it by separating the virtues from the waste by distillation, and finally collect it in a vessel and put it to good use.

Should you seek to learn a craft, such as drawing, one must deconstruct the shape of a thing, hone and purify your perception of how light hits it in its baser forms, and then assemble before you on the paper a copy of the principle components.

For anything you create or maintain, you must deconstruct, purify, then assemble, in that order. Deviation from this model leads only to ruin. Fulfillment of this model leads to the gentle embrace of God and Eternal Life.

Applying Alchemical Principles to Daily Life

The distillation of virtues in a thing is the goal of an Alchemist. In any subject there are virtues which Man may seek to extract and put to good use.

https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/virtue

VIRTUE, noun vur'tu. [Latin virtus, from vireo, or its root. See Worth.] The radical sense is strength, from straining, stretching, extending. This is the primary sense of Latin vir, a man.]

1. Strength; that substance or quality of physical bodies, by which they act and produce effects on other bodies.

What are the virtues of a dog? What are the virtues of a cloud? What are the virtues of a hammer?

What makes each of them useful?

To be able to discern such things, and the loving practice of discernment, is the lifeblood of the Alchemist. To see things as more than the sum of their parts; to see things for what they could be, not as they are; to see perfection in all things by the sake of their hidden virtues; to therefore see God in all things, especially your fellow man -- that's what it means to be an Alchemist.

Brewing potions is just a bonus perk.

Finding symbolism in nature is merely a tool by which we may discern. It's a shorthand of God which clues us in and acts as the Master's light nudge towards the right direction, such that we might not fumble aimlessly in the darkness of trial and error. The dynamics and relationships in nature are our instruction manual on how to act.

A set of sharp teeth lend themselves to the carving of flesh. Therefore, a saw set with sharpened teeth, too, lends itself to the carving of the tree's flesh.

Such is the honest interpretation of the mantra: "As above, so below."

In small things, so too in the greater.

In Nature, so too in the pursuits of Man.

Patterns begging to be recognized. The Word of God written in the fabric of reality.

So, if you ever get stumped and wonder why something exists, slow down and look for the virtues of the thing. Nothing God put on this Earth is without its virtues. Should we focus only on the waste, we would fall into a great depression.

The Fire of an Alchemist is the fiery Passion which is the pursuit of Knowledge. Gold is the accumulation of that Knowledge, and the application therein. Christ is the state of peace one acquires after a hard day's work upon which the Master sits in his freshly crafted throne and says with great satisfaction:

"With this, I am well pleased..."