ANCIENT ALCHEMY

©2013 Dorian Taddei

The term alchemy (from the Arabic Al kepi) is a term that is almost universally misunderstood in modern times. One of the first definitions one sees if searching online is that alchemy was the attempt to make lead into gold. Alchemy is also universally referred to as a primitive form of chemistry. Both of these notions are partially true, but do not begin to explain the try nature of one of the world's oldest sciences.

During the late 1700s the English Parliament passed a law that anyone making alchemical gold would suffer beheading in the Tower of London. They knew that metallic transmutations was possible.They also understood what would happen if large amounts of the precious metal showed up on the open market.

Although there is little doubt that the transmuting properties of the alchemist's 'menstruum' was capable of altering the structure of lead at the nuclear level, and transmuting it to gold, this was not a goal of alchemy, merely a benefit of working with the unusual properties of the quinta essential (QE), or five essentials. These 'essentials' were referring to what we now understand to be five of the possible di-atomic configurations of transitional metals.

From the book titled "The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy," by alchemist Manfred M. Junius (pg. 11), we read the following:

NOTE: Although there is a geometrically different condition found in Iridium, it still qualifies. Please refer to the MOBIUS BAND page for this clarification.

These di-atomic metalloids are not easily divided, their Möbius Bonds (two shared electrons in a single metal-like bond, one electron donated by each atom) are highly stable, and can only (apparently) be broken by conditions of high pressure and high, sustained temperatures. Individually these di-atoms act much like singular noble gas atoms, and do not combine to form other compounds. Additionally, they interfere with other chemical operations, under specific circumstances. It may be these DHARME metalloids that account for unusual conditions such as Va der Waals effects. Hence, we sometimes refer to them as either "metalloids" or "elementals," or simply as di-atoms. However, because di-atom must be hyphenated to differentiate it from the biological diatom (a simple plant), we have begun to refer to these QE using the other two terms: metalloids or elementals.

There is still little solid, scientific evidence about the structure and properties of what we have come to refer to as either elementals or metalloids. However, we do understand the basic 'mechanism of action' of these di-atoms within the body. Our sister company, Spagyric Arts, LLC conducted an on-going multi-year informal study with a group of individuals, to qualify the effects of some of the QE (in Amrita and Azoth elixirs) on human health. The results are discussed in the GREEN DRAGON (WHITE STONE) and RED DRAGON (RED STON) sections of this website.

Recently — since modeling the atomic nature of these di-atoms metalloids more carefully — we have started using the more appealing moniker, also an acronym — DHARME metalloids (or DHARME elementals) — to describe these five essentials. DHARME stands for "diatomic homonuclear, aetherically resonant, metallic elements." This is certainly is a mouthful, but it is also highly descriptive, based on what we do understand about these unusual di-atomic substances.

We include more on these terms and the theories that inspired them, in the Tetraskele Science section titled MÖBIUS BOND. Other names used to describe these unusual metal di-atoms include ORMES, M-STATE and ORMUS. We are, however, the first to model these QE using terms we believe properly qualify them. They cannot be monoatomic, and so the term ORMES (orbitally-rearranged monoatomic elements) is a misleading acronym. Both M-State (Mononatomic-State) metals and ORMUS (which literally has no meaning) should be discarded as misleading and pseudo-scientific. We offer these new acronyms as an alternative.

ALCHEMICAL REVIVAL

We find it quite common to think in terms of life extension in the 21st century. However, our version of life extension is generally linked to human overriding of the immune system, the removal of clusters of cancer cells with steel blades and lasers, and the destruction of infected cells (as well as perfectly healthy cells) using poisons that often inflict more damage than to do good. Alchemy was a method of driving the body’s immune system to do better what it naturally does anyway, under optimized, energetic conditions. Does it seem so far-fetched that the ancients believed that life extension was possible, even if their idea of how this was to be accomplished was different than our own?

As we unveil the ancient approach to healing, it will become apparent that the approach of the ancients was, in many ways, far more sophisticated than our own. Modern allopathic medicine does offer many insights into organic processes that are truly extraordinary, and techniques used in modern medicine would appear magical to the ancients. However, the archaic approach to healing was superior, and certainly wiser in many ways, as will be shown.

Our evidence suggests that alchemy, known as the Great Work, has been around for at least 22,000 years. Certainly this was not in the same form as we know it today, or from the renaissance or medieval periods, but the basics were certainly in place by this time. Although the practice of pulverizing rock, and processing it with heat, acids and bases, extends back well into the Pleistocene, the mineral processing of very hard, high iron silica-based ores — evidenced by cupules ground into extremely hard basalt and metamorphic quartzite, has been found at sites stretching back perhaps as far as 650,000 years — suggests an even more advanced technology existed in the distant epochs preceding the rise of Neanderthal.

In a discovery that one again should make modern scientists doubt their overtly simplistic theories, the discovery of a new human ancestor has complicated issues once again. A recent discovery of a finger bone of an earlier Hominid species — now dubbed Denisovan — at an a Neanderthal site in Southern Siberia, paints an entirely new picture of early human evolution. Darwinian evolutionists still insist on the "out of Africa" version of human history, claiming that early man began in Africa, and spread slowly across the planet. Instead of this scenario, it seem more likely that Africa produced many early hominids from a diverse population of interbreeding groups, and over time various groups gained consciousness. Once they became intelligent, the almost immediately set about to explore the world around them.

DNA was sampled from a 30,000-year-old finger bone found in this cave in Southern Siberia. This finger came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown group of human relatives who may have lived throughout much of Asia during the late Pleistocene epoch. Although the fossil evidence consists of just a bone fragment and one tooth, DNA extracted from the bone has yielded a draft genome sequence, enabling scientists to reach some startling conclusions about this extinct branch of the human family tree, called "Denisovans" after the cave where the fossils were found.

Findings reported in the December 23 issue of Nature, presented by an international team of scientists (including many of the same researchers who had recently published the Neanderthal genome), showed that this young girl was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown group of human relatives who may have lived throughout much of Asia during the late Pleistocene epoch. Dubbed the Denisovan, scientists claim that this newly discovered race of early hominids was descended from the same ancestral population as present-day humans, and appears genetically related (via mtDNA) to the Neanderthal.

FOSSIL FINGER BONE YIELDS GENOME OF A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN HUMAN RELATIVE

“The study also found surprising evidence of Denisovan gene sequences in modern-day Melanesians, suggesting that there was interbreeding between Denisovans and the ancestors of Melanesians, just as Neanderthals appear to have interbred with the ancestors of all modern-day non-Africans.”

One researcher of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, commented that, “the story now gets a bit more complicated . . . Instead of the clean story we used to have of modern humans migrating out of Africa and replacing Neanderthals, we now see these very intertwined story lines with more players and more interactions than we knew of before."

World's oldest "Cup and Groove" petroglyph. Dates between 360,00 and 640,000 years BP. Pradesh, central India

How is is possible that this science of alchemy became lost to the world?

As you, the reader of this seminal work will soon discover, we finally have some definite answers to this ageless mystery concerning the true scientific basis behind ancient alchemy, and the answer is that there is, in fact, truth behind the fables! Now, for the first time in perhaps thousands of years, not only can we once again comprehend the chemical nature of these elixirs of life, but can actually understand the source mineralogy used, the components responsible for the effects within the body, and even the actual mechanisms at work in these legendary substances. The myth has become science!

What history does record has come to be thought of as nothing more than myths, based in ignorance and superstition. However, what has been REdiscovered represents nothing less than an occult rosetta stone. We can now begin to decrypt the ancient esoteric symbols of antiquity, which provides entirely novel insights into the Art of Alchemy, and which sheds a new light on the very ontological veracity of his ancient world view.

WATER — A NEW FRONTIER

Recent scientific studies focused on the properties of water, have revealed a new paradigm in the sciences. It is now understood that pure H₂O literally stores vibrational patterns. Not unlike radio signals — which through variances in amplitude and/or frequency can be encoded with intelligence — H₂O can encode what the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Luc Montagnier calls "signals." Water's unique, superconducting, dynamic structure retains — dynamically — three-dimensional, geometrical information. However, water has the potential to retain information of far more complexity than radio signals. Additionally, this intelligence that is also energetic, means that properly hydro-encoded information can (and does) do work as well.

Within the pages of this site (and related sites: www.SpagyricArts.com and www.HiddenInLight.com) we explore a radically new (actually incredibly old!) series of theories of the nature to the cosmology, biology, consciousness and spirituality. We hold that only a single, correct understanding of the underlying structure and forces of this universe (its cosmology) can explain all we see and experience, both physically (indirect experience) and spiritually/intuitively (aetherically). The search for this single unifying cosmological theory was once the pursuit of Classical Physics. It has been called a TOE (Theory of Everything), or GUT (Grand Unified Theory).

We hold that modern science has completely lost its way. Awash in a sea of contradictions, mathematical metaphors and inductive logic, 21st century science is groping its way through a darkened maze, unable to find its way out. Instead, we propose that the truth is a labyrinth, which — unlike a maze — has only one way in and out. As we search for the meaning of life, we become as one with the ancient labyrinth dancer, and become one in our comprehension of the unity of all energy and matter in this aetheric cosmology. One whose third or Greater Eye has been opened, sees the universe for what it is, the projection of a single vast intelligence that Hermetists called The ALL. This is the goal of our work, to understand, and to teach, this one TRUE cosmology.

This cosmologically-based knowledge was once called the Arcanum. This Arcanum represented the coherent knowledge gleaned by literally hundreds of thousands of years of hominid spiritual evolution. The acquisition of this knowledge was considered sacred, and was protected from loss through the use of ideogrammatic symbols. In order to preserve them, these symbols were usually pecked and chipped into solid rock. These are known today as petroglyphs.

This archaic science of alchemy was closely allied to ancient astrology. As we comprehend the true nature of the universe — its origins from the aether, or what the Egyptians referred to (for symbolic reasons) as the primeval waters of Nun — these interdependent relationships become absolutely clear. It was for this reason that the arcane expression "as above, so below" became the mantra of the ancient practitioners of arcane science — or magic (from the word Magi).

The alchemical operations of nature (which man learned to accelerate only) are complex, and are due to the nature of water itself. As concentrations of matter increase in water, this alters the nature of the dynamic geometry of water. Acting upon water, the aetheric forces driven by planetary positions, alter the dynamic equilibrium of the solution allowing certain configurations and alignments of atoms to occur within these changing equilibrium states. Water is polar (unbalanced electrically) and naturally forms geometric clusters. These geometries store information in the form of dynamic Electron transfer, the ballet of atomic-molecular electrostatic repulsion just as the structure of molecules depends upon the geometry of the nucleus and atomic orbitals of each atom — the Menstruum, and aetheric influences of planetary alignments, called syzygies. These events altered the balance of aetheric forces making some alchemical operations possible, and blocking or attenuating others. It is not possible to see the Great Work of the lapis philosophorum through to its conclusion without timing certain operations in harmony with the planetary ballet. Hence, alchemy and astrology — in ancient times — were really two parts of the same esoteric discipline.

Since all alchemists were esotericists, and all esotericists took oaths not to reveal their knowledge to the uninitiated public, those wishing to publish information to their potential peers, relied upon cryptic written communications (the inspiration for the world gibberish), as well as allegorical drawings, etchings and painting called 'emblematic art', to insure the preservation their life's work. Prior to the renaissance the only way to transmit information was through handwritten texts or individually illustrated (illuminated) manuscripts. As the 15th century saw the invention of the Gutenberg Press, and the renaissance ushered in a new age of mass produced printed documents, emblematic art from alchemists such as Michael Maier, Johann Daniel Mylius, Nicolas Flamel, George Ripley and others, became the de facto standard for the transmission of the Arcanum. If one can learn to decipher it, this art reveals a vast ancient corpus of lost science, and reveals the true depth of cosmological knowledge once extant in the hoary past.

This website is dedicated to this decipherment and resurrection of the Great Arcanum in the Age of Aquarius. Now we wake the sleeping giant . . . from darkness into the light.

XARCANUM

Opus medico-chymicum: Basilica philosophical, was originally an alchemical engraving by J. D. Mylius (1618).
This tour de force example of emblematic art, encodes the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone, hidden in post-medieval symbolism.

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