01-09-2012, 09:05 AM
So I have been reading a few of the old alchemist books a long with some of the newer ones. They have helped me understand a lot of things but the biggest thing was the representation of polarity in the physical world.
Alchemy is just another system used to describe the Law of One. As we all know the key goal of Alchemy is creating the philosophers stone. The philosophers stone is believed to be a substance that is pure life energy with unlimited power. Now it is quite apparent to me that the stone is an analogy of mankind evolving or ascending or whatever you want to call it. The thing that the older original alchemists's put forward is that the stone cannot be revealed to the world until the time is right. Anyway I won't babble on about alchemy but if any are interested in researching more all the books are on the web.
Back to polarity. Alchemists where fully aware of polarity and it's role in our universe. They believed that the only truth is the truth of nature. They saw a pattern in everything in existence, the pattern of polarity. They noticed that these patterns come and go in cycles . It comes in different names but it is all the same thing, some call it yin and yang, positive and negative etc. Everything on this earth is a creation of this polarity.
Here a few quotes from the book of Aquarius which was written as a sort of overview of the art of alchemy. He describes it much better then I can.
Hope you enjoyed it and perhaps helped you see polarity a little bit clearer.
Alchemy is just another system used to describe the Law of One. As we all know the key goal of Alchemy is creating the philosophers stone. The philosophers stone is believed to be a substance that is pure life energy with unlimited power. Now it is quite apparent to me that the stone is an analogy of mankind evolving or ascending or whatever you want to call it. The thing that the older original alchemists's put forward is that the stone cannot be revealed to the world until the time is right. Anyway I won't babble on about alchemy but if any are interested in researching more all the books are on the web.
Back to polarity. Alchemists where fully aware of polarity and it's role in our universe. They believed that the only truth is the truth of nature. They saw a pattern in everything in existence, the pattern of polarity. They noticed that these patterns come and go in cycles . It comes in different names but it is all the same thing, some call it yin and yang, positive and negative etc. Everything on this earth is a creation of this polarity.
Here a few quotes from the book of Aquarius which was written as a sort of overview of the art of alchemy. He describes it much better then I can.
Quote:Furthermore, we can clearly see the relationships between male and female principles in Nature. The two
depend upon each other. Obviously we have the fact that animals come in male and female genders, who
are attracted to one another. Also the relationship between animals (male) and plants (female) is of the same
type, we also depend upon each other for survival.
The male force is the active force (growth and multiplication), whereas the female force is the passive force
(stability and dissolution/decomposition). Too much male force will end up multiplying and overpowering
its surroundings, leading to destruction. Too much female force will reverse development, reducing
everything to its components. Together the male and female forces combine with the male force expanding
and developing and the female force keeping it under control and everything orderly and harmonious. The
male force attempts to impose itself upon everything, it wants to multiply itself. The female force on the
other hand tries to bring everything back to its original element. It is the female force that allows for rebirth
by encouraging reduction and decomposition back into the original element, supporting and nourishing this
for the task of the male, which is to encourage growth, development and multiplication.
Quote:Now consider animals and plants. The plants have a lot of
yin, they just sit around all day and don't even try to move, whereas the animals are busy running around
and eating everything they can put in their mouths.
The sea has a dominating male force, which is why fish are so obsessed with eating each other. It's also why
there are very few plants in the sea, even the coral are animals. The air has dominating female force,
therefore lots of trees and comparatively few animals in between.
The genders are one manifestation of the yin-yang principle, but on a more fundamental level it is these two
forces constantly pulling back and forward against each other in a tug-of-war, and so create the cycles of
Nature. Yin-yang is polarity. We live in a universe of opposites. The cycles we see in Nature are all due to
the polarity of our universe, and it is these cycles (caused by yin-yang) which themselves cause growth and
development of all things, from the atom to the whole universe itself.
Quote:"As above, so below." Everything in the universe works on the same principles, big or small. A
fundamental truth applies on every level. If something doesn't apply on every level then it is not a real truth.
It is true that solar systems and atoms work on the same principle. It is a harmonic principle they follow.
You can't expect that they look the same way from our perspective, but that doesn't mean they work on
different principles. Whenever we look up everything appears orderly and predictable. Whenever we look
down everything appears chaotic and unpredictable. This is only a matter of perspective. If you were a
galaxy then you would think solar systems look chaotic and unpredictable. If you were an atom you'd think
humans were orderly and predictable.
Hope you enjoyed it and perhaps helped you see polarity a little bit clearer.