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A Neolithic-Proof Private Channel

It’s said that the highest forms of esotericism today are represented by discoveries in physics. Which ones?

All of them. Alchemy has that chameleon-like ability to be explained by the most classical as well as the most absurd theories of physics. Alchemy is acting strangely.

Why do you say that Alchemy is acting strangely?

Because Alchemy seems quite independent. Like life, the right conditions must be created, and then, if necessary, the alchemical “message” arrives.

What do you mean by message?

When Fulcanelli says “Alchemy is physics, not chemistry, which should become very evident in the final stages of the Great Work”, an alchemist who is not a neophyte will understand that he was referring to “waiting for the answering message”. Newbies can go to the Alchemy Resounds chapter to understand what I’m talking about.

What happens when the message arrives?

If I knew, I wouldn’t be here writing about it. Explanations and justifications are in the chapter What is the Philosophers Stone? The only thing I can say, and this is my opinion consolidated by years, experiences and readings, Alchemy is a private channel and the Philosophers’ Stone is the total opening of this private channel.

Could the “private channel” you speak of be analogous to quantum entanglement?

Comparing the alleged alchemical “private channel” to quantum entanglement is just a conjecture, and in the current state of physics it is not even the only possible conjecture. An amazing aspect is that there is a return trip along the same alchemical channel.

Could the alchemical theory of breathing between the sun and the central sun of bodies be explained by the theory of quantum entanglement?

Given the current state of science, this could be a possible explanation. So, roughly: two electrons born together will not only share the same “instructions at the source” but also the “future moves”. In short, they will always influence each other, as if they were a single electron. Of course, in reality, it is not that simple because there are always new “sources”. Furthermore, it was observed that rather than particles we should speak of “fields”.

The fact that there is a return along the same channel may indicate that there is originally a bunch of instructions.

Blaise de Vigenère was an alchemist, but also a cryptographer. Had he perhaps had some education that the “private channell” was an encrypted one? I’m not sure of that, of course, but I suspect it. However, don’t expect a piece of paper with secret codes. One thing I’m sure of, the codes are written in the stars. The ones we find in the earth’s crevices. Remember that we have a consciousness, and consciousness cannot but have to do with particles and wave functions.

In your opinion, is there an alchemical particle? Or an alchemical wave function? Or an alchemical frequency?

No. In my opinion there is no alchemical particle, no alchemical wave function, no alchemical frequency. The reason is as simple as it is “cautious”: If there were something mentioned above, that is, something solely dedicated to Alchemy, it would be easy to block, to interrupt. So, no, as strange as it may seem, Alchemy is just a “private channel” that can flow anywhere.

Could Alchemy have been “designed” to be completely beyond the reach of human manipulation?

It is truly ironic to observe that, while modern physicists no longer have the short-sighted arrogance of the physicists of the past who believed they could control everything, most modern alchemists have instead acquired an omnipotent mindset and are firmly convinced that they can control Alchemy. Whereas, Alchemy was “designed” to be completely beyond the reach of the average alchemist. Alchemists tell of “pilots” capable of “sailing” all seas, and even the deserts. It is my belief that Alchemy has no other way to survive than to travel all the wavelengths available in nature, apparently “jumping” from one frequency to another, like a skateboarder or an extreme skier.

It’s quite established that the Argonauts’ voyage is a metaphor for the alchemical journey. A journey where a thousand adventures occur…

In fact, Alchemists often tell of “pilots” capable of “sailing” all seas, and even the deserts. It is my belief that Alchemy has no other way to survive than to travel all the wavelengths available in nature, apparently “jumping” from one frequency to another, like a skateboarder or an extreme skier.

The rites of ancient Egyptian priests seem to suggest that frequencies could be hidden within other, unsuspected, frequencies…

How these wises managed to hide precious frequencies inside other, unsuspected, and more common ones is a mystery. Especially in light of their “natural” means and tools.

Yet, today we hear about “Mind Control”. Do you think that Alchemy could work in a similar way?

Very likely, this “Mind Control” involves spintronics. Particles commonly found in alchemical workings, such as photons and electrons, are equipped with spin. Now, it seems that it is not so difficult to send particles to be coupled in spin in our brain (or mind?) and with this system, direct the thoughts of the individual receiver. News about experiments of this type – or even “remote controls” devices already in use by intelligence services of the “usual suspects” – are easily found on the net, so not a disturbing novelty. If I believe that Alchemy works in an analogous way? Yes, it seems plausible. And the adjective “analogous” is comforting.

Now I’ll tell you something: it seems that some esoteric orders commit such misdeeds with impressive shamelessness. They would not be limited to playful experiments but to real instigations to suicide or at least to mental alienation. I guess they are just low-level “aspiring sorcerers”, although really unpleasant. If you take my advice, don’t play with Theurgy or orders that “develop mental powers”. Avoid living humans and stay away from their alleged “initiations”.

The topic of “mind control” at least makes us understand what the middle world is, because all happens between the immaterial and the material…

As we will see further, there are three vehicles of the “souls”: one immaterial, one material and one in between called “pneumatic”. The vehicle of communication or travel could be the one in the middle and it is of variable density. Although beyond our understanding, the median vehicle probably ranges from particles, and their wave functions, to dust hovering in atmospheric air. It is difficult to understand who has the power to move and set in motion.

Could it be said that Neolithic Alchemy was more like modern physics than the chemistry of Baroque-era alchemical treatises?

At the dawn of time it wasn’t even called magic, but simply sacred, an all-encompassing term that today, accustomed to dividing everything into segments, we can’t even accept. I think only quantum physicists can take up the challenge. As for the Alchemy of the treatises of the Baroque era, we must understand that they were in mid-ford: they no longer knew how to look back and before them stretched a dangerous land that could have denied even the existence of Alchemy.

The concept of repeater/amplifier is found everywhere in Alchemy: the primary theory is that the celestial fire is too weak to reach the earth, so some entity takes care of “amplifying” the weak signal.

I am not a physicist and I cannot make any guesses (not so much for my sake, but to avoid misleading the readers) but there is already a nice alchemical theory ready: a “sulfurous/solar” spark arrives near the Moon and becomes a “mercurial ray”. What more could an alchemist conjecture?

Could it be a wavelength converter what an alchemist calls a “receiver/amplifier” of stellar Spiritus Mundi, or of solar spark?

In theory, this supposition could give an intelligible answer to many myths which speak of lesser deities bringing to earth the very faint influences of higher deities. See the myths of Hephaestus and Hestia who respectively bring to earth the too weak “fires” of Zeus and Hera, his consort/sister.

What do alchemists mean when they say that the Sky can be built on Earth?

For Alchemists, the Earth is a “repeater/amplifier” of the Sky. We need to understand what the alchemist means by Sky: something separate but not impossible to reach or something that contains “unchanged instructions”? And, in this sense, Sky could easily be found on earth.

What might a modern physicist think when an alchemist claims that the sky can be built on earth?

A modern physicist might even conjecture that some wavelengths arriving on Earth might have the “power” to rearrange the spins of electrons and “persuade” them to behave in a certain way that is unexpected given the pre-existing surrounding conditions.

Alchemists say that a small “spark” becomes a “ray”…

The assertion that a small spark becomes a ray is an axiom and alchemical foundation. But even this concept implies some form of “amplification”. Alchemists speak of a spark that has “swelled” to the point of becoming a “igneous vapor”, that is, flowing and carrying instructions.

However, as we will see in other sections, our modern concept of signal amplification will not provide a good example…

If modern physicists were already convinced that it was an amplification of an electromagnetic signal, they would be truly disoriented: because in this case Alchemy prescribes to turn off/extinguish and turn on again. Alchemy kills metals and regenerates them, precisely to “amplify their signal”.

Could Iranian cosmology of the Zervanite tradition, in their division of “visible sky” and “invisible sky”, make things more understandable for us, alchemists?

If for alchemists, Iranian cosmology was simply too much to even conceive, the Neoplatonists, for their part, never admitted how much of their ideas they owed to Iranian culture. In Iranian cosmology of the Zervanite tradition, every terrestrial phenomenon, abstract or concrete, corresponds to a celestial, transcendent, invisible term (an “idea” in the Platonic sense?). Everything, every notion presents itself under a double aspect, even the concept of heaven: there is a visible heaven and a heaven that is invisible. Our earth corresponds to a celestial earth. Every virtue practiced here has a celestial counterpart that represents the true reality. Creation is simply doubled.

At this point, modern physicists should be asked to translate these ideas into field motions and wave functions. Or something else.

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  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

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