Spiritual Alchemy

Solve et coagula.

So what spiritual alchemy is:

It's an application of the processes of alchemy in a spiritual fashion. In laboratory alchemy, one mines the ores and extracts the elements in a certain way. These elements are alchemical Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury. Then one places them in the alchemical furnace and applies heat and the first process is called nigredo, where the elements blacken, the second is called rubedo, where the elements redden, and the third process is called albedo, where the elements whiten. After albedo, the philosopher's stone forms, which turns base things into alchemical gold, which is not the gold of the profane.

In spiritual alchemy what this means is that the elements of the spirit are first broken down and looked at in terms of shadow, transformed, and then purified, and then the new spirit transforms the flesh into a spiritual "gold."

I use some of these metaphors in my own explorations, and find them very good. I tend to use alchemy to understand the things I'm receiving in the Gnosis of the Holy Spirit, breaking down the complexity and turning it into something I can understand.

Analyze and synthesize.