This work teaches the practical laboratory alchemy of the past masters and for the first time reveals many of their secrets, including the volatilization of the salts and the mysteries of the sal ammoniac salts. These are a major key to many operations of the arte without which the student fails in their operations.
The author, Gary St. Nottingham, additionally explores various alchemical formulae, and shares for the first time clear and detailed instructions omitted in other modern alchemical works. This enables the student to perform both simple and complex operations of the arte.
The correct mindset of the alchemist, often overlooked, is also considered. Alchemy deliberates that all life is one - as such the alchemist is influenced by the work as much as the work is influenced by the alchemist. About the author: Gary St. However, it was his involvement with a group of alchemical practitioners that opened many of the doors for him and much that he had learnt finally began to make sense.
Subsequently, he has taught and written extensively on the alchemical arte, running several one-day workshops and weekends on practical laboratory alchemy. His other areas of occult study are astrology, grimoires, and the Kabbalah, all of which are expressed as part of his alchemical work. Hermetic magic is the foundation of all Western occultism. Hermes is the god of wisdom of the Graeco-Egyptian philosophers who lived in Egypt in the early centuries of the Christian era.
Follow the Hermetic tradition from ancient Egypt, through Greek philosophy and the Greek mystery religions, Gnostocism, Neo-platonism and the Kabbalah, down to the modern revival of the Golden Dawn.
For those who want to find out about what the Golden Dawn is and what it has to offer, this book answers questions about its philosophy, principles, and history. Mapping El Dorado2. Ralegh's America3. A Gentleman of Spain4. Love and Exile5. The Crew7. Atlantic Crossing8. TrinidadPart Two: The Entrada9. The Gulf of Sadness The Delta The Medicine Man The Guiana Bend A minutum mundurn. The mystical sacrifice of the ego. The ascent of the Ladder of Jacob to the summit in God.
Divine is compre- hended under many hypostases and guises. A consideration of the Gods of the Egyptians. Each god symbol bears a high significance. The implication of the animal masks. How this has been misunder- stood. Magic is a mnemonic process. How every sense and power is used to create a spiritual idea. Signs and sigils. True meaning of magical circle. William Quan Judge. Symbol of infinite and human consciousness. Names of God. Circle restrains hostile influences.
The altar and the lamp. Wand, Cup, sword, and pantacle. Wand symbolizes Will ; its preparation and conse- cration. Imagination and its essential formative nature. Fawcett's hypothesis. Loyola's spiritual exercises. How t o develop the imagination for magical work. The tattvas of the Hindus. What is the Will? A magical method of increasing this power. The true significance of Asceticism. I t s dangers. A threefold vow. Pranayama an excellent adjuvant. Objections t o Will-development. What causes success in the Operations of ceremonial?
The answer of the Chaldaean Oracles. Instances of gross failure. An example of imbecility. Reason provided by Barrett. The mantic frenzy and enthusiasm. How does the mantram work? Various occult viewpoints.
Vibration of god-names is associated with evocation of magical forces, states Blavatsky. The power and value of Sound. How t o pronounce the magical names? What then happens. The secret of invocation. Barbarous names of evocation. Examples of South American, Egyptian, and Enochian words. Mode of Qabalistic analysis. Magician should not permit meaningless words t o enter his sphere.
Technical employment of the barbarous words. Dancing and music. The knocks. Necessity and effect of circum- ambulation. Essential task of magic. Necessity for training the Will and Imagination. Employment in formation of Body of Light. Best method for travelling on the Astral. Educating the subtle body. Ritual an assistance. How to check them scientifically. Precautionary measures. Egyptian plans of the Astral. The magical Pylons. How death is conquered, and immortality while in the body assured.
Banishing ritual of the Pentagram. I t s power and explanation. Will and Imagination to form the Star of Fire. The dog-Guardian. The most powerful adjunct to invocation.
The key of all magical progress. How this technique proceeds. Danger of magic. Egyptian deities. Maspero's triumphant address. Invoca- tion of Ra, the Sun-God. The results of fellowship with the Gods.
Purity required in Magic. What this means. The Holy Guardian Angel. When evocations may be undertaken. For what special reasons they may be performed. Genius and the Angel's mode of manifestation. A method of entering into coinmunication with the higher self.
Full directions in this ancient technique. The steps necessary. The Vision and the Perfume. The invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel. A rationale of the rites of cereinonial evocation. Its correlation with modern psychological research. The building of the pyramid.
Instruction to Bride before the mystical marriage. Nature, the great exemplar. The magical system of The Key of Solomon the King. Uniting the Egyptian method in practice with the Qabal- istic one. The Goetia. The Book of the Angel Ratziel, Why amateur visions go wrong.
Invasion of field of consciousness. The tracing of parallels between Yoga and Magic. How essentially they are identical. How powers are to be treated. Fundamentals of this branch of magical ceremony. The rationale.
Initiation rituals. Third degree of Masonic fraternity. A splendid ritual in The Baccha of Euripides. An Osirian passion-play. Necessity for personal work. Milarepa and Marpa. Work requires patience and imperturbability. An Ibis and the Urzus serpent.
A great gulf between them. The Will is the guide of the Theurgist. Medium is a negative instrument. Magical theories concerning death. What happens when body dies. Qliphotic obsession. Astral shells are the spiritualistic "spirits. Their physical phenomena. How a sincere medium may utilize the magical technique. What is Black Magic. Operations of invisibility and transformation. Evocation of tattvic forces. Necromancy and vanity. Further instruction on Astral technique.
How t o employ Pentagram and Rose-cross symbols. Angelic guardians of the Pylons. Refining the Body of Light. Harpocrates formula. Porphyry on Rising on the Planes. The Eucharist. The Road t o Ain Soph. Intention t o make this outline of Magic clear. An exception t o be made. A secret method of working. The Mass of the Holy Ghost. Tetragrammaton and alchemical symbolism. It is the quintessence of all techniques of Magic.
The Elixir of Life and talismanic consecration. How t o employ this Mass together with Ceremonial. The various aspects of ceremonial invocation. I t s eight distinct phases. Several examples of each type of invocation from Egyptian, Qabalistic, Rosicrucian, Gnostic, Greek, Enochian, and poetic sources. Death-dealing and with octopus-like tentacles of destruction, this morass clutches him more and more firmly to its breast, albeit with great subtlety and with stealth.
Civilization, curiously enough, modern civilization, is its name. The tentacles which are the unwitting instruments of its catastrophic blows reach out from the diseased structure, false and loathsome, of the decaying social system and the set of values wherein we are involved. And now, the entire fabric of the social world appears in process of disintegration.
The structure of national organization would appear to be veering from economic ruin to that final crazy lurch which may see it disappear over the gaping preci- pice to complete destruction.
Rooted firmly in the fullness of the individual life, the hitherto stout bulwarks of our life are threatened as never have they been before. More and more impossible does it seem with the setting of each sun for anyone to retain even the slightest portion of his divine heritage, individuality, and to exert that which makes him man.
Despite being born in our age and time, those few individuals who are aware with a certainty in which there is no doubt of a destiny propelling them imperiously forward to the fulfilment of their ideal natures, constitute perhaps the sole exceptions. These, the minority, are the born Mystics, the Artists and Poets, those who see beyond the veil and bring back the light of beyond.
Included within the mass, however, is yet another minority who, while not fully conscious of an all-compelling destiny, nor the nature of its deeper self, aspires to be different from the complacent masses.
With an inner anxiety it is restless to obtain an abiding spiritual integrity. I t is mercilessly ground underfoot by the social system of which it is a part, and harshly ostracized by the mass of its fellows.
The attitude, singularly unwise, adopted by the greater part of modern " intelligent " European humanity to- wards this aspiration constitutes a grave danger to the race. I t has permitted itsel only too eagerly to forget that upon which it actually depends, and from which it is constantly nourished and sustained in both its inward and outward life.
Avidly seizing upon the fluctuating evanescence of the hasty exterior existence, its negli- gence of affairs spiritual, as well as its impatience with the more far-seeing of its fellows, is a mark of extreme race-weariness and nostalgia. I t is a well-worn saying but one none the less true and none the less worthy of repetition, inasmuch as it expresses peculiarly the situation now widely prevalent, that " where there is no vision the people perish.
An heretical barrier has been erected separating itself from that current of life and vitality which even now, despite wilful impediment and obstacle, pulses and vibrates passionately in the blood, pervading the whole of universal form and structure.
The anomalies presented to-day are due to this rank absurdity. Man- kind s slowly accomplishing its own suicide. A self-strangulation is being effected through a suppression of all individuality, in the spiritual sense, and all that made it human. I t continues to with- hold the spiritual atmosphere from its lungs, so to speak.
And having severed itself from the eternal and never-ceasing sources of light and life and inspiration, it has deliberately blinded itself to the fact-than which no other could compare in importance-that there is a dynamic principle both within and without from which it has accomplished a divorce.
The result is inner lethargy, chaos, and the disintegration of all that formerly was held to be ideal and sacred.
Laid down centuries ago, the doctrine tallght by the Buddha commends itself to me as providing a possible reason for this divorce, chaos and decay. To the majority of people existence is inevitably bound up with suffering and sorrow and pain. Now although Buddha did teach that life was fraught with pain and misery, I am inclined to believe, when remembering the psychology of Mysticism and of Mystics, whose peer he undoubtedly was, that this viewpoint was adopted by him only to spur men forward from chaos to the attain- ment of a superior mode of life.
Is there not for all to see the beauty of the ;un and the Moon, the pageantry of the changing seasons in the year, the sweet music of daybreak, and the spell of nights under the open sky? What of the rain falling through the leaves of trees towering to the gates of heaven, and the dew in early morning creeping over the grass, tipping it with spear-points of silver? Rather do I feel that this philosophic attitude was adopted y him in the hope that once again might mankind be induced to jeek the inimitable wisdom which it had lost, t o restore the inner :quilibrium and the harmony of soul, thus fulfilling its destiny un- "estricted by sense and mind.
In a word, ignorance. Because he is ignorant of uhat he really is in himself, ignorant of his true way in life, man is, IS the Buddha taught, so beset with sorrow and so sorely afflicted with distress.
According to the traditional philosophy of the Magicians, every man is a unique autonomous centre of individual consciousness, :nergy and will-a soul, in a word. Like a star shining and existing by its own inward light it pursues its way in the star-spangled heavens, solitary, uninterfered with, except in so far as its heavenly course is gravitationally modified by the presence, near or far, of other stars.
Since in the vast stellar spaces seldom are there con- flicts between the celestial bodies, unless one happens to stray from its appointed course-a very rare occurrence-so in the realms of humankind there would be no chaos. Because men have strayed from the dynamic sources inhering within themselves and the universe, and have forsaken their true spiritual wills, because they have divorced themselves from the celestial essences, betrayed by a mess of more sickly pottage than ever Jacob did sell to Esau, the world in this day presents a people with so hopeless an aspect, and a humanity impressed with so despondent a mien.
Ignorance of the course of the celestial orbit, and the significance of that orbit inscribed in the skies for ever, is the root which is a t the bottom of universal dis- satisfaction, unhappiness and race-nostalgia.
And because of this the living soul cries for help to the dead, and the creature to a silent God. Of all this crying there comes usually-nothing. The lifting up of the hands in supplication brings no inkling of salvation. The frantic gnashing of teeth results but in mute despair and loss of vital energy.
Redemption is only from within and is wrought out by the soul itself with suffering and through time, with much endeavour and strain of the spirit. How, then, may we return to this ecstatic identity with our deeper selves? In what way may this necessary union be accom- plished between the individual soul and the Essences of universal reality? Where is the road which leads eventually to the improve- ment and betterment of the individual and consequently to the solution of the perplexing problems in the world of men?
This experience to which I have reference is indubitably the hall-mark and essential stigmata of genuine accom- plishment. Not to mediocrity is this apocalyptic experience vouch- safed. To the commonplace person, burdened as he is with dogma and an out-worn tradition, there seldom comes that flash of spiritual light making descent in splendid tongues of flame like the Pente- costal Holy Ghost, radiant with joy and the highest wisdom, pregnant with spontaneous inspiration.
The sophisticated, the blase, the dilettanti-these are debarred by insuperable barriers from the merits of its benediction. But little importance think need be attached to the oft-iterated definition concerning certain very high percentage of perspiration plus a very small mainder of inspiration. No matter how great the value of per- spiration, it cannot produce the magnificent effects of genius.
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