(The great work: fuel, will, and civilizing the monkey)
This binding force is the MAGNUM OPUS, The Great Work, which is fundamentally the creation and refinement of the Philosopher’s Stone or Pearl!
What this means, in accordance with these rigorous studies, is that the human ape, seems to find it very difficult to adjust to the break neck speed of our technological and cultural advancements. In other words, you can take the ape out of the savannah, but if you are expecting that ape to stop making a monkey out of itself, you have another thing coming.
And so, in order to save the world, certain solutions have been offered. Solutions that, if implemented properly, promise to end all of humanity’s and the planet’s woes. These solutions boil down to: We must civilize the monkey! Note that these solutions don’t interest themselves in human illumination, in evolution as we may define the term; meaning getting better, going higher, becoming enlightened perhaps.
Why can’t we all become Buddha, why can’t we all, at least those who are really, really trying, become enlightened? Why can’t we all become powerful masters? Is there a secret doctrine? Why is it secret? Do those people in the cool underground clubs really become powerful occult masters in the end?
Yes, we did, we did forget something. We forgot our will, and the power to nourish and nurture that will.
Figure 2 The will, as it extends from the body to affect the world outside itself. And it is this ingredient, not will itself so much really, but the power that nourishes the will, and the power that sustains it, which is really the most important ingredient of them all, at least at this stage in human development, and that is the part that is always left out. Without it, nothing is possible because without this power, without the ability and the energy to intend a thing, and make that thing, first as a subjective mental reality and then eventually over time, a true objective or physically real thing, humanity will never evolve beyond a mere reactionary, instinct driven ape, no matter what new notions or supposed solutions are used, and no matter how hard these notions are pounded into our skulls.
As an Alchemist, this is the most useful, the only truly useful thing there is, the acquisition of that fuel, and it is the acquisition, storage, and refinement of that fuel, that is the true focus of this course: The Magnum Opus.
(Alchemical logic: energy over dogma, direct perception over a priori)
Alchemist you see, contrary to what many may believe about Alchemy, do not care about words, notions, formulas, riddles, incantations, or atomic weights. All they truly care about is that fundamental and underlying fuel. Alchemists are not rational, they do not care for reasons. They do though concern themselves with the most intricate facets of logic, and it is this deep study of the logical that forces them to completely reject the binding force of rationality.
Another way to say this would be to say that Alchemy does not concern itself with a priori knowledge. That is, it does not concern itself with knowledge that comes from theoretical dogma. Alchemy, because it is an energy and power-based system of existence, cannot afford to invest its energy in external notions, in external solutions, or external knowledge that has not come through direct personal perception. It can only assent to knowledge that is acquired through direct and personal, now-based, awareness.
For example, one may ask, is the Earth round or flat? A rational person will probably say, shout out loud most likely, that the Earth is round, always was, and always will be. And to prove this, he or she will cite experiment after experiment, with NASA video footage in the background, all aimed at proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that their beliefs are true. And they will feel complete faith in this belief stance, in this undeniable fact, that the Earth is a sphere; because to them it is most plainly true. And all of this undeniable proof, is cumulative knowledge based on the sum of all the evidence that the many scientists and astronauts, the world over, have been able to provide.
But, most often, none of this evidence will be based on personal observation, experience, or calculation: it is all a priori knowledge.
A priori; is defined within this text as knowledge that is arrived at through external sources and not through direct personal perception. These external sources of information, these dispensers of undeniable fact, are societal authority figures and institutions such as parents, religion, government, and common sense. Common sense is the name of the deductive conclusions made in accordance with the accepted truths of the time. These deductions rely completely (complete faith) on the acceptance of the a priori information/knowledge of the current human era. The common sense of this modern era is called rationality.
Alchemical Logic on the other hand, takes nothing for granted, even its own perceptions. It seeks the attainment of a deeper kind of direct knowledge, that begins by first letting go of all a priori understanding.
This new way of perceiving is sometimes referred to as the Energetic Way. But calling it the Energetic Way is really an attempt to use words to try and define a new perceptual ability that allows the practitioner to see energy directly. And as a result of this new perceptive possibility, the world completely changes. It goes from being an object-filled place, to a sea of vibrating energy.
And it is from that new perceptive point, that new causal-logical viewpoint, that an Alchemist sees the world. And from that perspective point, humanity is not seen as a bunch of techno chimps striving to become overlords, which is how many see humanity in this modern rational age. What is actually seen is pretty much the reverse. What an Alchemist perceives is that man is actually an energetic conglomeration of aware energy, that has been turned into a techno chimp.
(The archon: humanity farmed as emotional energy)
life. In particular, that we are food for a megalithic trans-dimensional life form, sometimes referred to as the Great Archon or the Demiurge, and that this Archonic force has turned man, the aware energetic being, into a carrot, to be farmed upon the fields of the Earth.
Not only are we faced with the mind-blowing fact that there exists life on this planet that is completely non-organic, but the fact that we are food for some of this life. And that we fall prey to this non-organic life form in ways that cannot be rationally perceived, in the same way that we might perceive a lion taking down a zebra. What can be perceived from an energetic perceptive point is that we all fall prey to it in an energetic way, in a similar way that a tick might slowly suck the life-blood out of its prey. And further, that this great Archonic force, this biggest of the non-organic life forms feeding on humanity, has quite literally trapped us here on this planet, and is now farming all of humanity in the same way that human beings might farm or ranch other biological creatures, for their own sustenance.
It eats our energy, the many emotional flares that are part of our individual and collective lives as human beings. We are all emotional beings: erratic, impulsive, mob-driven, primates, that glow like bright bulbs thanks to our emotional expenditure and biological composition. It is this glowing essence that the Great Archon and his host eat. And this titanic force has come up with a most creative way to guarantee for ‘the host’ of itself, an endless supply of this bright and powerful energy. It has taken over humanity, narrowed humanity’s vision and its potential, by projecting onto us and into us a portion of the host of itself. This dark imposition clouds the minds of humanity, lessening our perceptive possibilities, making humanity stupid, illogical, forgetful, emotional, petty, self-absorbed, and dependent.
(Working through words: energy manipulation as the active agent)
But this course does not end here: it is just beginning. And to continue, since I am bound by words, I need to present these concepts using notions and ideas, concepts and dogma, because it is the only possible way that I can hold your attention long enough to at least have you contemplate, the intricacies of a new perceptive possibility. I present these Alchemical notions then in order to appeal to your rationality; to captivate your rational attention, because if I fail to do this, your mind, your very rational mind, may not pay attention.
Instead, I implore you to focus on the underlying active agent, the energetic action, the techniques and exercises, behind the dogma; which are essentially techniques designed to be able to manipulate energy.
Take nothing for granted, believe nothing; even your own senses until you gain more energy. Instead, just continue the work on the active agent, energy manipulation, which in this case means energetic absorption and re-absorption, energy storage, and energy refinement. Do this until you can prove or disprove to yourself directly, to your own satisfaction, whether these things of which I speak are truly energetic facts for you or not.
Knowledge arrived at independent of personal perceptions.
(The hive mind: how collective reason constricts individual perception)
On a global scale, reason is responsible for creating a massive consciousness made up of billions of individual parts. Each person, in a world with a population of billions, represents one unit, like one cell in a gigantic global organism, and it is the mass of the thrusts of all those units, that make up the overall personality-ego and the resulting actions that the individual and the mass organism takes.
One could imagine that in some sense, the fostering of this giant global entity is actually a great survival strategy; being that billions of individual minds, working together, can accomplish geometrically far more than any one individual. This constriction of individual human consciousness though, in order to achieve this cohesive hive mind, while perhaps helpful to the whole, can be quite disadvantageous to the individual. As the ONE is molded to serve the needs of the many, that ONE can no longer be said to be truly free, since the perceptive powers of that individual are highly restricted in accordance with the needs of this giant mass human organism.
Generally, in social sciences it is assumed that this collective grouping by humanity is both natural and beneficial to the mass of the group. But such an assumption (as are all assumptions for that matter) is quite dangerous, because as I will discuss in further detail as the course progresses, this form of hive-mind dogmatic reason, that has become more and more powerful in this age of technological interconnectedness, does not benefit the individual not the mass of humanity.
(The alien observer exercise: seeing humanity from outside reason)
Imagine that you are a lone alien being. You can either imagine yourself to be a highly technologically advanced being that has come down to Earth in a very powerful alien ship, or you can imagine that you are a highly spiritually developed alien that has come to Earth using only the power of your psychic force.
You may, for example, be instantly quite thankful of the fact that your superior technology or mental powers render you invisible to earthlings as they might seem deeply primitive and hostile to you.
Once you are in this alien mind space (mental frame), open up your journal and begin to describe what you see on Earth. Remember that you know nothing about earthlings and you most certainly know nothing of their odd little slice of limited logic they call reason. You most likely would not believe any of their supposedly indisputable facts, even if you knew any of them, as you may find their incredibly primitive science to be quite flawed.
So, from your perspective as this most alien being, are these planetary creatures happy or sad? Does happiness or sadness really matter to you? What does happiness and sadness seem to mean to humans anyway? What do they do all day? What is valuable to them? Is there a ranking order to humans? Who is on top? Why? How do they think? Why do they think that way? What are their limits both physically, intellectually, and perceptively? What are they willing to do for each other to get what they value? Do they help each other? Why? What are their organizations like? What purpose do they serve?
Imagine as you watch humans fight and kill each other to prove their point of view, their version of an undeniable fact. Why might they feel so strongly about these opinions?
(Seeing auras: rod receptors and the expanded energetic spectrum)
Now, if you tell the average person that you can see auras, they tend to think that you are either a bit of a nut or full of bull, as they say. This is because it is incredibly difficult for the average person to even conceptualize, let alone believe, that there could be something more Out There, all around them, that could be perceived right now by them or anyone, if only that particular person were able to change his or her visual routines just a little.
The art of seeing auras therefore is really the art of creating a more symbiotic relationship between cone and rod receptors; which is the art of rediscovering your nocturnal nature.
This needs to happen if we wish to see auras because by engaging the rods, we are actually able to perceive a slightly different range of the electromagnetic spectrum of energy all around us; this then allows us to expand the visual range available to us. Essentially what this means is that by training yourself to use rod receptors, in combination with cone receptors, in a more conscious manner, you will be able to see a greater range of the much subtler energy fields that may have eluded you in the past.
(Beliefs as energy projection: reality shaped by attention)
Beliefs focus attention, and create a general or specific channel of intent, which projects energy. And it is this projected energy that truly gives shape to the world. Simply then, beliefs create and give direction to thoughts and ideas, and these thoughts trigger or induce emotions that then naturally propel raw and very powerful energy, through and around the body, and into the environment at large.
So, beliefs then create your reality, but most of your beliefs are not your own, because you are not who you think you are; because your mind is not strictly yours alone, not completely.
Faith equals rationality, and this faith is the foundational principle that creates all belief. Belief is the acceptance that something is true or that something exists. Belief therefore is the cohesive force behind the human psyche.
For an Alchemist to progress in their development therefore, it is very important that they begin to explore the structure of their minds by exploring the nature of their personal beliefs.
Paying attention is the act (the doing) of creation because quite simply, every time you focus your attention on something, you are projecting energy from the core of your being into that something, and are quite literally bringing it to life.
What it means is that each person creates a personal version of this world. The world therefore is both a very individual event, and at the same time it is a shared event, one you share with all of the beings that are a part of this dimensional plane.