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I think that pursuing immortality is, put bluntly, a waste of time. No one in record has ever achieved it [. . .] If 'Immortality' is simply the continuation of one consciousness after a great spiritual transformation, then this is what the so-called 'Ascended Masters' have achieved. Jesus and Sain...

I would start by reading Francis Bacon's Novum Organum Scientiarum (or, The New Instrument of Science). The general idea behind the book is that it teaches a method of Induction towards Discovery as opposed to the standard model of Deduction towards Understanding. Both are good, but if you're lookin...

Sypheara wrote:If you wish to ask any specific advice wise that I could help with, feel free to PM me. Same with the others, sure they would do their best also.

Indeed.
It may be an Individual path, but you don't always have to walk it alone

Kool stuff.

One of my favorites is The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan.

Definitely expands on these ideas

Thanks

If you don't keep silent, it can attract a lot of unwanted attention.

There is also a similar saying in Alchemical literature: Don't cast your pearls before swine.

Very bluntly spoken: The philosophers gold would be the ultimate goal of the spiritual oriented alchemy one can archieve: The union with god/cosmos. Apotheosis. I resonate with that definition. Understanding the Gold of the Philosophers is important, but IMHO, an understanding of the development of...

Ramscha wrote:Energy is not generated, it is transformed and preserved in a closed system [wink]

Right. Energy is relative to what transforms and preserves it.

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Thanks everyone for the warm welcomes :) Hi corvidus, nice to meet you. Are you after the philosophers gold as well? I was (or at least I might have been), but after having a very enlightening Truffles experience, I'm now after something much more Universal :) Isn't that philosopher's stone? [rofl] ...

but also want someone's opinion on the taint of the energy. i don't want any baggage with what i'm collecting, so originally i was going to have the sigil put the energy into a vessel, and then still that into another vessel, basically just stilling it into purification and then using that. waste o...

Hi all :) I've been reading through these forums for a while and finally decided to register and interact with everyone. I'm excited to be here. Its hard to talk about myself, but I'll try.. My main focus is alchemy, but the magickal sciences keep coming up in my thoughts, so I thought I'd pursue it...

Hey there :) I'm fairly new here but I feel the same way most of the time. All I can offer is an explanation of what's going on... First of all, I'm no therapist. But I've been through this before and this is how I've delt with it. alchemically it's called the Black Phase, which is incredibly necess...

Been trying to connect some dots lately. Trying to connect The Wheel of Fortune to the 7 steps somehow. Hello magari :) I assume you're talking about the processes of Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation and Coagulation? I'm not too familiar with the Tarot (...