Rosicrucian Alchemical Practices and Spiritual Transmutation

and speculative simultaneously. On one part of the drawing, indeed, the laboratory is represented where transmutations and physical preparations are performed, while on the left is the oratory, the place of prayer where the alchemist performs spiritual transmutation. Ratio and Experientia This very practical and scientific approach is a characteristic proper to the Rosicrucians. While in other times and according to other currents one was directed more towards a speculative, theoretical approach, of study and speculation, the Rosicrucians instead rely heavily on the immediate realization aspect. You see that the laboratory on the left is founded on two columns: Reason and Experience. This practical and scientific approach will ensure that this movement gathers and attracts the greatest scientists of the contemporary and successive era. From the ranks of the Rosicrucians will indeed emerge the founders of the Royal Society, the oldest community of scientific research in the modern sense. Among the founding members we remember • Elias Ashmole, the one who gave new impulse and new purposes to speculative masonry, • his friend Robert Moray, the one who found the place to found the Royal Society, • Thomas Vaughan, the translator of the Fama Fraternitatis into English, • Robert Boyle, • Robert Hooke etc..., then Newton, Samuel Pepys etc... Wisdom Therefore the approach is an extremely practical and realization-based approach based on experience. Theory serves to illuminate experience as the inscription says "What is attempted with Wisdom sometimes happens" Indeed in the oratory we see that the orator is praying to the angel of Wisdom Hocmiel so that he may illuminate him (as can be read on the tent). We come to the first operation that is revealed by a particular Learn to die well We see however that under the table there is something, which suggests a necessary experience that constitutes the base of these prayers. Under the table indeed there is a kind of skull and there is an inscription that says: DISCE BENE MORI: Learn to die well Here we return to the discourse of death and the descent to the underworld of which we have spoken in various previous lessons resurrection, practically according to the Rosicrucians at the moment of death, the soul leaving the body has a lapse of time in which the vital principle and the spiritual principle abandoning the body reunite making the dying person experience for a certain period of time a state of ecstasy corresponding to a vision of the white Light typical of the dying. By managing to fix oneself in this light, then the soul and spirit were transfigured by this light thus bringing about resurrection. Thus the experimenter can call himself a Watcher. Indeed here is training to obtain this result, the purpose of these operations is written on the pediment of the temple where it is written "Watch While Sleeping". Alluding to a state encountered by certain mystics and called "Perpetual Vigilance". [2nd figure Occult Fire = II STAGE awakening of centers and acquisition of powers] What does this figure deal with? Those who have followed the course on Symbolic Geometry can understand even simply from the form: you see a Square with a Triangle inside, in the course on Symbolic Geometry we said that traditionally this representation represented the Occult Fire because the fire hidden within matter. The fact then that the entire image is filled with fire makes one understand that we are on the right track. Therefore the image refers to the awakening of a power or an ardor capable of regenerating consciousness. The 2 books then clarify the subject: On the left indeed is written in the book a passage from Revelation, you see there is a book with seven seals. If you remember there is this passage in which none could be found who could open this book with seven seals and then the Lamb is found Then I saw standing in the midst of the throne surrounded by the four living beings and the elders a Lamb, as if slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes, symbol of the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. [7] And the Lamb came and took the book from the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. [8] And when he had taken it, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. [9] They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, because you were slain and have redeemed for God with your blood men of every tribe, tongue, people and nation [10] and have made them for our God a kingdom of priests and they shall reign on the earth." "Worthy IHSVH to take the book and open its seals, We praise God We praise God" Here are drawn seven seals that symbolize the seven capital vices that are rooted in man's consciousness and from which through this igneous power man's consciousness must free itself. On the other side there is instead a passage from Deuteronomy that says "Cursed is he who does not maintain in force the words of this law, to put it into practice!" The practice serves to obtain a rapid method of purification of the centers of consciousness which in the inscription around this figure are compared to lotus flowers. The practice described is a practice to awaken an inner fire of love towards God and establish it in the heart, in making this journey this inner fire had to pass through obstacles, delicate points of consciousness that the Kabbalists called "lotus flowers or roses". Here indeed one does not read the upper part of the image in which it is written: It will therefore be fitting for us first to purify the lotuses and once purged with penitence offer them supplicating with sincere faith entrust them to the Deifying Light and then She, eternal Wisdom distilling from above the superexcellent manna of nectar and water, fire, rain, distilling drop by drop upon the earth, in hearts, in souls and in our strong minds and in the Body, Spirit and Soul or MICROCOSMIC ternary reborn. It makes one understand this purification of the centers of consciousness before operating the awakening of this inner fire that will make the human trinity reborn welding it into a UniTrinity [3rd Figure Christ in Glory =