The Naked Alchemy Project was created in the late 00’s as a personal wiki-notebook for learning alchemy, Hermetism, and religion. Later, it opened up to the Internets featuring some favourite texts, images and diy audiobooks. Now we’re reincarnating as Naked Alchemy Projections. Projection is the final step in the alchemical opus. Our Stone is cast upon a metal, turning it into gold.
Alchemy is a philosophical and practical tradition of transmutation towards perfection.
Alchemy is applied Hermetism. Apotheosis.
Caveats
- From an English speaking perspective, the alchemy that surfaced in Europe in the middle ages is the most accessible. As a result, material presented here will be steeped in Christianity and other elements specific to that culture. Alchemists are encouraged to draw parallels from their own cultures, languages religions and schools of thought.
- Practical or laboratory alchemy is a valid way to learn some alchemical principles, but no chemical experiments will be explored here. Anyone interested in chemical or biological experiments should make sure they don’t do anything silly.
- You do not have to buy things (courses, labware, fancy rocks, fancy hats, books, memberships) to become an accomplished alchemist.
- “There is nothing that can restore Youth to man but death itself, which is the beginning of Eternal life that follows it.” -Maier,
“What, then, shall we say about the receipts of Alchemy, and about the diversity of its vessels and instruments? These are furnaces, glasses, jars, waters, oils, limes, sulphurs, salts, saltpetres, alums, vitriols, chrysocollae, copper-greens, atraments, auripigments, fel vitri, ceruse, red earth, thucia, wax, lutum sapientiae, pounded glass, verdigris, soot, testae ovorum, crocus of Mars, soap, crystal, chalk, arsenic, antimony, minium, elixir, azurium, goldleaf, salt-nitre, sal ammoniac, calamine stone, magnesia, bolus armenus, and many other things. Moreover, concerning preparations, putrefactions, digestions, probations, solutions, cementings, filtrations, reverberations, calcinations, graduations, rectifications, amalgamations, purgations, etc., with these alchemical books are crammed. Then, again, concerning herbs, roots, seeds, woods, stones, animals, worms, bone dust, snail shells, other shells, and pitch. These and the like, whereof there are some very farfetched in Alchemy, are mere incumbrances of work; “
-Paracelsus, ‘Coelum Philosophorum’
“All human beings are made of the same divine quintessence. The only difference between them is that some have learned to work on this quintessence and to develop it, while others leave it dormant. We refer to this quintessence as the image of God. If we compare ourselves to Jesus, the distance between us is obviously immense. But if we were not of the same quintessence as he, he would not have said: “The one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these.” To be able to do what Jesus did, we must share the same nature. Lead cannot do what gold can do, because it is not of the same nature. As for us, it can be said that we contain within us an atom of gold, but it is completely surrounded by an entire gangue of base materials. Our work is to transform these worthless materials into gold, which is the true meaning of alchemy.”
-Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
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