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Yeah, now 35 and enjoying a birthday Saturday morning listening to my vinyl collection.  I still find it more satisfying to play records than CDs or computer files (whether they be ogg vorbis, or mp3 or whatever).  Have [...]

It happened a while ago. I woke up, and as I laid there, I saw a circle of people standing around me.

The room I was in was expanded to accommodate such a number of them. It felt sacred.

And in a flash, I was immediately awake.

There’s a new book by Peter Sloterdijk which should soon be available to you in English. This article tells you some basics about it:

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I was given the book as a present and have started to read it. As Sloterdijk tends to keep some things open and ambiguous I cannot tell you final judgments about the book until I have read it in full.

But I do recommend the book as a philosophy book which can possibly be very useful to occultists. I even find Sloterdijk’s style highly entertaining. The whole topic of the book is exercise and training and it opens a philosophical perspective, or even many perspectives on this topic. Matters of Esotericism, Mysticism and the Occult are not dealt with very explicitly but sometimes lightly touched upon, at least within the 200 pages I have read. However the ideas in this book can very easily be aplied by occultists in their practice I think.

Presently Sloterdijk gets criticised (once again) for political implications some people see in his present work. But once again the journalists prove at least selective perception. Some passages look politically weird to me as well, but I don’t have the final judgment, yet, as I said. It’s very much a matter of context. And there are clearly very humane concepts in this book, which get ignored by some journalists.

Some passages show a uniquely humane version of Nietzscheanism, which I am very fond of.

Sloterdijk often causes his own problems with sentences that selectively quoted look highly stupid in political matters. However I swear, in context it’s entirely different.

Maybe I’ll tell you more about this book when I have finished it.

I just wondered that ALF and Bigfoot (film and TV show) were pretty much shows that show something analogous to an occult lifestyle. Then I thought, well ET was the same scheme, and I even remember another old 80s ET plagiate with some weirdly singing little alien living in an American household, which was kind of psychedelic.

Ordinary people hide away a strange being from society. That’s pretty much like having that weird hobby The Occult at home and maybe your neighbours have no idea what strange things you do there in your little cosy temple.

C-theoretically these films and shows prepared us for something, like I said in the nineties: the media want us to get used to the grey-image.

Whatever, the bomb won’t fall, and there’ll be no invasion, I am sure.

Or does anyone here seriously consider 2012?

I just came back from lovely holidays and everything makes me feel like it’s Autumn. First thing I did after coming back was to get my old photos from Scotland onto a computer and make a dvd from them. I concentrated mostly on short movies and photos from my magickal practice. Watching the old photos just reminded me so much of my time in Scotland. Everything that was good and bad about it. It seems so distant from where I am now not only in a sense of space (8 hours on a train) but also magickally, I moved on quite a bit since then. My life really has changed. Some of my older photos are so funny! I can’t believe what magick meant to me back then and the way I was doing things! The most funny is a photo of a cake of light size of a doughnut! I remember stuffing it with fruits!

There are pics from more advance workings and rituals. The videos are great. Watching them is magickal. It feels like linking to what I was doing back then, like tuning into the currents I worked with and having sort of a flash back. When I was doing them (the videos) I wasn’t even sure if I will keep them. Idea was brilliant though. I wish I would have more of them. Obviously not all magickal working can be recorded in this way. Sometimes it would be just distortion, it could be inappropriate. Otherwise it is a really good idea. I’m nicely surprised with it. It’s great to see yourself performing ritual. The magick is there, almost visible on the screen. It is impressive. Having the ritual properly recorded on a camera can spare quite a lot of writing  of magick diary. Instead of describing in scrupulous detail you can just watch it! Only thing you still need to take notes of is time and feelings, thoughts. It cuts down on other descriptions and seem much more fun. I’m tempted to come back to it.

This is as far as I’ve been able to get with some Alchemical studies I’ve been

casually researching over the last few months:

Consider this piece of amateur biochemistry (I’m not a chemist so have no idea

if this would work in practise, but the reactions are from textbooks):

1) Production of Prima Materia / Western Sulphur

The Prima Materia is often refered to as Faeces (or Carbon Humanum) from

which maybe extracted Western Sulphur (acc to Paracelsus)

by Putrefaction and Distillation.

The component of shit that makes it smell is Indole, which can be extracted by

Distillation (Putrefaction may help?).

Indole can also be synthesised from Indigo containing plants (such as Woad or Asp

of Jerusalem) by treating its ppt Fermentation product with sulphurous Oleum (Vitriol / Sulphuric Acid + the oxides of Sulphur produced at high temperature).

It can also be produced by the putrefaction of certain Tryptophan containing food stuffs (egg

white and dairy products and some meats).

Alternatively it may also be Fractionally Distilled from the Coal Tar bi-product of the baking of

Coal into Coke in a furnace.

All of these are comparable to well known Alchemical processes.

2) The Fountain of the Philosophers / Fusion of Opposites.

The merger of a threefold flow from the Fountain or Spring is shown as one of the earliest stages in Alchemy and normally consists of the combination of three different waters (as shown in the Fountain from the Rosarium Philosophorum):

Aqua Vitae (’Mineral Water’) + Acetum Fontis (’Vegetable Water’ / ‘Vinegar’ / ‘Acid’) + Lac Virginis (’Animal Water’ / ‘Virgin’s Milk’).

The mixture is usually shown being drunk by ‘Alchemists’.

Acetum Fontis is the general term for an Acid and may be Aqua Regia (a mix of Hydrochloric and Nitric Acid), Aqua Fortis (Nitric Acid), Spirit of Salts (Hydrochloric Acid), Vitriol (Sulphuric Acid), Common Vinegar (Acetic Acid) or any unknown acidic product.

Aqua Vitae is the ‘water from the earth’ or ‘water of life’ and may be the pure Mineral Water of hot springs which releases Lithium Carbonate as a ppt when cooled with the aid of various catalysts (maybe it also included ’sugary water’, see below?).

Lac Virginis may simply be lactation milk (or any bodily fluid from a female) which among other things contains high amounts of Phosphorus.Some images show it mixed with blood, which contains a lot of things, but includes Dimethylamine (DMA), particular in those recently eating seafood (perhaps significantly the milk producing virgin sits on a fish or is mermaid in some images, often for no obvious reason).

If we speculate that the ‘Alchemist’ is really another male solar archetype, like the King, or Sulphur, then the ‘drinking’ may indicate Sulphur absorbing the Waters. Particularly the ‘Sulphur’ of the Alchemist themselves?

3) Missing Ingredients.

All we need to add to this mix is:

Copper (symbolically linked with female archetypes in Alchemy, classically Aphrodite / Venus). The young, heavenly Aphrodite Urania, was often considered a ‘virgin’, like Diana and Athena, in Greco-Roman Myth. Perhaps that also corresponded to a pure form of Copper or even to Copper Ore that was not processed?

Aluminium (a rare free metal in Volcanic Clay, and traditionally a ‘hybrid of Silver and Gold’ (at least symbolically)).

It was well known as a precious metal on a par with Silver and Gold in the late Middle Ages (sometimes even more valuable).

Note: the ‘mineral star’ in the Rosarium lies between the ‘animal sun’ and ‘vegetable moon’, which elsewhere indicate Gold and Silver. This thus often signified Mercury, but not always perhaps, Alchemical symbols are renowned for their multiple meanings.

Other ‘mineral stars’ are in contact with the Waters producing gases from which a double headed serpent appears to be the final product of mineral fusion.

Distillate of Sugar Cane, which was a major product of Moorish Spain in Middle Ages, but alas is not mentioned in any obvious Alchemical references (a secret ingredient??). Could it have just been regarded as another mineral (crystalline sugar was initially called ’sweet salt’)?

Perhaps its energy giving properties meant it was seen as another salt in the ‘Waters of Life’??

4) DMT Production.

Now with close reference to the above note the following:

Stage 1

When Hydrochloric Acid is added to Phosphorus (in the presence of Copper Oxide) at high temperatures (400 C) Chloride is produced that may react with the Phosphorus, producing Phosphorus Pentachloride (the Copper Oxide will also react with the acid, to produce Copper Chloride, a necessary catalyst for this high temp reaction, at a lower temperature while it is gradually increased).

(Fountain Vinegar + Virgin’s Milk?).

If Phosphorus Pentachloride is mixed with Oxalic Acid, under certain conditions, its produces Oxalyl Chloride.

Oxalic Acid is produced by the action of Nitric Acid on Sugar solutions.

(Sugar Water or Water of Life added to another Fountain Vinegar + (Virgin’s Milk+Fountain Vinegar) reaction?).

Oxalyl Chloride reacts strongly with Indole to produce IOC (Indole Oxalyl Chloride). A golden ppt.

(Western Sulphur absorbing the Water of the Fountain?).

IOC reacts further with Dimethylamine to produce IGA (also golden ppt?).

(Western Sulphur absorbing the blood aspect of the Virgin’s Milk?).

Stage 2.

Aluminium (found in Volcanic Mud) reacts with Hydrochloric Acid to produce Hydrogen Gas and Aluminium Trichloride.

The Lithium Carbonate in cooled Spring Water can react with excess Hydrogen Gas to form Carbonic Acid and Lithium Hydrate.

(Fountain’s Vinegar + Mineral Water (with Aluminium) producing two white ppts?).

Aluminium Trichloride plus Lithium Hydrate in solution forms LAH (Lithium Aluminium Hydride) a white ppt?

(The dual serpent?).

Stage 3.

The white LAH carefully combined with golden IGA produces DMT……

(the Lunar and Solar ppts combined?).

Critique.

Alchemical Issues.

Unfortunately we have a secret ingredient (Sugar) and a subjective interpretation of the Alchemical processes, terms and images, whose modified sequence isnt exactly matched in any Alchemical text I’ve yet found.

Solution? The secret ingredient and correct process is a secret not revealed publically, but only orally or via initiation??

Chemical Issues.

Although one mode of the synthesis of DMT is as described above (in terms of components), the biochemical process is slightly more complex as performed today, involving a variety of difficult techniques (cooling, constant stirring, use of ether solvents to wash, catalysts etc)

Plus the reactions as described are not guaranteed to work and could even produce lethal bi-products (n.b. Don’t try this at home!).

Solution? Again a more precise technique may have been revealed secretly.

Thus public Alchemy may be a mnemonic device to be combined with other private instructions.

Supporting evidence for Psychedic Alchemy.

Rye bread Ergot poisoning produced toxic psychedelic trips in the early medieval Alchemy period, the source was not known, but the effect became known as St Anthony’s Fire (after the temptation and psychic assaults on the Saint that led to his ‘enlightenment’).

A monastic ‘Order of St Anthony’ of the 12th and 13th centuries worked on caring for and healing the sufferers of Ergot poisoning, and seemingly transforming it into a religious experience. Their feast day was January 17.

January 17 crops up in many French occult mysteries, notably those used in the Priory of Sion hoax and the Rennes le Chateau phenomena (most famously the ‘Blue Apples at Noon’ riddle, actually a reference to an alleged spectacular light show in the church at noon on January 17, when light shines through a stained glass window of the resurrection of Lazarus (near a statue of St Anthony).

Which may refer to an Ergot cult?

Ergot use is quite dangerous, perhaps explaining a number of sometimes mysterious deaths often by ‘natural causes’ on this day among certain related groups.

Hermeticists long suspected the Kykeon potion of the Eleusinian Mysteries was a synthetic producer of mystical experience. Its formula was a mystery (modern evidence indicates it was based on Ergoline, but have failed to reproduce its effects).

It is possible that at least some Alchemists may have been searching for a safer ‘entheogen’ in the light of the Ergot cult and research into the true nature of Kykeon. Curiously in the late 14th century Nicholas Flamel claimed to complete his Great Work on Jan 17. B)-

This may not explain all forms of Alchemy but may do some.

All coincidence or is there perhaps some truth to this speculation I wonder?

Kao

I do not know if it is my browser or what. Every page of kiamagic.com works fine, but when I try to read forum topics or post, it takes a very long time for them to load or to post. I will try it in another browser later today. at the bottom of the browser, it says ‘waiting for kiamagic.com’ and I wait….. haven’t actually timed it, but it is way slower for me than it used to be.

Any ideas what might be happening?

(Note: This article was originally written for Key64 and published a while back.  However since they seem to be down at the moment I’ve decided to republish).
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