In this lecture we will discuss the 7 stages of transformation described in the ancient Emerald Tablet - Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation and Coagulation. We become rooted in a larger reality that gives us resilience, endurance and wisdom, linking us to the vast archetypal realms of the Objective Psyche. ‘ Things oppress us not because of an objective world, but because of a self-deceiving mind.’ In the Azoth we collect our scattered psyche, which we have projected onto the outer world, and by means of the 7 Alchemical Operations, create the Philosopher’s Stone - the unified Cosmic Self.
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The Wheel of Azoth contains within it instructions on how to transform our karmic burdens: the mental anguish of our negative complexes and neuroses the places where we are unrelated, stubborn and fixed in our attitudes, feelings and beliefs. This is the universal medicine, the elixir of life, the unifying force capable of reconciling all of Nature. Azoth is the name of the universal Life Force, the evolutionary force of the Cosmos. In this lecture we will be studying the Wheel of Azoth by the 17th century Alchemist Basil Valentine. Jung called it the ‘ science of the Soul.’ The true goal of alchemy is not to gain wealth or power, the art of alchemy is concerned with psychological transformation: changing the ego-personality into something infinitely precious - an awakened consciousness liberated from the conditioned mind. THE WHEEL OF AZOTH - JAN 31st, 7pm-8.30pm Alchemy is the study of transformation. In this lecture we will explore the 12 links in the chain of interdependent origination, the 6 egoic states of mind, the 5 components of existence, and the 3 poisons and their antidotes. The path to enlightenment is through our own mind, not outside it. To change our idea of ourselves and the world is the crux of all spiritual and esoteric paths this is an essential act if we are to evolve and grow.
We learn to see the projections of the mind for what they are - the habits and conditionings of a limited consciousness trapped in an endless cycle of repetition. The Bhavachakra teaches us how to break the chain of causation to transform our ego-mind and reveal our true nature.
Jung said that the ego-mind is a chain of causation carried by karma. We live by many delusions, and one of them is that we experience the true nature of reality, but what we experience is created by our own inner psychological states of mind. The attitudes of our ego-mind keep us operating from a false self, cycling through our negative complexes and neuroses leaving us perplexed and disturbed at where we find ourselves, repeating crisis after crisis, generation after generation. It is a map of the psyche illustrating the forces at work which control how and what the mind can perceive. THE BHAVACHAKRA - JAN 24th, 7pm-8.30pm The Bhavachakra, meaning Wheel of Becoming, is a Buddhist teaching wheel concerning the origin of the conceptual mind and its attitudes.
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