‘What Is Hermetic? What Is Alchymie?’

Alchemy is commonly known as the transmutation of base metal into gold. Considering this as an early form of chemistry is fallacious. In our understanding, this statement is a metaphor, being that it is the person that is the base metal. So it is about enlightenment – the gold of enlightenment.

Our Alchymeic Energy Work is a supreme mystery and essentially manifest as a display of pre-cosmic energy organised for the sake of human beings. There is no physical chemistry involved. To differentiate our work from the association of alchemy with early chemistry, we spell the word as it was in the old language – Alchymie – and call the Products Alchymeic. This reflects our understanding of Alchymie as real spiritual transformation.

Alchymie is a mystical transformation of celestial proportions that is characterised by slow and steady heat. Alchymie is constantly tended through steady discipline to enact what is truly a miraculous transformation of mankind into God.

The origins of Alchymie are ancient and mysterious. The legendary Egyptian philosopher and Alchymist, Hermes Trismegistus (also known as Thoth), developed the alchymeic process known as Hermetic or Hermetic Science and wrote the Emerald Tablet. Upon this Emerald Tablet, Hermes inscribed his famous observation “As Above, So Below”, as well as a description and language of the process of creation. Most, if not all, historical evidence of Hermes Trismegistus, including the Emerald Tablet, has been destroyed, hidden or lost over time. There are now only channeled or intuited versions available. (The Hermetic Emerald Tablet Pendant is modelled on all that the original Emerald Tablet was when it was extant.)

The possibility that any serious statement of Hermetic Science exists with any authority is most unlikely. Commonplace descriptions may exist in the world of the “puffers” and those willing to make exorbitant statements. (Puffers are dilletantes with respect to Alchymie, huffing and puffing and getting nowhere, because they take it all so literally!) We have to separate myth from actuality.

Gold as a metal is normally made in stars (through nuclear fusion). Imagine trying to transmute it from base metals in a little pot on earth! The process of turning lead into gold has to be metaphorical or allegorical.Turning us into enlightened beings itself takes a huge amount of energy and is remarkably difficult – practically impossible for most people. Spiritual transformation has all the elements of Alchymie – it requires a huge amount of heat applied steadily over years to make a difference to the usual consciousness, which is dense, karmic and lead-like. Gold is the symbol of enlightenment.

A further point of note:
Alchymie is a preternatural human art, it is not something that simply occurs in the realm of nature (despite popular language which often suggests it is).

There is scant information on Pharaonic Alchymie, but it can be surmised that Hermetic Alchymie is a development upon Pharaonic Alchymie. The scarcity of historical information leaves us little else to say. Thus, the Alchymie of Hermes Far Eastern Shining is part of the Hermetic tradition, although it is utterly different from the commonplace understanding – it is not even historical, it is a new expression of it, a renewed vision, through Divine inspiration and the Hermetic spirit.
“This work is Hermetic Science.

Here, science is to mean more than what science means today. Herein, science is to mean not merely an examination of the gross physical dimension, but an examination of the whole cosmic presentation, which is the absolute unity.

This meaning of the word science can certainly achieve a unity with spirituality, therefore existing beyond all duality.

Beyond Left and Right – Beyond Male and Female – Beyond High and Low.

Each tiny aspect of the cosmos is thus polarised and exists as an indivisible unity”.

Written by the Alchymist – Jessa O’My Heart