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can do anything unimpeded, whatever his senses desire."
-(The Book of the Dead, Chapt. 163)
The impurities do not lie in the corporeal (in the Astral Body), but in the Animal
Soul (Ka). That is why the purification of the Animal Soul is referred to again and
again:
"Your Purification is the Purification of the gods, which are gone to
their Ka. You are pure, your Ka is pure, you Ba is pure ... Horus
cleanses you with the heavenly moisture (the Life-Water)."
-(Egyptian Pyramid Texts - Verse 452)
"The Light of the body is the eye. When this light is pure, your whole
body shall be full of light."
-(Matthew 6-22)
"The Earth is in its own nature, a beautiful crystalline body, as light as
the Heaven ... Consequently, it is clear, so that the darkness comes to
the fire."
-(Thomas Vaughan, Aula Lucis)
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The Mystery of Alchemy
The Central-Secret of Alchemy is the threefold Re-birth of the Spirit, the Soul and the
Body. The mysterious occurence stands in a certain parallel to the ancient Mysteries,
which were discussed in great detail for this particular reason.
The Lapis Philosophorum is the Mystery of the inner Salt-Body. The whole Magnum
Opus of Hermetics revolves around the dissolution, transformation and
spiritualization of the same. It is the impure half material Soul-Body (soma
psychicon), who through a succession of very secret processes, should be changed
into pure Spirit-Body (soma pneumaticon).
The hermetic sciences have, in order to describe these mystical processes, adopted
many pictures out of the myths of antiquity, and have taken out of the domain of
chemistry a number of symbols. Thusly, a peculiar compositum of technical
expressions came into being, that to the uninitiated gave cause to the greatest
variations and to the most absurd or nonsenical interpretations.
However, the Initiates knew that as far as Alchemy was concerned, they were dealing
solely with the Mystery of the threefold Re-Birth of Water, Blood and Spirit, whose
secret processes the disciple of the hermetic arts had to pass through by himself. Just
as once the "Mystic of Antiquity" experienced in a mysterious manner on himself the
destiny of dying and being the resurrected Son of God.
This Re-Birth and Resurrection takes place in the living Human Being and not in a
dead corpse. Because this incorruptible resurrected body is born of the immortal
Spirit, and not from corruptible matter.
It is a great error to believe that after death this spiritual body, in some miraculous
manner, comes into being by itself. Just as it would be in error to assume, that this
Spirit-Body would already be in existance in us. The only thing left to do would be to
slip out of the coarse material earthly body in order to continue to live in the World
Beyond in the more subtile immortal body.
What is, however, already in existance in us, is the so-called "Soul-Body" (soma
psychicon) of the Apostle Paul. That means, the impure half-material Astral-Body, the
Mumia of Paracelsus, the Habal-Garmin (Bone-Spirit) of the Quabbalists which,
however, contains too many impurities from the earthly matter, and that is why the
Soul-Body in the "World Beyond" is inevitably subject to dissolution if he is not
purified during our lifetime and transformed into a transfigured Spirit-Body.
The half-material Astral-Body is the Doppelgänger of the elementary physical Body.
He builds and nourishes himself of its finest substance, the same as the plant
nourishes and builds itself up out of the finest energies of the Earth. The Astral-Body,
which is being placed between the Animal-Soul and the Earthly-Body does not only
take its nourishment out of the substance of the latter, but takes even
considerably more out of the substance of the lower Animal-Soul, since the half
material Astral Body is the connecting link between the lower Animal-Soul and the
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earthly body. That is why he is actually the image (eidolon) of the Animal-Soul,
which formed him, while he owes the earthly body only to a part of his half-material
substance.
Here on Earth in the coarse earthly body, we Human Beings can hide from each other
as if behind a mask. Through death this outer shell falls away, and everyone's true
form or shape (the naked form of his Soul-Body) shows, and nothing can be covered
up or concealed any more.
Whosoever wants to have a pure and well-built form in the life beyond, should make
the effort now in this life, to develop a noble character. All psychic impurities must be
cast off and in our innermost we have to let the Divine emerge, so that the Soul-Body
can become transfigured and immortal. Then the God-Man can be born in the Soul
and can take shape and form, which no longer represents the image of the animal, but
the re-established image of the heavenly.
-(1. Corinth. 15-49)
Because, when the Human Being becomes again the pure Image of the Elohim, which
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