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Alchemical sulfur1/12/2024 We already talked about the four elements: air, water, fire and earth. Samael Aun Weor told us that there four primary elements in Alchemy. How we clean ourselves in order to liberate the trapped energy. So these images are about that process of psychological purification. The most important ones are in our heart and mind, since bodies come and go. Those causes are in our mind, heart, and body. We described for you how through an intimate self-observation, through self-knowledge, we start to see and deal with that causes of our suffering. These first images shows some of those Alchemical drawings that illustrate or symbolize the process of psychological purification that we need, the process of cleaning our psyche. So in the previous lecture, we described for you how this process of purification is described in many ways in Alchemy. It is that part of us that is here in a physical earth, but also needs to be purified. That is also our earth, alchemically speaking. What matters more is what inhabits the body, which is our psyche. We need to take care of it and use it well, but really, we have had many bodies already, and we will have more, hopefully, if we have earned it. The physical body is impermanent, temporary. Our physical body is not as important as we think it is. That purification is not simply physical, it is on every level. This is why Alchemy describes in all of its images and scriptures processes of purification using many different types of terms and symbols and images, processes, allegories, metaphors, symbolic mysteries that describe the process of being purified. For that to happen, our earth needs to become pure. So the term Alchemy is about the relationship between Al (God) and Khem, (the black earth: us), and our goal is to fuse them. Our earth, our body, our self, is blackened, impure, filled with suffering, filled with anger, lust, pride, envy and all the other problems we have. We discussed that the element earth represents our body, matter, whether physical matter or in the internal worlds it is the matter of those worlds. In the first lecture in this series about Alchemy, we explained that the four elements of Alchemy are symbolic, not literal. Translated from ancient Egyptian Khem means “the black earth.” That is the old Egyptian name for Egypt: Khem. At the same time chem or khem is also from Egyptian. Kimia (Greek χυμεία) means “to fuse or cast a metal.” Most people have heard that Alchemy is about transmuting lead into gold or transforming impure metals into purified metals.
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