© 2018 Dilip Rajeev

All Rights Reserved.

Trust to thyself and not to another;
I can say no more to thee if thou were my brother.
Now you might
wonder
live a few centuries ago?
didn’t Theophrastus
And, didn’t
Flamel die?
W ell, if only you knew what alkymysts do.
A nd do alchemists write in unobscured words
about alchemy? Not necessarily.

S till, when all that exists is obscurity, the

alchemist is bound to use the distillum of esoteric

knowledge, A drop of the distillum potentially revives
ancient traditions.

I t is for that matter, gentle reader, I, Nicholas

Flamel, decided to write down the esoteric doctrine of
Theophrastus.

Give this book to the worthy,

And from the unworthy, take efforts to hide this
tract.
After an evening of debate with
Theophrastus, I decided not to have him use the
alchemical terms in writing this tract. If we write
in terms of the Luna and the Sun, The philosophical
gold, and the tincture that needs the saliva of the
Griffin, we’d fare no better than the alchemists who
hid ideas in writing better than they revealed any
idea.
And so I
asked Theophrastus to draw from his
ancient knowledge of traditions.

T he idea were to write to the world in

terms of their traditions. The
Druids, the Pythagoreans, the
ancient Indians, the traditions that appeared in the
world during various ages. If truth be one, they, the
true traditions, ought be saying one thing. And the
One thing, as Newton’s translation of the
Philosopher’s Stone recipe of the Emerald Stone

A
says, is what the alchemist deals with as well.

nd now that the

risk of organized
religions burning
people on the stake is null, nobody
runs the risk that Gordano Bruno did, in attempting
to reveal the ancient doctrine.
A s an alchemist, these ideas aren’t
entirely alien to me. And I’ve had
the time over the past dozen or so
decades to acquaint myself with the essence of it.
Yet, I put myself in the shoes of an ordinary wordly
man, and asked Theophrastus the things a person
seeking the ancient secrets would want to understand.
Part 1
Flamel: What Did the Druids believe in?
It is said they had the ancient keys.
Theophrastus: Well.. this isn’t an easy
science to explain. So I’d urge the reader to
be with me. I’d start with an overall view,
and things will fall in place, as you persist
with your questions.
Theophrastus now took out his phone and searched
for something on the Druids. “It’s better that I
substantiate what I say with quotes from writers
before,“ said Theo. “You just can’t attribute
everything to two dead alchemists.”

The druids were forbidden to write down their

teachings. And it survived as an oral lineage. Yet,
from historical writings we have an overall idea of
what they believed in.
“ With regard to their actual course of studies, the main

object of all education is, in their opinion, to imbue their

scholars with a firm belief in the indestructibility of the human
soul”

- Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico,

 The
Theophrastus:

indestructibility of
the human soul is at
the foundation of all authentic traditions.
The human soul is an eternal spark of God,
and just as God is – the human soul is
beyond suffering, unblemishable. Never ceases
to exist. Never were born in the universe. It
existed prior to the Universe. And will exist
after the universe ceases to exist.

Just as with the

Druids’, all of the
Pythagoreans teachings weren’t preserved, and
the essenital ideas have survived in words of
ancient historians and authors of later ages.
 st
The Greek historian from 1 century BC,
Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor,
wrote that the Druids shared the essential
ideas with the Pythagoreans, “The
Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the
Gauls' teaching that the souls of men are
immortal,”

I asked,
“Thophrastus, do we need all these quotes?” “
I see that you are pulling that from
Wikipedia.”
“Flamel, well, as I said, it’s better than
asking people to believe two dead alchemists.”
“That’s thoughtful. I agree”

F lamel: ”Are
there other
traditions that
speak of what you’ve
described?”
Theophrasts: “ Yes, the words used
are different, yet, they all speak of the same
Idea. Where shall we start – which part of
the world?”
Flamel: “What
about ancient
India?”
T: Well.. That’s a great place to start. In
the ancient Indian writing, the Gita, the
One tells Arjuna,
“N ever has there been
an instant where I
have not existed,
Nor you, Nor these Kings of men,
Nor will there be an instant so in
the future” – Verse 12, Chapter 2.
The Gita.
The idea is that
just as the One
always existed, so
has the individual
souls. The
individual sparks
of God, the souls
are eternal, and
will never cease
to exist.
Iinsert here a translation, and
explanation of the verse from the “As
It Is” translation of the Gita.
F: “I understand
the Gita is the
most revered of
ancient Indian
writings. What
about other
scriptures from
ancient India?”
Theophrastus:
In a verse from the Vedas, the God, and the
Individual sparks are referred to as the
Father and the Sons.

The Vedas cryptically say, “The Father and

the sons are of the same age.” The idea being
that they have always existed.
The Vedic writings attribute three aspects to
the One.
the universe. One is the God,

The Second is Individual

beings. The Third is the All

pervading aspect of the One.
The Upanishadic
writings speak of
this. I’d just
guide you through
verses from one
of the
Upanishads here.
The Svetasvatara Upanishad
says,
Note: Brahman is an ancient term for the
absolute, described often as the All Pervading.
Brah, the word meant “great” and man, mind,
the conscious self.

“
-
T
“the self.”
he term for soul in ancient
Sanskrit is Atma. This
has often been translated as

A s you’d need to do with all

ancient writings, when you
study the excerpt, take time to
understand deeply what it says. And be
patient as your understanding forms over
time. It might not be possible to grasp all
ideas of a field in initial study. Yet, read,
ponder what might be being said.
-
While on this discussion, I would like to
introduce a few terms from the ancient
Sanskrit. One is “Avyaktam” –
the term means “the unmanifest.”
The entirety of what exists is the unmanifest
The manifest
and the manifest.

appears from the

unmanifest and is
absorbed back in.
So all realms of the manifedst universe are
thought to be temporary. It dies, into the
origin itself.
I want you to keep the idea in mind, and I
will get to this afterward.
You have the unmanifest, the abode of the
One, the Lord, that is Eternal. And the
perishable manifest which appears forth from
the unmanifest.
In Indian mythology, Brahma appears at
the beginning of a Universe. After 100 years
of Brahma, which is over 311.04 trillion
human years, the Brahma dies. The Universe
is absorbed back.
The soul of Brahma, the spark inside, of
course doesn’t die. Just as the individual
human doesn’t die after a lifespan.
The usage of term Brahma in mythology is
Brahman
different from the usage of

in upanishadic writings. Brahman

refers to the All Pervading.
The soul sparks outlives the universe, and in
another cycle, as if without will, the
Individual Souls are projected into the
manifest by the One.
Flamel: “What about
traditions in Tibet? Do
they speak of the same
idea as the Druids and
the Indians?”

Theophrastus: The highest

traditions in Tibet do.
The Tibetan traditions
reached there from India.

They have have the

traditions starting with
Mialrepa. And
Milarepa’s teacher were
“Marpa, the Translator.”
Translator of what?
Indian traditions, of
course.

To understand what they

originally believed in we’d
have to resort to the
writings of Milarepa.
“ Accustomed long to
meditating on the Unborn,
the Indestructible, the
Unchanging,
I have forgotten all definitions of
this or that particular goal.” -
Milarepa , Evans-Wentz, 1971;pp 245-
247
 the Unborn,
The Universal Self is described as the

the Indestructible, the Unchanging,

in ancient Indian writings.

In those traditions, the goal were

described as the Union of the Soul
and the Universal Soul.
They focused on that aspect of the
One, the All Pervading Universal
Self.

The Yoking with the One, is the

Yoking of the Flowing Alchemical
Silver from the One.

In the Gita, Arjuna poses the

question to the One,
“Whose Yoga is perfect,
Of those in engaged in devotion to
You,
Or of those who worship the
Imperishable, Unmanifest?”
- Verse 1, Chapter 12, the Gita

The One replies,

“Whose heart is absorbed in Me,
Always yoked to Me,
In Devotion, thus serves the
Supreme Transcendent,
They are thought by Me to be of
the greatest perfection in Yoga”
- Verse 2, Chapter 12, the Gita

“Yet, those who the Imperishable,

the Indeterminable,
The Unmanifest, Worships,
The Imperceivable, Unthinkable,
The Established, The Immovable,
The Fixed,
The sense aggregates all restrained,
In equilibrium of intelligence on all
sides,
They attain Me as well,
Engaged in the good of all beings.”
- Verse 3-4, Chapter 12, the
Gita
“The difficulties are far greater for
them,
With minds attached to the
Unmanifest,
The unmanifest is a difficult goal,
For embodied beings to achieve” –
Verse 5, Chapter 12, the Gita
The path taken by the great
Tibetan Yogis may be understood
from the above few verses of the
Gita.

Milarepa says, “Dwell alone, and

you shall find the Friend.” Those
who successfully take that path,
again reach to the One. The One
is the Friend of All Beings.
"The enjoyer of all yajnas and
austerities
The Great Lord of All Worlds

The Friend of
All Beings
Knowing Me to Be, Peacefulness
he Attains”
- The Gita, Chapter 5, Verse 29

As they reach the higher realms of

practice, their focus is increasingly
on the Imperishable, the Universal
Self. At the early stages of
practice, they focus on ideas such as
compassion as a way of purifying
the aggregates of the mind. When
the perception of the One emerges,
even those thoughts disappear,
knowing the One is the Friend of
all beings, every trace of material
worry disappears.
Flamel:
“Theopgrastus, In China we
find a few unique traditions.
Daoism, say, has a very unique
flavor. What did the Daoists focus
on in their efforts?”
Theophrastus: “This is best
answered in a quote from the Dao
De Jing.”

"Knowing the Eternal is

Enlightenment" - Dao
De Jing
"The ten thousand things
the
rise and fall while
Self watches
their return.
They grow and flourish
and then return to the
source.
Returning to the source is
stillness, which is the way
of nature.
The way of nature is the
Eternal.
Knowing the Eternal is
Enlightenment.
Not knowing the Eternal
 -
leads to disaster."
Dao De Jing,
Chapter 16
Dao De Jing is thought the source
text of Daoism, and the poem from
Dao De Hing says what the
Daoists focused on in their
endeavour.
The term Wu from Daoism
referred to the Unmanifest. It is
often translated erroneously as
“nothing.”
The Wu of Daoists were the
origin and the end of everything.
The Nothingness of the Daoists
were not a substanceless
nothingness.
As the internet Encyclopaedia of
Philosophy notes, "Did Zhuangzi
believe that our substance was
eternal and only our form changed?
Almost certainly.”

The very alphabet of Chinese is a

field of symbols designed to speak
of the One.
The first entry in the two
thousand year old Chinese
Dictionary, Shuo Wen, is the
character yi, 一, One

Descrubed by the Dictionary, as

the establisher of the Primordial
Dao. The One then generates
Heaven and Earth.

I t is the same doctrine

found in our Emerald
Stone, which says,
”All things have been &
arose from The One.”
The very language were designed to
express the doctrine of the Eternal
One.
Flamel: “What about
Greek traditions who weren’t the
Pythagoreans? Did they have a
similar doctrine?”

Theophrastus: “The
Hermetic stream of thought from
ancient Egypt were established in
Greece. The doctrine of

Hermes speaks in detail of

the One.
In the writings of the Greek sage

Plotinus, is the idea of

the One, discussed in great detail.
"Plotinus taught that there is a
supreme, totally transcendent ‘One,
containing no division, multiplicity,
or distinction; beyond all categories
of being and non-being. His "One"
"cannot be any existing thing", nor
is it merely the sum of all things
(compare the Stoic doctrine of
disbelief in non-material existence),
but “is prior to all
existents" ."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot
inus#One

Understand the phrase “Prior to

All Existents,” as “Unborn.”
Flamel:

W hat about the

traditions of
Middle East?
Say in Christianity?

Theophrastus:
T he most ancient of
Christian
writings, prior to
the establishment of the religion,
say “ The One is the Father.”

O ne of the most
highly respected
writings from the
ancient Christian world were the
Apocryphon of John. And these are
amongst the earliest Christian
writings ever discovered.

A famous poem in
the Apocryphon of
John, “The
Inexpressible One,” says,
“The Inexpressible One
The One rules all. Nothing has
authority over it.
It is the God.
It is Father of everything,
Holy One

The invisible one over everything.

It is uncontaminated
Pure light no eye can bear to look
within.
The One is the Invisible Spirit.
It is not right to think of it as a
God or as like God.
It is more than just God.
Nothing is above it.
Nothing rules it.
Since everything exists within it
It does not exist within anything.
Since it is not dependent on
anything
It is eternal. – Stevan Davies
Translation, The Apocryphon of John, Nag
Hammadi Writing.

This echoes what the

Gita says, “All beings
are in Me, and Me not
in them.”
Speaking of what were taught to
Jesus and what Jesus taught – It
were the doctrine of the One, as the
Father. The One – the
Individual God that transcends
All.

The Holy Spirit

– The All Pervading Aspect of
the One. In Sanskrit and ancient
Vedic writings, this aspect were

the
referred to as

Universal Self.
The word were often, ParamAtma.
Param translates to Supreme and
Atma to Soul, Spirit, Supreme
Soul.
And theSons were the
Individual Souls.

The Union the triad is the

Spiritual work.

It is that Union - Yoking - in

Proto Indo European the bore the
sound Yueg, from which origins
the sound Yoga. The word Yoga
means Union.

These are the three Unborns

which we early on in our discussion
discovered were discussed in the
ancient Upanishadic text.
The Bible uses the phrase, the

Father who is
hidden, unseen, etc., to
say that the abode
of the One, is the
Unmanifest. The
“Avyaktam” – the not perceived, the
hidden. Avyaktam is in a
grammatic sense the opposite of
vyaktam, that which is apparent,
obvious. Hidden, thus. The Greek
manuscripts use the word krypto,
hidden.
Poets such as Rumi and
Hafiz from the Middle
Eastern lands wrote of the
One, as the “Soul of
Souls,” “the Beloved,”
“the Friend,” and so forth.
“What about Zen?”

Zen speaks of meditation on

that which is nothing of the
perishable universe. The Self that
is beyond, and going beyond ideas of
the egoistical self. The term non
self is used to deny false ideas of
the self, in finding the true self,
that is the imperishable, a spark of
the Eternal, a spark of the One,
who is the Universal Self.
Part 2
The Practical
Alchemy
T he foundation of the practical
Alchemy is worshipfulness of
the One.

The Alchemist seeks the Luna, the Soul,

and the Sun, the One.

As the Upanishads say, only when blessed by

the One does the being gain awareness of its
soul.

The being is usually in an awareness of the

sense perceptions, and the thought aggregates.
The soul perception, or the perception of the
God Spark within is engendered in Alchemy.

Seeking, the One, in Worshipfulness,

expressing the wish from the Heart to the
One, one approaches the One..
F lamel: There have been different
systems, even amongst the
alchemist. What would you
describe here?

T heophrastus: The alchemists

have often taken study of
nature as the Path. The
One pervades in Nature. So Natural
Philosophy, were a way of seeking Him.
Others have sought Him through the study of
their fields. Beethoven in music.
Friedrich Schiller writes,
“I speak with the Eternal through

the instrument of nature.” ”I read the

Soul of the artist in his Apollo.”

Flamel: Study has been the path of the
Alchemist, yet there are those who have taken
paths that aren’t focused on philosophical
study.

Theophrastus: Of course it needn’t be focused

on study itself. I will describe in detail what
is sought on the path, and the way to find it.
A Path of ease and pleasure that can be
walked by anyone.
The alchemy of finding the soul
T he soul seeks to engage in
its own path of action. Its
own nature of activity.

For each individual the nature of that activity

is different. What brings pleasure to your
own soul, what activity is soulful, the activity
that is worshipful of the One, that is the
path for the Individual Soul.

When you engage in that work, in those

instants the soul shines through. It is when
the soul’s deeper impulse is ignored – often in
fears, thoughts of greed, and worldly ideas,
that the being falls into a state of suffering,
of meaninglessness.

What is that field of activity? It is often

found in what interests and aspirations you
have ignored. What you would rather do – if
you had the absolute freedom to.

For some it might be fulfilling their familial

responsibilities. For others it might be
research into different fields. In its own
unique nature, the soul shines through in
activity that flows forth from itself.

When activity of own soul is engaged in, in

Worshipfulness of the One, the being
transcends.

Activity is not engaged in for the temporary

results. But for finding that God spark
within.

Identification with what emerges forth in

activity and all the aggregates of the mind,
and unnecessary worries are avoided. The
action is done. The outcome sense abandoned
unto the One.

By abandoning outcome doesn’t mean

abandoning anything in a physical sense. But
the mind’s false identification with it. The
results of the work have to be often firmly
held on to in this world.

A King engaging in his work of building a

kingdom has to hold on firmly as his duty to
what he builds, and as his duty to the
Kingdom. Yet the heart is beyond affectation
by the world.

In the ancient Indian writings, Janaka

says, “And if I were to lose the entirety of
my Empire, I would have lost nothing.” At
the same time Janaka were a dutiful
Emperor. I love the way the Hobbit themed
lyrics describe the attitude. And if it were to
all go up in Flames, the attitude would be
“O’ Father, Stand by as we will, Watch the
flames burn auburn on the mountain side.”
The hobbit witnessing the disaster that burns
his world down, threatening own life, even
marvels at it, sees it not as a tragedy, but
as the soul about to return to the world of
the Father. Having done his best to fight the
tragedy, he witnesses the phenomenon as a
return, within the Wil of the Father, with
the joyfulness and excitement of return inside.
Asking the father for a few instants to
watch the flames. While raising a glass of
wine. The attitude emerges from
understanding the invincibility of the
individual soul, and awareness that the One
is a Friend to All.
Whatever happens to the world, the alchemist
despite always doing the best for its
betterment, is able to take it with a smile.
Knowing the Eternity of the souls, and that
the Father, the One is always a Friend to
all beings, the illusions of the world often
hardly affects him.

Speaking of alkymysts he works in the

illusion, in the patterns of the world, engaged
in it exactly as everyone else is, but in a
hidden sense, taking those grosser patterns
and distilling the subtle from it.

The same effort a greedy individual might

engage in the world, for the sake of wordly
aspirations alone, and often being broken by
it, and harming the world in it, the alchemist
engages in for the betterment of the world,
unaffected by it, beyond identification with the
outcome, to fulfill the dictates of own soul.
In worshipfulness of the One.
The path of the individual soul’s
purpose, action, duty, of pleasure in own
soul’s fulfilment is walked, breaking
though difficulties. Unfazed by whatever
turns up.

The alchemist understands the soul to be

beyond blemishes, just as God himself is, and
it being a spark of the One, of God.

Suffering is the denial of own soul. The

soul then seeks to break those patterns by
throwing the being into activity damaging to
itself. The self alone is the friend of the self,
and the self alone is its enemy, as the Gita
says.

What would happen if Beethoven were to

ignore his desire to engage in music? Soon
his soul would throw him into depression and
drunkenness. Ignoring own Joy, and own
purpose, he would engender sin unto himself
and to the world. On the other hand,
engaging in own work, own deepest
aspirations of the soul, through every difficulty
he transcends unaffected by the world, and
established his own glory in this world and
the worlds to be.

In the nectar that flows forth from engaging

with discipline in the soul’s action, own field
of action, in worshipfulness of The One,
abide.

Soulful actions are always of an ideal

nature. And with awareness of the soul, there
is no necessity for dogma, and a set of rules.
In soulful instants a being is in pleasure.
Eventually, on the path of engaging in
action, abandoning the unnecessary
identification with the outcome, the individual
establishes himself in that state where he
perpetually identifies with the flow of Joy
from the soul.
To use the terminology of the alchemists, the
soul is then “fixed” in the body.
The soul is naturally worshipful of the One,
it being a spark of the One.
Thus, engaging in the love of own Luna,
Worshipful of the Sol, the Union of the
Luna, the soul, and the Sol, the One is
done.
Flamel: “What about the study
of Scriptures?”

Theophrastus: “
Scriptural study has the aim of generating
awareness of the One. There are ancient
texts – what’s there in being the idea of
yoking with the One. I ill describe these
ideas.
A scripture is anything that gives a true
understanding of the One. It’s a framework
which guides the process of the Union with
the One.

If it is for that purpose, the scripture is

studied, and if that form of action – the study
– emerges from own soul, then it is good.

It is not beneficial to view scripture in

superficial sense often. What’s the sense in it
that enables the goal of the effort of Union
with the One? That’s a good question to ask
yourself. As the Bible says, “ The letter
kills, but the Spirit gives Life.” Don’t have
the letter or written ideas take away from the
awareness of the Spirit, the One. Instead,
find guidance in the scripture whereby the
awareness of the Spirit is intensified.

There are ancient texts that have been

studied as mystical alphabets, thereby engaging
the psyche in primordial patterns. The forms
of the alphabets have been used to activate the
system, yoke the body to the flowing Silver of
the Philosophers, the energies flowing from the
One. The Earth of the body is absorbed into
that Silver, forming One with it.

As I said, one of the most highly respected

scriptures of the ancient world, is the Gita.
You can patiently study the Gita.

Theophrastus: The As It Is translation

offers a reading from a centuries old tradition
in India. Study a few different translations.
The Vedas can be studied, with the heart on
the One.
This is one of the long lost keys, to
unlocking the Vedas.
The ritualists study it with an external
sense, never benefitting from it.
The Rig Veda itself says,

“ They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna,

Agni, and he is heavenly nobly—winged
Garutman.
To what is One, sages give many a title
they call it Agni, Yama, Matarisvan.”
— Rigveda 1.164.46
And every section of the Vedas, starts with
taking the name of the One. An invocation
such as ‘Hari Om’ is done.

Before the essence were lost, in ancient

India, the study of the Vedas started with
worshipfulness of the One. This were often
done by holding an image of Krishna
endearing to own self, in the heart.
The hymns weren’t addressed to different
Gods, but to the One. Mitra, Varuna,
Agni, were all understood as the One.
Different names to evoke different ideas, and
energies associated with the One. Agni, Fire
literally, had nothing to do with the ordinary
fire. Agni is the One. Agnri also refers to
the energies of the One. The Fire is also
that aspect of the One which enlivens the
Universe, and the body.

Mitra, the term means Friend. The One as

the Friend. Varuna, are the flowing energies
evolving from the One. Vayu, the wind, the
transforming energies, which are established in
the body. Which transform the inner vital.
With that deeper awareness even just a few
minutes of study of the vedas, even in
translation, everyday will bring benefits.

In Studying a scripture such as the Bible,

direct the verses to the One.

“But he knows the way that I take;

when he has tested me, I will come forth as
gold.
My feet have closely followed his steps;
I have kept to his way without turning
aside.” -
Job 23:10, The Bible
Verses from the Bible, guide establishment
of the self, in the One,
“"I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.”
- Psalm 119:10, The Bible

The key to deeper understanding the verses of

the Bible, is the dictum from Jesus,
“Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet
ascended to the Father. Go instead to my
brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my
Father and your Father, to my God and
your God.’ ” - John 20, The Bible
Direct the words toward the Father, the One.

The Gospel of Thomas says, “When you

come to know yourselves, then you will become
known, and you will realize that it is you
who are the sons of the living Father.”
“Man,” “Purusha” is an ancient term in
Sanskrit for both the One, and the
individual soul. Sons of Man, were a term
referring to the Individual Souls.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali describe the

One, Ishwara, as a “Purusha vishesha” A
special Individual, who is unaffected by
Karma, unobstructable, and so forth. See
Verse 24, of Book 1 of the Yopgasutras.
“The highest state of imperturbability arises
from the experience of the Purusha; in this
state even the basic elements of nature lose
their power over us. ”, Sutra 16, Book 1,
YogaSutras . Remember the term Purusha
refers to the One, as well as to the
Individual soul, the self.

The greatest systems of Yoga, involve

worshipfulness of the One as the Individual.
Just as the aspirant is an individual, so is
the One, the God. Ideas that are too
mystical sounding as abstracting the absolute
as nothingness, or as formlessness, often
takes just nowhere.

Flamel: Different systems of practice

exist, what’s particularly good?

Theophrastus: A practice is just a

system of exercises, an activity that aligns
with one’s own soul, which is directed toward
Union with the One.
The aspirant seeks to Union the evolving
Vital energies with the One. And the
energies evolving from the One, with the body.

It is not that a system of exercises such as

tai ji, or a breathing technique such as
pranayama of the Indians have a great
impact in themselves. There are people who do
those exercises all life, achieving nothing.

Yet, when the same activity is done, with the

heart Worshipful of th One, seeking the
Soul, seeking Union with the One, then it
enables the alkymyst to progress.

For instance Pranayama. If it is understood

as breathing for health – that is all it is. If
the aspirant starts with worshipful obescience
to the One, breathes in perception of the One,
yoking own vital to the One, then it is a
great system of practice. The One is the
Beloved of the sages. Just as one might
breathe deep in perception of one’s beloved,
filling the self with the perception, so even
natural breathing, in perception of the One,
unions the system to the One.
The Yajur Veda says, “The In breath are
You, the Out breath are You, the diffusing
breath are You.” The diffusing breath is the
spreading of the breath into the body. The
vitalizing feel when you take a deep breath. “

The same with Tai Ji. The exercises

evolve the vital streams, clean up the
perception, and once the person perceives the
One, the exercises are to be done in
perception of the One.
In fact a lot of traditional arts are system
of practice – be it from that the notes of
music vibrate the spinal spaces, enabling the
energies of the One, to evolve forth as the
heart is kept on the One, or the movements
of traditional martial arts, they all are
potentially systems of hidden alkymykal
endeavor. The whole endeavor in its
sacredness can thus be hidden from the world.

And it is not just the traditional arts –

forms of entertainment that are pleasing to
own soul, all forms of activity, even ordinary
daily activity, if from the soul, forms a
practice by which the soul is evolved forth.
The Yoga Sutras say, in Verse 23 of
Book1, the entire Goal of Yoga is attained
just through worshipfulness of the One, and
no artificial technique needed.
The word Yoga originally only meant
“union.” It is from the Proto Indo
European Yueg. It had no reference to any
exercise.
The Gita says,
“Amongst the folks of the world
Are two paths
Anciently taught by Me
Knowledge Yoga of the Analytical
Philosophers
Action Yoga of the Yogis.” - Verse 3, of
Chapter 3, The Gita
Action from own soul, action in alignment
with own Dharma, were Yoga.
And that action can involve peaceful
meditative exercises such as Tai Ji.
As for which system – there is no one mold
that fits all. Even amongst tai ji – there are
different types of tai ji one that feels better
for an individual needn’t be ideal for another.
Well.. speaking of tai ji, understand the
movements as evolving forth – imitating the
flow of inner energies, the vital in the body.
The exercises often start with the palms
rising along the body, to imitate and urge on
the upward flow of the vital.
For the Alkymyst the system behind whatever
the form is the One. The One is the
Teacher, the Guide, the Friend, the Father.
Well.. not just for the alkymyst – in all
traditions with a deep understanding, it is so.

Flamel: What about a system of

meditation. A technique of meditation?

Theophrastus: The Gita

describes a meditation thus,
“All doors of the body shut,
The Mind absorbed in the heart,
The Prana fixed on the crown,
Established in the yogic state.” – Verse 12,
Chapter 8, the Gita

The doors of the body shut, refers to that

during meditation, the senses are withdrawn.
Prana refers to the life energy. Prana is also
the energy that travels up the Spine. In the
state of the meditation described, the Prana
naturally travels to the top of the head.

“Om, the one syllable Brahman,

Uttering, Thinking of Me,
Who transforms the body,
Goes to the Supreme Goal.” - – Verse 12,
Chapter 8, the Gita

Om in ancient Indian traditions is the

Primodial Word. Om is also thought the
name of the Primordial One. The First
Sound.

The body is set into vibration in Om. Either

silently chanting, or by chanting the same in
a soft voice. The entire body, is set to
vibration in the sound, and the body
transforms thus.
The Mind Absorbed, in the Heart, thinking
of the One, one utters the Sound
“ooooooooommmmmmm,” setting the entire body
into vibration in it, transforming it. The
meditation can be done as per your ability.

If the attention travels outward, bring it

back into the heart, and the yoga state.

Jesus attempts to teach the meditation in

these words, “Go into your room, close the
door and pray to your Father, who is
unseen.” – Matthew 6:6
The word unseen refers to that the abode of
the Father is in the unmanifest. Study
verses from Chapter 8 of the Gita to deeper
understand the idea of the unmanifest.
https://asitis.com/8/
The universe is layered
and multidimensional. Deeper
dimensions are often referred to with terms
such as “heavens.”
Flamel: “ There are Buddhist
traditions that speak of avoiding attachments.
What is the alchemical view on that? Do
alchemists avoid attachments?”

Theophrastus: “ The word

translated as “attachment” in Buddhism, were
Upadna. Well... here.. Wikipedia explains the
word thus, Updadana is a Vedic
Sanskrit and Pali word that means
“fuel, material cause,
substrate that is the
source and means for
keeping an active process
energized".
Words alter their meaning in time. The English of Beowulf is
unintelligible to us. The same with writings of ancient
traditions. The ancient deeper senses were lost, and superficial
ideas were adopted.

The substance of attachment is the alchemical

fuel. It is not through avoiding a deep friendship or love, but
in the deep friendship, and love that the being transcends. It is
easy to avoid the world saying “attachment” – while the mind
always remains attached to its own aggregates – whether things
are artificially avoided in the world or not.
Often, we find ideas such as “attachment leads to suffering”. It
is not the form of attachments that leads to suffering - it is
ignorance.
The alchemist understands that the soul is eternal, the One is
the Friend of all beings, and there is no room for deeper worry
in any phenomenon.
And since what takes form is the eternal itself. Friendships,
family, etc., aren’t patterns that disappear or form by chance.
What attachments are broken off from what is eternal? And
where does the deeper understanding allow for any room for
superficial suffering?
The Buddhist path often focused on meditation. In the state
of meditation, of course they have to withdraw attention from the
world. The same theory doesn’t apply to another path.
Further, false ideas of non-attachment run against the ancient
dictums,
"Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear
of the Almighty.” – Job 6:14, The Bible

In the Gita, The One advises Arjuna

against withdrawing from the world.
The One Himself touches beings in patterns of Friendship, of
Love – if those aggregates are abandoned, what is the outcome?
That is why the Buddha referred to the aggregates of
attachment as “Fuel.” The ancient doctrine were never written
down at that time. After centuries an altered version were
practiced.
Take a study of the poems of Mira Bai, who described herself
as “Intoxicated in the Love of Krishna.”
Drink the Nectar of Divine Love, says Mira. And He takes
you to the other shone.
Only through Profoundest Love and Deepest Worshipfulness of

the One is the One approached. Those who resort

to false ideas of non-attachment, and whatever not after a
thousand years of lineage even form the idea that the One
exists. He is unapproachable by any technique. Abandoning, the
very fuel that allows them to approach the One, they never go
far. The One.. finding the One, in Love for the
One is what alchemy is about. Loving worshipfulness of the
One is the Path.
For the sake of un distracted study there are those who have
withdrawn from the world. That’s a different idea. They were only
withdrawing out of attachment to study. An intense attachment to
profound analytical meditation. The good part of Buddhist meditation
were large part analytical. It were originally the path of analytical
philosophy.

It is sufficient to look at patterns taken by

great Kings such as Solomon. Did they avoid
the world?
Did not Janaka engage in the world?
The world and its forms, engaged in good
patterns, is a way by which the One is
worshipped.
The world patterns are not held on to in a
superficial sense, but in a deeper sense. A deeper
sense of worshipfulness.
It’s difficult to get the idea across in a few
words. Yet, I will attempt to give a spark of
the idea.

Marriage for instance is a great ritual, engaged

in to light that fire by which the One is
worshipped.
If the marriage is thought of as an attachment –
then what is offered in the fire are negative ideas.
It generates sin, callousness in the being, and
soulless patterns. The very profound ritual turns
into the opposite.
When the words offered, the interaction, are good,
pleasant, sweet, then that is the offering that
strengthens the Gods.
The same holds for all interactions.
The ritual of marriage in fact enables the soul
to transcend superficial attachments to the outside
world.
A pet plant, Or a pet goldfish, kan be a way to
worship the One. What is offered, the love that
is given, these form patterns of worship. If the
water offered to the Plant is done in Lovign
Worshipfulness of the One, understanding He
is the All Pervading as Well, that is an act
that takes nearer the One, a profound act of
worshipfulness.
Engage in the world. All that exists is the
One,. Engage in the world in true and virtuous
ways. Engage in the world, fulfilling own duty,
own soul’s purpose.
While a person artificially avoiding things, would
end up torturing own mind, engaging in the same
attachments on a plane of the mind, and often
just end up harming oneself. The systems
avoiding one thing latch on to another. Nothing
exists in a vacuum.

An Aside
Ancient traditions also advocate the alchemical love
in marriage. In which the spilling of the grail, the loss of
the vital is avoided. This is the symbolism of the Indian
lamp. The union is engaged in, the state of spilling the
vital is never approached. The vital sublimes to the Gods
inside. Chastity in Love is that state of the Gods. Soon
the perception of the Silver Flow, from the One, the
beyond manifest is engendered. Union the body with the
Silver. Schiller describes this as the sparkle of the God,
in his poem Ode to joy. Abide in the perception of the
Silver, while in the act. The Silver is the One. Offer
the subliming to the One, the One Silver.
Engage in action with the
attention fixed on the One Silver. Absorb in
the One Silver into the body, in the natural
impulses of the Body.
Ancient Indian doctrines
associate the senses with the Devas. The Divine beings
are present in the sensories.
That is why natural and virtuous activation of the
senses, though Good food, good perceptions, good forms of
entertainment, and so forth is necessary. Negative forms
strengthen the negative beings.
Activate the senses with virtuous forms. Good food,
music, games, study, entertainment, and so forth.
Initially go by scriptural guidance in understanding what
forms are good. As the soul’s perception is gained, the
actions are naturally good and soulful. What is soulful
do, and what is not, avoid.
The ancient idea isn’t avoiding wine. But raising the
glass to the One, and then drinking the wine.

The best of the food, etc. is offered to the One, The same
way, the best ought be offered to the body – which is a
temple of Gods, the seat of the spark of God.

The word divine follows from deva, div, which means that
which shines, is bright. The senses are the offering d
Brighten the body with good perception. Brighten the
environment with aesthetic forms. Thus, by affinity of the
similar, bright divine energies will fill your body, and the
world around. Even the slightest effort at aesthetification
of the world around, will reflect inside.
Bright forms, beautification of the world around, invites
down divine energies. It is the natural impulse of the
being to beautify its surroundings. Thus in the form of
attachment, the being functions, while the same form is
used, when done with the directed sense of purpose, to
establish the Divine inside and outside. Just as an
ordinary action when done with a deeper sense, is Yoga.

Those who avoid those patterns with the theory of

avoiding attachments, often end up in dull states, end up
engaging in unvirtuous patterns that are to be avoided,
and losing perception of God, end up with superficial
doctrines. Those doctrines who keep saying “attachments”
a lot, do not generally acknowledge God. And those people
end up assuming they have to engage in compassion for
other beings, only engendering other forms of attachments,
an outward focus with a different label, all of which
achieve nothing. They do speak of compassion, but find
themselves powerless to drive a difference in anything.
Deeper doctrines lead people not to the compassion of
themselves or other beings, but to their own soul, and to
the One. Giving themselves awareness of The One’s
Love, that pervades everywhere.

By resorting to the One, established on the form of the

ancient ritual, in the form of the natural familial ordering,
one transcends. While engaging in the form, the heart
transcends to what is beyond. In war, in love, great
souls have been born. Not by absconding from a virtuous
war. Not by shying from deeper truth in life.

Beethoven avoiding the “attachment” of music, is soon a

depressed drunkard, or a dullard. The soul rejects the false
patterns he attempts. Engage in music, and he transcends.
Not just that senseless ideas of no attachment or
avoiding the world are to be avoided, attention ought be
paid to what are the ideal forms to be engaged in. What
is the best kind of food - For instance, food that is non
spicy, nourishing, Traditional European style is thought
ideal. The Gita also advocates that type of diet.
Engaging in good forms speeds up progress on the path.
In the east after the fall of ancient traditions, these
patterns have been forgotten. The greater the amount of
spices they use, the more chaotic the land, and the duller
the brains.

Just as good perfumes and good offering are made to the

Temples of the Gods. Good offering ought be made to the
true temple of Gods, own body. Ancient Kings, adorned
themselves with the best of jewels, to urge forth the
evolution of the deeper energies. A metal such as silver in
the form of a ring, guided the flow of energies through the
body.
False systems are the
ones which have no idea
the soul exists.

While the path is of

pleasure, the perception of
the One, the God being
the highest pleasure a
being can experience, false
systems often declare
suffering as the path, and
nothingness as the goal.
Flamel: There are traditions
which say improvement of the mind is
necessary for progress on the path.

Theophrastus: In early stages, the

thoughts are worked on, to align with the
Soul. As our Emerald stone says, the
inferior and the superior aspects of the system
should agree.
Well.. that is one way to put it. When the
soul is touched, it is perfect by its own
nature. It is eternally perfect. So to align
and absorb oneself to that nature is the ideal.
The soul is perfect as it is a spark of God.
“Be Ye Perfect as your Father in Heaven
is Perfect,” is the ancient dictum, which
Jesus taught.

When awareness of that source of Perfection

is gained, the idea is not working on the
thoughts.
In a way, we are seeking the Soul, on the
Path. As the ancient Upanishad says, only
when blessed by the One, does the being gain
awareness of its own soul.
The goal is not – in that sense to keep
working on the mind, but to seek the One,
and thus find own soul. The thoughts are
immediately perfected, as the awareness turns
to the One.
The soul transcends the mind.
The soul and the mind are bonded but
distinct. Just as the brain and the mind
aren’t the same. Just as the senses and the
mind aren’t the same.
The thought aggregates, and the senses are
the axis of ordinary awareness. These are
almost mechanical. No matter how long you
work on them, the elemental aggregates that
form them will always remain and in time
all aggregates that were worked on previously
will appear again.
Higher than the thought aggregates is the
intelligence. By the intelligence is awareness
of what is even higher than it, the soul,
gained awareness of.
We find that people spontaneously do good
deeds, as the soul shines through in an
instant. Thus, gaining awareness of the soul,
the actions and thoughts are naturally soulful,
ideal.

The axis of perception, shifts from the realm

of thoughts and senses, deeper into the soulful
feeling. The senses and thoughts are then
subject to the soul. They serve the soul, so to
express it. Well.. this is to be understood in
practical experience.
Theophrastus:” It’s been been a lot of
discussion for an evening. Anyway, how do
you plan to get it published — It looks like it
needs a lot of editing?”

Flamel:” Yes, it needs a bit of organizing. I

know someone who will edit it.”

Theophrastus: ”There is this particular

mountain that I visited, I planned to go
again to today evening.”
He lifted his hand, projecting the energy
bonded with a deeper dimension. Fixing the
energy to where he wanted to go, he separated
the dimensional layering, and walked in. I
used my alchemical ability to go inside. The
worlds of those dimensions are different from
what we see here – and absolutely beautyful.
But that’s the subject of yet another book.
As I walked in, I said, “Theophrastus, I
will send the manuscript to him. Though I
wonder if he would edit out and hide any of
the secrets.”
“You never can be sure, Flamel.”
An
Addendum
Study the Upanishads for ideas from ancient
ages on the Syllable Om
-
The Druids abstracted the Pimordial Sound,
in the form, .

Druids attributed the

vowels O, I, and W —
The word OIW to the
form.
“The Eternal,
Origin, Self
existent, Distributor, holy be
the lips
That canonically pronounce them;
Another name, in full word,
Is O. I. and W OIW 1 the word Ieuan
Rudd sang it. “
“He is called Pannon in the holy canon;
We behold Him favourable on our side
O. I. and W. is He found to be,
OIW always to every soul.”

- Sion Cent, 1380-1420

It were pronounced with each syllable

prolonged,
OOOOOOOO..IIIIIIII…WWW
WW, Do so with a focus as in the
meditation described earlier in the tract.
Vibrate the entire body in OIW. Take deep
natural breaths, filling the body with the vital.
And, as the singing is done, you will feel the
prana rise and fix itself at the crown. In a
vague sense, the life energies, Prana, take the
form, The body vibrates in the form of
the unutterable word of God, in the form of
the Primordial Vibration that generated the
Universe. The first word that the One
expressed generating everything. is also
the form of the initial emanation from the
One. A name of the One, thus.
OOOOOOOOOOO…
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII….
WWWWWWWWWW…

Are three distinct portions of the Song. W

is pronounced as the w in W ell, the

sound prolonged.
Fixing the attention on
the heart,
Withdrawing attention from the world,

Ardently seek the

One God,
Singing the Druidic Song.
 “Farewell sprig
ardency of the short lived song,
Farewell to having the secret of song.”