When Lead Transpires

Lead is the coarsest amidst the traditional seven metals of Western Alchemy.

Its color is grey, and it conveys la pesanteur, a grey heaviness of the soul.

Its planet Old Saturn, bestower of dark melancholy.

Lead sings its dumb song in a baritone key.

Yet, it is written that thou shalt seek the Spirit of Metals under the Seal Of Saturn.

You will let lead transpire, till its precious sap comes out of its grayish grave.

But how?

Similia similibus solvantur.

Thou shalt meet lead with utmost kindness, wash it with amorous tears, till it sweats drops of love.

Praha

All day long, The Golden Town is infested by tourists, like swarms of flies pestering a dormant Cyclops.

But Sacred Night comes at last, and Stare Mesto is once again what it always was:

a place of sacred rites,

a place of ineffable magic,

a place of blessed silence.

I walk the dark lanes of Praha like a mature man coming back, after a long distracting journey, to his cherished home.....

From Gold to Gold

Aurum igitur aurificandi verum, unum, solum principium esto.
Thus let Gold be the true, one, and only principle of making gold.

And so it is.

Where else could one hope to make gold, if there is no gold to begin with?

If you are determined to make gold out of your life, seek the gold that
is already inside of you.

It may be a small amount, but it is real.

And that, My Friend in the Work, will suffice.

Will

You say
you have
WILL.
You are
cheating
yourself.

Will is not wish.
Will is not desire.
Will is not want.

What is Will
then?
It is a Power
that makes
things
happen.

Exercise
your Will,
by not
doing
what
you do
without
willing
it.

Turn all
your wishes
into Will,
or let
them
go.

The Fire of the Earth

Visita Interiora Terrae.
Rectificando Invenies
Occultum Lapidem.

Thou shalt visit the interiors
of the Earth.
Where else can one expect
to find the Stone?

The Earth is cold and dry,
yet there is a Fire hidden
at its very core.

The Fire of the Earth.

That Fire
you need
for the Work.

That Fire
will dry
all the diseases
all the pains
all the griefs.

That Fire
thou shalt
seek.