As was stated in the welcome page the practice of Alchemical Gnosis™ is natural and simple. There are no special positions or chants that you have to learn. Alchemy is a dual science composed of what is normally termed the physical and spiritual worlds. Accordingly AG™ is dependent on proper use of external and internal forces. The external forces relied upon are 5 in number they are: Astrology, Astro-Cyclic Pulsations, Moon Phases, Seasonal cycles, and formative forces. Internally they also number five they are: Conscious Intent, Conscious Breathing, Conscious Eating, Cellular Regeneration, and Desire.
Astrology: We are not trying to tell your future, rather we are interested in assessing the prevalent energy matrixes imprinted on you at your time of birth. For us the horoscope serves as an electronic schematic rather than a forecaster of future events.
Astro-Cyclic Pulsations: Creation moves out from the center in waves, cyclically rising and falling producing the ebb and flow of manifestation. Each individual also has a personal cyclic template. Where the peaks and valleys of the cosmic cycle interact with the ebb and flow shown in ones cyclic wave, opportunities abound for advancement. ACP is one way of understanding how to utilize these energies and what their interplay is likely to produce on the material and spiritual planes.
Moon Phases: The Moon, Goddess of the night sky is the reflector of the celestial energies onto our planet, her phases denote where specific labors in the art such as calcination, distillation and sublimation may be begun and ended. This holds true for the exterior laboratory where products are made and the inner laboratory where they are used.
Seasonal cycles: Nature is a living breathing spirit, she is the life spirit of the cosmos and this world. There are specific times of the year when the terrestrial energy radiated by this planet is imbued with a specific quality. Operations such as crystallization and the pouring of Pulse Stones Ô capture this energy for use at other times when it is not naturally abundant.
Formative Forces: Just as the planet earth at certain times of the year radiates specific energies, so to do the other planets. There are times of the year when the specific energies emitted from the planets have prevalence and show its formative force strongly.
Conscious Intent: Will is present in all that you do, but not necessarily that born from the conscious mind. We exist in a quantum universe that does indeed obey and manifest the habitual thoughts we inhabit, even if we believe we live on a Newtonian world. By utilizing certain natural laws conscious intent can be vitalized to set into motion the forces and circumstance needed to aid you.
Conscious Breathing: Breathing is not just an act of respiration it is also a means of imparting to you the vital animating principle. It is a means of incorporating the formative forces into our cellular structure and etheric system.
Conscious Eating: Centered on the conscious consumption of the alchemical Eucharist, this holy food is the catalyst that will facilitate your spiritual evolution. This practice can be used with regular food but it will not have the direct focused effect of an alchemicaly elevated preparation.
Cellular regeneration: This is a natural occurrence that we all continually go through, indeed once every seven years enough of you has been discarded and replaced to make a whole new person. Ancient Alchemist knew and understood this and put it to good use as they sought to train their cells to be capable of receiving the higher frequencies of spiritual energy.
Desire: Desire for the work must be of ardent passion and fidelity and not a one-night stand or nothing will avail.
The actual practice itself is deceptively simple it consists of two meditations periods each no less than 5 minuets in duration but can be extended up to 20 minutes comfortably. The meditation consists of a simple invocation, visualization, and consumption of the alchemical Eucharist.
It is best to do your meditations an hour after sunrise (or at the very least upon waking) and just prior to going to bed after you have turned the TV off and are done with your days chores about to go to sleep.
It is also important to regulate your actions with those of the moon.
The inner journey is metaphorically represented by the monthly cycle of the moon. It starts with the waning moon, as you begin your inner journey the noises and distractions from the outside are still visible in your mind. As time goes on, they, like the moon loose their substantiality, and the light of their distraction wanes. At new moon you find yourself in the center of your inner adytum, darkness surrounds you, gone are the gods of books and thought. Dimly at first you notice a light, a shining beacon in the darkness, its source, the eternal flame of your soul, tended by your Holy Guardian Angel