This site is dedicated to the advancement, practice and continuation of the ancient internal art known as Alchemical Gnosis or AG.
The practice of AG is natural and simple and takes but a few moments each day in meditations which follow a graduated course which has been known as the Path of Return for thousands of years. This graduated course of study and meditation teaches and utilizes an esoteric science concerning the human body, which when done properly, will awaken the dormant inner spiritual life we all share.
What makes this practice so exceptional is the use of specially prepared alchemical herbal products, which act as catalyst that help facilitate one's inner journey. People are just amazed to learn that what they consider every day herbs will help produce such profound inner experiences when the Hermetic paradigm is followed and the alchemical products are properly prepared.
Pharaohs, Philosophers, Magicians, and Nobility from all countries, and the secret elite of society for millennia have treaded this ancient road of the Path of Return. Luminaries of the renascence were adept in this practice and that time period produced works of art and science that are still marveled today. Needless to say such persons and societies because of the unprecedented changes the practice so easily unfolds within the individual have jealously guarded this information. This was doubly insured by keeping the actual practice, and the keys to making the necessary and authentic alchemical products a secret passed down from Master to student under pain of death if revealed to the uninitiated.
In ancient Greece this process was known as finding one's Muse or Grace. The Muse's were Nine in number and were said to preside over literature, art, science, and memory. The Grace's were three in number and presided over banquets, dance, social engagements, and elegant arts. These 12 Goddesses or luminous beings are representative of the intelligence's and powers projected out from the 12 grouping of stars known as the constellations of the zodiac. These starry groups were said by the ancients to have influence over material manifestations on this planet.
There are also specific centers of power, intelligence, and Understanding that went about molding, directing, and intervening in the material affairs of Natures subjects here on earth. These forces were known as the 7 ancient Genius or Gods and their domicile
Make no mistake about it even though we have talked about the 12 constellations and the planets the work you do, and the experiences you have, will all be interior. The ancients understood intimately the alchemical maxim of "As above, so below. As below, so above". They knew that the same drama of creation caused by the movement of the planets and the interplay their energy and intelligence's, within the field of force associated with the constellations, could be consciously mimicked within the Divine Cosmos of the human being. For that which you seek, wanted, or needed, your Muse, Grace, or God has always been neatly tucked away inside of you.