#the great work

[eyeoftheheart]

“I can tell you this much: you are aware that in the official science of today the role of the observer becomes more and more important. Relativity, the principle of indeterminacy, show the extent to which the observer today intervenes in all these phenomena. The secret of alchemy is: there is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call ‘a field of force’. This field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-a-vis the Universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call “The Great Work’.”

“But what about the philosopher’s stone? The fabrication of gold?”

“These are only applications, particular cases. The essential thing is not the transmutation of metals, but that of the experimenter himself. It’s an ancient secret that a few men rediscover once in a century.””

― The People of the Secret by Ernest Scott

(Artwork + Gandalf in the Library of Gondor)

#The People of the Secret by Ernest Scott #The Great Work #Alchemy #The Philosopher's Stone #The Secret of Alchemy #The Ancient Secret #Magic #The Art and Science of Magic #Wizard #Gandalf #Esoteric Wisdom #Quantum Magic

[accidentalslayer]

#alchemy #the great work #alchemist #mecore #laughs in occult

[almostlookedhuman]

#mtg #the great work #phyrexia #c. white

[mccdreamys-writes]

alex blake in 8x13

- alex blake gifs | criminal minds 8x13 - the great work

#alex blake #alex blake gif #alex blake gifs #dr blake #dr alex blake #ssa blake #ssa alex blake #ssa dr alex blake #criminal minds #criminal minds gif #criminal minds gifs #8x13 #813 #criminal minds 8x13 #cm 8x13 #the great work #cm the great work #criminal minds the great work

[arbiterofthedead]

Shadows. Decay. The Deceased. The Living.

All serve a grand cycle.

#The Great Work #Character Motivations

[lovesinistra]

#seongcheol #mysticism #the way #dao #the great work #gnosis #spirituality #metaphysics #esoteric #enlightenment

[pathofregeneration]

Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie

#Quotes #Wisdom #Eliphas Levi #Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie #Hermeticism #Hieroglyphs #Ancient Egypt #The Great Work #Magic

[sororalice]

An Ornamental Hermit

Mystical poem written 4-12-24.

1.

Once I was,

A Woman of Earth,

Walking to and fro,

Across the face of the land

I wrestled with the spinning disc,

Danced with the bridging blade,

Was washed away by the flowing chalice,

And transformed by the burning wand

2.

Then in aspiration I reached up, up, up,

And bent down, down, down,

Until a divided angel, supple and sound,

Appeared to me

My companion, my friend,

My counselor and comforter,

When 4am knows all my secrets,

He is there to share them

3.

Led to learning by the Wise One,

I worked and wrote,

And taught and wrought,

The theory and practice of reason

I found those few,

Who spoke to my mind,

Who inspired my heart,

Who bade me be free

4.

Storm clouds grew,

As a path appeared,

Through a vast fungal forest,

In the hungering dark between ideal and actual

At its far edge,

A sandy relic,

With a pillar at its point,

Upon which rests my grave

5.

Now I wander the estate,

Stricken and hollow,

Wandering at the edges,

Of other people’s lives

An ornamental hermit,

Scribbling and muttering,

Answers to questions,

That no one asked

Art: Gerrit Dou, “The Hermit”, 1670

#pagan #paganism #spiritual #spirituality #mystical #mysticism #religion #poem #poems on tumblr #original poem #mystical poem #poems and poetry #poetry #magic #magick #ceremonial magic #ceremonial magick #hermit #the great work

[clover-cat-commissions]

UPDATE WITH PROGRESS PICS! It’s been awhile, i started a new job and have been working on starting my own painting biz, setting up as a commission artist isn’t easy! But i started a new army, Scythes of the Emperor! An all primaris chapter after their firstborn perished at the hands of Tyranids

#scythes of the emperor #imperium #space marines #adeptus astartes #primaris #the great work #painting #warhammer community #warhammer #warhamer 40000 #wh40k

[1introvertedsage]

#Carl Jung #Carl Jung quotes #alchemy #spirituality #see #the great work #heal the soul #heal the world #reality #fly #cosmos #Jung quotes #waking up #healing the world #one soul at a time #LHA #1introvertedsage #salvation

[eyeoftheheart]

“The alchemical operations were real, only this reality was not physical but psychological. Alchemy represents the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratory terms. The opus magnum had two aims: the rescue of the human soul, and the salvation of the cosmos.”

― Carl Jung

[ Artist • Jakob Böhme ]

#Alchemy #Carl Jung #Soul Work #Soul Alchemy #The Great Work #The opus magnum #Salvation

[sinjones]

#sin jones #the poison apple #dammmitdolls #the great work

[koyotetheblind]

Mastering the Game of Life

Mastering the Game of Life

Life can be approached in so many ways. Some see it as a source of suffering; others, as an unending struggle to survive. Some see it as an adventure, where there is always something new and mysterious to explore. Yet others see life as a school where you come to learn and have experiences that will ultimately mature your soul. We can see life as a boring sequence of ordinary events, where the…

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#Magick #Shamanism #The Great Work

[brother-hermes]

MOVING BEYOND MENTAL ALCHEMY

Alchemy is a polysemic language riddled with rich symbolism and mystery. When we think of terms like Mercury it’s easy to get lost in possibilities. Today I’d like to solidify some of that mystery and describe how these symbols paint a working picture of the universe itself. Rock with me as we take the journey within.

#symbolism #alchemy #mental alchemy #Mercury #mysticism #spiritus mundi #western esotericism #esoteric #inner transformation #Thoth #conscious #subconscious #sun and moon #salt #divine will #world soul #all is one #hermetic philosophy #hermes trismegistus #the great work #Youtube

[arbiterofthedead]

“We must always keep our eyes to the skies...for we know not what lurks just beyond the veil, wherein only mad things roam.” - Valerian Valisthea

#The great work

[pathofregeneration]

David Roberts, Abu Simbel

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Meditation Before the Temple, part II

“There is something fearful in the fact of creative labor. The Kabbalah speaks of the infidel angel who falls into earth, the Ptah of Memphis. Yet mortal man places all his joy, all his glory, in the fact of labouring creatively. It will be the Great Work, the Magnum Opus, if the aim is to recognise the cause of the fall; it will be fixation in earth, damnation, if the aim is confined to the maintenance of the Opus on earth. Choosing the aim is for each of us as tragic as it is for the archangel the choice between ‘same and other’.

We are in a desert when we question ourselves; when in our interrogation we oppose ourselves to the universe, the desert becomes the parvis in front of and outside the temple and then takes on the aspect of an obstacle. The dialectics between Ego and Self is the enclosing wall that separates unitary paradise from the universe of creation.

This enclosure repels and is insurmountable for whatever is not made definitively whole through complementation. That is the reason why the angel with the fiery sword is planted at the eastern and not at the southern gate. He is what separates opposites:  the poles, the contraries, the complements, the night from the day of appearances, Adam from Eve. Choice opens or closes the door of the temple where Light without shadow reveals the cause of the binary world, the world of antinomies.

Whoever manages to cross the threshold recognises that the material, the feminine, the passive, and the aquatic in him is moon, and that the active, the warm, the ardent, and the formless is sun. He will know that in the world fo duality, he projected this moon and sun into the sky: He had forgotten that they were inside him and saw them outside of himself only. This is the site, or moment, known as the ‘reversal of the lights,’ when intelligence comes to the heart.

This entrance to the temple is also the place where the neophyte is to encounter the priest, the elder, the sage. If grace has illumined the disciple, the sage will be within him and will speak to him; otherwise, he must seek outside of himself, as it is very difficult to guide oneself alone through the temple labyrinth.”

— R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Egyptian Miracle

#David Roberts #Abu Simbel #Art #Beauty #Illustration #Ancient Egypt #Meditation Before the Temple #Meditation #Temple #R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz #The Egyptian Miracle #Wisdom #Initiation #Sacred Mysteries #Adam and Eve #Magnum Opus #The Great Work