vortexpoint
25th December 2011, 20:06
I've had a growing interest in alchemy this year and especially in the end of this year. I have gone back and forth, sometimes thinking I understand some aspects of alchemy and then soon after I might be even more confused than before. I found a new inspiration to alchemy after someone posted a link to the Avalon of the Book of Aquarius (http://www.thebookofaquarius.com/). The Book of Aquarius supposedly shows the way how to make the philosopher's stone that was the Great Work of the old alchemists. The book is interesting read with extensive quoting of old alchemical writings.
The Author of BOA says that the Stone is made usually from urine which has the life-force, the liquid and the minerals. The author goes on saying that the (philosopher's) mercury is infact a symbol for urine.
While this is an interesting perspective to alchemy I remembered reading about Vedic alchemy where mercury is in fact common mercury that is purified and alchemically processed. There is an interesting video (which is partly the reason I started this thread) in which a yogi talks about the philosopher's stone briefly and shows a pendant made from consolidated mercury. He also seem to have the worlds biggest shivlinga made from the mercury in his ashram. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZxp2TXpNc
Somewhere else I found out that the process of making those parad is quite complex and it requires around 16-18 steps. I wasn't able to find the link for it now but maybe someone else knows more about this.
Now this got me thinking since the old European alchemist described the philosopher's stone as two forms: white and red. White one is supposedly used to transform metals to silver and red one to transform metals to gold. So is the philosopher's stone the europeans describe a wholly different beast than that of Vedic alchemy or is the Book of Aquarius barking at the wrong tree?
The Author of BOA says that the Stone is made usually from urine which has the life-force, the liquid and the minerals. The author goes on saying that the (philosopher's) mercury is infact a symbol for urine.
While this is an interesting perspective to alchemy I remembered reading about Vedic alchemy where mercury is in fact common mercury that is purified and alchemically processed. There is an interesting video (which is partly the reason I started this thread) in which a yogi talks about the philosopher's stone briefly and shows a pendant made from consolidated mercury. He also seem to have the worlds biggest shivlinga made from the mercury in his ashram. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZxp2TXpNc
Somewhere else I found out that the process of making those parad is quite complex and it requires around 16-18 steps. I wasn't able to find the link for it now but maybe someone else knows more about this.
Now this got me thinking since the old European alchemist described the philosopher's stone as two forms: white and red. White one is supposedly used to transform metals to silver and red one to transform metals to gold. So is the philosopher's stone the europeans describe a wholly different beast than that of Vedic alchemy or is the Book of Aquarius barking at the wrong tree?