Saturday, September 23, 2006
THE ALCHEMICAL OPUS ANGELORUM
At The Alchemy Web Site there is an email from Adam McLean who discusses the "Crowning of Nature" manuscripts. According to McLean, this material goes under three names: Coronatio Naturae, Sapientium veterum, and Opus Angelorum.
Scroll down through his list of manuscripts to No. 21. Glasgow University Library, MS. Ferguson 208.
That manuscript is listed on the University of Glasgow website. Under the date 1921 is the "folio 73 of Coronatio Naturae C1600: MS Ferguson 208" - "The University purchased the library of John Ferguson (7,500) volumes, mainly on the history of chemistry, alchemy and the occult."
Look at the picture. If you click it, you will get a larger view. For an even larger view, move your cursor over the picture and then click the center of the directional arrow symbol.
Going back to The Alchemy Web Site again, scroll through the email posted there. Some phrases stand out:
- "the interaction effect between natures, human natures included" in the email from Janet Muff
- "unique mystical Path requiring both a physical Work and a spiritual Transformation" and
- "Alchemy has influenced other occult traditions including Freemasonry, Rosicrucians and other modern groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn" in the email from Adam McLean dated 05 Nov 2003
- "The Ostragoth king Theoderic had been a proponent of Arianism in the 5th-6th century", and
- "connection between alchemy and the Arian heresy--which, by denying the consubstantiality of Father and Son (God and Christ), implies the potential perfectibility of man" and
- "possible resonance between Arianism and alchemy" in Eric Wargo's email.
- "'Aflatun' (an Arabic name for Plato) refers to this alchemical text" in Adam McLean's 29 Nov 2003 email
I wonder how much impact Islam had on alchemy?
Lastly, look again at the picture. Now look at this picture of the Sacred Heart.
Consider again the OA Sacred Heart theology with the flames described individually, and the individual rays coming from the heart in the alchemical drawing. Consider that each of those receiving a ray are cloaked in a different color, and that some Sacred Heart theology such as neo-Cathar James Twyman's claims that the flames from the Sacred Heart have a color, the first of which is blue. Twyman goes on to name the second yellow, and the third pink.
Catholics have an image of the Sacred Heart with colored rays coming from it. The theology comes out of Poland, where the faith has a more mystical dimention. The Divine Mercy website also features rainbow colors in the wording. Alice Bailey's Rainbow Bridge to Antahkarana? From the Bailey website:
a. It keeps the channel for the descending light of the Spiritual Triad clear of all impediments.
b. It reaches (by means of its vibratory activity) the center of power which we call the Spiritual Triad, focused temporarily in the manasic permanent atom, and evokes a response in the form of a thread of descending triadal light.
c. It causes a vibration throughout the antahkarana which in its turn evokes response from the "rainbow bridge" as built by all other disciples. Thus the work of constructing the racial antahkarana is furthered.
Our liberal nuns have been attempting some sort of calling forth of energy through Reiki. A God who is all and only mercy will sanction any action, and thus even homosexuality can be approved. The homosexual movement uses the rainbow flag. The liberal left and the orthodox right are coming together in this theology.
St. John Eudes' Sacred Heart theology originated in France during the time of the Rosicrucians. It's worth thinking about. One writer, non-Catholic, I presume, places the Rosicrucians and the Catholics into the same group which he calls the religion of Antichrist. Were--Are--Rosicrucians Catholic? Considering their fondness for Lucifer, it's a question we had better figure out how to answer, because,if we lump them together for a moment, we then have to deal with the Aleister Crowley phenomenon. How does one separate what Crowley did from what the saints have done? Until we can answer that question with assurance, this is dangerous territory. I would suggest that right now we cannot separate them, and that is why we have a sexual abuse scandal.
