The Art Of French Alchemy

What I hope to spark is an inquiry between alchemists and what are the elements that are the same between the alchemists that are presented here and to find a formula. The Book of Abraham the Jew Wisdom has various means for making its way into the heart of man. Sometimes a prophet comes forward and speaks. Or a sect of mystics receives the teaching of a philosophy, like rain on a summer evening, gathers it in and spreads it abroad with love. Or it may happen that a charlatan, performing tricks to astonish men, may produce, perhaps without knowing it himself, a ray of real light with his dice and magic mirrors. In the fourteenth century, the pure truth of the masters was transmitted by a book. This book fell into the hands of precisely the man who was destined to receive it; and he, with the help of the text and the hieroglyphic diagrams that taught the transmutation of metals into gold, accomplished the transmutation of his soul, which is a far rarer and more wonderful operation. Thanks to the amazing book of Abraham the Jew all the Hermetists of the following centuries had the opportunity of admiring an example of a perfect life, that of Nicolas Flamel, the man who received the book. After his death or disappearance many students and alchemists who had devoted their lives to the search for the Philosopher's Stone despaired because they had not in their possession the wonderful book that contained the secret of gold and of eternal life. But their despair was unnecessary. The secret had become alive. The magic formula had become incarnate in the actions of a man. No ingot of virgin gold melted in the crucibles could, in color or purity, attain the beauty of the wise bookseller's pious life. There is nothing legendary about the life of Nicolas Flamel. The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris contains works copied in his own hand and original works written by him. All the official documents relating to his life have been found: his marriage contract, his deeds of gift, his will. His history rests solidly on those substantial material proofs for which men clamor if they are to believe in obvious things. To this indisputably authentic history, legend has added a few flowers. But in every spot where the flowers of legend grow, underneath there is the solid earth of truth. Whether Nicolas Flamel was born at Pontoise or somewhere else, a question that historians have argued and investigated with extreme attention, seems to me to be entirely without importance. It is enough to know that towards the middle of the fourteenth century, Flamel was carrying on the trade of a bookseller and had a stall backing on to the columns of Saint-Jacques la Boucherie in Paris. It was not a big stall, for it measured only two feet by two and a half. However, it grew. He bought a house in the old rue de Marivaux and used the ground floor for his business. Copyists and illuminators did their work there. He himself gave a few writing lessons and taught nobles who could only sign their names with a cross. One of the copyists or illuminators acted also as a servant to him. Nicolas Flamel married Pernelle, a good-looking, intelligent widow, slightly older than himself and the possessor of a little property. Every man meets once in his life the woman with whom he could live in peace and harmony. For Nicolas Flamel, Pernelle was that woman. Over and above her natural qualities, she had another which is still rarer. She was a woman who was capable of keeping a secret all her life without revealing it to anybody in confidence. But the story of Nicolas Flamel is the story of a book for the most part. The secret made its appearance with the book, and neither the death of its possessors nor the lapse of centuries led to the complete discovery of the secret. Nicolas Flamel had acquired some knowledge of the Hermetic art. The ancient alchemy of the Egyptians and the Greeks that flourished among the Arabs had, thanks to them, penetrated to Christian countries. Nicolas Flamel did not, of course, regard alchemy as a mere vulgar search for the means of making gold. For every exalted mind the finding of the Philosopher's Stone was the finding of the essential secret of Nature, the secret of her unity and her laws, the possession of perfect wisdom. Flamel dreamed of sharing in this wisdom. His ideal was the highest that man could attain. And he knew that it could be realized through a book, for the secret of the Philosopher's Stone had already been found and transcribed in symbolic form. Somewhere it existed. It was in the hands of unknown sages who lived somewhere unknown. But how difficult it was for a small Paris bookseller to get into touch with those sages. Nothing, really, has changed since the fourteenth century. In our day also many men strive desperately towards an ideal, the path which they know but cannot climb; and they hope to win the magic formula (which will make them new beings) from some miraculous visit or from a book written expressly for them. But for most, the visitor does not come and the book is not written. Yet for Nicolas Flamel the book was written. Perhaps because a bookseller is better situated than other people to receive a unique book; perhaps because the strength of his desire organized events without his knowledge, so that the book came when it was time. So strong was his desire, that the coming of the book was preceded by a dream, which shows that this wise and well-balanced bookseller had a tendency to mysticism. Nicolas Flamel dreamed one night that an angel stood before him. The angel, who was radiant and winged like all angels, held a book in his hands and uttered these words, which were to remain in the memory of the hearer: "Look well at this book, Nicholas. At first you will understand nothing in it ¾ neither you nor any other man. But one day you will see in it that which no other man will be able to see." Flamel stretched out his hand to receive the present from the angel, and the whole scene disappeared in the golden light of dreams. Sometime after that the dream was partly realized. One day, when Nicolas Flamel was alone in his shop, an unknown man in need of money appeared with a manuscript to sell. Flamel was no doubt tempted to receive him with disdainful arrogance, as do the booksellers of our day when some poor student offers to sell them part of his library. But the moment he saw the book he recognized it as the book that the angel had held out to him, and he paid two florins for it without bargaining. The book appeared to him indeed resplendent and instinct with divine virtue. It had a very old binding of worked copper, on which were engraved curious diagrams and certain characters, some of which were Greek and others in a language he could not decipher. The leaves of the book were not made of parchment, like those he was accustomed to copy and bind. They were made of the bark of young trees and were covered with very clear writing done with an iron point. These leaves were divided into groups of seven and consisted of three parts separated by a page without writing, but containing a diagram that was quite unintelligible to Flamel. On the first page were written words to the effect that the author of the manuscript was Abraham the Jew ¾ prince, priest, Levite, astrologer, and philosopher. Then followed great curses and threats against anyone who set eyes on it unless he was either a priest or a scribe. The mysterious word maranatha, which was many times repeated on every page, intensified the awe-inspiring character of the text and diagrams. But most impressive of all was the patined gold of the edges of the book, and the atmosphere of hallowed antiquity that there was about it. Maranatha! Was he qualified to read this book? Nicolas Flamel considered that being a scribe he might read the book without fear. He felt that the secret of life and of death, the secret of the unity of Nature, the secret of the duty of the wise man, had been concealed behind the symbol of the diagram and formula in the text by an initiate long since dead. He was aware that it is a rigid law for initiates that they must not reveal their knowledge, because if it is good and fruitful for the intelligent, it is bad for ordinary men. As Jesus has clearly expressed it, pearls must not be given as food to swine. Was he qualified to read this book? Nicolas Flamel considered that being a scribe he might read the book without fear. He felt that the secret of life and of death, the secret of the unity of Nature, the secret of the duty of the wise man, had been concealed behind the symbol of the diagram and formula in the text by an initiate long since dead. He was aware that it is a rigid law for initiates that they must not reveal their knowledge, because if it is good and fruitful for the intelligent, it is bad for ordinary men. As Jesus has clearly expressed it, pearls must not be given as food to swine. He had the pearl in his hands. It was for him to rise in the scale of man in order to be worthy to understand its purity. He must have had in his heart a hymn of thanksgiving to Abraham the Jew, whose name was unknown to him, but who had thought and labored in past centuries and whose wisdom he was now inheriting. He must have pictured him a bald old man with a hooked nose, wearing the wretched robe of his race and wilting in some dark ghetto, in order that the light of his thought might not be lost. And he must have vowed to solve the riddle, to rekindle the light, to be patient and faithful, like the Jew who had died in the flesh but lived eternally in his manuscript. Nicolas Flamel had studied the art of transmutation. He was in touch with all the learned men of his day. Manuscripts dealing with alchemy have been found, notably that of Almasatus, which were part of his personal library. He had knowledge of the symbols of which the alchemists made habitual use. But those that he saw in the book of Abraham the Jew remained dumb for him. In vain, he copied some of the mysterious pages and set them out in his shop, in the hope that some visitor conversant with the Cabala would help him to solve the problem. He met with nothing but the laughter of skeptics and the ignorance of pseudo-scholars ¾ just as he would today if he showed the book of Abraham the Jew either to pretentious occultists or to the scholars at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Nicholas Flamel's Journey For twenty-one years, he pondered the hidden meaning of the book. That is really not that long. He is favored among men for whom twenty-one years are enough to enable him to find the key of life. At the end of twenty-one years, Nicolas Flamel had developed in himself sufficient wisdom and strength to hold out against the storm of light involved by the coming of truth to the heart of man. Only then did events group themselves harmoniously according to his will and allow him to realize his desire. For everything good and great that happens to a man is the result of the co-ordination of his own voluntary effort and a malleable fate. No one in Paris could help Nicolas Flamel understand the book. Now, this book had been written by a Jew, and part of its text was in ancient Hebrew. The Jews had recently been driven out of France by persecution. Nicolas Flamel knew that many of these Jews had migrated to Spain. In towns such as Malaga and Granada, which were still under the more enlightened dominion of the Arabs, there lived prosperous communities of Jews and flourishing synagogues, in which scholars and doctors were bred. Many Jews from the Christian towns of Spain took advantage of the tolerance extended by the Moorish kings and went to Granada to learn. There they copied Plato and Aristotle ¾ forbidden texts in the rest of Europe ¾ and returned home to spread abroad the knowledge of the ancients and of the Arab masters. Nicolas Flamel thought that in Spain he might meet some erudite Cabalist who would translate the book of Abraham for him. Travelling was difficult, and without a strong-armed escort, safe passage was nearly impossible for a solitary traveler. Flamel made therefore a vow to St James of Compostela, the patron saint of his parish, to make a pilgrimage. This was also a means of concealing from his neighbors and friends the real purpose of his journey. The wise and faithful Pernelle was the only person who was aware of his real plans. He put on the pilgrim's attire and shell-adorned hat, took the staff, which ensured a certain measure of safety to a traveler in Christian countries, and started off for Galicia. Since he was a prudent man and did not wish to expose the precious manuscript to the risks of travel, he contented himself with taking with him a few carefully copied pages, which he hid in his modest baggage. Nicolas Flamel has not recounted the adventures that befell him on his journey. Possibly he had none. It may be that adventures happen only to those who want to have them. He has told us merely that he went first to fulfil his vow to St James. Then he wandered about Spain, trying to get into relations with learned Jews. But they were suspicious of Christians, particularly of the French, who had expelled them from their country. Besides, he had not much time. He had to remember Pernelle waiting for him, and his shop, which was being managed only by his servants. To a man of over fifty on his first distant journey, the silent voice of his home makes a powerful appeal every evening. In discouragement, he started his homeward journey. His way lay through Leon, where he stopped for the night at an inn and happened to sup at the same table as a French merchant from Boulogne, who was travelling on business. This merchant inspired him with confidence and trust, and he whispered a few words to him of his wish to find a learned Jew. By a lucky chance the French merchant was in relations with a certain Maestro Canches, an old man who lived at Leon, immersed in his books. Nothing was easier than to introduce this Maestro Canches to Nicolas Flamel, who decided to make one more attempt before leaving Spain. One can easily appreciate the depth of the scene when the profane merchant of Boulogne has left them, and the two men are face to face. The gates of the ghetto close. Maestro Canches' only thought is expressed by a few polite words to rid himself as quickly as he can of this French bookseller, who has deliberately dulled the light in his eye and clothed himself in mediocrity (for the prudent traveler passes unnoticed). Flamel speaks, reticently at first. He admires the knowledge of the Jews. Thanks to his trade, he has read a great many books. At last he timidly lets fall a name, which hitherto has aroused not a spark of interest in anyone to whom he has spoken ¾ the name of Abraham the Jew, prince, priest, Levite, astrologer and philosopher. Suddenly Flamel sees the eyes of the feeble old man before him light up. Maestro Canches has heard of Abraham the Jew! He was a great master of the wandering race, perhaps the most venerable of all the sages who studied the mysteries of the Cabala, a higher initiate, one of those who rise the higher the better they succeed in remaining unknown. His book existed and disappeared centuries ago. But tradition says it has never been destroyed, that it is passed from hand to hand and that it always reaches the man whose destiny it is to receive it. Maestro Canches has dreamed all his life of finding it. He is very old, close to death, and now the hope that he has almost given up is near realization. The night goes by, and there is a light over the two heads bent over their work. Maestro Canches is translating the Hebrew from the time of Moses. He is explaining symbols that originated in ancient Chaldea. How the years fall from these two men, inspired by their common belief in truth. But the few pages that Flamel had brought are not enough to allow the secret to be revealed. Maestro Canches made up his mind at once to accompany Flamel to Paris, but his extreme age was an obstacle. Furthermore, Jews were not allowed in France. He vowed to rise above his infirmity and convert his religion! For many years now, he had been above all religions. So the two men, united by their indissoluble bond, headed off along the Spanish roads north. The ways of Nature are mysterious. The nearer Maestro Canches came to the realization of his dream, the more precarious became his health, and the breath of life weakened in him. Oh God! he prayed, grant me the days I need, and that I may cross the threshold of death only when I possess the liberating secret by which darkness becomes light and flesh spirit! But the prayer was not heard. The inflexible law had appointed the hour of the old man's death. He fell ill at Orleans, and in spite of all Flamel's care, died seven days later. As he had converted and Flamel did not want to be suspected of bringing a Jew into France, he had him piously buried in the church of Sante-Croix and had masses said in his honor. For he rightly thought that a soul that had striven for so pure an aim and had passed at the moment of its fruition. could not rest in the realm of disembodied spirits. Flamel continued his journey and reached Paris, where he found Pernelle, his shop, his copyists, and his manuscripts safe and sound. He laid aside his pilgrim's staff. But now everything was changed. It was with a joyous heart that he went his daily journey from house to shop, that he gave writing lessons to illiterates and discussed Hermetic science with the educated. From natural prudence, he continued to feign ignorance, in which he succeeded all the more easily because knowledge was within him. What Maestro Canches had already taught him in deciphering a few pages of the book of Abraham the Jew was sufficient to allow his understanding of the whole book. He spent three years more in searching and in completing his knowledge, but at the end of this period, the transmutation was accomplished. Having learned what materials were necessary to put together beforehand, he followed strictly the method of Abraham the Jew and changed a half-pound of mercury first into silver, and then into virgin gold. And simultaneously, he accomplished the same transmutation in his soul. From his passions, mixed in an invisible crucible, the substance of the eternal spirit emerged. The Philosopher's Stone From this point, according to historical records, the little bookseller became rich. He established many low-income houses for the poor, founded free hospitals, and endowed churches. But he did not use his riches to increase his personal comfort or to satisfy his vanity. He altered nothing in his modest life. With Pernelle, who had helped him in his search for the Philosopher's Stone, he devoted his life to helping his fellow men. "Husband and wife lavished succor on the poor, founded hospitals, built or repaired cemeteries, restored the front of Saint Genevieve des Ardents and endowed the institution of the Quinze-Vingts, the blind inmates of which, in memory of this fact, came every year to the church of Saint Jacques la Boucherie to pray for their benefactor, a practice which continued until 1789," wrote historian Louis Figuier. At the same time that he was learning how to make gold out of any material, he acquired the wisdom of despising it in his heart. Thanks to the book of Abraham the Jew, he had risen above the satisfaction of his senses and the turmoil of his passions. He knew that man attains immortality only through the victory of spirit over matter, by essential purification, by the transmutation of the human into the divine. He devoted the last part of his life to what Christians call the working out of personal salvation. But he attained his object without fasting or asceticism, keeping the unimportant place that destiny had assigned him, continuing to copy manuscripts, buying and selling, in his new shop in the rue Saint-Jacques la Boucherie. For him, there was no more mystery about the Cemetery of the Innocents, which was near his house and under the arcades of which he liked to walk in the evenings. If he had the vaults and monuments restored at his own expense, it was nothing more than compliance with the custom of his time. He knew that the dead who had been laid to rest there were not concerned with stones and inscriptions and that they would return, when their hour came, in different forms, to perfect themselves and die anew. He knew the trifling extent to which he could help them. Yet he had no temptation to divulge the secret that had been entrusted to him through the book, for he was able to measure the lowest degree of virtue necessary for the possession of it, and he knew that the revelation of the secret to an undeveloped soul only increased the imperfection of that soul. And when he was illuminating a manuscript and putting in with a fine brush a touch of skyblue into the eye of an angel, or of white into a wing, no smile played on his grave face, for he knew that pictures are useful to children; moreover, it is possible that beautiful fantasies which are pictured with love and sincerity may become realities in the dream of death. Though he knew how to make gold, Nicolas Flamel made it only three times in the whole of his life and then, not for himself, for he never changed his way of life; he did it only to mitigate the evils that he saw around him. And this is the single touchstone that convinces that he really attained the state of adept. This "touchstone" test can be used by everyone and at all times. To distinguish a man's superiority, there is but a single sign: a practical and not an alleged-contempt for riches. However great may be a man's active virtues or the radiant power of his intelligence, if they are accompanied by the love of money that most eminent men possess, it is certain that they are tainted with baseness. What they create under the hypocritical pretext of good will bear within it the seeds of decay. Unselfishness and innocence alone is creative, and it alone can help to raise man. Flamel's generous gifts aroused curiosity and even jealousy. It seemed amazing that a poor bookseller should found almshouses and hospitals should build houses with low rents, churches and convents. Rumors reached the ears of the king, Charles VI, who ordered Cramoisi, a member of the Council of State, to investigate the matter. But thanks to Flamel's prudence and reticence, the result of the inquiries was favorable to him. The rest of Flamel's life passed without special event. It was actually the life of a scholar. He went from his house in the rue de Marivaux to his shop. He walked in the Cemetery of the Innocents, for the imagination of death was pleasant to him. He handled beautiful parchments. He illuminated missals. He paid devout attention to Pernelle as she grew old, and he knew that life holds few better things than the peace of daily work and a calm affection. The "Death" of Flamel Pernelle died first; Nicolas Flamel reached the age of eighty. He spent the last years of his life writing books on alchemy. He carefully settled his affairs and planned how he was to be buried: at the end of the nave of Saint Jacques la Boucherie. The tombstone to be laid over his body had already been made. On this stone, in the middle of various figures, there was carved a sun above a key and a closed book. It contains the symbols of his life and can still be seen at his gravesite in the Musee de Cluny in Paris. His death, to which he joyfully looked forward, was as circumspect and as perfect as his life. As it is equally useful to study men's weaknesses as their finest qualities, we may mark Flamel's weakness. This sage, who attached importance only to the immortality of his soul and despised the ephemeral form of the body, was inspired as he grew old with a strange taste for the sculptural representation of his body and face. Whenever he had a church built, or even restored, he requested the sculptor to represent him, piously kneeling, in a comer of the pediment of the facade. He had himself twice sculptured on an arch in the Cemetery of the Innocents: once as he was in his youth and once old and infirm. When he had a new house built in the rue de Montmorency, on the outskirts of Paris, eleven saints were carved on the front, but a side door was surmounted with a bust of Flamel. The bones of sages seldom rest in peace in their grave. Perhaps Nicolas Flamel knew this and tried to protect his remains by ordering a tombstone of great weight and by having a religious service held for him twelve times a year. But these precautions were useless. Hardly was Flamel dead when the report of his alchemical powers and of his concealment somewhere of an enormous quantity of gold spread through Paris and the world. Everyone who was seeking the famous projection powder, which turns all substances into gold, came prowling round all the places where he had lived in the hope of finding a minute portion of the precious powder. It was said also that the symbolical figures which he had had sculptured on various monuments gave, for those who could decipher it, the formula of the Philosopher's Stone. There was not a single alchemist but came in pilgrimage to study the sacred science on the, stones of Saint-Jacques- la Boucherie, or the Cemetery of the Innocents. The sculptures and inscriptions were broken off under cover of darkness and removed. The cellars of his house were searched and the walls examined. According to author Albert Poisson, towards the middle of the sixteenth century a man who had a well-known name and good credentials, which were no doubt fictitious, presented himself before the parish board of Saint-Jacques la Boucherie. He said he wished to carry out the vow of a dead friend, a pious alchemist, who, on his deathbed, had given him a sum of money with which to repair Flamel's house. The board accepted the offer. The unknown man had the cellars ransacked under the pretext of strengthening the foundations; wherever he saw a hieroglyph he found some reason for knocking down the wall at that point. Having found nothing, he disappeared, forgetting to pay the workmen. Not long afterwards, a Capuchin friar and a German baron are said to have discovered in the house some stone vials full of a reddish powder ¾ allegedly the projection powder. By the seventeenth century, the various houses which had belonged to Flamel were despoiled of their ornaments and decorations, and there was nothing of them left but the four bare walls. History of the Book of Abraham the Jew What had happened to the book of Abraham the Jew ? Nicolas Flamel had bequeathed his papers and library to a nephew named Perrier, who was interested in alchemy and of whom he was very fond. Absolutely nothing is known of Perrier. He no doubt benefited by his uncle's teachings and spent a sage's life in the munificent obscurity that Flamel prized so dearly, but had not been able altogether to maintain during the last years of his life. For two centuries the precious heritage was handed down from father to son, without anything being heard of it. Traces of it are found again in the reign of Louis XIII. A descendant of Flamel, named Dubois, who must still have possessed a supply of the projection powder, threw off the wise reserve of his ancestor and used the powder to dazzle his contemporaries. In the presence of the King, he changed leaden balls with it into gold. As a result of this experiment, it is known he had many interviews with Cardinal de Richelieu, who wished to extract his secret. Dubois, who possessed the powder but was unable to understand either Flamel's manuscripts or the book of Abraham the Jew, could tell him nothing and was soon imprisoned at Vincennes. It was found that he had committed certain offences in the past, and this enabled Richelieu to get him condemned to death and confiscate his property for his own benefit. At the same time the proctor of the Chitelet, no doubt by order of Richelieu, seized the houses that Flamel had owned and had them searched from top to bottom. About this time, at the church of Saint-Jacques la Boucherie, robbers made their way in during the night, lifted Flamel's tombstone and broke open his coffin. It was after this incident that the rumor spread that the coffin had been found empty, and that it had never contained the body of Flamel, who was supposed to be still alive. Through whatever means, it is believed Richelieu took possession of the book of Abraham the Jew. He built a laboratory at the Chateau of Rueil, which he often visited to read through the master's manuscripts and to try to interpret the sacred hieroglyphs. But that which a sage like Flamel had been able to understand only after twenty-one years of meditation was not likely to be at once accessible to a politician like Richelieu. Knowledge of the mutations of matter, of life and death, is more complex than the art of planning strategies or administering a kingdom. Richelieu's search gave no good results. On the death of the cardinal, all traces of the book were lost, or rather, all traces of the text, for the diagrams have often been reproduced. Indeed, the book must have been copied, for it is recorded in the seventeenth century that the author of the Tresor des Recherches et Antiquites Gauloises made a journey to Milan to see a copy which belonged to the Seigneur of Cabrieres. In any case, the mysterious book has now disappeared. Perhaps a copy or the original itself rests under the dust of some provincial library. And it may be that a wise fate will send it at the proper time to a man who has the patience to ponder it, the knowledge to interpret it, the wisdom not to divulge it too soon. Is Nicholas Flamel Still Alive? But the mystery of the story of Flamel, which seemed to have come to an end, was revived in the seventeenth century. Louis VIV sent an archeologist named Paul Lucas on a mission to the East. He was to study antiquities and bring back any inscriptions or documents that could help forward the modest scientific efforts then being made in France. A scholar had in those days to be both a soldier and an adventurer. Paul Lucas united in himself the qualities of a Salomon Reinach and a Casanova. He was captured by Barbary corsairs, who robbed him, according to his own story, of the treasures he had brought from Greece and Palestine. The most valuable contribution that this official emissary made to science is summarized in the story he tells in his Voyage dans la Turquie, which he published in 1719. His account enables men of faith to reconstitute part of the history of the book of Abraham the Jew. The story goes as follows: At Broussa Paul Lucas made the acquaintance of a kind of philosopher, who wore Turkish clothes, spoke almost every known language and, in outward appearance, belonged to the type of man of whom it is said that they " have no age." Thanks to his own cultured presence, Lucas came to know him fairly well, and this is what he learned. This philosopher was a member of a group of seven philosophers, who belonged to no particular country and traveled all over the world, having no other aim than the search for wisdom and their own development. Every twenty years they met at a pre-determined place, which happened that year to be Broussa. According to him, human life ought to have an infinitely longer duration than we admit; the average length should be a thousand years. A man could live a thousand years if he had knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone, which, besides being knowledge of the transmutation of metals, was also knowledge of the Elixir of life. The sages possessed it and kept it for themselves. In the West, there were only a few such sages. Nicolas Flamel had been one of them. Paul Lucas was astonished that a Turk, whom he had met by chance at Broussa, should be familiar with the story of Flamel. He was still more astonished when the Turk told him how the book of Abraham the Jew had come into Flamel's possession, for hitherto no one had known this. “Abraham the Jew was a member of our group," the man told him. "He had determined not to lose sight of the descendants of his brothers who had taken refuge in France. He had a desire to see them, and in spite of all we could do to dissuade him he went to Paris. He made the acquaintance there of a rabbi who was seeking the Philosopher's Stone, and our friend became intimate with the rabbi and was able to explain much to him. But before he left the country the rabbi, by an act of treachery, killed our brother to get possession of his book and papers. The rabbi was arrested, convicted of this and other crimes and burned alive. The persecution of the Jews in France began not long afterwards, and they were expelled from the country. The book of Abraham was sold to Flamel by a Jewish man who did not know its value and was anxious to get rid of it before leaving Paris. Having discovered the Philosopher's Stone, Flamel was able to remain alive in the physical form he possessed at the time of his discovery. Pernelle's and his own funerals and the minute care he bestowed on the arrangements for them had been nothing but clever shams.” But the most amazing thing that Paul Lucas heard was the statement made by the Turk that both Flamel and his wife Pernelle were still alive! Having discovered the Philosopher's Stone, Flamel had been able to remain alive in the physical form he possessed at the time of his discovery. Pernelle's and his own funerals and the minute care he bestowed on the arrangements for them had been nothing but clever shams. He had started out for India, the country of the initiates, where he still lived. The publication of Paul Lucas' book created a great sensation. In the seventeenth century, like today, there lived discerning men who believed that all truth came out of the East and that there were in India adepts who possessed powers infinitely greater than those that science so parsimoniously metes out to us. In fact, this is a belief that has existed at every period in modern human history. Was Nicolas Flamel one of these adepts? Even if he was, can it reasonably be presumed that he was alive three centuries after his supposed death, by virtue of a deeper study than had yet been made of the life force and the means of prolonging it? Is it relevant to compare with Paul Lucas' story another tradition reported by Abbe Vilain, who says that in the seventeenth century, Flamel visited Monsieur Desalleurs, the French ambassador to the Sublime Porte? Every man, according to his feeling for the miraculous, must come to his own conclusion. I think, myself, that in accordance with the wisdom which he had always shown, Nicolas Flamel, after his discovery of the Philosopher's Stone, would have had no temptation to evade death; for he regarded death merely as the transition to a better state. In obeying, without seeking escape, the ancient and simple law that reduces man to dust when the curve of his life is ended, he gave proof of a wisdom that is none the less beautiful for being widespread. (Magicians, Seers, and Mystics by Reginald Merton) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEARN MORE: Related Topics | On the Internet Alchemy Home Study | Alchemy Journal | Art Gallery | Consultations | Directory | Electronic Dictionary | Elixirs Tinctures & Cures | Esoteric Catalog Testament of Flamel Testament of Nicholas Flamel. London: Printed by J. and E. Hodson... and sold only by the Editor. 1806. [In French and English on facing pages.] This text is probably a late invention but it is nevertheless interesting for that. I cannot locate a manuscript of the 'Testament', though it was mentioned in Borel's bibliography of alchemy. It was probably written in France in the late 18th century, during the revival of interest in Flamel. It protests too much its authenticity, and gives an unlikely story about how it survived from Flamel's time. Perhaps if the editor (or writer) had just not mentioned anything about its origins they might have better persuaded us about its authenticity. In spite of this it is a clear statement of the alchemical process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I Nicholas Flamel, a scrivener of Paris, in the year 1414, in the reign of our gracious Prince Charles the VIth, whom God preserve; and after the death of my faithful partner Perenelle, am seized with a desire and a delight, in remembrance of her, and in your behalf, dear nephew, to write out the whole magistery of the secret of the Powder of Projection, or the Philosophical Tincture, which God hath willed to impart to his very insignificant servant, and which I have found out, as thou also wilt find out in working as I shall declare unto you. 2. And for this cause do not forget to pray to God to bestow on thee the understanding of the reason of the truth of nature, which thou wilt see in this book, wherein I have written the secrets word for word, sheet by sheet, and also as I have done and wrought with thy dear aunt Perenelle, whom I very much regret. 3. Take heed before thou workest, to seek the right way as a man of understanding. The reason of nature is Mercury, Sun and Moon, as I have said in my book, in which are those figures which thou seest under the arches of the Innocents at Paris. But I erred greatly upwards of 23 years and a half, in labouring without being able to marry the Moon, that is quicksilver, to the Sun, and to extract from them the seminal dung, which is a deadly poison; for I was then ignorant of the agent or medium, in order to fortify the Mercury: for without this agent, Mercury is as common water. 4. Know in what manner Mercury is to be fortified by a metallic agent, without which it never can penetrate into the belly of the Sun and of the Moon; afterward it must be hardened, which cannot be affected without the sulphureous spirit of gold or silver. You must therefore first open them with a metallic agent, that is to say with royal Saturnia, and afterward you must actuate the Mercury by a philosophic means, that you may afterward by this Mercury dissolve into a liquor gold and Luna, and draw from their putrefaction the generative dung. 5. And know thou, that there is no other way nor means to work in this art, than that which I give thee word for word; an operation, unless it be taught as I now do, not at all easy to perform, but which on the contrary is very difficult to find out. 6. Believe stedfastly, that the whole philosophic industry consists in the preparation of the Mercury of the wise, for in it is the whole of what we are seeking for, and which has always been sought for by all ancient wise men; and that we, no more than they, have done nothing without this Mercury, prepared with Sun or Moon: for without these three, there is nothing in the whole world capable of accomplishing the said philosophical and medicinal tincture. It is expedient then that we learn to extract from them the living and spiritual seed. 7. Aim therefore at nothing but Sun, Moon and Mercury prepared by a philosophical industry, which wets not the hands, but the metal, and which has in itself a metallic sulphureous soul, namely, the ignited light of sulphur. And in order that you may not stray from the right path, apply yourself to metals; for there the aforesaid sulphur is found in all; but thou wilt easily find it, even almost similar to gold, in the cavern and depths of Mars, which is iron, and of Venus, which is copper, nearly as much in the one as in the other; and even if you pay attention to it, this sulphur has the power of tinging moist and cold Luna, which is fine silver, into pure yellow and good Sun; but this ought to be done by a spiritual medium, viz. the key which opens all metals, which I am going to make known to you. Learn therefore, that among the minerals there is one which is a thief, and eats up all except Sun and Moon, who render the thief very good; for when he has them in his belly, he is good to prepare the quicksilver, as I shall presently make known to you. 8. Therefore do not stray out of the right road, but trust to my words, and then give thyself up to the practice, which I am going to bestow on thee in the name of the Father, of Son, and Holy Ghost. The Practice. 9. Take thou in the first place the eldest or first-born child of Saturn, not the vulgar, 9 parts; of the sabre chalibs of the God of War, 4 parts. Put this latter into a crucible, and when it comes to a melting redness, cast therein the 9 parts of Saturn, and immediately this will redden the other. Cleanse thou carefully the filth that arises on the surface of the saturnia, with saltpetre and tartar, four or five times. The operation will be rightly done when thou seest upon the matter an astral sign like a star. 10. Then is made the key and the sabre, which opens and cuts through all metals, but chiefly Sun, Moon and Venus, which it eats, devours and keeps in his belly, and by this means thou art in the right road of truth, if thou has operated properly. For this Saturnia is the royal triumphant herb, for it is a little imperfect king, whom we raise up by a philosophic artifice to the degree of the greatest glory and honour. It is also the queen, that is to say the Moon and the wife of the Sun: it is therefore both male and female, and our hermaphrodite Mercury. This Mercury or Saturnia is represented in the seven first pages of the book of Abraham the Jew, by two serpent encircling a golden rod. Take care to prepare a sufficient quantity of it, for much is required, that is to say about 12 or 13 lbs. of it, or even more, according as you wish to work on a large or a small scale. 11. Marry thou therefore the young god Mercury, that is to say quicksilver with this which is the philosophic Mercury, that you may acuate by him and fortify the said running quicksilver, seven or even ten or eleven times with the said agent, which is called the key, or a steel sharpened sabre, for it cuts, scythes and penetrates all the bodies of the metals. Then wilt thou have the double and treble water represented by the rose tree in the book of Abraham the Jew, which issues out of the foot of an oak, namely our Saturnia, which is the royal key, and goes to precipitate itself into the abyss, as says the same author, that is to say, into the receiver, adapted to the neck of the retort, where the double Mercury throws itself by means of a suitable fire. 12. But here are found thorns and insuperable difficulties, unless God reveals this secret, or a master bestows it. For Mercury does not marry with royal Saturnia: it is experient to find a secret means to unite them: for unless thou knowest the artifice by which this union and peace are effected between these aforesaid argent-vives, you will do nothing to any purpose. I would not conceal any thing from thee, my dear nephew; I tell thee, therefore, that without Sun or Moon this work will profit thee nothing. Thou must therefore cause this old man, or voracious wolf, to devour gold or silver in the weight and measure as I am now about to inform thee. Listen therefore to my words, that thou mayest not err, as I have done in this work. I say, therefore, that you must give gold to our old dragon to eat. Remark how well you ought to operate. For if you give but little gold to the melted Saturnia, the gold is indeed opened, but the quicksilver will not take; and here is an incongruity, which is not at all profitable. I have a long while and greatly laboured in this affliction, before I found out the means to succeed in it. If therefore you give him much gold to devour, the gold will not indeed be so much opened nor disposed, but then it will take the quicksilver, and they will both marry. Thus the means is discovered. Conceal this secret, for it is the whole, and neither trust it to paper, or to any thing else which may be seen. For we should become the cause of great mischief. I give it thee under the seal of secrecy and of thy conscience, for the love I bear thee. 13. Take thou ten ounces of the red Sun, that is to so say, very fine, clean and purified nine or ten times by means of the voracious wolf alone: two ounces of the royal Saturnia; melt this in a crucible, and when it is melted, cast into it the ten ounces of fine gold; melt these two together, and stir them with a lighted charcoal. Then will thy gold be a little opened. Pour it on a marble slab or into an iron mortar, reduce it to a powder, and grind it well with three pounds of quicksilver. Make them to curd like cheese, in the grinding and working them to and fro: wash this amalgama with pure common water until it comes out clear, and that the whole mass appears clear and white like fine Luna. The conjunction of the gold with the royal golden Saturnia is effected, when the mass is soft to the touch like butter. 14. Take this mass, which thou wilt gently dry with linen or fine cloth, with great care: this is our lead, and our mass of Sun and Moon, not the vulgar, but the philosophical. Put it into a good retort of crucible earth, but much better of steel. Place the retort in a furnace, and adapt a receiver to it: give fire by degrees. Two hours after encrease your fire so that the Mercury may pass into the receiver: this Mercury is the water of the blowing rose-tree; it is also the blood of the innocents slain in the book of Abraham the Jew. You may now suppose that this Mercury has eat up a little of the body of the king, and that it will have much more strength to dissolve the other part of it hereafter, which will be more covered by the body of the Saturnia. Thou has now ascended one degree or step of the ladder of the art. 15. Take the faeces out of the retort; melt them in a crucible in a strong fire: cast into it four ounces of the Saturnia, (and) nine ounces of the Sun. Then the Sun is expanded in the said faeces, and much more opened that at the first time, as the Mercury has more vigour than before, it will have the strength and virtue of penetrating the gold, and of eating more of it, and of filling his belly with it by degrees. Operate therefore as at first; marry the aforesaid Mercury, stronger one degree with this new mass in grinding the whole together; they will take like butter and cheese; wash and grind them several times, until all the blackness is got out: dry it as aforesaid; put the whole into the retort, and operate as thou didst before, by giving during two hours, a weak fire, and then strong, sufficient to drive out, and cause the Mercury to fall into the receiver; then wilt thou have the Mercury still more acuated, and thou wilt have ascended to the second degree of the philosophic ladder. 16. Repeat the same work, by casting in the Saturnia in due weight, that is to say, by degrees, and operating as before, till thou hast reached the 10th step of the philosophic ladder; then take thy rest. For the aforesaid Mercury is ignited, acuated, wholly engrossed and full of the male sulphur, and fortified with the astral juice which was in the deep bowels of the gold and of our saturnine dragon. Be assured that I am now writing for thee things which by no philosopher was ever declared or written. For this Mercury is the wonderful caduceus, of which the sages have so much spoken in their books, and which they attest has the power of itself of accomplishing the philosophic work, and they say the truth, as I have done it myself by it alone, and thou wilt be enabled to do it thyself, if thou art so disposed: for it is this and none else which is the proximate matter and the root of all the metals. 17. Now is done and accomplished the preparation of the Mercury, rendered cuting and proper to dissolve into its nature gold and silver, to work out naturally and simply the Philosophic Tincture, or the powder transmuting all metals into gold and silver. 18. Some believe they have the whole magistery, when they have the heavenly Mercury prepared; but they are grossly deceived. It is for this cause they find thorns before they pluck the rose, for want of understanding. It is true indeed, that were they to understand the weight, the regimen of the fire, and the suitable way, they would not have much to do, and could not fail even if they would. But in this art there is a way to work. Learn therefore and observe well how to operate, in the manner I am about to relate to you. 19. In the name of God, thou shalt take of thy animated Mercury what quantity thou pleasest; thou wilt put it into a glass vessel by itself; or two or four parts of the Mercury with two parts of the golden Saturnia; that is to say, one of the Sun and two of the Saturnia; the whole finely conjoined like butter, washed, cleansed and dried; and thou wilt lute thy vessel with the lute of wisdom. Place it in a furnace on warm ashes at the degree of the heat of an hen sitting on her eggs. Leave this said Mercury so prepared to ascend and descend for the space of 40 or 50 days, until thou seest forming in thy vessel a white or red sulphur, called philosophic sublimate, which issues out of the reins of the said Mercury. Thou wilt collect this sulphur with a feather: it is the living Sun and the living Moon, which Mercury begets out of itself. 20. Take this white or red sulphur, triturate it in a glass or marble mortar, and pour on it, in sprinking it, a third part of its weight of the Mercury from which this sulphur has been drawn. With these two make a paste like butter: put again this mixture into an oval glass; place it in a furnace on a suitable fire of ashes, mild, and disposed with a philosophic industry. Concoct until the said Mercury is changed into sulphur, and during this coction, thou wilt see wonderful things in thy vessel, that is to say, all the colours which exist in the world, which thou canst not behold without lifting up thy heart to God in gratitude for so great a gift. 21. When thou has attained to the purple red, thou must gather it: for then the alchymical powder is made, transmuting every metal into fine pure and neat gold, which thou maist multiply by watering it as thou hast already done, grinding it with fresh Mercury, concocting it in the same vessel, furnace and fire, and the time will be much shorter, and its virtue ten times stronger. 22. This then is the whole magistery done with Mercury alone, which some do not believe to be true, because they are weak and stupid, and not at all able to comprehend this work. 23. Shouldest thou desire to operate in another way, take of fine Sun in fine powder or in very thin leaves: make a paste of it with 7 parts of thy philosophic Mercury, which is our Luna: put them both into an oval glass vessel well luted; place it in a furnace; give a very strong fire, that is to say, such as will keep lead in fusion; for then thou has found out the true regimen of the fire; and let thy Mercury, which is the philosophical wind, ascend and descend on the body of the gold, which it eats up by degrees, and carries in its belly. Concoct it until the gold amd Mercury do no more ascend and descend, but both remain quiet, and then will peace and union be effected between the two dragons, which are fire and water both together. 24. Then wilt thou see in thy vessel a great blackness like that of melted pitch, which is the sign of the death and putrefaction of the gold, and the key of the whole magistery. Cause it therefore to resuscitate by concocting it, and be not weary with concocting it: during this period divers changes will take place; that is to say, the matter will pass through all the colours, the black, the ash colour, the blue, the green, the white, the orange, and finally the red as red as blood or the crimson poppy: aim only at this last colour; for it is the true sulphur, and the alchymical powder. I say nothing precisely about the time; for that depends on the industry of the artist; but thou canst not fail, by working as I have shewn. 25. If thou are disposed to multiply thy powder, take one part thereof, and water it with two parts of thy animated Mercury; make it into a soft and smooth paste; put it in a vessel as thou hast already done, in the same furnace and fire, and concoct it. This second turn of the philosophic wheel will be done in less time than the first, and thy powder will have ten times more strength. Let is wheel about again even a thousand times, and as much as thou wilt. Thou wilt then have a treasure without price, superior to all there is in the world, and thou canst desire nothing more here below, for thou hast both health and riches, if thou useth them properly. 26. Thou hast now the treasure of all worldly felicity, which I a poor country clown of Pointoise did accomplish three times in Paris, in my house, in the street des Ecrivains, near the chapel of St. Jacques de la Boucherie, and which I Flammel give thee, for the love I bear thee, to the honour of God, for His glory, for the praise of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. The French correspondent [who had provided the French version to the editor for translation into English for this publication of 1806] adds: "This is what I find at the end of the Manuscript"' They assert that the original of this work was written upon the margin of a vellum Psalm-book, in Nicholas Flamel's own handwriting in favour of his nephew. The process was written in cyphers, the better to conceal the secret. Each letter was shaped in four different ways, so that to make up the whole alphabet therewith 96 letters were employed. Father Pernetti and Monsieur de Saint Marc decyphered this writing with much difficulty. M. de St. Marc was on the point of giving it up; but Father Pernetti, who had already found out the vowels, encouraged him to go on with the work, which they at last overcame, with complete success, about the year 1758. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have problems understanding these alchemical texts, Adam McLean now provides a study course entitled How to read alchemical texts : a guide for the perplexed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Gods talk with the Adams precursory manifestation

There will come a time when you will say to me I want to be as you are and I will say first we must create an experience where you can have the experience of not being next to me because first you must understand what it is like to be without me and come to terms with the knowledge of me not being with you even though I can never be without you nor you without me.

You must first experience everything I am not and come to the realization that I am that as well. You must also come to the terms with the fact that I am you and that there is no seperation between us how could there be when what you are is clothed by me and animated by me but I will cause you to forget so you can find me and become like me.

You must come to terms with the understanding that if I am omnipotent and without flaw then you must be as well but you do not know what a flaw is so we must seperate for some time til you understand what a flaw is and therefore can come to terms that you are also flawless.

You must come to terms in knowing that you are never alone and I am always present but you do not know what being alone is so we must seperate for some time so you can understand what being alone is and realize that it could never be.

You must come to terms that if I am love then you are love but you do not understand what love is so for now we must seperate so you can understand what love is not.

And unfortunately but necessary your desire to be as I AM, to walk by me, to converse and understand that which I understand is such that I have to allow you to walk away from me in every manner of experience til you realize that I am going nowhere without you and once you have realized what we are truly then we will walk together in total understanding of what I AM truly means.

Eric Randolph

Why Tai Chi?

This I find is one of the great questions that I get to answer from unknowledgeable or biased people within different fields. Why Tai chi they ask? Martial artists say things like does that really work? People with health risks ask the same and each of them even though they are two different questions are answered the same. the first thing I say to them is Its name is TaijiQuan when properly pronounced and its meaning is the grand ultimate. Now some people believe this is a lofty title but today I will clarify why not only is it not lofty but also why it is well deserved. Though most martial arts deal with the strong overcoming the weak and the fast overcoming the slow, taijiquan negates all this and even though many martial arts use particular types of alignment in order to gain a superior position for strength accumulation tai chi is quite natural. Taijiquan also known as Tai Chi attacks the issues of fast and slow and strong and weak, healthy and unhealthy from its source the mind and the breathe. If a person was capable of aligning up their body by way of aligning their breath and mental states as one how could they not be the best that they could ever be. Now some of you would say but don't all martial arts and forms of medicine do this as well and the answer is NO.Many Martial arts focus purely on sport so there is no need to control the breath except for to create greater stamina so one can prolong through rigorous training in punching or kicking which is a form of cardio. Where Tai Chi is beyond this is it takes away the competitive and dominating spirit which causes stress within the mind and causes the breath to be rigid and broken,which is the cause for all dis-ease. Most martial arts actually center the breath around the state of conquering and domination, which in time leads to debilitations of all sorts, from muscular problems all the way to emotional and mental problems which manifest later when the chi is exhausted. This is why the younger martial artists once they have broken and damaged everything run to tai chi and do not stay with their given art because TaijiQuan centers the breath and the mind around stillness and tranquility, which can be used martially but we do not look at it as this. We see movement not martially but as energy that can be manipulated according to the disposition of the practitioner. If I am filled with harmony more than likely I will never see confrontation but just in case there is a confrontation that needs my energy, I can give back what is given to me without having to claim it as my own or use any negative energy of my own. I just hit return to sender lol. TaijiQuan 13 energies are the energies that perpetuate life in balance. With medicine most doctors focus upon temporary relief of the pain thus covering the symptoms and even when the patient is cured by pills or other types of medical external treatments the dis-ease returns.without awareness of how the disease began in the first place how can one prevent it from returning. Taijiquan causes the patient to look from within to see where and what they were doing to get themselves to this adverse place. Understanding the energies which a patient perpetuates mentally and emotionally and how they manifest physically is its primary goal so that the dis-ease never shows up again, it also gives the patient power in responsibility and knowing that they can with support heal themselves.
This art is the grand ultimate because through and through its principles bring about a concrete understanding of how to experience life at its best within and without, which you can take to any part of your life. The taijiquan energies and with the correct understanding, all of your life can become a great success.

TaijiAdept Eric Randolph

Tai Chi "The How To Aspect of Defeating Pain and Disease"

We are at a starting point of a person who has done the 2nd and third key and are along the way of being capable of sensing the chi throughout their whole body. In order to defeat dis-ease a person Will become consciously aware that they created the alignment for the dis-ease to perpetuate within the body and therefore if they created it then it can be uncreated. This is one of the hardest yet imperative aspects of knowledge or knowing of the self that is obtainable through the meditation of the 2nd and 3rd key. Once this is obtained a person will find that they can feel the breathe circulating throughout the body and thus increase and decrease circulation within the body. The first sign of this is when you can feel the breath tickling down in the dan tien area this place situated just above the pubic area. A fingers width to be more exact. this tickling sensation will lead to the small of the back up then ascend to the middle of the spine pass through into the chest cavity then ascend to the throat cavity and between the eyebrows and then out the top of the head and a very real sensation of a spout of energy should be coming out of the point in between the eyebrows and the top of the head at the beginning of the hairline. The energy should be pouring out of the head and encircling the body going in through the feet and back to the base point in between the anus and genitals. once this is achieved a practitioner can then start focusing upon the points within the body that are damaged and by using the stillness they have gained through the 2nd and 3rd key meditation the person should be able to increase the blood flow by just being aware of the damaged or dis-eased area once this is capable of being done a couple of sensations may begin. One an aching within the area or a sharp pain letting the person know that the dis-ease acknowledges the intent to heal. A sensation of itching and tingling in that area which is a sign of increased healing within that area. Next there will be a start of physical releases possibly a pop sound in that area a tightening of the muscles and a strengthening in that area or the body gaining its healthy auric glow. Once this is done the person is on their way to gaining full health once again, this person should have a master teacher with them as well as their doctor if the dis-ease is critical. They should also continue this practice as many times a day so that they can obtain full recovery from both the master teachers acknowledgment as well as the doctors acknowledgment. The person should document all synchronizations and go over them with the master teacher. These connect the person to why the dis-ease showed up in the first place as well as the best way to continue healing the gathered negative experience in order so the dis-ease never returns.

TaijiAdept Eric Randolph

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TTA Wisodom of the Day

No matter what relationship you may be invested in, It cannot properly evolve into oneness unless both people are giving their all. If you know you are not giving !00% then do not be upset with your partner when they haven't as well. Even when you believe your thoughts and doings are not visibly noticeable Expect suffering. Within any undertaking everything must be set to task or you risk failure.love and peace

The Source

Do not be angered when your prophets and kings and Idols fail you. It is their job to get you where you wish to be and then leave you.


Their failure to allure you further is a blessing. You were never meant to put them upon pedal stools and worship them.


Be forever thankful to the ones you manifest who get you where you need to go and then leave you to make your own way.


The flaws of the teacher are supposed to be there so you do not start worshiping again.


Since the beginning whenever an adept was sent to teach from you amongst yourselves, about your inherent sovereignty, the people bowed down and stopped working for themselves, waiting to be saved waiting to be lead like cattle. You are not cattle!! All of creation is the shepherd.


Praising the teacher no matter how much the teacher said do not praise me do not bow before me do not create any alters in my name nor any idols in my name,We are brothers and sisters.


Thank all adepts who lead you and then FAIL your highest expectations for the adept in favor of your sovereignty knows your weakness knows you will fall to your knees at the drop of a hat if they show anything greater than what you can do yourselves at that present moment.


But if you should find yourself angry with an adept for showing you your disillusionment and it lead you back to searching within for the source then good for you and many blessings to that adept.


If you have to DEPEND upon a savior, An adept,A teacher, someone other than yourself to reach me better to be lost til you find me within you.


For All Adepts in all states of perfection and imperfection The light and the dark adept serve the source so that you and only you can find me in your own imperfect yet perfect way WITHIN.

We as alchemists must be careful that we are not being selfish with our energy. This is the reason a partner may want or need to vampire off of the other as if you are sharing bodies and decide just because you can control your energy more not to give fully. This can quickly turn the alchemist into a vampire. Even the alchemist can get caught by their own demons, so watch yourself diligently. If you decide to share anything with another, make sure you are agreeing on what you are sharing because what they may want to have of yours, may not be what you wish to give. And from the door the alchemist should be open with what he or she wishes to gain from the relationship, no matter what relationship it may be. The alchemist must be careful that they are not the cause of the suffering for another by promising something in the end, but addressing alchemist's needs immediately because of the other being so much lower in skill. For instance, I know a being wants something I have and I am willing to share what they have, but I am not willing to give them what they want, yet I still take from them what they wish to give.
Now in the laws of skill we could say it is of no matter whether we share knowledge or energy fairly but then I have to ask myself: "what am I being locked out of by not sharing in a way that is beneficial for the both of us?" The alchemist must find something equal in wealth according to the other so that the other does not feel as if they need to thief from the alchemist to balance the exchange. This not only destroys the vampire but upgrades the vampire to an alchemist.

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The Tao Applied: What is The Source.

The Tao Applied: What is The Source.: "Ok so now we understand what we have to do but we start asking ourselves well what is The Source.So here it goes, the hard to swallow pill. ..."

The Tao Applied: A KEY

The Tao Applied: A KEY: "You should never ask the mind why,when,how or where is your path to success for it does not know, Its job is to describe and record experience..."

The Tao Applied: THE TAO APPLIED OFFICIAL FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE!!

The Tao Applied: THE TAO APPLIED OFFICIAL FALL SEMESTER SCHEDULE!!

August through December 2010

Monday-Friday 8am; 5pm;

Sunday 12pm

Practices differ with each day:

Mondays [form]

Tuesdays [sensing hands]

Wednesdays [skill in techniques]

Thursdays [weapons form]

Fridays [free sparring]

Sundays [new practices]

The Grand Ultimate

(The Grand Ultimate Boxing) " Those who have true power radiate Gentleness, Humility and Compassion. Being centered and yielding gives birth to gentleness( killing the impulse and aspect inclined towards timidness, insecurity, and the want to conquer for lack of these). I am still within my center, therefore I have no need to be violent or to display my power, which gives birth to being rooted, and being rooted gives birth to humility(The purpose of the TaijiQuan form). To know thyself is good and this gives birth to being sticky. I know myself and am powerful, yet humble within and without. I attract and attach to others so that they may know my heart's intent and in this way they obtain my power. This gives birth to me knowing them and gives birth to compassion(The true purpose of Sensing Hands)."



TaijiAdept Eric Randolph

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"A Personal Address" TaijiAdept Eric Randolph

There is not much to say about this aspect of understanding. Once we have started a dialogue together and we can assess where you are in your studies of this knowledge, then we will give more. As for now a series of meditation and taiji videos will ensue and we hope you will enjoy them and learn from them visually if there are any questions please do not hesitate to email.


This adept has been studying TaijiQuan for over 20 yrs. we have studied not only its martial branches but also its religious branches as well as the historical branches of this skill and within this constant study of this particular skill, the merging of the adept and the source was found. This was my personal way of getting there. It is not the only way. there are a multitude of ways to find the source within, some less treacherous than others. this path through TaijiQuan you will find is hard but not treacherous as long as your intent is pure and for the sake of truly understanding and merging with the source. what I also can say is that this way does work and is very safe. You will only find yourself through this aspect of understanding. You will also find a very heavy responsibility towards your planet and sentient family. This path, this way is the way of the warrior who is set against fear and its myriad of slave inducing realities. The warrior who is searching for a way to end suffering for everyone starting within. This way is very hard and is not for everyone at this point and time but it was manifested by all of us.


                   Those who have true power  radiate Gentleness, Humility and Compassion Being centered and yielding gives birth to gentleness. ( killing the impulse and aspect of timidness, insecurity, and the want to conquer for lack of these) I am still within my stance and therefore I have no need to be violent or to display my power, which gives birth to being rooted and being rooted gives birth to humility (The purpose of the TaijiQuan form) To know thyself is good and this gives birth to being sticky. I know myself and am powerful yet humble within and without, I attract and attach to others so that they may know my intent and heart and by this aspect they obtain my power. This gives birth to me knowing them and gives birth to compassion. (The true purpose of Sensing Hands).


TaijiAdept Eric Randolph ... CEO of The Tao Applied

The Tao Applied " The TaijiQuan Matrix"

TAIJIQUAN

Is the study and practical application of how energy manifests and how this physical universe is consciously organized to manifest in a specific order to perpetuate and differentiate certain states of creation.

Thus its title TaijiQuan (The Grand Ultimate boxing). All levels of consciousness viewing this title and its physical manifestation take upon themselves to define it in any way seen fit according to their nature, as it is supposed to be. These energies are universal principles that  are used and manifested on all levels of consciousness and existence.  Meaning that which is not readily seen like atoms, inside of the body and everything manifesting in between follows these principles, and are each others counter balance of  reality.

The absence of Fear The Last Key!

It is of no consequence to the source of  how you interpret what is resonated. Nor does it give importance to whom you follow. It is ALL the source. There is no need for argument on who is right or wrong. I am all things. Both the sky and the ground which you stand on. The plate and the rag which you clean it with. I am the victim and the perpetrator . The disease and The cure.The villain and the hero. All these things I am and more. Your sun and your famine. Your God and your devil. I am the thirst and the water yet to be its quencher. These things all exist because of me and are an integral part of understanding the principles to creating and how to become an experienced creator. As you war over what I am you get to learn how to create in a destructive fashion and how to create the aspect of healing and giving birth on all aspects and realms, from the mental, to the emotional, to the physical,these are all me and you together experiencing. You must come to understand how to create with skill and the only way to do that is by experiencing everything and making choices on what you want and do not want to experience. I am that which I am,And will become whatever you want me to be so that you can be thorough with your understanding of how to create and in the knowing that you are the conscious creator here and now. You War with one another to know me. You Love with one another to know me. You peace with one another to know me. I am You. No this is not a poem, it is a truth. Ask yourself, from  where did the atoms come from? From where did the elements come? From. From where did the molecules come from? From where did space come from? From where did the planets and the sun come from? From where did the breathe of life animated come from and to what does it cling to once it has left manifestation so that it can continue to exist. If you are looking from the most outermost experience you can see me within nature within all spaces of natural life. you can alter nature to mask itself as something else like plastics and computers but all those come from me as well. your cars, your planes, your buildings, you factories. your nuclear your atomic your hydrogen. I am willing to give you everything even to see US as separate so that you can truly experience being a creator. A singular entity with the ability to make that which is unseen become seen. To experience physicality but know this child, as you look out into your spaces and experiences and see me know that I am also you within the soul which you call me the source which is what I am. So what are you waring for lay down your anger and your hate for one another because I am all of you and all of this within and without. It cannot go on without me and it is All eternal for sake of a better word of experience.you no longer have to feel alone you no longer have to dominate one another to find substance within yourselves, you no longer have to war over resources or a reapplying of the source. I am and We are the resource and I am the source. Your infinite and eternal self. All the prophets that you follow speak of me and interpret as best the can the Me in you.  They are all correct and they all fall short of what all of you on earth and throughout all existence truly are. Stop and be still. Listen for me within A key or where ever you my find me. I am all things. Really "All things". There is no need for anymore wars, Ever. Not a need to experience more famine anywhere, ever. No more need for anymore  death anywhere ever. Unless you choose to continue with Fear. This text is for you. From you and To you in truth about US as we truly are. Let go of your FEAR. It is no longer needed.

The 2nd key video

 







This video focuses upon the physical alignment properly needed in order to access the source.

This is especially important for those who are not really good at taking instruction via through a letter

that can be very difficult  for those still struggling with the written. So we have created a video that's only 20 minutes long, to assist you through the basic instructions of the 2nd key. If there are any questions please ask via my email and I will answer promptly. We are trying to keep cost low for everyone. We want everyone to benefit from this and We hope we have done a good enough job to get the message and the practice through. Please send reviews on the blogsite so we can make corrections on the next vid and also so we can keep coming out with improvements that assist everyone with this understanding of A Key.

 Thank You,

 TaijiAdept Eric Randolph

The First Alchemist " The Sun"

Here we go,

This week I was coming across some very interesting stories, honest, very honest people , 

who said that when they died they had seen a lake of fire or a portal of fire and

there where people going into these lakes and portals of fire and this possibly created alot of fear for many people and so the source  sent me with this knowledge in order to rectify this misunderstanding of what those who died had seen and for those who will die and may see the same thing.

When a person dies they leave this earthly realm I am sure we all agree on that, no more earthly clothing. the soul is not from this physical realm, the body is bound to this frequency while the soul is not. It is bound and made of a different cloth that is why it doesn't perish once the agreement is made for both aspects to separate. If the soul was made of the same thing as the physical body then the soul would literally cease to exist,but it does not it continues because it is of another realm not bound by the rules of this realm. when total seperation is achieved.

In order to be born on this plain and to be upon this planet a soul must acquire the vibration of this galaxies resonance the only way to do thAt is 

by the sun. A soul must pass through the sun and gain this galaxies resonance before it can be born here. trust me I know it sounds crazy but it's the truth. Our sun is bound to our galaxy in order to manifest on this planet you have to go through the central fire.Our sun is the vibrational matrix of these worlds bound to it and depending upon what ray of vibration you come through depends on what planet, what element, what plant, and what species you manifest as here.

An egg and a sperm are just doorways which open to a soul being capable of experiencing  physicality. Take it or leave it folks there is no hell on the otherside waiting for you what you are seeing when you die if you are on your way back here or on your way there are souls preparing to be born here.the lake of fire the realms of fire are the sun and its different rays of clothing the soul to be born here. The fear is doing everything it can to stay with us its time to move on and let it go. it's time for peace on earth and good will towards all mankind. 

Love and Peace