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What is the best (preferably renaissance era) book which CLEARLY details the PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE of spiritual alchemy? I've read bits and bobs of different texts and I've read Evola and I know all the general principles of dissolution and recalcification etc etc, but I still don't know what I'm actually meant to do and alchemists just seem to get off on symbolism and analogy. Is there any book which will tell me clearly how to achieve spiritual gold?

>> No.18798942

>>18798940
And I didn't post this on /x/ because they're all idiots

>> No.18798956

>>18798940
>I've read Evola
>still doesn't understand shite
This is what you get for reading shite scholars who had limited research sources and pulled shite out of his ass

>> No.18798962

>>18798940
alchemy is pre-science science

>> No.18798968

>>18798956
Okay so recommend me something better then, please

>> No.18798971

Look into Kundalini meditation, the tree of life, the staff of Hermes.

There are centres in the body which correspond to the various metals, and the dissolution is the movement between these "metals". The Indians called them chakras. Re-read the material with this in mind and you will understand.

>> No.18798973

>>18798962
Filtered

>> No.18798991

>>18798940
How about you check out this lecture instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lZJKms_hg

>> No.18799004

>>18798991
I will have a look, thank you

>> No.18799012

Symbolic science

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>>18798962
>pre-science science
>science

>> No.18799065

>>18799004
np.
there's also this guy's channel full of alchemical content.
https://www.youtube.com/c/ESOTERICAchannel/search?query=alchemy

>> No.18799601

>>18798942
You would fit right in

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>>18798940
>PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE

>> No.18799644

>>18798940
This guy's expertise is scholarly, he gives a lot of sources and book recommendations: really check him out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgP983eCRfM&list=PLZ__PGORcBKxjPgYQaK1DEi5TmPQVP9xC

>> No.18799824

>>18798968
Something better on alchemy? It’s fucking pseudoscience, what’s wrong with you. Get a fucking grip mate. I know you think you’re special because you’re tapping into esoteric knowledge, but the only thing special about you is how much pity and sympathy you garner from those who know you. You can become the Prince of false knowledge and be a real laughing stock, or you can join your friends in the real world and reckon with your own intellectual mediocrity.

>> No.18800003

>>18799824
Where is all this bitterness coming from, anon? Why does my interest in alchemy make you angry?

>> No.18800198

chinese alchemy is all about how God creates everything with symbolism. you aren't actually supposed to drink lead. you're supposed to realize some esoteric shit based on the symbolism of lead and water. it's symbolism, it's like a language where the words are natural phenomena. it's cool.

>> No.18800203

>>18798940
>>18800198
read Clearys translation of the Secret of the Golden Flower

>> No.18800210

its about the unity of opposites, guess what, you were the philosophers stone the whole time

>> No.18800253

>>18798991
I listened to this and it was enjoyable and useful to hear summarised again, but I know all of this and this doesn't answer my question

>> No.18800255

>>18798962
never post again

>> No.18801206

>>18798971
Any good books you can recommend?

>> No.18801491

>>18798962
>>>/sci/
out of my board bugman.

>> No.18801513

I think the problem with alchemy is that it risks becoming focused on the path rather than the goal.I like this>>18800203
because it has both elements but reiterates several times that the actual doing of the method is very simple. the alchemy is more like a description of what that leads to, which in my opinion is quite interesting. it is unfortunate that Cleary spends so much time trashing Jung rather than just saying cool shit in the footnotes, but it's ok. So this is basically a handbook on northern taoist and ch'an buddhist method and metaphysics from the 1700s

>> No.18801619

>>18798940
>CLEARLY details the PRACTICAL TECHNIQUE of spiritual alchemy
Literally impossible.

>>18798962
Your right to have opinions has been redacted.