THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF NATURE
People believe that nature is unconscious, but they are mistaken. Poor people!
“CHILDREN OF THE EARTH! Listen to your instructors, the Children of Fire…”
“Kings and queens of fire, creatures of the forests… I conjure you! There is no forest without its spirit… There is no tree without its creature, its powers, and its intelligence… There is no tree without a soul… Every plant is the physical body of an elemental creature of nature…”
“Plants have souls, and the souls of plants hold all the powers of the Mother Goddess of the World…”
“The souls of plants are the elementals of Nature.” These innocent creatures have not yet left Eden, and therefore have not yet lost their fiery powers...‖
―The elementals of the plants play like innocent children amidst the ineffable melodies of this great Eden of the Mother Goddess of the World. “There is nothing in this fiery creation that lacks a soul…”
“If we observe with the eyes of the Spirit the burning depths of a millenarian rock, we see that EACH ATOM IS THE PHYSICAL BODY OF AN ELEMENTAL mineral CREATURE, which struggles, loves, and works amidst the fiery crackling of the universal flames, intensely yearning to ascend the burning steps of coal and diamond, to have the joy of entering the sublime kingdom of plants…”
Millions of Russian newspaper readers first encountered the idea that plants communicate their emotions to humans in October 1970, when Pravda published an article titled "What the Leaves Tell Us."
"Plants speak... Yes, they scream," declared the official organ of the Communist Party. "Only they seem to accept their misfortunes submissively and suffer their pain in silence." The Pravda report, and Chertkov himself, tells us that he witnessed these extraordinary events in Moscow when he visited the Artificial Climate Laboratory at the Timiryazev Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
"Before my very eyes, a prostrate stem literally screamed when its roots were placed in hot water. It is true that the plant's 'voice' was only recorded on a special electronic instrument of extraordinary sensitivity, which revealed on a wide strip of paper 'a bottomless valley of tears.'" As if it had gone mad, the recording needle described in the contortions of its strokes on the white surface the mortal agony of the barley stalk, although, simply by looking at the small plant, no one would ever have suspected what it was suffering. While its little leaves remained upright and green as always, the plant's "organism" was already dying. Some kind of "brain" cells were telling us from within what was happening to it.
This preceding excerpt from the book "The Secret Life of Plants" finds a formidable complement in this other passage from the same work:
"Believing that sensationalism was being used in Western newspapers," said the Izvestiya reporter, Matveyev traveled to Leningrad, where he met with Vladimir Grigorievich Karamanov, director of the Bio-cybernetics Laboratory at the Institute of Agro-physics, to obtain an authoritative opinion on the matter.
According to the Izvestiya reporter, Karamanov showed how an ordinary legume plant had acquired something equivalent to "hands" to indicate to an instrumental brain how much light it needed. When the brain sent signals to the "hands," they simply had to press a switch, and the plant could then establish on its own the optimal length of its "day" and "night." Later, when the same plant had acquired the equivalent of "legs," it could instrumentally indicate whether it needed water. Establishing itself as a perfectly rational being, the report continued, the plant did not gorge itself voraciously on water indiscriminately, but rather limited itself to drinking for about two minutes per hour, regulating the amount it needed with the help of an artificial mechanism.
This was something truly sensational in the scientific and technical field — the article concluded — clear demonstration of the technical capabilities of 20th-century man.”
When asked if he believed Backster had discovered something new, Karamanov replied somewhat tolerantly: “Not at all! That plants are capable of perceiving the world around them is a truth as old as the world itself. Without perception, there can be no adaptation. If plants lacked sensory organs and had no means of transmitting and processing information with their own memory and language, they would inevitably perish.”
Professor V. N. Pushkin, from the Soviet Union, a Doctor of Sociological Sciences, trying to find meaning in the reactions of flowers, wrote:
“It is possible that there is a specific and positive link between the two information systems, that of the plant cells and that of the nervous system.” The language of plant cells may be related to that of nerve cells. These two completely different types of living cells seem to be able to "understand" each other.
From the same work, we extract the following:
"The magic and mystery of the plant world that underlies these scientific activities have also recently become the subject of a new book, entitled Grass, by a popular Slavophile writer, Vladimir Soloukhin, which appeared at the end of 1972 in four issues of the magazine Nauka i Zhizn (Science and Life), which has a circulation of three million. Soloukhin was born in a village near the ancient city of Vladimir, in northern Russia, and was fascinated by the exposition that Pravda one day gave of the work carried out by Gunar, being very surprised that it had not provoked more enthusiasm among his fellow Russians." The elements of plant memory may have been superficially studied, he writes, but at least they're in black and white! Yet no one dares to call their friends or neighbors, no one dares to shout in a drunken voice on the phone: "Haven't you heard what's going on? Plants can feel! Plants feel pain! Plants scream! Plants remember everything! Plants think!"
As Soloukhin began calling his friends, full of enthusiasm and joy, he learned from one of them that a prominent member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, working in Akademgorodok, the new town inhabited almost exclusively by research scientists and located on the outskirts of Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest industrial center, had said the following:
"Don't be surprised! We too are conducting many experiments of this kind, all of which point to a single idea: plants have memory." They are capable of gathering impressions and retaining them for long periods. We had a man harass and even torture a geranium for several days.
He pinched it, tore it to pieces, pricked its leaves with a needle, poured acids on its tissues, burned it with a match, and cut its roots. Another man lovingly cared for the same geranium, watered it, loosened and aerated its soil, sprinkled it with fresh water, found supports for its heavier branches, and tended to its burns and wounds. When we applied the electrodes of our instruments to the plant, what do you think happened? As soon as the one who had tormented it approached, the recording stylus of the instrument began to move frenetically. The plant didn't just become "nervous," it became frightened, horrified. If it could have, it would have thrown itself out the window or attacked its tormentor. As soon as he left, and the good man stood beside it, the geranium calmed down, its impulses vanished, and the stylus traced tranquil, one might even say affectionate, calm lines .
Zabelin, Doctor of Geographical Sciences and Professor at the University of Moscow, expressed:
“We are only just beginning to understand the language of nature, ITS SOUL, its reason. The ‘inner world’ of plants hides from our gaze behind seventy-seven seals.”
GOD IS EVERYWHERE
He is the Intelligence that animates the movement of the infinitely small and the infinitely large. He is the life that seethes and pulsates in every sun, as in every atom. When Christ said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,” and considering that life, expressed as atomic movement in all things, great and small, from a human being to an angel and from a stone to a star, expressed something of such vast and profound dimensions that it can scarcely be glimpsed by human understanding.
In “The Gospel According to Thomas,” from the Nag Hammadi texts recently discovered in Egypt, Christ says:
“Cut the wood; there I am. Lift up the stone and you will find me.”
In the Holy Scriptures, in Joshua, chapter 24, verses 26 and following, there is something pertinent that deserves our reflection:
“And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; And taking a large stone, he set it up there under the oak tree that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness between us, which has heard all the words of the Lord that he has spoken to us; it shall therefore be a witness against you, lest you lie against your God.”
Where, in another part of the Book of Habakkuk, chapter 2, verse 11, it says:
“For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the plank of the timber will answer it.”
Returning to the New Testament, we find these same teachings in the mouth of Christ:
“And do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.” (Matthew 3:9)
Then some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Master, rebuke your disciples.” He replied, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would cry out.” (Luke 19:39-40)
Since Christ is “The Truth,” He cannot lie, and since He is “Life,” He is the Life that animates the mineral, the plant, the animal, the humanoid, man, the angel, the Sun, the star, and God.
The materialist scientist, if he wishes to go further, will necessarily have to humbly bow before the Divine Laws that govern atomic life, know them, respect them, and act in accordance with them. And then he will no longer be a materialist scientist, but a Philosopher, a friend of science and a seeker of "THE TRUTH
THE PRIME MATTER
If Fulcanelli tells us that in the search for the philosopher's stone and the making of gold, "the essential thing is not the transmutation of metals, but that of the experimenter himself," then the Prime Matter is contained within the experimenter himself. In "The Mystery of the Cathedrals," he tells us: "There exists a stone of great virtues, which, though called a stone, is not a stone; it is mineral, vegetable, and animal, found everywhere and at all times, IN EVERY PERSON."
Flamel also writes: "There is a hidden stone, concealed and buried deep beneath a spring; it is vile, poor, and worthless; and it is covered with excrement and dung; it, being always the same, has been given many different names." The sage Morienus says that this stone, which is not a stone, is animated because it has the power to procreate and generate
In the “Seven Chapters of Hermes,” it is written: “Behold, I declare to you what has been hidden: The Work is with you and in you; wherever it is continually, you also will always have it wherever you may be.”
Even so, the nature of the Prime Matter for the Great Work remained an enigma. Not even the Great Adept Fulcanelli dared to unveil this once unspeakable mystery. Much less did he tear the veil that covered the Artifice for the elaboration of the Philosophical Mercury.
We must clarify that the elaboration of the Philosophical Mercury begins with the first mercury or Prime Matter.
Fulcanelli states: “Let the seekers know, then, that their solvent, or common mercury, is the result of nature’s work, while the mercury of the wise is a product of art.”
Later, the same author says that the technique for preparing Philosophical Mercury “…does not require special manual dexterity or professional skill, but only the knowledge of a curious ARTIFICE, which constitutes that SECRETUM SECRETORUM that has never been revealed and that, probably, never will be.”
It is clear that “The Father of all Lights” of the Great Adept Fulcanelli had not authorized him to reveal a mystery of this nature. However, "The Father of all Lights," in the Master Samael Aun Weor, did authorize him to reveal what no other Master had previously revealed publicly to humanity.
In his work, "Treatise on Sexual Alchemy," the V.M. Samael Aun Weor teaches us:
1 - Arnold of Villanova, Albertus Magnus, Ramon Lulio, and many other alchemists refer to sperm or semen as Mercury.
2 - There is only one substance that serves as the foundation for the Great Work of the Father.
3 - This raw material of the Great Work is the sperm called Mercury by all alchemists.
4 - Mercury is the cooking sperm of all metals.
5 - Arnold of Villanova says that, according to the degree of sulfidation, Mercury engenders the various metals (astral, mental, causal bodies, etc.) within the Earth (Philosophical).
6 - Thus, Mercury, according to the degree of calcination, comes to assume the various metallic forms.
7 - Indeed, everything can be decomposed into its own elements.
8 –With the help of caloric, we can decompose ice into water, because water is the element of ice.
9 - Thus, all the metals of the earth can be decomposed.
Compounds in Mercury, because mercury is the raw material of all metals.
10 - This Mercury is the spermatic semen, into which all metals can be decomposed, because that is the element from which all things come.
11 - Man can be decomposed into semen, because that is the element from which he came, and everything can be decomposed into the very elements of which it is composed.
12 - Before being able to transmute metals, it is first necessary to reduce them to their raw material.
13 - Likewise, before man can be redeemed from his sins and enter the kingdom of heaven, he must first be reduced to his raw material, and then transmuted into the heavenly man of whom Saint Paul speaks.
14 - For example, if I have a statue and I want to give that statue an entirely new form, I must first reduce that statue to its raw material, breaking it down into the very elements of which it is composed.
15 - Then, with that raw material, I make the statue in an entirely new and completely different form.
16 - Likewise, if we wish to transmute ourselves into Celestial Men, into masters of wisdom, we must reduce ourselves to the Sperm from which we were formed, in order to create the CHRIST, the Golden Child of Sexual Alchemy.
17 - Change your nature and you will find what you seek.
SEMINAL ATOMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
Cleve Backster, whom we discussed in previous chapters, conducted scientific research with sperm particles and found that "Sperm cells proved to be extraordinarily capable, because they seemed to identify their donor and react to his presence, ignoring that of other male subjects." These observations seem to indicate that there is a kind of total memory that reaches down to the cell, and consequently, that the brain may be nothing more than a switching mechanism, not necessarily an organ for storing memories.
We clarify here that, for the purposes of the Great Work, not even a tiny drop of the sacred sperm should be extracted from our organism, since these transmutation processes take place within our own human laboratory. Fornication (seminal ejaculation in any proportion or quantity), as well as adultery, is extremely serious for the alchemist: the laboratory could burn down and the Work ruined for life...
From the initial paragraph, draw this conclusion: the sperm cells, their atomic and subatomic constitution, also contain my own consciousness. And if the seed of the human being is the most select thing in this precious machine, then the most select of atomic consciousness is also found there. Knowing that the alchemical atoms of the Great Work reside there is ESSENTIAL for becoming aware of the enormous responsibility we have toward our seed and the urgent need to know the DIVINAL ATOMIC LAWS that govern the alchemical processes.
Therefore, a monstrous experimenter of materialistic science could not, massively and harmoniously, without violence, subject the Divine Laws to his laboratory whims—Science without Conscience...
In the sacred sperm there are very elevated divine atoms:
In the sacred books of the East, among others, there are some known as the Upanishads. In the Briha-daranyaka Upanishad, printed at Oxford University, on page 136, volume 1, one can read the following:
"He who dwells in the Semen and within the Semen, whom the Semen does not know, whose body is the Semen, and who governs the Semen from within—this is the Yes, The immortal; Invisible, yet a seer; Inaudible, yet a listener; Imperceptible, yet a perceiver; Unknown, yet a knower.. There is no other seer outside of Him, no other hearer outside of Him, no other perceiver outside of Him. This is your Yes, the inner sovereign, the immortal. All the rest is evil."
The Fire of the Holy Spirit has as its dwelling place the Water of the Sacred Sperm. It is for this reason that in "The Gnostic Gospel of Philip" from the Nag Hammadi texts, it is written: "Semen of the Holy Spirit."
It is vitally important that the alchemist understands that not even a single drop of the sacred sperm should be spilled, as shown in the "Mutus Liber" (in an old edition) on Plate No. 14. At the end, Perrenelle (wife of Nicolas Flamel) appears, indicating that if the mercury falls outside the container, that is, if ejaculation occurs, the unity indicated on the Plate by her husband is not obtained, but rather the horns (symbol of impurity and demonic work) indicated by Perrenelle's gesture.
It is well known that one of the terms used to refer to the raw material is "Antimony." What Basil Valentine expresses regarding this in his "Triumphal Chariot of Antimony" is very relevant and of great interest. Let us see:
"Let the reader know, then, that all things have within themselves the operative and life-giving Spirit, which dwells in bodies, nourishes them, and preserves them. Spirits are not lacking in the elements, which live in them by the will of God, whether good or bad. Men and other animals have within themselves the living and operative Spirit, which, when it departs, leaves them as corpses. Herbs and plants contain within themselves the spirit of health; otherwise, they would be useless for medical use or preparation." Likewise, metals and minerals carry within them their impalpable spirit, which contains all their power and virtue, for without the spirit, the thing is dead and shows no life-giving operation within itself. Let the reader know, therefore, that THE SPIRIT IS IN ANTIMONY, which carries with it all the things hidden within it and extracted from it, but invisibly, for in the magnet (mercury) is hidden an invisible virtue, which I will discuss at length in my Treatise on the Magnet.
Spirits are of two kinds: Intelligent and non-intelligent. Intelligent beings, endowed with reason, can be comprehensible and incorporeal when they so choose, like the inhabitants of the elements. Some are seductive fiery flames, others lucid phantoms: the aerial spirits, inhabitants of the air; the aquatic spirits, possessors of the waters; and also those of the earth, who appear in metal mines, called miners. These spirits understand, they know the arts, and they can change their form...
The other spirits of the world, those who are not spontaneously surprised, are those hidden in humans, animals, beasts, plants, and minerals. These have operative life, which is demonstrated by their actions and their power to heal when, through the benefit of art, they separate from their bodies. Likewise, THE SPIRIT OF ANTIMONY demonstrates and communicates its virtue to men.
That is why our V.M. Samael Aun Weor, in his "Treatise on Sexual Alchemy," emphatically states:
23— In semen there exists an Angelic atom that governs our seminal vapors.
24— This Angelic atom raises the vapors of our semen toward the spinal canal, so that the angel (atomic within us) of the cedars of the forest may use it to open the Lower Gate of the spinal cord, so that the divine princess of Kundalini may enter there. In "The Creation of the Intimate Psychological Sun or The Doctrine of the Direct Path," our V.M. Samael Aun Weor, regarding the nature of ANTIMONY, teaches:
"ANTIMONY is not merely a substance as many claim. In Alchemy, Antimony goes further. It is one of the autonomous and self-aware parts of our own Being, since our own Being has many autonomous and self-aware parts. Antimony is one of them. It is an Alchemist (our Atomic Alchemist). That part actively works, fixing Gold in Mercury."
There, then, in the Sacred Sperm, is the Atomic Alchemist, THE SPIRIT OF ANTIMONY of Basil Valentine. There in the Semen are other Atomic Intelligences, some subordinate to Antimony and others that have a higher hierarchy than it. But all these Divine atomic parts work in common accord in the Great Work, provided the practitioner performs the Work well and according to the canons of Holy Alchemy.
Fulcanelli, appealing to Phonetic Kabbalah, hints at this mystery of Antimony at the end of Chapter IV of "Louis D'Estissac":
"One of the important characters in Pantagruel, the man of science, is called Epistemon. And the secret craftsman, the spirit enclosed in a raw substance (common mercury or prime mercury), translates the epistemon (Antimony)." Greek, because this spirit is capable by itself of executing and carrying out the entire work, without any other assistance than that of elemental fire.”
Where, in another section, he says:
“It is still necessary to question Nature in order to learn from her under what conditions and under the dominion of what will her multiple productions operate. The philosophical spirit would not be capable, in fact, of being content with a simple possibility of identifying bodies, but rather demands knowledge of the secret of their elaboration.”
And to conclude this initiative of ours, we will transcribe the invaluable and unique teaching that Samael Aun Weor transmitted to us in the book, "The Unveiled Pistis Sophia":
"James is the blessed patron of the Great Work.)"
"Whoever studies the universal epistle of James will understand the principles of the Great Work.)"
"The Father of all Lights, through our own Inner James, teaches us the mysteries of the Great Work.)"
"James is, therefore, one of the autonomous and self-aware parts of our own being.)"
"James-Mercury is intimately related to the transmutatory science of Yesod-Mercury.)"
"The fundamental book of the The “Great Work” that James carries in his hands is the Apocalypse.)
(Undoubtedly, the Apocalypse is the book of wisdom that is only comprehensible to Alchemists.)
(Only the workers of the Great Work can understand the Apocalypse.)
(In higher chemistry, that is, in Alchemy, lies the secret science of the Apocalypse.)
(The laws of higher chemistry or Alchemy, the principles, the order of the Mastery of Fire, are contained in the Apocalypse.)
(James within each of us, I repeat, is the blessed patron of the Great Work.)
(James is another autonomous and independent part of our own individual being.) ―(Each of us has our own James.)
In another section of the same work, the V. M. Samael tells us: ―(The spirit of gold is in the SACRED SPERM.)
―(Antimony is a part of the Being; the Great Alchemist who fixes the gold in the superior existential bodies of the Being.)
In his hermetic lecture “Knowledge of the Being,” M. Samael teaches us: ―Undoubtedly, there is one (a part of the Being) who is in charge of Alchemy, and in Alchemy, he is called ANTIMONY, but he is not one of the twelve powers (The Twelve Atomic Apostles)
—What does exist is a specialist in Alchemy, whom, ANTIMONY obeys, who is precisely JAMES THE GREATER, the Blessed Patron of the Great Work. Antimony obeys him in the sense that he (James) is the transcendental figure in charge of Alchemy, of the Great Work.—
ATOMIC ANTIMONY is the Great Alchemist of Notre Dame de Paris...
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