Event Description

Alchemy’s Great Ideas

An article by Glenna J. Watson, FRC, (Rosicrucian Digest March 1972. Magazine ages 7-9, digital pages 9-11). 

Members only online event

Presenter: Lester Hedgcock

Contact: ontario@amorc.rosicrucian.org

Some Extracts from the Article and a Question

Alchemy, or hermetic philosophy, is actually composed of three aspects:

1.       First, it is a theory, an all-inclusive vision of the world and universe, built on universal correspondences.

2.       Second, it is an experimental attempt to deal with this theory on a practical basis. 

3.       Third, it is a supreme effort, taking us beyond the ken of mere human knowledge, whose aim is liberation from all that the world offers, after knowledge and experience of the world have been assimilated and completed.

In essence, alchemy is a vessel within which ideas of greatest antiquity have been preserved, developed and handed down.

Who undertakes to enter the philosophic rose garden without the key is like the person wanting to walk without feet. Once let the key be found, the gate unlocked, and the roses of the garden plucked, then all the lovely and mystical names – philosopher’s stone, pearl of great price, tincture, and many more – all will apply to that shining human soul who has attained to the transmutation within him/herself.

What is this key?