Nature — wow. What an intricate system. It is so astonishing to contemplate the functionings of the natural world. All of nature, all of the natural world, it is a system, a machine. That is not to reduce it, not to make it seem cold and lifeless — no, obviously it is anything but — rather, it is to reflect on the interconnectedness of all life, the intricate workings of the natural world, how it is all set up so perfectly, both a house of cards and a brick house, set up so meticulously and… seemingly intentionally… every card as important and crucial as the last… yet it is so resilient… it is like a house of cards, in that the removal of a single card compromises the whole — all for one, one for all — and yet, life always finds a way. Life always finding a way reminds me of the universal dominance of goodness over evil, for no matter what may befall our Earth — even by our own hands — oh, life finds a way, life always finds a way.
I think the greatest of machines, the greatest of inventions, the most potent of artificial creations, they should not be a step away from nature — rather, they should be modeled off of the laws of nature. The greatest human systems should seek to imitate the functionings of the natural world, for the recipe is right around us, right underneath our noses. I think this of all things. I think to model a company, one should reflect on what natural system their company structure should seek to imitate. I think in psychological work, one should view their very own psyche as elemental. One should view one’s own psyche as a garden, as a field. One should contemplate how the field and soil of one’s own mind should be worked. The mind is composed of nature — we are stardust, we are dust, we are Earth, we are Sun, we are Moon — therefore, we must work on it as we would work on nature. How much etheric water does my mind need today? How much etheric Sun? Am I honoring the cycles of the etheric Moon in knowing when to plant, when to harvest? Am I honoring the role of etheric death in the cycles of my mind? How else can the soil of my mind be fertilized, how else can life anew be created?
What, then, do you think the role of alchemy in all of this is? Spiritual alchemy is the understanding of this principle — we use the very laws of nature, of the real natural world, upon ourself. Again, the recipe is right in front of us. The inner is the outer, the outer is the inner. How would you begin transmuting lead into gold? How is that done? Of course, without a flame, that cannot happen. Do you have an etheric fire to begin to transmute the lead of your own psyche?
What is this all to say? This is all to say that separation is an illusion. The separation between inner and outer, self and other, nature and human, natural and artificial — no, we must not treat any of these as different, take an egalitarian approach to life itself. To heal one is to heal the other, the way you heal one, you heal the other.
To understand this is to forge the Philosopher’s Stone.
THE CLOSET MYSTIC 