1. The original, unpurified material that is transformed in an alchemical operation. In physical alchemy, the first matter is lead; in spiritual alchemy, the unenlightened human.
3. Together, the effluvia of the Lion and the Eagle, is the "First Matter," the original Creation. This First Matter is to be transmuted by the magickal imagination, by aspiration and inspiration and by the "Fire" which is the ecstasy. Ecstasy is, as it were, the magickal fire for transforming all into inspiration and aspiration.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Lindsay Fauntleroy, author of the new In Our Element.
These crazy times call for the ones I've been affectionately calling Neo-Ancients. As confusion, worry, and fear run rampant, Neo-Ancients can be...
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