The Book of Aquarius and the Philosopher's Stone

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This will be hard to sum up, and since I don’t think many will believe this possible, I will not put much effort into it.

*Alchemy is a fuckhuge pile of the most esoteric crazy writing that has ever existed. Fact: the word ‘Gibberish’ comes from the Alchemist something ‘Geber’ who wrote some seriously mis-directional stuff. Most alchemy post-16th century is convoluted garbage. This was the era of people ingesting Mercury and dying. Mercury is obviously deadly. Ingesting it can’t ever turn anything into the philosopher’s stone. Many people started to believe it was a ‘spiritual’ science; many still do today. If you trace the pre-16th century stuff back further you find that China, India, Europe–there was legitimate talk of an actual stone. Something that you could make. Something people were killed over. Legit.

*An alchemist recently (like end of 2011) released a book which went through all the pre-16th century stuff and then re-explained it, seemingly for the first time, in public domain language. Clear, to the point, this is what it is, what it does, and how it can be made. It is backed up with almost too many direct, indisputable quotes from various books. The author is anonymous, and operates using some military grade cypher.

*The stone is condensed chi. It can be eaten, and basically gives you full energy. Under very strict, occasional conditions, it can turn other metals into silver or gold.

*the stone can be made from anything, but anon suggests using urine, as that is loaded with life energy. Other compounds which could be used are dew, blood, semen, fruit juice…

*The book is ‘The Book of Aquarius’. It’s Free. thebookofaquarious.com

*How long does it take to make the stone–you know, Gobbo, ‘in theory’: Likely over 3 years, possibly 4 the first time. Also, apparently once it’s made, it can be duplicated somehow.

Is this the dawning of the age of aquarius?

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Well, if it isn’t, it will be. :sunglasses:

Alchemy was one of the many attempts of homosapian to draw an exact association between the conceptual and the physical.
It is a valid thought that if one constructs specific concepts into a final concept, he could then assemble the physical materials exactly associated with the concepts into the actual physical final object defined by that final concept. Actually engineers do it all of the time. Social engineers do it with society as a whole with far less precision.

I never associated the “Philosopher’s Stone” with the “Age of Aquarius”, but I guess one might lead to the other.

The philosophers stone is a valid concept. I’m not so certain about the age of Aquarius, though.
People tend to get carried away with attempts to assume a perfect association between concepts and materials and thus very many stories and hopes are based on the idea of physical events being easily manipulated merely by understanding the idealized concepts behind them. Formulaic socialist dictatorships are generally the outcome; Nazism, Chase Bank, Judaism, Christianity, KKK, and so on. Homosapian never gives up his fantasy of universal power and domination by any means he can manage.

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I don’t care about alchemy but I appreciate the background on “gibberish.” I like that word.

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Philosopher’s Stone got you high. They found many subspecies to it, such as the philosophicum angelicum, which was applied in liquid form to a sheet of wool, and applied to the tongue, and then you saw angels.

Ive worked with a alchemist, but would never recommend licking or sniffing that shit. I was trying to map out tge techniques used, and use a psychogical evaluation of my own experience to see if there was a hidden, underlining logic to it. My conclusion is NOPE, it’s just a bunch of window liqours getting twisted high on shit that should kill them and will kill others… If it wasnt for their tolerance level being so high… from getting high for so long, they too would be dead.

If anyone is ever in Anchorage, Alaska, stop by Cyrano’s Playhouse, a small community theater, and say hi to the local playwright. Hes not the alchemist I speak of, but he was writing plays on the subject back when I was going through Jung’s Alchemical Studies.

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Alchemy, Scriptures, and the Occult are ALL about metaphor.
Metaphors separate the less ons from the more ons.
If you misunderstand the metaphorical lessons, well… it must have worked.

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The first chapter of the book explains why this is wrong.

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www.thebookofaquarious.com

This link doesn’t work.

I think at this point you suspect that I am a mason or something, but fuck it. I do take the shit you say seriously because you are the only occultist I have access to. I just wish you wouldn’t be such an asshole about the whole thing, and also maybe allow for a little incredulity to shit most of us have only superficially heard about.

And don’t give me that “the information is out there, you are just not looking right” shit either, because I am a bit of a knowledge amateur and I know how memes happen. Not the internet concept, actual memes. All this illuminaty and occult stuff? Memes. Aaall memes. Doesn’t make them not true, but it doesn’t make them true either.

Or maybe I just need to start doing a lot of psychedelic drugs again to get it, I seriously suspect that might be the case.

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thebookofaquarius.com/

Not sure why you would think I would think you’re a mason. For what it’s worth, I think you’re a well-intentioned person.

Chalk most of your criticisms up to me just being borderline insane.

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Not sure what you mean by this. Anything popular online is a meme. (and the truth is popular) Everything before online wasn’t. Cats are a meme. Illuminaty is a meme. Are cats ‘true’? I dunno. It’s an odd question. In the objective memes are just a lot of people interested in certain things. Global popular discussions.

Masons and secret societies have always hid in the open. That’s just how they do things. So when the net hit, and people began to discuss things openly, the truth started to coalesce because it’s not really hidden. There have always been people throughout history impervious to bullshit; right now they’re able to talk freely, and it’s awesome.

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First of, “memes” are a pre-internet concept that got kind of hijacked by, erm, the internet. Before that it was a term that Richard Dawkins coined for units of information. He claimed that ideas behave and are spread very much like genes, thus memes. So basically, every single thing ever is a meme.

That’s what I mean. The fact that I hear something, even if it fits snuggly into my previous meme web, does not make it true. All that was by way of “leave the unbelieving alone,” you seem to expect people to believe you straight away.

In other news, it is interesting that you suggest that they hide in the open. I never framed it like that before. However, some of the stuff in that page I told you about that dealt with EWS was just too far fetched to be believable. Like how he breaks down the star decoration in the christmas party.

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I don’t expect most people to believe me. But to me this is all do obvious it boggles my mind more people don’t see it.

What really makes something hard to believe? The person considering it.

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Pezer, like, there’s Occultists working the grill in most Dairy Queens. You gotta go out of your way to NOT meet them when you join philosophy groups. I somehow manage to attract them to me. These people are not hard to find. Fuck, in my old unit in the army, we had a few wiccans and heathens. I’ve met a Rosicrucian here recently (read a chunk of their official history, so wasn’t too much out of the loop), knew another in San Francisco, and know several people into variations of Alchemy, both western and taoist.

The stuff is mostly just busy work to occupany one’s journey of getting high in the company of like minded others. You gotta be high to accept some of the hidden meaning behind some of that shit… quite clear they’ve been dropping something akin to acid for centuries in these little clubs.

The Picatrix is a good starting point, as it also was the basis for starting the scientific revolution. There was a mistranslation of the Arabic into the Hebrew in Spain, describing the scientific method long before it was developed in the rest of Europe. The book has elements of it quite ancient, some being traced back to greek pagan rites.

However, this shit won’t help you one bit in finding a post Nietzschean, post christian morality. Christians already studied that shit, and Nietzsche was hardly adverse.

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  1. You were right, it is a task whose hugeness has only recently come full-view. If I decide to go it alone, inwardly, you will see my post at the promised time. If I decide to convinve a bunch of people too along the way, I will probably die before I am done. At the moment, I made a carreer choice that pushes me in the latter direction, but who knows.

  2. My philosophic seeds are in philosophy class, but my roots are in drugs. My interest in the occult comes precicely from having some of those drugged out understandings you mentioned. Still, you are right on all counts maybe. Anyway, I live in Montreal. Unlike in the US, drug and occultist culture is so open here that it is almost mainstream. I think modern day european enlightenment (and I do include America as an European province) requires some drug use. Shamans used drugs for years until now, when we are better equiped in our knowledge to understand what they (the drugs, not the shamans) tell us, just like philosophy and religion.

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Right, and in this case, the person’s dialectic standards don’t allow for belief.

The janitor at my old building used to tell me that ghosts would haunt you if you did this or that, the teacher at my school told me that my eyes would go weird if I crossed them, the priest at my church told me that a special kind of bread was actually a person’s body, a friend in my elementary told me that if my hand was bigger than my face it meant I have cancer.

This guy is telling me that some six-pointed star with a circle is actually two triangles with two circles and some other shit that was just as good as saying that a yacht is really just three canoes and a helicopter.

Have some rigor for shit’s sake, at least tell my what lead you to such a fucked up conclusion. If your answer is anything but drugs (which as I said, I am open to), it better be specific and clear in all the links of the chain. Otherwise, the ILP logo is really fifty thousand diagonal lines that represent shower time in Sweden.

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By thus I already know to toss the book.

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That (I will not read a book because of my own preconceived notions) one of the stupidest things anyone can ever say.

No sane person will argue me on that point.

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Beg to differ on that one.

So you read all of the “how to be a good Christian” books?
“How to be a good Nazi” books?
“How to be a good Communist” books?
“How to be a good Capitalist” books?
“How to make free electricity from air” books?
Conspiracy theory books?

Is there any kind of books that you don’t read?

And frankly, if such makes Me stupid, I hate to think where that leaves you.

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While I don’t see the need in reading the entirety of those books, I have read the bible, mein kemf, etc.

Why wouldn’t it? lol.

Not really. I even write erotic fiction.

You sound like my mother. I didn’t call you stupid, I just called what you did stupid. There is a very important distinction there (I shouldn’t need to point out.)

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I suspect that you get that sense a lot.

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Tread lightly, gentlemen.