The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala (Sacred Wisdom Revived Book 1) by Blavatsky H. P

Author:Blavatsky, H. P.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Radiant Books
Published: 2022-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

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VI. The Alchemical Laboratory

We went through a beautiful broad corridor, all along whose sides stood finely executed marble statues representing the gods and goddesses of antiquity and busts of the heroes of olden times.

“These statues,” my companion remarked, “represent the elemental principles and powers of Nature, and they were thus personified by the ancients to bring the attributes of these principles within the conceptive power of the mind. None of the old Greeks and Romans, except the most ignorant, believed that Zeus, Pluto, Neptune, etc., were real personalities, nor did they worship them as such. They were merely symbols and personifications of formless powers. Likewise, every human’s form and body is not the real individuality; it is merely a symbol and personification of their authentic character and attributes, a form of matter in which the thoughts of the real human have found their external expression. The ancients knew these things; it is only the modern wiseacres who mistake the external illusions for internal truths and the form for the principle. It is modern materialistic religion which has degraded the Universal Spirit into a limited being, and the great powers of Nature into Christian saints.”

We entered a circular hall in the form of a temple. It had no windows but received its light from a cupola of clear glass. High over our heads, below the cupola, was a large interlaced double triangle made of gold and surrounded by a snake biting its tail. Directly under that symbol stood a round table with a white marble top, in the centre of which was a smaller representation of the figure above, executed in silver. The walls were ornamented with bookcases, in which were a great number of books on alchemy. At one side of the room, there was a kind of altar upon which stood a burning lamp. A couple of crucibles, a few bottles lying upon a side table, and some armchairs completed the room’s furniture.

I looked around, expecting to see some furnaces, stoves, retorts, and other implements, such as are described in books on alchemy but could see none. My instructor, reading my thoughts, laughingly said: “Did you expect to find here an apothecary’s shop? You made a mistake, my friend. All this array of bottles and pots, furnaces, stoves, retorts, mortars, filters, strainers, distilling, purifying, and refining apparatus, etc., described in books on alchemy, is nothing but nonsense, written to mislead the selfish and vicious and to prevent them from prying into mysteries which they are not fit to receive. The true alchemist requires no ingredients for the processes, such as could be bought in a chemist’s shop. The alchemists find the required materials within their own organization. The highest processes of alchemy require no mechanical labour; they consist in the purification of the soul and in transforming an animal-human into a divine being.”

“But,” I said, “didn’t

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