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Alchemy Wedding CeremonyExcerpt from our course, Benjamin Franklin, American Initiate: Characteristic in the same way of the Western spiritual tradition as a whole was the internally oriented path called Rosicrucianism, which manifested the truth that the Kingdom of Heaven now lies within. It came to the attention of the public early in the 17th century through the publication of an inspired document, "The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz." This work, written out of an intuitive state of consciousness by the 17-year old Johann Valentin Andreae, is a vivid description of an initiation experienced entirely within, through the faculties of the soul. "The Chymical Wedding" describes the results of pursuing a scientific path to spiritual knowledge: a path we can call spiritual alchemy if we clearly distinguish it from any mercenary efforts to transmute metals. The difficult training this requires brings about the entrance of one's full consciousness into the processes of the soul. This training is unlike both the "mystical union of yoga and monasticism wherein the practitioner has an experience of the soul replacing one's full consciousness. Rosicrucianism was a spiritual science in contrast to the modern instrumental study of nature, wherein one's full consciousness remains in the external world at all times... Learn more about alchemy and apply this to your own self-development and growth in our course Benjamin Franklin, Initiate, where you not only learn how one of the founding father's of America was both a Freemason and a Rosicrucian. |
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