Alchemy

If you’re going to listen to any of my advice about mysticism, then I hope you’ll follow this one above all the others.

Do not drink alcohol, consume recreational drugs, or operate from a low-frequency state when doing mystical works!

Why is it so important to be sober when doing mysticism?

At best, alcohol and drugs shrink your awareness, change the physiology of your body, and lower your frequency.

At worst, alcohol and drugs can be “open doors” for low-frequency entities, energies, spirits, and other nasty stuff to come in and possess you or feed off your energy. Literally.

In fact, alcoholic spirits (e.g. whiskey, vodka, gin, etc.) originates from alchemy. Alchemists often work with the Three Philosophical Principles–Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury.

An alchemist would ferment an herb or fruit for months or years in order to extract its spirit from the plant’s physical body. The spirit or Mercury is incredibly powerful by itself. But when combined with the plant’s Salt (its physical body) and Sulphur (its essential oils), an alchemist can create very powerful medicine and other alchemical works.

In alchemy, alcoholic spirits were never intended to be consumed recreationally or carelessly. They were respected as a microcosmic expression of the Universal Divine Spirit, the link between Body and Soul.

And the Human Collective knows that “spirits” are indeed Spirits, which is why we see it in pop culture. You may have heard how there are different types of drunkenness depending which alcohol you consume. This video from a TV sitcom sums it up quite well 😂 but to summarize, each plant has different inherent properties, so different Spirits have different affects and effects. 

As Inelia Benz often says, “Spirits attract spirits.” In general, it’s a good idea not to drink alcohol or consume drugs. But if you do drink or take drugs and are thinking of quitting, talk to your medical practitioner before doing so.   

Another important point is that even if you don’t drink or do drugs, other low-frequencies can impact your mystical works.

If you are in a low-frequency state — fear, anger, addiction to drama, guilt, jealousy, etc. — this will add a negative “color” to your mystical work, which could be hijacked (i.e. nefariously used) by the damaged ego or by dark entities. 

So it’s very important to understand that mysticism in itself is NOT a path of enlightenment or ascension. 

Doing magick, divination, mediumship, or other mystical crafts does not necessarily raise your personal frequency to a more joyful, loving state.

Mysticism is a tool. And just like how a knife can be used to cook a beautiful meal for your family or be used to kill someone, mysticism is no different. 

Are there positive aspects to mysticism? Absolutely. Meditating before a ritual or doing a chant to put you in altered state can be a great way to raise your frequency or expand your awareness. But note that it’s not the magick itself that’s raising your frequency — you are doing that by choosing to meditate or do a chant that expands your awareness. 

You can just as easily raise your frequency and expand your awareness by processing your fear because fear is the lowest-frequency state a person can experience on this planet. 

To summarize, never drink alcohol or consume drugs before doing magick, divination or any type of mystical work. And make sure you are staying as high-frequency possible, both when you are and are not practicing mysticism.

Alchemy is a Mystical Art that requires patience.

I’ve been studying the alchemical arts for about a year now. Even after a year of rather intense study, let’s just say I haven’t made much progress, and I can totally understand and appreciate how and why it can take decades, if not a lifetime, to pursue and fully become Adept at the alchemical arts.

Why?

Well, it has a lot to do with time.

Not only can it take months, or even years, to complete an alchemical work, the time of year (or month/week/day/hour) when you conduct your work makes a big difference to the work itself. And becoming aware and perceptive of these differences is part of the process. Once you become aware of these influences, you can purposefully use these energies for the work.

So, how exactly, does this work?

Everything in the Universe is connected, yet we belong to various sub-collectives and egregores of connection too, like concentric circles (circles within circles).

For example, our Earth is affected by the magnetic fields of other cosmological bodies, like the planets, the Moon, and our Sun, just to name a few. And we, living on the surface of the Earth, are also impacted by these vibrational frequencies. Our behaviors and magnetic fields also affect the environment and other species. And so the fractal continues in both directions. This is where the origins of Astrology came from.

I was skeptical of Astrology for a long time, until I started to study Alchemy and Magick.

Ever heard of the term “lunatic?” It usually means that someone’s gone crazy, mad, or off-the-wall somehow. The etymology of this word comes from “luna” or Lunar, the alchemical archetype for our Moon. When it’s a Full Moon, usually a lot of strange things start to happen in society. Many police and emergency response teams anecdotally share that violence or ER patients increase during the Full Moon.

As for WHY the Full Moon seemingly has a negative influence is a different topic altogether 🙂

The magnetic frequencies and orbits of other cosmological bodies literally affect us. As Mystics, we need to take these forces into account before, during, and after we start some kind of Mystical work.

So when doing Alchemical work, we need to track and document how different mystical and physical forces affect us and our work. This could be anything from the atmospheric pressure, amount of humidity, lunar phase, zodiac positions, hormones, sleep, diet, any countless other variables that may affect us.

But once we become aware of these influences, we can utilize them to expand or enhance our Mystical works. And this, in turn, expands our own awareness during the process.

For example, as an Alchemist, I may want to work with herbs to create spagyric tinctures and medicines. I need to plan what herbs to plant in the spring, so that come summertime, I can harvest them and work with fresh material (which is ideal usually) when their life essence is strongest. During the fall, I may extract and store the seeds of the herb to prepare for next year, dry and store herbs, and start to ferment them. And during winter, I can harvest the roots, which are imbued with different energies because the energy the of Northern Hemisphere goes back into the ground during winter time.

When we start to become more aware of the energies that affect us, we in turn can learn how to use these energies to affect us in the ways we want.

Even though I’m an apprentice to Alchemy, planning my work around the seasons is a pretty awesome expansion of awareness. Before I started practicing laboratory alchemy, I only thought of the seasons as most of us probably do–the rolling weather changes, various holidays coming and going, change in food and mood, a year older, etc.

But the Alchemist, Witch, Magician, Shaman, or any other type of Mystic, knows that the cosmological influences on Humanity are quite real and quite profound. Carefully studying these influences will serve you well for any type of Mystical work. But it’s pretty much a requirement for the Alchemist 🙂

There’s an old saying, “money makes the world go ’round.” Why is that, exactly? Because…

Money represents energy, chi, or the ability “to do.”

There’s a reason that many of us spend the majority of our entire lives focusing on money. It’s the same reason why economies exist, why having money or not can dictate how you comfortable you live your life, or even whether you are respected by others.

Money directly represents how powerful we are.

Because right NOW, money is the construct that we use to exchange energy as a species. We “exchange” money for work, services, support, products—any item that we put chi or our “ability to do” into physical reality.

And yet, money is also illusionary.

More and more these days, the money that circulates the global economy is not backed by anything. For millennia, money was represented by useful items that were also hard to come by—everything from rice and salt to gold and silver. Later, FIAT currency was used as money—printed bills and coins to represent value. Nowadays, especially in the era of online banking and cryptocurrency, money (ultimately) is a representation of 1s and 0s (binary code) that travels across computer networks. Yet these 1s and 0s have extreme meaning and importance within our individual lives and collective communities.

Why? Because we agree that money is valuable.

For example, you can buy physical property, education, equipment, food, and all sorts of needs with money. The agreement that these items have a certain value makes it real.

Here’s an exercise for you. Ask yourself these questions:

• is money dirty?
• does money corrupt?
• does it make people “superficial”?

If you responded to “yes” to any of these questions, then you have a program running about money. More often than not, these programs are purposefully used to prevent us from using our own chi or energy within our lives. It limits us and our power, which some organizations on this planet find very useful for their own agendas.

Money in and of itself is not good or bad. It is a tool that we as a Human species have used for various purposes. It’s like a knife; you can use a knife to cook a beautiful meal or you can use it to kill someone with it. It’s up to us how we use this tool.

As many spiritualists teach, money alone will also not cause happiness.

Money is not the end-goal, but a means to an end.

Instead, I recommend focusing on wealth, which has a different connotation or vibrational structure behind it.

Wealth involves much more than having lots of money. Wealth is a culmination of abundance, power, and energy. It can be unlimited if you allow it to.

If we are wealthy, we are full of abundance. Abundance is the opposite of scarcity, which our current economic structure is based on. But more and more we are seeing technology change society from scarcity to abundance. The Internet and all the products and services that have manifested out of it is a great example of this.

If any parts of this article triggered you or did not resonate, I strongly recommend that you reconnect with the spirit of money—click here to Inelia Benz’s website, where you can watch a video and download the exercise for free. This exercise is so effective, I use it myself all the time, which is why I suggest you to do the same.

Remember, money is a tool—a tool that represents energy—and what we choose to do it with it directly impacts how we’re creating our own reality.