Like many other ancient concepts (e.g., the Holy Grail), the Philosopher’s Stone represents an esoteric or inner matter. It was a metaphor, an allegory whose meaning has been lost, leading people to the illusion that an immediate inner transformation from lead to gold was possible. It explains a similar eagerness born out of misunderstanding, just like the alchemists with their metal experiments. But what does the Philosopher’s Stone really entail?
It clearly refers to a method to transform from a lower spiritual state to a higher one. A transition from inner impurity to purity, from mechanical living to conscious living, from a state of waking sleep to being fully awake: Self-realization, in other words.<\/p>\n
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Spiritual lead has a \u2018heavy specific weight\u2019 of dark clouds, ignorance, suffering, and limitations:
emotional-mental impurity.
Spiritual gold has a \u2018heavier specific weight\u2019 of Awareness, Knowledge, Happiness, and unlimited possibilities:
emotional-mental purity.
Our True inner state of mind \u2018weighs more\u2019 than our usual state of mind. This is completely understandable when we grasp the allegory of the philosopher’s stone.<\/p>\n
But what does the philosopher’s stone entail, in its true meaning?
It is clear that it must be a method that allows us to transform from a lower spiritual state to a higher spiritual state. One could say that we transform from an unnatural limiting state of mind to a natural unlimited state of mind. The Philosopher’s Stone would therefore be a transformation method that makes us evolve to our optimal achievable human state, where we can make optimal use of all our human capacities on an emotional, mental, and physical level. A golden state of mind and no longer a leaden one. This is called the transition from earth to heaven in the Bible. And \u2018stone\u2019 in that same scripture stands for \u2018theory\u2019 or \u2018method\u2019, as an allegory\/metaphor. The most famous ethical commandments were thus carved into ‘tablets of stone’: a theory that every human should realize.<\/p>\n
This conversion from our ordinary worldly state to a more enlightened spiritual state cannot take place immediately, no matter how much we want it to. Our ego really wants it! There are even ‘masters’ who want to sell us this illusion, so don’t fall for it. Every person must go through a spiritual \u2018alchemical\u2019 transformation process, such as from caterpillar to butterfly, or from lead to gold. This requires effort in relaxation and a lot of perseverance, from faith and conviction that it is possible for every normal person to become a True Human. Through self-realization, self-actualization, and lovingly overcoming inner blockades, psychological tendencies, and conditionings. With both mind<\/em> and heart<\/em> in which wisdom develops from love for wisdom<\/em>.<\/p>\n Self-realization is a destination, not a merit. Any idea of merit blocks transformation. However, our ego, the cluster of all our identifications, seeks merit and thinks it’s enough to just superficially understand such a transformation theory and then be \u2018done\u2019 with it, from imagination and without that real love for wisdom that is essential for transformation: lead dressed in gold paint. Continuous conscious effort (in relaxation) is therefore necessary for inner liberation, because the identifying ego will always tempt you to think that understanding the transformation theory would be enough to realize yourself. And so, you fall back asleep.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>One method became very famous and is described in the New Testament and the esoteric Apocrypha. However, due to all the translations and revisions of the original texts, the biblical parables, and thus the described method, are barely comprehensible to modern man. How current religions treat people is hard evidence of this.