Alchemy

Alchemy transforms nature (the nature of the universe, of human beings, of plants and of other substances) into its creatively predestined perfection. This transformative life process dissolves a given nature (death) and then recombines the natural substances to a “heightened” or “alchemically potentiated” life form (rebirth). This indicates that life itself is an alchemical learning process. In Greek “spáein” means to dissolve and “ágeirein” to combine. For this reason the alchemical process is often referred to as “spagyric”.

Alchemy researches the all-encompassing universe as a cosmos: this means an orderly entity with three spheres: spirit, soul (fine matter), and body (coarse matter). Spirit and soul constitute the etheric nature, and body forms the physical nature. The alchemical concept of material and matter thereby encompasses not only the physical, but also the realms of the invisible.