Taken from various talks with Belsebuub 2005 to 2008
Alchemy is the process through which the inner spiritual psychological nature is fundamentally changed, its transformed from an ordinary human being into a spiritual being.
It has been taught in secret throughout history and was referred to in symbolic language, such as the bridal chamber in ancient Christianity, and as turning lead into gold in medieval times. It is alluded to in religions throughout the world, for example, an alchemical exercise of sexual transmutation was taught in ancient Egypt.
It is extremely sacred and was called in early Christianity “the holy of holies.” Most of the symbols of Christianity are alchemical and have similarities with symbols in other religions. Baptism for example is found not only in Christianity, but in Hinduism too, as it the cross.
Once you understand what the symbols refer to, you will be able to spot them throughout the writings and depictions of different cultures and times.
The Gospel of Phillip is full of references to sex as a sacred act, as alchemy is a sexual process that uses the creative force of the union between male and female. That is where creation takes place, it’s only in sex. Creating within requires sex; it’s impossible to fundamentally alter the human psychology and become spiritual without it. Instead of sex with orgasm, which creates physical bodies, the sacred sexual union has no orgasm and creates instead spiritual bodies.
Orgasm keeps humanity in the Abyss, sacred alchemy puts an individual into heaven.
Alchemy changes the beast of orgasm into a true man, then into a Christian, then the Christian dies and becomes a Christ.
A true man is a person who has created five of their solar bodies. A Christian is a man who has incarnated the Christ, the man who has incarnated the Christ must die to themselves and be completely integrated with the Christ, that is when they become a Christ.
Q: My question is in reference to awareness—when practicing alchemy, how exactly does it change—does it just become stronger, or is it a super awareness or something?
Belsebuub: Alchemy strengthens awareness. It also changes the energies inside, and in the practice itself you can ask for the disintegration of an ego you have understood.
With alchemy, you can feel spiritual forces and perceive in a way that you cannot without it; you are building the internal parts which allow the spiritual to come into you.
In the beginning though, it cleans the energies inside, it repairs internal psychological structures and multi-dimensional bodies which could be damaged or weak, and it gets everything in balance. And then, it gives enormous strength to the essence, the consciousness, and it’s that strength that allows you to push forward and to do further things spiritually.
Alchemy is the door to the awakening, one of the three fundamental keys to the return to the Absolute. It’s essential to have it. It’s what transforms; it’s the creative energy.
Without alchemical transformation and creation going on inside, a person stays basically the same. They may just be more aware from day-to-day, from moment-to-moment, or more concentrated, but without alchemy, they will never fundamentally change inside. The more alchemy is practiced, the more the change inside. Alchemy changes the very nature of consciousness, of the spiritual within, and that gives the impetus and the spiritual strength to move forward and progress spiritually.
What is the most important thing to do to get alchemy right? Because sometimes people try it for a long time, but still cannot quite see how it works.
The most important thing to get alchemy right depends on what’s wrong with it. It’s a matter of seeing what’s wrong and correcting it. It can be different things for different people, but to make it work, it needs to be regular and consistent. So the first thing would be to get to that right, and then if there are problems in getting to a regular and consistent practice, try to see what they are.
Relationships are complicated. They involve an interaction of two different people, and there are lots of things to overcome to make alchemy work really well. It’s a matter of seeing what the particular problems are.
I have a question related to that. With practicing alchemy, if your concentration isn’t 100 percent during the different transmutation parts, how effective is it?
It’s still very effective, but concentration improves it.
Just doing the process is doing what’s required to get the alchemical process working. But if you’re concentrated then you make everything esoteric function better. In transmutation you more effectively direct the energies to the heart, to the essence, and in the transmutation exercise afterwards you can get into the Illuminated Void, and you strengthen the essence more. But the actual exercise is effective just by doing it.
Regarding physical attraction to a partner and like the normal sensations that you would feel, like during intimacy—how do you differentiate that from egos in the sexual center?
In the beginning it’s very difficult to, because everything is so mixed up. What you need to watch out for though is the mind. You can know that lust is present if you see it in your mind. If you see it operating in thoughts or images, then you know lust is there.
Just use the normal attraction in order to practice alchemy, without worrying too much about it. Later on then you get into the different aspects of lust, and as the sexual energies clean, it becomes clearer as to what the different egos and spiritual parts are. But in the beginning, just work in alchemy with the sexual attraction, the sexual energies.
It has been said that the true death is through the transmutation and that the death in motion is only to slow down the ego and to eliminate the defects with little strength. I don’t practice the death much when doing alchemy, so I was wondering if I should practice it more often?
It has also been said that its best to practice the birth more in the alchemy, and then to get rid of the egos with the death in motion. However, if you practice the death in motion in daily life and alchemy well, you’ll eventually you get to the point where you know what you need most, until then you can try practicing both equally.
The birth refers to a practice in alchemy that creates the solar bodies and raises the Kundalini, the death in alchemy is another practice which uses the sexual force to destroy an ego. The birth is never done in the same practice as the death as they are different forces.
Should we perhaps practice the death with the alchemy once a month, or?
Do it as you feel, you can get a feeling for the amount that you actually need to practice the death in alchemy, and the amount that you need to do the birth. Once a month is not much at all, so you should have a look and see really what you need to do.
How can we distinguish between egos of lust and the erotic energies?
Until the truly spiritual energies appear, what you need to look for are egos of lust in the mind, because lust will manifest through the mind.
In the practice of alchemy should the transmutation of the energies be seven times?
No, it should be more than that, sense what you need.
We ha the mantras I.A.O. and Kandil Bandil Rrr, is one of those mantras connected to the disintegration of the egos more or less? Is it I.A.O. that is used for the death of the egos?
No, with the death of the egos you just ask the Divine Mother to disintegrate the ego and imagine her doing so.
What shape do the energies have when they travel up the spine?
It’s as the caduceus of mercury; it goes three and a half times around the spinal column. The important thing is to visualize it very well, because when you do it has more effect; the visualization helps the energy to come up to the brain and be transmuted.
Concerning alchemy, how can someone overcome the lack of erotic feelings with their partner?
There can be many different reasons for that. The thing is to see what the reasons are, and then to tackle the specific issues.
Could you say something about getting rid of egos and attracting a partner for the alchemy?
If you change inside you change the things that happen in external life and many things you attract or are drawn to are because of affinity, much of which changes as you change. The other thing is karma, so if you are getting rid of your egos, you are changing the karma you have to pay, opening up new situations and opportunities.
If you are for the inner work, then you can attract a partner who is more suitable for the work. If you don’t die to the egos, you attract a like partner too, but the affinity is likely to be based around egos. When one person is dying to their egos, and another person is not, then the one who is not dying to the egos can put off the one who is.
So if someone is single, they should change, become more active, pay karma, help humanity, and die to their egos—then they will open up the right kinds of opportunities for their inner work, as the right kind of partner comes by right from the divine law. Passively sitting around and waiting is not going to achieve much.
Lust is a force which blinds; you must have a sharp sense of perception to be able to take the right step, which you get with the inner death and chastity, which is not to be confused with celibacy.
What is your opinion as to whether we should eat meat or not?
Red meat helps the fire for alchemy. But there’s a lot of cruelty in the production of meat, with battery caged chickens, animals being brought up in tiny cages, and things like that. We should really try to avoid these kinds of things; we don’t need to contribute to cruelty.
Since we don’t where the meat comes from?
You could try to find out, generally though a cow lives in a field and veal is in a crate, so once you find out, you usually don’t need to keep looking, because you know where it comes from, like sheep in a field, unless you suspect there are reasons for you to look further.
Nature itself can be pretty grotesque, very harsh. Look at the way that animals live; it puts them in a struggle for survival—if they are not being eaten by another animal, then they are eating another animal. This is a continuous struggle, and one of the reasons why it’s better to be liberated and freed from nature.
Some schools say that eating the blood of an animal increases the egos.
There are other things that increase the egos. That makes no difference.
