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The primary symbol of alchemic transmutation "
"was par exellence the sepulchre." "The grave? " "Yes, the place of corruption .It comprehends all hermetics, all alchemy, it is nothing else than  the  receptacle, the well - guarded crystal retort wherein the material is compressed to its final trans - ormation and purification."

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"Hermetics - what a lovely word "
"...It sounds like magiking,and has all sorts of vague and extended associations .You must excuse my speaking of such a thing but it reminds me of the conserve jars that our housekeeper ..."
"...keeps in her larder. She has rows of them on her shelves, air-tight glasses full of  fruit and meat and all sorts of things.They stand there maybe a whole year-you open them as you need them and the contents are as fresh as on the day they were put up, you can eat them just as they are.To be sure, that isn't alchemy or purification, it is simply conserving , hence the word conserve.The magic part of it lies in the fact that the stuff that is conserved is withdrawn from the effects of time, it is her-metically sealed from time, time passes it by, it stand there on its shelf shut away from time."  
Brahma

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"Sound, of course, is a vibration that can be conducted only through an elastic medium; it cannot travel through a vac-uum. Electromagnetic waves do travel through free space, and we know far less about factors governing their resonance. There is however, one quite extraordinary piece of evidence which  suggests that shape could be important in receiving even cosmic stimuli. It comes from those favourites of mystics throughout the ages-the pyramids of Egypt.
'The most celebrated are those at Giza built during the fourth. dynasty of which the largest is the one that housed the pharaoh Khufu, better known as Cheops. This is now called the Great Pyramid Some years ago it was visited by a French-man  named Bovis, who took refuge from the midday sun in the pharaoh's chamber, which is situated at the center of the pyramid, exactly one third of the way up from the base He found it unusually humid there,but what really surprised

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him were the garbage cans that contained, among the usual  tourist litter,the bodies of a dead cat and some small desert animals that had wandered into the pyramid
 

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Bovis made an accurate scale model of the Cheops pyramid and placed it like the original with the base lines,facing precisely north-south east-west. Inside the model one third of the way up, he put a dead cat. It became mummified and he concluded that the pyramid promoted rapid dehy-dration.
In Search of the Miraculous
                                                        Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
                                                                     P.D.Oupensky 1878- 1947    
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" 'A man may be born ,but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.' "
" 'When a man awakes he can die; when he dies he can be born' "
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.
                                                    
                                                  "Jesus answered and  said unto him, Verily, verily,
                                                      I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
                                                              He cannot see the kingdom of God."
                                                                        St John Chapter 3 verse 3
                                                                           3    +    3       3    x     3
                                                                                 6        x        9
                                                                                          54
                                                                                        5 + 4
                                                                                            9

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"As above, so below," is an expression which refers to cosmoses.
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.

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"Now you have some idea of the laws governing the life of the macrocosmos and have returned to the earth. Recall to yourself: "as above, so below" I think that already, without any further explanation, you will not dispute the statement that the life of individual man - the microcosmos - is governed by the same laws - "Glimpses of Truth."
Thus spake the prophet Gurdjieff.

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"The higher degrees of Freemasonary were initiates of the 'physica  et mystica ,'the representatives of a magic natural science, they were in the main great alchemists"
"...Alchemy :transmuting into gold, the philosophers stone, aurum potabile ."
"In the popular mind, yes. More informedly put, it was purifi-cation, refinement,metamorphosis,
transubstantiation ,into a higher state , of course; the lapis philosophorum, the male female product   /
Page 511  / of sulphur and mercury,the res bina,the double-sexed prima ma-teria was no more ,and no less, than the principle of levitation, of the upward impulse due to the working of influences from with-out. Instruction in magic if you like."


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The primary symbol of alchemic transmutation "
"was par exellence the sepulchre." "The grave? " "Yes, the place of corruption .It comprehends all hermetics, all alchemy, it is nothing else than  the  receptacle, the well - guarded crystal retort wherein the material is compressed to its final trans-formation and purification."

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..." Whatever their names and however many processes might have been applied, the important factor to remember is that the alchemists saw their work as reflective and imitative of  the cyclic order of Nature ; of the formation, development and eventual dissolution of the All - followed by its natural
and

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inevitable re-formation. ( This may be compared quite favour-ably with a cyclic uni-verse, which begins as a primal atom containing everything,explodes to form the cosmos, then ultimately collapses back upon itself eventually to repeat the process over again ad infinitum)This process similarly applied on a lesser scale to all living entities including the earth, which went through an obvious cycle of birth, growth, decay death, and re-birth annually. Man himself also followed this assumed pattern of birth, life death and re-birth.
          

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"Sound, of course, is a vibration that can be conducted only through an elastic medium; it cannot travel through a vac-uum. Electromagnetic waves do travel through free space, and we know far less about factors governing their resonance. There is however, one quite extraordinary piece of evidence which  suggests that shape could be important in receiving even cosmic stimuli. It comes from those favourites of mystics throughout the ages-the pyramids of Egypt.
'The most celebrated are those at Giza built during the fourth.dynasty of which the largest is the one that housed the pharaoh Khufu, better known as Cheops. This is now called the Great Pyramid Some years ago it was visited by a
French-man  named Bovis, who took refuge from the midday sun in the pharaoh's chamber, which is situated at the center of the pyramid, exactly one third of the way up from the base He found it unusually humid there,but what really surprised / him were the garbage cans that contained, among the usual  tourist litter,the bodies of a dead cat and some small desert animals that had wandered into the pyramid and died there. Despite the humidity none of them had decayed but just dried out like mummies. He began to wonder whether the pharaohs had really been so carefully embalmed by their subjects after all, or whether there was something about the pyramids themselves that preserved bodies in a mummified condition. Bovis made an accurate scale model of the Cheops pyramid and placed it like the original with the base lines,facing precisely north-south east-west. Inside the model one third of the way up, he put a dead cat. It became mummified and he concluded that the pyramid promoted rapid dehy-dration.
Reports of this discovery attracted the attention of Karel Drbal, a radio engineer in Prague, who repeated the experiment with several dead animals and concluded, " There is a relation between the shape of the space inside the pyramid and the physical and biological processes going on inside that space. By using suitable  forms and shapes,
We should be able to make processes occur faster or delay them." Note 233  

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"...We can only guess that the Great Pyramid and its little imitations acts as lenses that focus en-ergy or as resonaters that collect energy,..."  
 
Have you seen my stick scribe,  said Zed Aliz Zed wishing to practice a little more magic.
 

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"Hermetics - what a lovely word "
"...It sounds like magiking,and has all sorts of vague and extended associations .You must excuse my speaking of such a thing but it reminds me of the conserve jars that our housekeeper ..."
"...keeps in her larder. She has rows of them on her shelves, air-tight glasses full of  fruit and meat and all sorts of things.They stand there maybe a whole year-you open them as you need them and the contents are as fresh as on the day they were put up, you can eat them just as they are.To be sure, that isn't alchemy or purification, it is simply conserving , hence the word conserve.The magic part of it lies in the fact that the stuff that is conserved is withdrawn from the effects of time,t is her-metically sealed from time, time passes it by, it stand there on its shelf shut away from time."  
Brahma

Or if the slain think he is slain
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep and pass and turn again.
R.W.Emerson



After leaving Brother Thomas, The Zed AlizZed and yonder scribe set off, once or twice again the journey of a lifetime.Finding themselves, as if by magic will intended within the august presence of Brother Kolosimo. After they were rested they joined other sat around ye old camp fire,around the time of a blood red dawn Brother Kolosimo started to speak and spake thus.  
 

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" The territory known to scholars as ancient Peru is not coter-minous with that country as it exists today, but extends to the headwaters of the Amazon, the Andean zones of Equador and Bolivia, and parts of northern Chile and north-western Argentina. Throughout this large area, day to day life showed a considerably higher level of civilization than in Central America and the contrasts between culture and barbarism were less marked.  
The Peruvians had an impressive system of cultivation by terraces, with advanced methods of irrigation and fertiliza-tion, and had discovered the art of preserving meat and potatoes."
"... The ancient Peruvian scene was dominated by pyramids, of

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which hundreds are to be found along the coast. Those of Mochica were built with clay bricks. From this civilization we possess also the majestic ruins of the temples of the sun and moon ( Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna )..."
"...Huge irrigation works were constructed in the Chincha Valley near the coast, where other ancient ruins include a fortress called La Centinela ( the sentinel ) This area was the scene of the cultures of Nazca ( Nasca ), Ica and Paracas. Tombs hollowed out of the rock contain hundreds of mum-mified corpses in the foetal position: these were probably prepared by a smoking process after the intestines were removed. Magnificent textiles have been foundhere: veils brocades and 'gobelins', made by the same methods as the famous French product which dates from the fifteenth cen-tury, and fabrics covered with a mosaic of feathers. These masterpieces display no less than 190 different shades of colour."

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"A message from the Infinite"
"In the Mediterranean world as we have already seen, pyramids were used as mausolea and also (in the step-pyramid form as temples: the second category includes the Mesopotamian pyramids and the legendary Tower of Babel. In ancient America we also meet with both sites and at Tiahuanaco they are found side by side. The terraced pyramid known as the Acapana contains the ruins of what is thought to have been a sovereign's burial chamber ,with an underground passage leading to it .Can its occupant have been the first  'white' lord in America ?. . . At Puma Puncu,about half a mile to the south-west, there was an even larger pyramid of three or four steps or stories with a build-ing
comprising several chambers on each."

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"... Chan signifies 'snake' and the reptile-god was adored here in the same way as the goddess of Buto was in ancient Egypt..."

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" This brings our story as far as the Incas. We shall use this name for them, as do most archaeologists and historians, but it should be born in mind that 'Inca'was a title originally confined to the ruler and the aristocracy, while the common folk were called Quechua Indians (as they still are today)."
 
        " Mummies, past and present"
       According to Inca legend, Manco Capac - the founder of the race and of its ancient dynasty - came to earth and dwelt on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca, together with his sister and escort Mama Ocllo. They wandered northwards until they came to the land designated as their home by the Sun-god, and there founded the Quechua empire with its capital at Cuzco that signifies 'navel'or'centre of the earth' "
"...Some authorities date the origin of the empire back to A.D.494 and 565, others to 1130."

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The first ruler who emerges from myth into a shadowy form of history is Sinchi Roca, who reigned about 1150.
Our chief concern here, however, is with the eighth of the series (counting from Manco Capac), whose name or title was Vira-cocha Inca. The original Viracocha ,as we have seen, was the white god of the Quechuas,..."
"... H. Velarde speaks of a 'country crystallized into geometrical shapes"
"The Incas were devout sun worshippers"
 
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"The ancient American sovereigns were called 'sons of the Sun'as were those of Egypt, Assyria and Crete and also the Chinese emperors, especially the Chou dynasty"
"As regards links between the Quechuas and Egyptians in August 1953 Dr. Bird discovered near Lima the tombs of a prince named Capac who died in the fourth or fifth millen-nium B.C. and was buried in a sarcophagus of Egyptian type. Another such sarcophagus, together with statues in Mexican style, was excavated in the 'Egyptian valley' in the southern part of the Amazon basin,half-way between the rivers Xingu and Tocantins. On 13 November 1954 the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Cruzeiro reported the discovery, in the village of Durados on the Pira-Veve river of an 'Egyptian' cameo representing a queen with an inscription in hiero-glyphics signifying that after her death her soul mounted to heaven and her virtues were rewarded by celestial peace.
In 1531, when Pizarro's  Spaniards eager for gain as usual, burst into the great temple at Cuzco, they found some strange bundles that proved to contain mummified bodies in a foetal position, wrapped in precious cloths, their faces covered by masks of gold, silver, wood or clay. Unlike the Egyptians, who used natron and resin packs and anointing  with oil, the Incas relied for mummification on the dry climate and saliferous soil of Peru. However excavators at Ganchavita in Columbia found a group of mummies each wearing a small gold crown and surrounded by funeral offerings-cloth, gold figures ornaments and emeralds. As Honore remarks 'it was suprising that mummies should have been found here, a country with a climate most unfavourable for conservation by natural processes. But chemical analysis has established that resins and oils were used-so the methods of mummi-fication were almost exactly the same as in ancient Egypt.'  
The Quechuas in fact used different techniques,as the discovery of mummified bodies as shown.
In 1560Garcilaso

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de la Vega witnessed the removal of the mummies of five Inca sovereigns identified as
Viracocha Inca of the long white hair, Capac Yupanqui, Huayana Capac, Mama Runto and Mama Ocllo. In a sitting position,with downcast eyes and arms crossed over their breasts, the bodies in royal robes were an impressive sight.
According to Jose de Acosta 'they were so intact and  well preserved with a certain kind of pitch that they seemed as though alive' Garcilaso added :  'I believe that the Indians' secret consists in burying the bodies in snow... and afterwards using the bitumen of which Father de Acosta speaks. When I saw them thus, I felt like touching one of Huayana Capac 's fingers as though it were that of a living man.'  
The Spaniards removed these mummies to Lima, where they rapidly de composed in the heat and damp and had to be buried. We may recall that in March 1963 the mummy of the Egyptian princess Mene, who died in 322 B.C.,  
began to decompose and had to be moved to a cold storage chamber at Oklahoma University, where biologists were astonished to find that the epithelial cells were still intact.
Mummies in a perfect state of preservation have also been found in America in recent times. In 1953 a Chilean muleteer discovered, in an Andean glacier, a small sarcophagus contain-ing the mummified body of an Inca girl
Who had lived about 730 years ago, surrounded by figurines of solid gold includ-ing one with a toad's head.
In 1959 chance led to the discovery, in a cave in Sonara province in Mexico, of thirty well preserved mummies dating from about 10,000 years ago and belonging to an unknown civilization.
These facts are remarkable enough in themselves, but Sr. Beltran Garcia embroiders them after his own fashion  
'The mummies of the five Inca sovereigns,' he tells us, were removed from the temple before Garcilaso was born, and their discovery was due to an error.From the scientific point of view they were bodies in a state of hibernation, with all their organs inert but living. The Incas were skilled at producing this condition, and they did so in the expectation that scientists would one day be able to re-suscitate the bodies. The technique of embalming was used at  the Vatican too, and the "pitch" used by the Incas was in fact a solid transperent cream consisting of three ingrediants, one of which was quinine.' We report these singular ideas merely as a curiosity, though some people have been taken in by them. Garcilaso's account makes it clear that he is talking of dead bodies, but his decendant, referring to the Chilean discovery,writes as follows : ' Garcilaso de la Vega states that the method of the "frozen toad" ( sapo helado ) was an Inca secret. It seems that the child was meant to be the bearer of a message to scientists of the future, but that the body's sudden exhumation deprived it of life. The gold figurines, especially that with the toad's head, contained a secret explanation of the experiment.'   If and when Sr Garcia and those who share his views are privelidged to hold telepathic converse with some half-immortal Inca scientist whose hiding place is unknown to the rest of us, it is to be hoped that they can give a fuller ex-planation of the gold figurines. Meanwhile, we are assured 'other live mummies are hidden in the creators of volcanoes and in Andean glaciers. Those in craters are in a state of lethergy induced by the curare process, while those in glaciers are in artificial hibernation due to the "toad method"    
 
The Zed AlizZed cracked open the any stone and gooddayed the toad