Saturnal Alchemy of the Spiritual Master Jakob Böhme

 

Saturnal Alchemy of the Spiritual Master Jakob Böhme

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes 

'This Process was very severe and painful to the Nature of the Body, for it made it faint and weak, as if it had been very sick: and yet it was no natural Sickness that it had, but only the Melancholy of its earthly Nature which was feeling and lamenting the Destruction of its evil Lusts'. (1)

Jacob Böhme (november, 17-1575-1624)

Near Goerlitz, in Silecia-present-present-Poland-Lusatia-part of Saxony Germany or Seindenberg Zawidom.

Known the Master and 'Philosopher Teutonicus', under the name of 'The Prophet of Dawn'.

The spiritual development of Jacob Böhme is based on the Vision and internal and personal struggle of the inner man in the dual depth of the soul.

The Source of the Whole produces in the Pure and Pious Heart the total surrender to the Lumen naturae and Divine Light of the Center of all-Nature.

Through this Divine vision we proceed from the glorious and brilliant simplicity of a powerful mystical experience in the 'Book of Nature' and resort to the 'brightness of the sun on a pewter dish'. (2)

It is about the realization of the Christic model in relation to the Inner Man as an example of life in Christ and his Mysterious Gnoseological relationship.

The essential idea is the divine figure and his archetypal Seal or Signatura of All Things in the Mysterium Magnum.

Inner reality is the way to individuality as an allegory of Christ.

'Alterius non sit, qui suus esse potest''=''Don't follow another, if you can be Yourself'.

(Paracelsus)

'Boehme's example showed that Christianity could be more the ethics and the Scriptures (though he was quite expert in these); more than rites, aestheticism, and sacrament. It could be an inner reality more real than anything in the world and more precious than anything the world could teach'. (3)

This means that through spiritual vision Böhme manages to respond adequately to his individuality and union with the antagonistic and luminous Divine Nature.

His own Divine Ens or Essence Being is an arduous journey and internal event and almost eternal and constant of melancholic and alchemical-Saturnal energetic struggle.

(Ars transmutattionis metallicae)

'There is an eternal Contrariety between Darkness and Light, neither of them comprehends the other, and neither of them is the other; and yet there is only on Essence, Being, or Substance, wherein both subsist'. (4)

For master Florid Jacob Böhme, the Saturnal is contradictory and hidden and the only possible way to access the totality of Being.

But whether entering the 'sphere of Saturn' and managing to 'see' the 'dirty garment of the Soul', or the Dark Night of the Soul is an impossible task.

The body of Man is a whole astrological and alchemical 'Botanical Garden' and Jakob Böhme = internal microcosm, it was possible that it was 'irritated' since we possess the astrological and planetary quality of internal irritation.

'Just as the skull of man embraces and limits the brain (...), Saturnal Energy encloses, contains and consumes everything material and tangible.' (5)

Alchemy is 'scale model of celestial agriculture-astrology'.

Opera spiritualia and 'Astrum in corpore' according to Paracelsus. The astrological firmament or stellar Cosmic Sky is contained between the organs of the Human body.

For Master Morienus, 'The mine of the thing with which the Magisterium is carried out is Man'. (6)

For sacral alchemy the spleen is Saturnal and the left eye.

There is some degree of hostility and even sinister characteristics associated with Saturn and according to the alchemical-metallurgical symbolism in the dark and chaotic consciousness and Regime of the LEAD-Saturnal that merges inward producing in flashes the Novum Lumen Chymicum.

'By the outside is known the inside'.

'The Outer Sun Cries out for the Inner Sun'. (7)

Saturn is the Gross state of matter and lead-saturnal of Opus Magnum=Alchemy. Darkness is similar to a Wall in which it is Necessary to be able to make a Hole, so that the Kingdom of Light enters.

For Master Florid Agrippa of Nettesheim (1486-1535), Saturn: 'A Great Lord, Wise and Cautious, author of The Inner Contemplation' and 'defender and unveiled of Mysteries'. (#8)

According to Böhme, Saturn carries in himself the seed of the Fruit of GOLD and is the Architect of this child who is Mercury. (9)

And, in Böhme's view, he is Saturn 'The Harsh and Severe Cold Regent' and suffers 'The Wheel of Anguish'. BYSS and ABYSS-NOTHING and ALL- TIME and ETERNITY.

(Jakob Böhme)

It is worth mentioning the UNGRUND=Reality before God MYSTERIUM magnum.

The Nothing and The Whole. Nothing to Say. Beyond Comprehension and Verbal Expression is insufficient.

Beyond-Dark Luminis Naturae Bonum Finitum- Deus sit quedam Lux per totum mundum diffusa= God who as Light Penetrates Everywhere.

Through SOPHIA the God of Theosophy and Transcendent Divinity is known, which in its very transcendence is not the BEING.

The Self is the glorious culmination of Eternal Nature to Become Manifest. God is God Revealed and Incarnate to Become Manifest.

God is All and The Infinite itself is NOTHING. It is not a Fullness since to Be Realized in Fullness, the Deity is an Unknown God, who becomes Unveiled.

'Being of All Beings is -Essence of All Essences'.

Even then, Unity becomes LOVE-FIRE. '... sharpened fiery Burning Love of the Unity; whereby the Unity becometh a love-Fire, or light.'... and an ANGRY Jealous God, according to the fiery ground, according to the Eternal Nature'.

(10)

It is worth mentioning that for Böhme good and evil are always latent within the same dual and visionary internal individuality; celestial mining and Heaven-Earth agriculture.

The Paracelsian Ternary of the Golden Chain consists of triads that express the dynamic Evolution of the Cosmos in Principles=3 and Numbers 5 and the Kabbalistic Pentalfa 7 in the Process of Eternal Immanence.

'De cavernis metallorum occultus est, qui Lapis est Venerabilis.'

(THOTH-HERMES)

The concept melancholy - word - and its meaning derives from the Greek in reference to Black and (bile), allusion and correspondence to the state of being and matter = Nigredo-Lead-Time.

For master Bohme's alchemy is a powerful internal and deeply spiritual alchemy of Christic transformation and reflecting mirror of a cosmic alchemy = Mysterium magnum of Eternity.

'For Mysterium magnum is nothing else than the hiddenness of the Deity, together with the Beings of All Beings, from which one mysterium proceeds after another, and each mysterium is the mirror and model of the other.' (11)

The spiritual and alchemical ascension is to pass from the Saturnal lead to the internal and glorious state of the solar Gold that emanates from the plan of development of All Reality since the Divinity aspires to externalize itself in the BEING.

Saturnal Alchemy of the Spiritual Master Jakob Böhme

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes

Bibliography:

1. Jacob Böhme, Alle Theosophische Schrifften, Amsterdam, 1682.

2. Jakob Böhme, Morgenrote=''The Red Sky of the Morning''-1634.

3. Joscelyn Godwin, The Golden Threath, p.114.

4. Jacob Böhme The Suprasensual Life,1682, Chapter 3: 7, p.55.

5. Jakob Böhme, Aurora.

6. Dialogue with the Hermit Morieno: Library of Chim Philosophers.

7. Jacob Böhme, De Signatura Rerum.

8. Agrippa of Nettesheim (1486-1535) De Occulta Philosophia, 1510.

9. Jakob Böhme, De Signatura RERUM.

10. Jakob Böhme, The Clavis or Keys, 1647, p.9.

11. Basarab Nicolescu, Science, Meaning and Evolution, The Cosmology of Jacob Bohme, p.231.