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Introduction
"And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we
rot and rot. And thereby hangs a tale." [William Shakespeare]
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying."
[Woody Allen]
"Since alchemy is performed by the Self and the Self is the only living God,
we could say that alchemy is autotheistic." [Jean Fenelon]
"Autotheism is a possible monotheistic religious belief, that one's self is
God, particularly the Christian view that one's self is Jesus Christ incarnate.
This would be a grave sin in nearly all Christian sects and churches, unless, of
course, it is Christ himself who holds this belief, in which case it would be
true (from within the Christian perspective). Autotheism can be thought of as
being a type of suitheism; it being to suitheism as monotheism is to theism.
Conversely, it can also be contrasted to suitheism, as monotheism is to
polytheism. It is probable that most autotheists have been Christians or at
least monotheists, and are more likely to be solipsists, at least to a greater
extant than most mere suitheists, who have tended to be polytheistic pagans or
satanists." [Wikipedia]
"The Koran is the only book of faith I know that has no kernels of alchemy.
Being alchemically sterile, the Koran is therefor completely atheistic." [J.
Rand]
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1.
"It seems that whenever fire and water come together in myth, some powerful
androgynous deity is born, with great creative/transformational potential. (...)
Skanda, the Warrior God and patron of lovers from India, was born out of a spark
of fire (Agni, the fire god, along with Siva, both fathered him) when it fell
into the river Ganges (which is a goddess, Ganga), and was then mothered by the
six Pleyades." [Sadaaya]
2.
"Like Thoth (the Father of Alchemy), Skanda too was conceived through
homosexual union."
[ www.garyosborn.moonfruit.com
]
3.
"The elements of Fire and Water bring harmony and blessings, and they help us
unite oppossites within ourselves. I'm still figuring out what exactly that
means, and what mysteries lie behind this. Some clues that I have are that
Skanda is a deity of alchemy, transformation, and change." [Sadaaya]
4.
"It's ironic that I am being associated with the homosexuality/resurretion
subject which is not my forte and something I would rather not be associated
with." [Gary Osborn in August 2006]
5.
"The Stone being rejected because of the homosexual connotations the Paris 4
have recently given to it is quite a unique statement and a revolutionary
explanation and one I'm trying to get my head around." [Gary Osborn 6 months
later]
6.
"The role of sacred homosexuality was lost." [Institute for Gnostic Studies]
7.
"We don't know why there is a period of 14 (!) years between the Kundalini
and the Night of the Soul. Perhaps the top chakra is in a way preparing the
body/soul for the Night of the Soul. [The Paris 4 in part 2 of the Forbidden
Letters, section 1]
8.
"Within the crown-chakra the Christ Stone magnetizes the head centers and
crystallizes in the brain ventricles, resulting in the manifestation of hormones
and nectars of a spiritual quality that flows into the blood stream, raising the
vibratory rate of the body's atomic-structure." [Luxamore]
9.
"It's a possibility that the Stone is produced of the old microcosmic head.
And that the head placed back after the Kundalini-fire is again that Stone. This
would mean that there are as many Grails as there are human heads." [John Raven
on the Forbidden Letters]
[ Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist by Bernardino
Luini ]
10.
"Our man is on the floor on his back. He had his eyes closed during the whole
resurrection. A 'thread' (very thin) is closing around his neck. The head is
decapitated by that 'thread'. The stone is produced about where the liver is.
The stone ignites the Kundalini-fire. [Forbidden Letters, part 2, section 12]
11.
''Was Baphomet really a severed head? And if so, who or what could it
represent?' [Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince]
12.
"In certain grail-lore heads are taken off and replaced by other heads. Now,
we are not talking about the head of flesh to be taken off. That would be lethal
of course. It is the microcosmic, subtle head, interwoven in the head of flesh,
that is taken off and replaced after the [kundalini] fire by a new subtle head,
the Christ." [The Paris 4 in the fourth Forbidden Letter]
13.
"In my opinion, the Baphomet idol is an invention of those who persecuted the
Knights Templar. I wouldn't place too much emphasis on it." [Philip Coppens in
June 2007]
14.
"I am working on a book about the Grail. This will be like nothing previously
written about it - and will not only argue, but prove, that the Grail story was
not a literary invention, but reality: these were real characters, and I know
who they are - were. Anyone who therefore has ever written that the Grail story
was a literary invention, will decide to either ignore or ridicule the book
without reading it." [Philip Coppens in June 2007]
[ Munich Manuscript G - 1250 ]
15.
"The [Forbidden] Letters clearly demonstrate that the Grailbooks are not
about historical events, but vehicles for alchemy." [Jerry Norton]
16.
"If the solipsists are right, that the universe, including the minds of
others, is entirely the creation of the mind, then this would mean everybody is
fundamentally not only God, but also alone. You need a good stomach to think
this really through: our loved ones being only a phenomenon produced by our
mind; at the same time you not being the phenomenon of the mind of somebody
else." [John Raven]
17.
"According to Gardiner’s theory, while the Old Testament’s Ark of the
Covenant supposedly held God’s laws and covenant with the Hebrews as lead by
Moses, the Virgin Mary became the New Testament vessel for the new Law Giver—Jesus."[Becky
Holdorf on Philip Gardiner's latest work 'The Ark, the Shroud and Mary]
18.
"Virtually all the commentators simply cannot cut the emotional umbilical
cord tying them to the idealistic image of the Nazarene Jesus they have created
in their minds." [N. Carter]
19.
"You will be given 'the right to eat from the tree of life [spine and
brain/Bernier] that is in the garden of God,'[Revelation 2] and 'of the hidden
manna.'[Ibid] A purely microcosmic manna, dispensed by the human brain. After
all, 'Eden is in the brain,' (Carl Jung quoting the Naassenes) and 'the Father
compared with the cerebrum.' (Carl Jung quoting the Sethians)" [John Raven on
the Paula Johnson-article,
section 29-31
http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/forbidden_letters_20.htm ]
20.
"The nuptial union in the thalamus [Greek for inner chamber or bridal
chamber/Bernier] signifies the hieros gamos (the alchemical wedding of the
microcosmic male and female) and this in turn is the first step towards
incarnation, towards the birth of the saviour who, since antiquity, was thought
of as the filius solis et lunae (the son of the Sun and Moon), the filius
sapientiae (the son of Wisdom), and the equivalent of Christ." [Carl Jung]
[ Drawing taken from Kalat (1992) ]
21.
"The word thalamus (bridal chamber) is Greek. We are told that the thalamus
received its name in the second century from Claudius Galen, an Ionian Greek
anatomist and Christian who had studied at the Great School in Alexandria, Egypt
and was a doctor at the gymnasium attached to the local sanctuary at Asklepios."
[Gary Osborn]
22.
"According to Gardiner Kundalini-experiencers [Kundalinees/Bernier] are
suffering from psychosis." [Gary Osborn]
23.
"No, there are no links to the completely fraudulent Paris 4 on this website
because it has all come from within the mind of one deluded and intimately
psychotic and bipolar individual. Those who take it all seriously are being
deluded themselves by a psychotic individual, which strangely attracts other
psychotic individuals. Beware of the trap. Others have walked blind into it."
[Philip Gardiner]
24.
"Anyone who thinks that the Paris 4 Letters are a fraud or a forgery is
simply not paying attention."
[Jay Weidner]
25.
"The de la Censerie-article [
http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/forbidden_letters_16.htm ] is
a classic already. It has blown all Grailbooks to pieces." [John Raven]
26.
"The Great Work of Alchemy is not a work on the Self, as Philip Gardiner
would have it, it is a work by the Self. The, in the words of Edward Edinger,
ordering and unifying center of the total psyche, the central source of life
energy, the foundation of our being, which is most simply described as God."
[Jerry Norton/italics Bernier]
27.
"That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will speak to
us, and their feet bear witness, to all that they did (Alyawma nakhtimu AAala
afwahihimwatukallimuna aydeehim watashhadu arjuluhum bima kanooyaksiboona)." [surah
36:65 Ya-sin (Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)]
28.
"When Kundalini awakening and Self-Realization has occurred, a flow of energy
in the form of cool vibrations starts flowing from the hands. This is what is
signified in the above passage. Here Prophet Muhammad is talking of the coming
Time - Time of Resurrection - which is in fact the present Age of Aquarius or
Kundalini Awakening." [Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi]
29.
"It is not surprising that the energies released by spiritual transformation
should manifest themselves on the hands since many cultures have seen the hand
as a key to what is happening in a person's body and life. In Eastern schools of
thought it is believed that the seven psycho-spiritual centres are reflected on
the hands, just as the body itself may be a reflection of the macro-centres of
the solar system; the planets which we see merely as enormous, decorative lumps
of rock. These chakras, as they are known in Sanskrit, are located in parts of
the body where there is a major plexus in the central nervous system and
regulate the various organs of the body.
This vibratory awareness has been hinted at in Muslim scriptures for example
the Koran predicts that at the time of Resurrection our 'hands will speak',
'That day, we set a seal on their mouths, but their hands will speak to us, and
their hands bear witness to all that they did'.(...)
The hands register the state of our chakras which is a direct result of our
attitudes and actions; this suggests a scenario in which the individual judges
himself via an inbuilt process, rather than being sorted like a battery egg by a
vengeful Father God. Naturally this process would happen at a very deep stratum
of the unconscious and would not involve the ego." [Knowledge of Reality
Magazine]
30.
"It's impossible to link 'the hands that will speak' to alchemy, since the
Koran is contradictive here. In surah 36:65 a seal is set on the mouth and the
hands replace the tongues, speaking. In 24:24 though the mouth is not sealed.
Tongues, feet and hands will speak according to that surah. What's more, who
ever heard of tongue-chakra's?" [J. Rand]
31.
"On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness
against them as to their actions (Yawma tashhadu AAalayhim alsinatuhumwaaydeehim
waarjuluhum bima kanoo yaAAmaloona)." [surah 24:24 Light (Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)]
32.
"I know that famous part 'their hands will speak', and some would like to
suggest that here the hand-chakra's are meant, or the hand registering the
chakra's. But that doesn't work for me. Why be silent on the big chakra's and
only mention hands?" [Forum]
33.
"People are so anxious to find alchemical traces in their Holy Books, that it
is actually suggested that Moses burning the golden calf is alchemical metaphor.
Nowhere in alchemy though the philosophical gold is burned. It is produced." [J.
Rand]
34.
"I too have approached several alchemists about the Letters, and they all
have been in favour of them; that what is being divulged in them is true. One
said that the secrets of Alchemy are no longer secret. Simple as that." [Gary
Osborn on July 12 2007]
[ Gary Osborn (with caduceus) ]
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