Alchemists and western mystics usually attack "rationality" the new scientific approach, and overall the secular beliefs. But its a complete lie! if this was true, how come they created most of the secular goverments? the truth about Alchemists and their art, is that they're quite rational, actually have perhaps the biggest rational knowledge in the world, and so simply out of arrogance, they proclaim themselves children of Imagination and state themselves as being above good and evil.
"As above so below they say" yet their mind is completely splitted in duality forms, the outside "ordinary" individual that is not part of them, is condemned to be the bad guy of the story simply because he's ignorant. Buddhism says that ignorance is the root of what is perceived as evil, this is true.. but the western art has perverted this concept, up to the point of forgetting about compassion, and seeing the ignorant people that lack education, as worthless machines that steal hair.
"Mystery of the Cathedrals" by Fulcanelli is a very nice book from the point of explaining ancient codes. However since the different prologues, written by many of his disciples, it becomes noticable the arrogance that fills the mind of those individuals. As the pages go by, this increases till the absurdity of proclaiming themselves as the chosen ones, becoming a complete prank on the reader! How would you feel when you're reading something out of interest, and you start perceiving as if the writer was alive, and aughing at you for being an unitiated? Yeah that's right.. an unitiated, like the term used by Bane on the Dark Knight Rises. I'm not a comic book fan, so I have no idea who created the concept of the League of Shadows, but whoever did it, was aware of these millenary groups that hold a huge influence on the world. Both then, and also now. Groups that justify their violent and uncompassionate attitude today, with supposedly the promise of a perfect tomorrow. Doesnt matter who they erase from the road, who they manipulate, etc. Just because there's a "greater deed" Are such individuals wise at all in the end? I ask myself...Last but not least.... Are they happy? Check any book and you'll find out that they are as unhappy as the people they condemn. Equality, Fraternity, Liberty? or more like Royalist lickers, discrminators, racists, misoginists, and enslaved by their mind conflicts? Turns out that in the end is more constructive to speak with a gardener or a miller, it will fill you much more, than with these "philosophers".
Because of these and other reasons, I have discovered that even though is interesting to study Alchemy and such subjects, it is better to do so from a merely rational point. Why bother involving the spirit into an activity and knowledge that was built uppon the pillars of rationality itself? While I will leave my spirit to find the knowledge, on the empiric and spontaneous smile, the sun shining, and the birds singing.
