Nature and role of blood in Alchemy.
Recently on facebook one of the topic on my wall was about blood, and there was way too much to
say about it, for the answer to fit in a simple post, it is a profound subject that needs an article, not
an elusiv e and quick answer.
Some think that this subject is part of legends and my ths and that we should stop watching tv shows
and films, that blood is an analogy for other matters (mineral one especially ). I won't deny the fact
that blood is often used as an anlogy , but also as the principal subject, minera, patient of the
Alchemical Magnum Opus.
As all matter, (whatev er could say the only -mineral-alchemy persons, thinking that only sulfur,
mercury and salt ex ists ex clusiv ely in metallic subjects), it can ev olv e in fav orable conditions.
Sigismund Bacstrom tells us in his "Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process" that it is "the Operis maximi
Antiquorum Sapientium" or hear, the greatest operation of the antique wisdom. Without ambages
he is informing us about the principal subject : the blood of a y oung man.
Seal of the Rosicrucian Society , from the adm ission copy of the Dr.Bacstrom .
Y ou see clearly the "source" of the m atter.
I won't giv e all the details of the tex t, stressing only on the protocol (seemingly at first sight
perfectly clear and complete, but it is in reality incomplete) which is giv en. Actually , it is not the
most interesting that is hiden, but only a v ery common key (for that perdio of time). He was quite
charitable with us. A lot of other books and resources speak about the work on blood. A complete
artist had to work at that time on all kingdoms. I also read some processes about v olatile salts of
human skulls... There was no limits to their v isions and ex periences.
The occult role of blood in huge. Obv iously we hear about it stories of v ampires, where it is
considered as fluid of life, in shamanism, in psy chogenealogy where it is play ing the role of memory
bank of the ancestors, in magick, where it is a v ital charge/force/energy for the realisation of an
objectiv e - some will ev en qualify this, as "red magick", ev en though often, it is dipped in "black", a
drop of blood can rise the capacity of charge of a tincture in an incredible way , ex actly as gold. We
also can see blood as a personnal "signature", as would do a drop of saliv a, sweat, etc. It is thus, a
kind of "gold".
So, we saw that it is a fluid of life force, memoiry , capacitor of force and a signature. We can
understand now that the Stone made out fo blood is a max imization of the v ital fluid in in. Rising,
ex alating the quality of blood, hav ing cooked it and perfected, cleaned, we then can ingest it and we
are transmuted.
This is why y ou hav e to take y our blood, and not as indicated in Bacstrom's tex t, the one of a y oung
men ... Not because of the v itale force, pretex t to take the one of a healthy y oung men, but more
because of the fact that y our personnal, familial, and human karma is present in it.
Cooking his own blood into a Stone, it is perfecting y ourself, ev olv ing in a quicker way .
But y ou hav e to know that the process is v ery hard psy chically to undertake, alike any animal way s,
and y ou hav e to be a good magus/my stic to av oid all the pitfalls of such work. It is said that y ou
need a Mineral Stone befaore, or ev en an Astral Stone (dew, rain, snow etc).
We see in v ampires film, alike the new "Dracula Untold" (201 4), that blood confers the initiation of
that state. What happens ? TheV ampire will giv e to drinnk his own blood to one of his "kid", this one
is temporarily "transmuted" (retrograded would I say - inv olutiv e transmutation). He has then the
sy mptoms of the v ampire. If ev er he drinks human blood, his destiny is sealed, he remains a
v ampire.
We hav e the same thing in the Christian religion. Christ's blood is transmutativ e. Analogically of the
Powder of Transmutation, but here in the human and spiritual area.
Jean Dubuis in one of his documents on the Graal tells us this :
"In the initiatory path, that is to say, in the rising levels of consciousness, changes occur in both
the psyche and the physic of the adept. In particular, blood properties change. It says in the Bible
that "the Spirit is in the blood." The w ord Spirit is not to be confused w ith the w ord soul. In ancient
chemical and alchemical texts, the passage in the distillation of spirits is the passage of the
Philosophical Mercury. This Spirit endow s the blood of a high regenerative pow er that opens the
centers corresponding to high levels. This blood acquires alchemical pow ers proportionated to
the level reached by the adept.
In the case of the adept at Tiphereth, blood acquires the properties of seed of gold. The dried
blood pow der transmutes copper, mercury, silver into gold; How ever, tin, iron and lead are not
accessible to him. This pow der rises all beings w ho consume it,and that are already on the path, at
Tiphereth."
Farther we read :
"The symbolism in the Communion of the catholic Church is an occultation of the possibility of
redeeming of men through the transmuted blood.
A depth study of this question leads us to the follow ing conclusions : the dried pow der of blood of
an adept can realize a transmutation, even in the hands of a novice person, only very few basic
know ledges are enough. But, w e believe that the aw akening of the adept can only be done via his
ow n blood."
This is v ery interesting. The blood of a adept is so transformed that it's own nature ev en change. It is
possible that it is no more "iron" in the hematias, but possibly a "gold". It is then, down to the center
of production of blood in the red marrow and spleen that the transmutation operates and is the
most present.
Alchimists also do this with the Cosmic Blood, or Spiritus Mundi. But it is here another subject.
Which comes normaly after the Stone of Blood. (Alike the steps of a stair, if we want to go from an
ex treme to another, we need mediums between the two).
Y ogis too transmute their bodies by a kind of internal alchemy . The Christic Force is said residing in
Ajna, and going down into the most subtles bodies at first, then, condensing itself phy sically as a
warm nectar with a subtle taste. Some call it Rasa, some Soma. Depending of their definition. It is
when the whole body is charged, impregnated of this fluid that the y ogi becomes a "christ y ogi" as
state the definition of the Kriy a y ogis (Paramahamsa Y ogananda for ex ample). Do not mistake
"Christ" with "Jésus". Jésus became Christ, y es, but any kind of human can be Christ, because this
spiritual state is univ ersal, and not localied in only one kind of matter/men. It is fore, and foremost,
an energy .
By .: Salazius Hermès D'Artigné :.
