The Alchemical "Levity" Principle...

[m1thr0s]

I want to start a thread just to try and log any information that can be found on this (apparently) obscure and/or jealously guarded alchemical principle. I've been researching this puppy on and off for at least a year and have found almost nothing at all through internet channels...though I may very well have missed something.

In brief, the alchemical levity principle is linked to the idea of ascension and has been identified to "alchemical air" which is sort of an air-spirit fusion. It defines how things grow and also has much to do with spiritual aspiration in general. It is a very important principle for internal and external alchemy alike, yet there seems to be very little that has been written of it. It explains how life routinely defies the demands of gravity for instance.

here is at least one link (http://www.championtrees.org/yarrow/newton.htm) that generally discuses its concept, albeit in a rather glitzy sort of way...I am not sure who the historical proponents of this principle might have been so anything anybody can find on this would be useful to us all.

m1thr0s

[MythMath]

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THC...

Tesla...

Farnsworth...

Ed Leedskalnin/Coral Castle... (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=776)

[Kuroyagi]

Again a very worthy field of study this here. Cant contribute much other than saying thanks for the inspiration, again.

Yes, true I also heard that Newton considered all his studies to be under a theological light, still. This "spiritual" or internal or "ren" component- however one may call it- has been lacking in science for a long time, mainly cause the more "objective" method that was more dissecting and analyzing nature instead of being/incorporating it was so damn successful. But somehow it has reached a "natural" limit and now "science" must turn to the alchemical view for solutions if it doesnt want to stagnate.

Heres an article on levitation for what its worth. I myself believe that somehow the" mind" can make the "body"/objects levitate as described by many "saints" as a siddhi/secondary result but to find out how it exactly works would surely bring us closer to reaching "escape velocity".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation

[deviadah]

I've posted this before I think, but it is relevant to this topic:

There has been some interesting experiments with caduceus-wound coils, or tensor coils, which is basically an ordinary copper wire wound in a double-helix, like the two serpents, but around a ferrite core instead of a staff. This coil has shown some amazing properties.

Firstly it has zero impedance, which means when fed electrical energy it does not get hot. Secondly it has infinite resonance, which means it can resonate strongly on any number of frequencies randomly spaced in the spectrum. A signal pumped into the coil can’t be detected by standard RF (radio frequency) detection apparatus. Thirdly, and most astoundingly, it has been known to levitate, pulsating bursts of microwave frequencies eerily reminiscent of a connection with something divine.What if we pump a mental signal into our mind... since we are a coiled being - by logic alone - we should levitate!

Oh, and let us not forget that gravity is a fairly modern invention!

:cool:

Tensor Coil post (http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?p=22528#post22528)

[Naomi]

Yeah I just watched this movie the other night that says we can do exactly that.....literally, very cool film, I forget what it's called...MM?

It's hilarious as I write this my daughter is watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on the television behind me and she's at the part where Li Mu Bai and Jiao Long are levitating around the bamboo forest..

[MythMath]

What tHe BLeeP Do wE (k)now? Part 1 "Introduction"


To be fair/equal time/opposing view:

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/what_the_bleep_.html

[Naomi]

:tnerd:Oh thanks, good stuff

[The Cove]

Hm.....

Wargawillawoo...

It seems to me that the best manner to approach this alchemical levity is to directly define it:

alchemy

1362, from O.Fr. alkemie, from M.L. alkimia, from Arabic al-kimiya, from Gk. khemeioa (found c.300 C.E. in a decree of Diocletian against "the old writings of the Egyptians"), all meaning "alchemy." Perhaps from an old name for Egypt (Khemia, lit. "land of black earth," found in Plutarch), or from Gk. khymatos "that which is poured out," from khein "to pour," related to khymos "juice, sap." The word seems to have elements of both origins."Mahn ... concludes, after an elaborate investigation, that Gr. khymeia was probably the original, being first applied to pharmaceutical chemistry, which was chiefly concerned with juices or infusions of plants; that the pursuits of the Alexandrian alchemists were a subsequent development of chemical study, and that the notoriety of these may have caused the name of the art to be popularly associated with the ancient name of Egypt." [OED]The al- is the Arabic definite article, "the." The art and the name adopted by the Arabs from Alexandrians and thence returned to Europe via Spain. Alchemy was the "chemistry" of the Middle Ages and early modern times, since c.1600 applied distinctively to the pursuit of the transmutation of baser metals into gold, which, along with the search for the universal solvent and the panacea, were the chief occupations of early chemistry.


levity

1564, from L. levitas (gen. levitatis) "lightness, frivolity," from levis "light" in weight

Taken from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=alchemy&searchmode=none

So, we must - in a manner - consider it in terms of chemical lightness - bluntly speaking.

That which ascends by reaction.

For my part I would consider the whirling spiral of sacred geometry as a perfect symbol for this concept - it is a perfect symbol for multiple concepts though.

You know - I really should be payed for this shit I do on the forums... lol

Well, in truth, absolutely not...

But materialist urges are ever urging for the human in modern operation.

Alchemical levity speaks of the power that runs alchemy in the first place.

That power that drives the powers to be manifest.

One of my best friends is an master alchemist/astrologer who lives in the mountains in Germany.

He would dispute my statements based upon a utilitarian principle of intellectual work.

[m1thr0s]

He would dispute my statements based upon a utilitarian principle of intellectual work.that's pretty funny since intellect is governed by air, a *noble* (ie, ascending) element... so your alchemy friend might agree with you more than you suspect.

m1

[MythMath]

Marcus HOLLINGSHEAD
Anti-Gravity System


http://www.rexresearch.com/hollingshead/gdaigle1.jpg

http://www.rexresearch.com/hollingshead/hollingshead.htm

http://www.rexresearch.com/hollingshead/gdaigle4.jpg

[Amur]

Hmm, this should touch upon the subject, but I'm very interested in how one can create a "liquid sound" that is multi-dimensional in order to manipulate physical objects. It's a bit how Mckennas brother/cousin did it in a book while chanting chants while on mushrooms. The phenomenom is definately real and I think that there's alot of power that can be channeled through this. Not sure how this is linked but perhaps it is within the human scope to actually change the magnetic polarities of object which could make them levitate in some way or another. I suppose things will fall into place later on...

[MythMath]

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/leibniz.jpg

Aetherometry and Gravity: an introduction (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/aethergrav.htm)

Gravity and Antigravity (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/gravity.htm)

Gravity and Antigravity: Part 2 (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/gravity2.htm)

[MythMath]

Tetractys and Levity


http://www.at.gnucash.org/mirrors/mirrors/jnaudin.free.fr/images/lft3lncv.jpg (http://www.at.gnucash.org/mirrors/mirrors/jnaudin.free.fr/videos/lft3lnc.rm)


The Lifters Experiments (http://www.at.gnucash.org/mirrors/mirrors/jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifters.htm)


http://www.at.gnucash.org/mirrors/mirrors/jnaudin.free.fr/images/plftcst.jpg (http://www.at.gnucash.org/mirrors/mirrors/jnaudin.free.fr/html/lftbld.htm)