Alchemy & Paracelsus Medicine
By Ulrich Arndt
Translated by Michael Schaefer, Germany 2003
"‘Seals of the planets’ - Chakra teachings of the ancient alchemists rediscovered
Knowledge regarding the chakras, the principal human energy centres, is found mainly in Indian teachings. Substantial knowledge about them also existed in the West, however. The ancient alchemists called the chakras ‘seals of the planets’ and described several phases of energetic transformation they can undergo. Apart from healing, the result of that process of ‘Durchlichtung’ (‘lightening’) is nothing else but, in today’s language, a fundamental cultivation of one’s personality and consciousness..."
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