Side by side with alcohol
another poison, nicotine, fights against the development of our astral
abilities. How destructive this poison affects all expressions or signs from
the astral world or the beyond. This fact is proven when spiritistic mediums
can immediately withdraw for hours from all the influences of the beyond,
especially when these influences begin to become annoying to them, by just
smoking a little.
True alchemy, in reality, is a
Kabbalistic art which requires patient examination of the genuine Hermetic
writings and a deep-founded study of Nature. It also requires a revelation,
either through an initiated adept or through an inner divine illumination.
In accordance with spiritual
understanding, an ailment comes into being through a weakness in the human
soul-complex, a truth which Paracelsus -- a gifted and blessed physician --
taught his students in the Middle Ages. As the carrier of spiritual sun
energies, the natural sun provides, along with its radiation and at the same
time, astral or psychical potencies that are constructive and restorative.
