Mutational Alchemy in a Nutshell
Jul 29, 2017 19:04:46 GMT
Post by m1thr0s on Jul 29, 2017 19:04:46 GMT
Overview
Despite the fact that the term Mutational Alchemy is not very well known, it derives from very traditional sources and constitutes a very clear implications once these are understood. Mutational Alchemy is a branch of Hermetic Alchemy that specializes in the analysis and manipulation of *elements* as defined in very simple geomantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomantic) terms...most notably the binary and ternary mathematics of the I Ching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching) and the more complex (and more obscure) Tai Hsuan Ching (http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ichgene6.html#TaiHsuanChing) in particular. Our reasons for focusing on this specific area of elemental continuum are rooted in a number of things at once, but it should be remembered that Hermeticism is particularly interested in the most efficient means of altering *vibration* rates and ratios both in psyche and in matter. While many other branches of esotericism have ventured off into complex variations on this same essential theme, Hermeticism is distinguished by having stuck very close to its own core assumptions and has thus managed to become more specialized in the "transmutation of lead into gold", which, for a Hermetic Alchemist, is pure metaphor for the transformation of "base" mind and matter into something considerably more "pure" and refined. There are, in fact, all kinds of ways one might attempt to achieve this. Mutational Alchemy is aimed at the most efficient means possible given the shortest span of time. It attempts to "hack away the inessentials" as the I Ching paraphrases it and go directly to the physics involved.
Hermeticism has alway held a special allegiance to the Ogdoad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdoad) and the Ennead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead) as constituting a central principle in its own philosophy of mind and matter, yet the reasons for this have never been entirely clear. The binary and ternary mathematics of the far east provide the clearest explanation for this possible at this time, yet have generally been treated as a quaint curiosity at best by most western thinkers, until more recently when it became recognized that the underscoring mathematics of DNA and the I Ching are identical. It has taken the unexpected emergence of Genetics Science to return us full circle to the clarity and the universiality of these ancient metaphysical constructs.
In order to get a clear understanding of how this works it is usually best to begin with the binary system and examine how it operates. Most of us by now have at least heard of the four-elemental universe somewhere, comprised of Fire, Air, Earth and Water, which unite in Aether, or Spirit, synonymously. The Western system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element) is commonly assigned to pre-socratic philosophy but the Ayurvedic model clearly came much earlier and The Chinese have long had their version of this as well. In all cases the development of these ideas played a huge role in the advance of medical science from very early times. We hear a lot about the psychological aspects of all of this, but what we do not often hear is why these systems might have any basis in physics and it is generally maintained that this whole elemental logic is pseudo-scientific and only pertains to the mind anyway. Hermeticists have typically turned a blind eye to this criticism since, for them, mind and matter are an integrated whole anyway, but it nevertheless leaves a general misconception lying about that will eventually have to be put right.
Binary Elements
In defining the chronological manifestation of all rungs of mind and matter from the highest to the lowest, the Tao Te Ching stipulates: From the Nothing cometh the One: From the One cometh the Two: From the Two cometh the Three: From the Three cometh the Miriad (ten thousand) Things. Each of these categories comes to represent its own distinct principle.
Wu Chi
Technically, the Tao forever remains that which cannot be understood. This is a vital ingredient in Taoist thought so that it is the Wu Chi - The Formless Infinite Nothingness from which Yin and Yang derive that best represents *Nothing* and which can, at length, be properly understood.
Tai Chi
The Tai Chi is preeminently the symbol of Unity in the Binary Elemental System and defines Yin and Yang in a state of perfect equilibrium virtually indistinguishable at the altitude of the Tai Chi itself. It is that property best qualified to be called *The One* and is equivalent to the *Monad* in Greek thought.
Yin
Two outstanding principles account for the ebb & flow of all matter and mind in the binary system. The first of these is called the Yin which is called the feminine principle in nature and is assigned the values of receptivity, formation, contraction, and is identified as a recessive flux. The Chinese sages were in general agreement that the Yin manifests before the Yang and assigned it the general numerical value of 2.
Yang
The second outstanding principle is called the Yang which is the masculine principle in nature and assigned the value of creativity, extension, expansion, and is identified as an active flux. It should be noted that Yin and Yang are not so much a duality as they are an innate polarity extant throughout all of nature. The Yin is sometimes defined as *light in the dark* as opposing the *banners in the light* paraphrasing of the Yang. The point of this really is to hyphenate that Yin and Yang are not really dualistic opposites so much as they are interactive polarities, found at all levels of mind and matter. The Chinese sages assigned the Yang a standing value of 3.
The Four Forces
The Chinese sages did not assign the Four Forces the conventional Hermetic values of Fire, Air, Earth and Water as a rule, but there is no reason not to do so so long as you understand that this is an extrapolation based upon what the physics itself allows...not a true representation of Chinese philosophy itself. Rather they begin their discussion of *elements* with the Eight Principal Trigrams, which I will not present in this immediate article. In general, bigrams constitute the most basic compound structures possible and can justifiably be regarded as core elemental constituents. Historically, binary structures tend to group primarily in pairs of bigrams or trigrams above and below. Though it would be technically possible to continue this kind of stacking indefinitely, The Chinese confined themselves primarily to bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams and hexagrams. Curiously, this is precisely how DNA/RNA codification operates as well.
Ternary Elements
Probably the first thing that needs to be said about the ternary system of the bigrams (referred to elsewhere as Bigrammaton) is that we don't really have a clear idea just how old it really is. We know it is at least as old as the King Wen version of the I Ching but beyond that the facts are unclear. What we have of it is assigned to Yang Hsiung (also Yang Xiong (http://www.iep.utm.edu/y/yangxion.htm)), completed in about 2BCE, yet according to Yang Hsiung's own account this was actually a restoration project he undertook to recover what was already an ancient book of wisdom in his own time. It differs from the binary I Ching in a number of important ways but the single most important difference is that it includes a third primordial principle called the *Jen* principal which translates into *Intelligence*, *Spirit*, and *Mankind*, predominently. It's structure is such that it mainly unfolds as layered bigrams corresponding to the positions of Heaven (above), Man (middle) and Earth (below) to yield 9 principal bigrams, 81 tetragrams or 729 hexagrams in total. The mean of 729 (middle number) is 365 and it happens that this system is able to track the 365 day year with great precision, being internally flexible enough to also pick an additional day every four years. Had it not been for political upheavals in Yang Hsiung's own time we have every good reason to think that China very nearly opted for this calender system which had already been devised and was ready to be launched...something which never did finally happen in the end. In any case the mathematics remains intact and the system's relationship to time in general is especially strong on a number of important fronts.
Tai Hsuan
Returning to the Tao Te Ching, it is the principle of the Tai Hsuan (the Great Mystery) which occupies the position of *Nothing*in the chronological unfolding of mind and matter from the highest to the lowest rungs. We might be inclined to position it at Crown (like the Tai Chi) but Abrahadabra itself ultimately overrules this, which I will attempt to show as this manifesto unfolds. The Tai Hsuan principle must occupy the position of Apex in Abrahadabra or the entire logic collapses into gibberish. By its very nature, the Tai Hsuan governs over all ebbs and flows of mind and matter...its comings, its goings, and all manner of courses it may take. Because it incorporates the element of *intelligence* itself, it must necessarily reside at the highest seat accessable to intelligence, which in the final analysis is called Ain Soph Aur (sometimes simply Ain Soph) relative to the Qabbalistic Tree of Life. Though this assertion should not be accepted at face value, there is at this time simply no other proper conclusion I can assert and is the position I will be maintaining throughout, pending proof positive of any superior conclusion.
T'ien (Heaven)
Because we are dealing with time moreso than matter in the ternary system and how time itself unfolds, it is T'ien (Heaven), the Active Principle, that comes to occupy the relationship of *One*. Just as Aries (cardinal fire) marks the 1st House in Astrology and sets the whole house system in motion, so too does the ternary system ignite with T'ien.
Jen (Man)
Just as T'ien occupies the relationship of the Above in the ternary system, it is the Jen (Man) Principle that occupies the position of the Middle. The ternary system has a unique relation to chronologies in general and throughout all of hexagrammal logic it is always maintained that Heaven resides in the Above, Earth in the Below, and Man in the Middle. Therefor the Jen aquires the value of the "Two" in logical succession.
Ti (Earth)
It is easy enough to remember these numerical assignments just by looking at their glyphs and in the ternary system the Ti (Earth) Principle comes out last and carries the numerical assignment of the "Three". It will be obvious to most that the Yang and Yin bear a striking resemblance to the T'ien and Ti and are in many ways exactly the same, but there remains a difference of context to be observed at all times so that in truth they are only very similar properties. They are not the same in all respects and here we see that the Ti is necessarily expressed differently than the Yin, while the Yang and T'ien are visually identical. This may serve as a reminder that we have both similarities and differences to be aware of at all times in balancing these two great engineries together.
Lo Shu (Bigrammaton)
Just as the Yin and Yang combine to produce the Four Forces which can also be identified as the 4 cardinal elements, The T'ien-Jen-Ti combine to produce the 9 Principal Bigrams, which further combine to produce the 81 Tetragrams (called Shou = Chiefs), finally extending to 729 Hexagrammal structures in total. That the 9 Principal Bigrams (or Bigrammaton) conform exactly to the Lo Shu Square, generally identified in mathematics as the first true magical square possible in numbers is no incidental boon by half. This fact resolves the Hermetic Ogdoad - Ennead like it has never been resolved before and opens up whole new vistas in transmutational technology. What we have going on here is no quaint collection of symbolisms and metaphors but a bona fide mathematics of vibrational principle itself uniting all parts mind + matter by strict definition, awaiting only the proper kinds of applications to change our collective understanding of human potential forever.
I will be delving much deeper into these principles and their practical applications in other articles to follow. For the moment it is simply my objective to lay down the starting assumptions and core ingredients upon which Mutational Alchemy itself is founded. People who study the traditional hexagrams and how they weave together are called *mutationists* so the term *Mutational Alchemy* is not just some fancified term I came up with on-the-fly but is rather a very correct, very precise description of a very specific branch of Hermetic Alchemy itself...one whose long range potential is flat astonishing since the most immediate application we will be looking at is how to build controlled mind-energy vibrational fields based upon the rules and protocols observable in this immediate logic. What has been superficially coined a "divination" system is in fact a powerful diagnostic tool that can both identify which fields most need attention and inform us how to maintenance those fields as well. That this occurs on a genetic level is mathematically undeniable, even though we do not yet know the fullest possible implications of this. But we are looking at a biofeedback enginery here that has only just begun to be recognized for what it has to offer.
1) by *psyche* I think I mostly mean *mind* but from a Hermetic perspective this might also mean *spirit*. I do not take it to mean *soul* in the Platonic sense, since I am more of the opinion that Mind is actually more akin to *Khabs*, or central essence, spark of life/consciousness etc. *Khu*, I take to be more akin to Soul and this I link to matter, and degrees of subtlety within matter. For those unfamiliar with the language of Khabs and Khu, these have their origins in Egyptian lore, the particular spelling of which appears in Liber Al vel Legis. In any case my usage is in this vein.
2) by *physics* I am referring to the actual anatomical and/or topological properties of the Body of Light itself, as typlified through numerous *models* that have passed down through time. Abrahadabra classes as one of these models, the Tree of Life another, the Chakras system a third, the Meridians a forth and so on.
3) The mathematical parallel between the binary mathematics of the I Ching and the binary mathematics of the DNA/RNA codes were (thankfully) not discovered by me. Several books and scores of articles have been written of this discovery, most notably The I Ching and the Genetic Code by Martin Schonberger, followed up some years later by the more scientifically accurate DNA and the I Ching (The Tao of Life) by Johnson F. Yan. What was discovered still baffles many and most do not seem to know what to make of it exactly but it turns out that the I Ching and the DNA/RNA codes are employing an identical mathematical matrixes. This has profound implications for Occultists, Hermeticists, Magicians etc as the I Ching is a highly accessable elemental language which can be used both to invoke or evoke following established guidelines of mantra/yantra (sound/light) practises.
4) The triune aspects of Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur are not being specifically debated in Mutational Alchemy itself, which is to say, they are most often treated as one essential anatomical *position* relative to whatever map we might be employing. There are also cultural differences I have encountered that persuade me to not get too far down that particular path when referencing these coordinates with respect to the Abrahadabra Grid or the Tree of Life etc. It is their relative location that is in some ways more pertinent than their technical composition, in the above cases, positioned exactly one rung up from Crown following the geometry of the Abrahadabra Grid. In the Book of Thoth, Crowley demonstrates these similarly positioned just above Crown proper. In the Eastern systems this would normally be the place of Wu Chi which has come to symbolize the idea of "Nothingness". I don't disagree that their composition matters, but only stipulate that this is a different conversation than the more *geometrical* discussion of where this *Nothing* resides on the map, so to speak.
5) The phrase *mind-energy vibrational fields* is perhaps a strained way of attempting to dummy down what is perhaps left un-dummied...lol. But yes, absolutely, so-called morphogenetic resonance is definitely a good parallel language here. In the more traditional Hermetic lingo we are really still talking about mind/matter synthesis utilizing the vehicle of thought to manipulate energy creation, channeling and so on.
6) So here we come to what is perhaps the crux of the issue itself, ie, what are we actually trying to do with any of this? The whole answer to this is just a wee bit bigger than I am so I will confine myself to what I have learned and what I have done which is to implement this whole *physics* tantrically. This all forms the basis of a startlingly powerful and precise visualization practise in itself and this is primarily the application I have been tracking in my own situation. It goes beyond just this however. I cannot even begin to assess the range of applications possible here. If this is, as I suspect, a whole *hidden* dimension of mind/matter physics itself...well...it could be ultimately boundless the ways it might be put to productive purposes.
Ok...I think that's about it for round one at least. There is so much going on with this stuff I get lost sometimes in all the possibilities. Good questions bring me back to task. Anything true can certainly withstand good scrutiny. As for real world applications, it can be problematic at times. By real world I mean that 3-dimensional thingy with organic modules crawling all over it...
m1thr0s
Despite the fact that the term Mutational Alchemy is not very well known, it derives from very traditional sources and constitutes a very clear implications once these are understood. Mutational Alchemy is a branch of Hermetic Alchemy that specializes in the analysis and manipulation of *elements* as defined in very simple geomantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomantic) terms...most notably the binary and ternary mathematics of the I Ching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching) and the more complex (and more obscure) Tai Hsuan Ching (http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ichgene6.html#TaiHsuanChing) in particular. Our reasons for focusing on this specific area of elemental continuum are rooted in a number of things at once, but it should be remembered that Hermeticism is particularly interested in the most efficient means of altering *vibration* rates and ratios both in psyche and in matter. While many other branches of esotericism have ventured off into complex variations on this same essential theme, Hermeticism is distinguished by having stuck very close to its own core assumptions and has thus managed to become more specialized in the "transmutation of lead into gold", which, for a Hermetic Alchemist, is pure metaphor for the transformation of "base" mind and matter into something considerably more "pure" and refined. There are, in fact, all kinds of ways one might attempt to achieve this. Mutational Alchemy is aimed at the most efficient means possible given the shortest span of time. It attempts to "hack away the inessentials" as the I Ching paraphrases it and go directly to the physics involved.
Hermeticism has alway held a special allegiance to the Ogdoad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdoad) and the Ennead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead) as constituting a central principle in its own philosophy of mind and matter, yet the reasons for this have never been entirely clear. The binary and ternary mathematics of the far east provide the clearest explanation for this possible at this time, yet have generally been treated as a quaint curiosity at best by most western thinkers, until more recently when it became recognized that the underscoring mathematics of DNA and the I Ching are identical. It has taken the unexpected emergence of Genetics Science to return us full circle to the clarity and the universiality of these ancient metaphysical constructs.
In order to get a clear understanding of how this works it is usually best to begin with the binary system and examine how it operates. Most of us by now have at least heard of the four-elemental universe somewhere, comprised of Fire, Air, Earth and Water, which unite in Aether, or Spirit, synonymously. The Western system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element) is commonly assigned to pre-socratic philosophy but the Ayurvedic model clearly came much earlier and The Chinese have long had their version of this as well. In all cases the development of these ideas played a huge role in the advance of medical science from very early times. We hear a lot about the psychological aspects of all of this, but what we do not often hear is why these systems might have any basis in physics and it is generally maintained that this whole elemental logic is pseudo-scientific and only pertains to the mind anyway. Hermeticists have typically turned a blind eye to this criticism since, for them, mind and matter are an integrated whole anyway, but it nevertheless leaves a general misconception lying about that will eventually have to be put right.
Binary Elements
In defining the chronological manifestation of all rungs of mind and matter from the highest to the lowest, the Tao Te Ching stipulates: From the Nothing cometh the One: From the One cometh the Two: From the Two cometh the Three: From the Three cometh the Miriad (ten thousand) Things. Each of these categories comes to represent its own distinct principle.
Wu Chi
Technically, the Tao forever remains that which cannot be understood. This is a vital ingredient in Taoist thought so that it is the Wu Chi - The Formless Infinite Nothingness from which Yin and Yang derive that best represents *Nothing* and which can, at length, be properly understood.
Tai Chi
The Tai Chi is preeminently the symbol of Unity in the Binary Elemental System and defines Yin and Yang in a state of perfect equilibrium virtually indistinguishable at the altitude of the Tai Chi itself. It is that property best qualified to be called *The One* and is equivalent to the *Monad* in Greek thought.
Yin
Two outstanding principles account for the ebb & flow of all matter and mind in the binary system. The first of these is called the Yin which is called the feminine principle in nature and is assigned the values of receptivity, formation, contraction, and is identified as a recessive flux. The Chinese sages were in general agreement that the Yin manifests before the Yang and assigned it the general numerical value of 2.
Yang
The second outstanding principle is called the Yang which is the masculine principle in nature and assigned the value of creativity, extension, expansion, and is identified as an active flux. It should be noted that Yin and Yang are not so much a duality as they are an innate polarity extant throughout all of nature. The Yin is sometimes defined as *light in the dark* as opposing the *banners in the light* paraphrasing of the Yang. The point of this really is to hyphenate that Yin and Yang are not really dualistic opposites so much as they are interactive polarities, found at all levels of mind and matter. The Chinese sages assigned the Yang a standing value of 3.
The Four Forces
The Chinese sages did not assign the Four Forces the conventional Hermetic values of Fire, Air, Earth and Water as a rule, but there is no reason not to do so so long as you understand that this is an extrapolation based upon what the physics itself allows...not a true representation of Chinese philosophy itself. Rather they begin their discussion of *elements* with the Eight Principal Trigrams, which I will not present in this immediate article. In general, bigrams constitute the most basic compound structures possible and can justifiably be regarded as core elemental constituents. Historically, binary structures tend to group primarily in pairs of bigrams or trigrams above and below. Though it would be technically possible to continue this kind of stacking indefinitely, The Chinese confined themselves primarily to bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams and hexagrams. Curiously, this is precisely how DNA/RNA codification operates as well.
Ternary Elements
Probably the first thing that needs to be said about the ternary system of the bigrams (referred to elsewhere as Bigrammaton) is that we don't really have a clear idea just how old it really is. We know it is at least as old as the King Wen version of the I Ching but beyond that the facts are unclear. What we have of it is assigned to Yang Hsiung (also Yang Xiong (http://www.iep.utm.edu/y/yangxion.htm)), completed in about 2BCE, yet according to Yang Hsiung's own account this was actually a restoration project he undertook to recover what was already an ancient book of wisdom in his own time. It differs from the binary I Ching in a number of important ways but the single most important difference is that it includes a third primordial principle called the *Jen* principal which translates into *Intelligence*, *Spirit*, and *Mankind*, predominently. It's structure is such that it mainly unfolds as layered bigrams corresponding to the positions of Heaven (above), Man (middle) and Earth (below) to yield 9 principal bigrams, 81 tetragrams or 729 hexagrams in total. The mean of 729 (middle number) is 365 and it happens that this system is able to track the 365 day year with great precision, being internally flexible enough to also pick an additional day every four years. Had it not been for political upheavals in Yang Hsiung's own time we have every good reason to think that China very nearly opted for this calender system which had already been devised and was ready to be launched...something which never did finally happen in the end. In any case the mathematics remains intact and the system's relationship to time in general is especially strong on a number of important fronts.
Tai Hsuan
Returning to the Tao Te Ching, it is the principle of the Tai Hsuan (the Great Mystery) which occupies the position of *Nothing*in the chronological unfolding of mind and matter from the highest to the lowest rungs. We might be inclined to position it at Crown (like the Tai Chi) but Abrahadabra itself ultimately overrules this, which I will attempt to show as this manifesto unfolds. The Tai Hsuan principle must occupy the position of Apex in Abrahadabra or the entire logic collapses into gibberish. By its very nature, the Tai Hsuan governs over all ebbs and flows of mind and matter...its comings, its goings, and all manner of courses it may take. Because it incorporates the element of *intelligence* itself, it must necessarily reside at the highest seat accessable to intelligence, which in the final analysis is called Ain Soph Aur (sometimes simply Ain Soph) relative to the Qabbalistic Tree of Life. Though this assertion should not be accepted at face value, there is at this time simply no other proper conclusion I can assert and is the position I will be maintaining throughout, pending proof positive of any superior conclusion.
T'ien (Heaven)
Because we are dealing with time moreso than matter in the ternary system and how time itself unfolds, it is T'ien (Heaven), the Active Principle, that comes to occupy the relationship of *One*. Just as Aries (cardinal fire) marks the 1st House in Astrology and sets the whole house system in motion, so too does the ternary system ignite with T'ien.
Jen (Man)
Just as T'ien occupies the relationship of the Above in the ternary system, it is the Jen (Man) Principle that occupies the position of the Middle. The ternary system has a unique relation to chronologies in general and throughout all of hexagrammal logic it is always maintained that Heaven resides in the Above, Earth in the Below, and Man in the Middle. Therefor the Jen aquires the value of the "Two" in logical succession.
Ti (Earth)
It is easy enough to remember these numerical assignments just by looking at their glyphs and in the ternary system the Ti (Earth) Principle comes out last and carries the numerical assignment of the "Three". It will be obvious to most that the Yang and Yin bear a striking resemblance to the T'ien and Ti and are in many ways exactly the same, but there remains a difference of context to be observed at all times so that in truth they are only very similar properties. They are not the same in all respects and here we see that the Ti is necessarily expressed differently than the Yin, while the Yang and T'ien are visually identical. This may serve as a reminder that we have both similarities and differences to be aware of at all times in balancing these two great engineries together.
Lo Shu (Bigrammaton)
Just as the Yin and Yang combine to produce the Four Forces which can also be identified as the 4 cardinal elements, The T'ien-Jen-Ti combine to produce the 9 Principal Bigrams, which further combine to produce the 81 Tetragrams (called Shou = Chiefs), finally extending to 729 Hexagrammal structures in total. That the 9 Principal Bigrams (or Bigrammaton) conform exactly to the Lo Shu Square, generally identified in mathematics as the first true magical square possible in numbers is no incidental boon by half. This fact resolves the Hermetic Ogdoad - Ennead like it has never been resolved before and opens up whole new vistas in transmutational technology. What we have going on here is no quaint collection of symbolisms and metaphors but a bona fide mathematics of vibrational principle itself uniting all parts mind + matter by strict definition, awaiting only the proper kinds of applications to change our collective understanding of human potential forever.
I will be delving much deeper into these principles and their practical applications in other articles to follow. For the moment it is simply my objective to lay down the starting assumptions and core ingredients upon which Mutational Alchemy itself is founded. People who study the traditional hexagrams and how they weave together are called *mutationists* so the term *Mutational Alchemy* is not just some fancified term I came up with on-the-fly but is rather a very correct, very precise description of a very specific branch of Hermetic Alchemy itself...one whose long range potential is flat astonishing since the most immediate application we will be looking at is how to build controlled mind-energy vibrational fields based upon the rules and protocols observable in this immediate logic. What has been superficially coined a "divination" system is in fact a powerful diagnostic tool that can both identify which fields most need attention and inform us how to maintenance those fields as well. That this occurs on a genetic level is mathematically undeniable, even though we do not yet know the fullest possible implications of this. But we are looking at a biofeedback enginery here that has only just begun to be recognized for what it has to offer.
1) by *psyche* I think I mostly mean *mind* but from a Hermetic perspective this might also mean *spirit*. I do not take it to mean *soul* in the Platonic sense, since I am more of the opinion that Mind is actually more akin to *Khabs*, or central essence, spark of life/consciousness etc. *Khu*, I take to be more akin to Soul and this I link to matter, and degrees of subtlety within matter. For those unfamiliar with the language of Khabs and Khu, these have their origins in Egyptian lore, the particular spelling of which appears in Liber Al vel Legis. In any case my usage is in this vein.
2) by *physics* I am referring to the actual anatomical and/or topological properties of the Body of Light itself, as typlified through numerous *models* that have passed down through time. Abrahadabra classes as one of these models, the Tree of Life another, the Chakras system a third, the Meridians a forth and so on.
3) The mathematical parallel between the binary mathematics of the I Ching and the binary mathematics of the DNA/RNA codes were (thankfully) not discovered by me. Several books and scores of articles have been written of this discovery, most notably The I Ching and the Genetic Code by Martin Schonberger, followed up some years later by the more scientifically accurate DNA and the I Ching (The Tao of Life) by Johnson F. Yan. What was discovered still baffles many and most do not seem to know what to make of it exactly but it turns out that the I Ching and the DNA/RNA codes are employing an identical mathematical matrixes. This has profound implications for Occultists, Hermeticists, Magicians etc as the I Ching is a highly accessable elemental language which can be used both to invoke or evoke following established guidelines of mantra/yantra (sound/light) practises.
4) The triune aspects of Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur are not being specifically debated in Mutational Alchemy itself, which is to say, they are most often treated as one essential anatomical *position* relative to whatever map we might be employing. There are also cultural differences I have encountered that persuade me to not get too far down that particular path when referencing these coordinates with respect to the Abrahadabra Grid or the Tree of Life etc. It is their relative location that is in some ways more pertinent than their technical composition, in the above cases, positioned exactly one rung up from Crown following the geometry of the Abrahadabra Grid. In the Book of Thoth, Crowley demonstrates these similarly positioned just above Crown proper. In the Eastern systems this would normally be the place of Wu Chi which has come to symbolize the idea of "Nothingness". I don't disagree that their composition matters, but only stipulate that this is a different conversation than the more *geometrical* discussion of where this *Nothing* resides on the map, so to speak.
5) The phrase *mind-energy vibrational fields* is perhaps a strained way of attempting to dummy down what is perhaps left un-dummied...lol. But yes, absolutely, so-called morphogenetic resonance is definitely a good parallel language here. In the more traditional Hermetic lingo we are really still talking about mind/matter synthesis utilizing the vehicle of thought to manipulate energy creation, channeling and so on.
6) So here we come to what is perhaps the crux of the issue itself, ie, what are we actually trying to do with any of this? The whole answer to this is just a wee bit bigger than I am so I will confine myself to what I have learned and what I have done which is to implement this whole *physics* tantrically. This all forms the basis of a startlingly powerful and precise visualization practise in itself and this is primarily the application I have been tracking in my own situation. It goes beyond just this however. I cannot even begin to assess the range of applications possible here. If this is, as I suspect, a whole *hidden* dimension of mind/matter physics itself...well...it could be ultimately boundless the ways it might be put to productive purposes.
Ok...I think that's about it for round one at least. There is so much going on with this stuff I get lost sometimes in all the possibilities. Good questions bring me back to task. Anything true can certainly withstand good scrutiny. As for real world applications, it can be problematic at times. By real world I mean that 3-dimensional thingy with organic modules crawling all over it...
m1thr0s