“Alchemy is one of the oldest Mystic Schools.”
Meditation is a process of alchemy. It is a very wrong notion, but very prevalent all over the world, that alchemy was just primitive chemistry. Alchemy had nothing to do with chemistry at all. Chemistry is part of science, alchemy is part of religion. Chemistry belongs to the world of matter, alchemy belongs to the world of consciousness. […]
The real work was to transform the lower energies, metaphorically called baser metals, into higher energies, metaphorically, gold. It was a process, of tremendous importance, to transform sexual energy into superconsciousness. […]
Alchemy is one of the oldest Mystic Schools. Its origins are really hidden far away in prehistoric times. But the whole process depends on a single method, meditation. Meditation contains the whole science of alchemy.
Osho, The Golden Wind, Ch 6
Quote published in The Book: An Introduction to the Teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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