Alchemical Symbols

the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) does not seek secrecy with occult or alchemical symbols, but the following may help explain some of our differences with the old alchemy.

Esotericism tends to worship numbers and symbols rather than real objects which numbers and symbols can only represent. This is the real “transvaluation” that has taken place in religion and philosophy. Numbers are veils for real objects. The paper tiger is given power by believing in the paper tiger.

What alchemy is really about when it speaks of “changing metals,” is changing man from lower to higher to superman to Godhood, and not merely in the spiritual sense. Man does not play God in this, man allows the Spirit-Will, which activates life, to evolve to Godhood.

What better than evolution can discern how one essential part could be logically deduced from another thing? We can see how Godhood is defined as the accumulated parts evolved into a Godhood much greater than the parts.

The “alchemy of God” can describe evolution of the phenomenal world to Godhood. We can at this time dimly know the process, our “philosopher's stone” does not yet know the “supersubstance” which defines God, but the Spirit-Will which activates evolution seeks to take us there. It is the Spirit-Will, not the Demiurgos that is seen as the working cause,

The transmutation of man to Godhood is accomplished through evolution. This could be called the new alchemy, and it is the central concern of the Evolutionary Outward Path of the Theoevolutionary Church. The Involutionary Inward Path contains the ancient version of the alchemy which "transmuted" man to at least mirror the Golden Soul-Within, the Father-Within. the Theoevolutionary Church holistically studies and applies both in the Twofold Path.  Evolution applies the “elixir of the philosopher's stone,” which includes man himself evolving to Golden Godhood. The nature of the elixir is biometaphysical and supermaterial.

Far from disparaging science, the Theoevolutionary Church says that science could be seen as elevated to a “material alchemy,” to work in conjunction with Traditional “spiritual alchemy,” with both helping us to arrive at Godhood, through involution (spiritual alchemy) and evolution (material alchemy.) Science has, until now, enjoyed prestige and support for the pursuit of more mundane goals, much as the modern chemists have departed from the spiritual goals of the alchemists.

We maintain that the spirit is not at war with matter, because matter is the vehicle by which the Soul and Spirit evolve to Godhood. Therefore, the light is not at war with the dark, the Suryas and Asuyas can join together. We don't spear the material dragon, we ride the dragon to Godhood.