Alchemy has been confused for many years as the art of transforming metals into gold and this metaphorical approach to the topic, although based on symbolism, from which gold represents the perfect soul, helps us in identifying the application and interaction of the energy behind the elements chosen.
Another interpretation has surely been the relation of these elements with nature. Here, we find the five elements as being fire, water, earth, air and spirit.
Spirit is conscience and the conscience of self is interrelated with the Devine conscience. We can only succeed when recognizing that, when acknowledging that our happiness and life purpose are one.
Once we gain awareness to what motivates us, what impels us into moving forward, there is a fire emerging from within that empowers our will to go many times beyond what we thought to be possible in the world and far beyond our own capabilities. This fire transforms the magnetic field and attracts to us all the necessary things to transform our reality. It’s the fire that enlightens, purifies and changes the metal into gold.
The fire calls our spirit to action and manifests on Earth in the form of materializations. At this point, we reach the 3 basic elements that compose the law of attraction, spirit or desire, fire or will, and earth or action.
The other two elements, water and air, form the final stage of the transmutation, because fire cannot persist without air and air doesn’t exist without the alchemical transmutation of water. We physically and spiritually need both the air and the water.
In our life, these two elements manifest as socialization and recognition. The air is love, freedom, and wind everything that inspires us and uplifts us. And we get it from the ideas and insights that inspire us to move forward in our existence.
It is very normal that people in love or in a fulfilling relationship may feel this air much more than others. Love is a powerful element that allows the fire to burn persistently. And among the best manifestations of love, a family is surely the most common and one of the most well recognized.
It is relatively easy to start a project with desire, will and action, but few can persist in their loneliness, in activities without any love. Like the air, this love must come from outside. The inner fire cannot burn without the outer love. But loneliness depresses us and leads us into demotivation, the extinguishment of the fire, while companionship and uplifting relationships maintain that fire going.
Water, being part of one of the cycles of air, is correlated to emotions. It is through water that the will moves, and it is through water that we build or destroy relationships.
People in love can both empower or destroy their relationships. Their love burns the metals within, their beliefs, values and needs, leading to a pure being, but such purity isn’t possible without the melting process. During this melting of metals, representative of our attachments, we develop fears and anxieties, and this is why love is a powerful fire that transforms the soul.
The worse thing that a person can do to love is betrayal, because the one that doesn’t accept the fire but runs from it, that runs from the fear of loving someone, will never love anyone else. This fire will emerge at a later time as, not heat, but a burning desire that destroys the soul of the one possessing it.
The person that fears also needs, as the two things are related. And so, the need of the one that betrays feeds a fire with fear, leading it to an explosion, the extreme of a badly conducted chemical experience with our own body.