炼金术神话与入会仪式

Alchemical Myths and Initiation Ceremony

炼金术不仅仅是物质统一性的哲学原理,在矿物象征意义、冶金仪式、火的魔力和坚信人工炼金可以替代自然规律的功能之间,存在某种依存关系。西方炼金术士将神秘宗教中的仪式景象投射到矿物上,将其象征符号融入基督教教义。炼金术士对待物质,犹如信徒在神秘宗教仪式上对待上帝一般。哲人石经过呈现黑色、白色、黄色和红色四个阶段,经历矿物的受难、死亡和再生成另一种存在方式,来实现物质的转化。西方炼金术士通过让矿物回归原始状态,其意义和最终目的是人的转化,在物质的变化和他内心之间唤起某种共鸣。伴随着炼金术过程的进行,炼金术士净化唤醒自己,实现了某种仪式性体验和自身修炼,提炼了自己的心理、生理以及道德和精神体验。

Alchemy is not just the philosophy of material unity.There is some interdependence among mineral symbolism,metallurgy ceremony,the magic of fire and the belief that artificial alchemy can replace the function of natural law.Western alchemists projected the ritual scene in the mystical religion onto the mineral,the symbol of which was integrated into Christianity.Alchemists treat substance like believers treat God in the ritual of mystical religion.The philosopher＇s stone achieves the transformation of the presence of substances through the four stages of black,white,yellow and red,which means the passion,death and regeneration to another existence form of the mineral.Western alchemists＇ meaning and ultimate purpose is the transformation of human by making the minerals come back to its original state,sympathy is evoked between the change of substance and the alchemist＇s heart.Along with the process of alchemy,alchemists purify and awaken themselves to achieve some kind of ritual experience and self-training,to refine their mental,physical as well as moral and spiritual experience.