Operative alchemy

"What are the alchemists looking for?"  asks Patrick Burensteinas. Immortality ? The transmutation of lead into gold ? Power ? Happiness ? Like the planet Mercury (Hermes, gods' messenger) who does its solar revolution four time quicker than the Earth: Patrick Burensteinas travels between our everyday language and the the language of the birds  to tell us what operative alchemy is not (especially the four questions above) and more specifically in what consists this art.

To Patrick Burensteinas, the alchemist's work consists in dispersing the form to let the light in.  As Ain Soph Aur  (infinite light) preceded Kether (first Sephira of the Tree of Life) everything that has a form is not light.

The alchemist's work consists in not to transform the form to create another one, but to transmute the form and make it volatilize.

This purification, rectification work, the adept starts to apply to himself, to his ego: isn't it that Ego which maintains it in its form ? Isn't it that first shell that we should try to pierce to make Light enter ?

What do we have to hear in the expression "we have to forgive shadows ? "

What is the Fire Secret ?

What distinction the language of the birds gives between knowledge and erudition ?

How to interpret the initials V.I.T.R.I.O.L ?

Answer by Patrick Burensteinas in this 36-minutes communication, filmed in Toulon in may 2011 within the context of the debate "Fulcanelli, alchimie d’Héliopolis »organized by the Librairie la Table d’hermès  and les Editions de la Pierre Philosophale.

Special thanks to Antoine Palfroy and Serge Coasguen.