Stage Five: Putrefaction/Fermentation The Alchemist by David Teniers the Younger, 1643-45, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

I have spoken, better said, I have drawn a sketch for you, the schematic of the theosophists, the schematic of eastern wisdom, nonetheless if we really want to have a full knowledge of ourselves, all of this must be analyzed a bit.The different pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occult schools emphatically affirm that the human being possesses seven bodies: Jade Fountain: Drinking directly from the jade fountain represented a serious quest for life-nutrients to sexual alchemists. As a modern love game, it is a most delightful experience for women. This is not the run-of-the-mill oral-genital play of kissing the vulva; it involves the more complex eliciting off jade essence from the fountain. The experience of the man in this game has been compared to eating a freshly split pomegranate, or “peach of immortality”; the experience of the woman is indescribable.

Obviously, we must explain, we must explain the way, the manner to manufacture the arché, because from there we are going to get the existential bodies of the Being, the bodies that are going to turn us into true human beings. I would gain nothing from giving you all these explanations if I did not teach you how to make the archeus. You have to know how it is made; otherwise, this talk would be very illustrative but without practical application. If we examine under the light of etymology the word "Bethlehem", we will discover the following: Bethlehem is belen, and "bel" is a chaldean term that reminds us of the tower of fire. Thus, the village of Bethlehem or belen did not exist at the time of the great kabir, as the oldest chronologies attest.

The Mystic Master intended that his thirty positions amplify the Arcane Maid’s original nine under the name of each position, he offered a very brief and at times cryptic description. His positions are strictly tableaux vivants-still pictures, devoid of motion. Immediately after the positions, however, he set forth separately the dynamic aspects of sexual intercourse in fifteen coital movements.