The Great Work - Dying before Death
I've been away for some time. My apologies to those of you who have reached out to me and to whom I owe a reply. We are in the deepening autumn where I live, and preparations needed to be made for the dark half of the year. I heat with wood, so there is the chopping, stacking, etc. I grow most of my food, ergo the harvest. I am well, thankfully, and grateful to be alive, and sorry to have been away so long. Of particular interest to me now - since this is a reflective time of year - is the concept of the Great Work. I'm sure a few of my readers have heard of it. It is a concept referenced in hermetic texts and hermeticism in general, and is symbolic of the transmutation of base metals into gold. You can read more here . However, modern hermetic movements (and likelly all of them, even historical ones) are concerned with the Great Work as it applies to humans directly: meaning, transmuting base nature into a loftier nature entirely. And it is this application of