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The scientists of the mystery schools, who were also known as alchemists, used the symbolism produced by the lit candle to describe the stages of the life process—the four transformational stages from earth to water to air to fire (i.e. solid to liquid to vapour to flame) culminating in a transmutation to the fifth stage or form, called quintessence or aether (i.e. light). Transmutation is equivalent to redemption.

Subject to the same law as the rest of nature, the life process of a human being goes from an impulse to a desire, to a thought, to an action. As a result of this experience we usually gain some knowledge, which then informs the next cycle of life process; and thus we evolve. If our desires become truly loving, then our thoughts will begin to be those of love (which means that we will understand something of truth), and our resulting actions will be loving or charitable ones. The knowledge then gained from this love-powered experience brings a knowledge which is an illumination. This is known as initiation, and it is this which eventually produces the saint, seer and true sage, the illumined or christed one.

Description

The scientists of the mystery schools, who were also known as alchemists, used the symbolism produced by the lit candle to describe the stages of the life process—the four transformational stages from earth to water to air to fire (i.e. solid to liquid to vapour to flame) culminating in a transmutation to the fifth stage or form, called quintessence or aether (i.e. light). Transmutation is equivalent to redemption.

Subject to the same law as the rest of nature, the life process of a human being goes from an impulse to a desire, to a thought, to an action. As a result of this experience we usually gain some knowledge, which then informs the next cycle of life process; and thus we evolve. If our desires become truly loving, then our thoughts will begin to be those of love (which means that we will understand something of truth), and our resulting actions will be loving or charitable ones. The knowledge then gained from this love-powered experience brings a knowledge which is an illumination. This is known as initiation, and it is this which eventually produces the saint, seer and true sage, the illumined or christed one.