This is Santa Muerte, otherwise known as the Angel of Death.
There
is a criticism that as a remover of barriers I may at times remove too
many barriers between the subject and the objective.
My
response to this has been that whatever barriers you might see before
you are simply illusions to the objective that you wish to achieve.
So
for those who are not so good at “delayed gratification” know that
their expectations are not unreasonable. It is possible to have
everything you desire NOW. It is only your own creation of those
barriers that prevents instant gratification of all that you desire.
It
is to some degree (to a large degree) a product of a linear mind. You
feel that you need to deal with things one at a time, so you place
before you / between you and the objective, barriers to manage the flow
of information your brain needs to deal with.
But
your heart exists in every possibility as a multidimensional organ.
This is why sometimes you hear the suggestion that the heart can handle
what the head cannot. The heart can handle everything that is thrown at
it, it is the brain that needs to take information and events in little
pieces. By knowing this it is possible to allow the focus of the mind to
see what it needs to see and not be bothered by the fact that the heart
is taking in so much more of the whole. This is becoming whole-hearted.
So how is the mind trained to stop focusing / requiring linear events?
The
answer to this lies in the philosopher’s stone. It is a stone that
philosophers use. This is important because it is not a stone that is
used by someone who builds things, or by someone who manages money, or
by someone who wants to turn lead into gold! It is used by someone who
wishes to know how to think with their heart.
When
you are given a philosopher’s stone, you might be disappointed to learn
that it is nothing more than a clear faceted gem. You are encouraged to
look through it, and see not the gem or the gem’s facets, but the world
around you. What do you see? Probably not very much, but you become
aware that there are multiple views of the same thing. It is after all
the reflection of the world that a diviner sees when scrying a water
vessel (bowl). And then when one removes the crystal it is possible to
continue to see every aspect of the world in this manner. In the Wizard
of Oz, Dorothy might have been given emerald glasses to view the emerald
city. But perhaps by donning those glasses she was in fact able to see
the path to defeat the evil witch. The two events are not unrelated, but
a critical part of the story often left out of the final telling. [I
also hear "Agartha", in that there is a key to how it is revealed here.]
So
how does this relate to the process of alchemy? Alchemy is
transmutation, which is changing “matter” from one form to another. So
what matters to you? And how much can you change what doesn’t matter
into what does matter? That is an interesting question and key to the
process of changing lead to gold. Is changing lead to gold really what
matters to you at this time? What matters more? By analyzing these
questions you might find that you have higher priorities. So the
philosopher’s stone (that which you hold now in your heart) tends to
transform matter into that which matters. If you pay attention to your
timeline you will see that this is true in every case. This can be a
difficult thing for the mind to deal with because what matters in the
heart and what matters in the mind are not always the same thing. When
they become the same, you have unlocked the secret of the philosopher’s
stone.
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