The Crown Chakra isn’t the end for Kundalini. The awakened kundalini makes mortal men into gods. All the religions of the world, all the myths and legends that speak of the hero’s quest, all the traditions that hope for the philosopher’s stone, every magician’s dream, every aesthetic practice in the world, all are for one thing: to tap the incredible reservoir of energy locked up at the base of the spinal column. Man’s only real quest, his only question, becomes: How to awaken kundalini? Emerson also describes this imperceptible yet all-sustaining source: “The Over-Soul … is a stream whose source is hidden.

The Crown Chakra isn’t the end for Kundalini. The awakened kundalini makes mortal men into gods. All the religions of…

The philosopher’s stone, as is frequently the case, is symbolized by the phoenix, which must be consumed by fire in order to renew itself. The mystery of the phoenix is that from its death (ashes), it is reborn. Images of a hero rising from the dead, or even of a Phoenix, a Rose, or a Red Lion, symbols of the Stone and of Christ, the Light of the World. This is the story cipher for the illumination of lead to gold and the enlightenment of the alchemist

The philosopher’s stone, as is frequently the case, is symbolized by the phoenix, which must be consumed by fire in…