Daily Meditation: Wednesday, February 16, 2000

When alchemists talk about preparing the philosopher's …

02/16/2000

When alchemists talk about preparing the philosopher's stone as ‘woman's work and child's play', they intend to direct the adept's observations toward the phenomena that occur on earth, to discover the laws and principles at work behind these phenomena. They have purposely inverted the order of this phrase, which should be ‘child's play and woman's work', because this concerns play and work of a very special kind: that of conception and gestation. Yes, those who seek to understand how the philosopher's stone is made must first understand how, from an initiatic point of view, a man and woman conceive a child. This is the ‘child's play'. And ‘woman's work'? This is gestation. If you understand the laws of conception and gestation you will find the philosopher's stone, because the physical and spiritual worlds are both governed by the same laws and the same processes.