Kelly Edward - Spiritual alchemy: scrying, spirit communication, and alchemical wisdom

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Spiritual Alchemy: Scrying, Spirit Communication, and Alchemical Wisdom 2016 by Jenny Tyson.

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First e-book edition 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tyson, Jenny, author.

Title: Spiritual alchemy : scrying, spirit communication, and alchemical

wisdom / Jenny Tyson.

Other titles: At head of title: An initiation experience with Edward Kelley.

Description: FIRST EDITION. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2016. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016029330 (print) | LCCN 2016038334 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738749761 | ISBN 9780738750842

Subjects: LCSH: Spiritualism. | Enochian magic. | Hermetism. | Kelly, Edward,

15551595.

Classification: LCC BF1261.2 .T97 2016 (print) | LCC BF1261.2 (ebook) | DDC

133.9/1dc23

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Contents

by Donald Tyson

:
My Training and Initiation

: My Previous Experience

: First Contact with John Dee

: Experiments with the Radio

: The Year of Training

: The Homunculus

: Angels and Spirits

: Alchemical Initiation

: Returning to Earth

: The Emerald Tablet

: Two Years Post-Initiation

:
Practical Applications

: Physical Considerations

: Sigils and Symbols

: Meditation and Focus

: Opening the Heart and Prayer

: Communication Board

: Electronic Spirit Communication

: Analysis of Recordings

: Scrying

: Stages in Psychic Development

: Understanding Shadows

: Conversations with Edward

Foreword

a unique book of
practical spirit initiation

This is Jennys book. All of the text, apart from a few notes that Ive added, was written by her or received by her from spirits through scrying or clairaudience. My wife is not a professional writer, so she asked me to edit it. I was happy to do so because I regard it as a unique document in the history of Western magic. Nothing quite like this book exists elsewhere. It is based entirely on Jennys actual experiences over the course of a full year of intense esoteric practice. I can attest to the integrity of that practice. Every day for a year she spent several hours in ritual meditation or trance. Although she didnt know it at the time, she was preparing herself for the extended ordeal of alchemical initiation that forms the heart of the book.

This intense year-long course of magical practice to facilitate communication with spirits was entered into without any prior expectations. In the beginning, Jenny merely sought to contact the spirit of the great Elizabethan magician Dr. John Dee, due to her ongoing interest in Enochian magic. After experimenting with various methods of communication, she succeeded in forming a link not only with Dee, but with Dees partner, the alchemist Edward Kelley, and with other spirits who came to be her teachers.

The spirits she contacted told Jenny what to do in her daily magical practice, and she did it. She allowed them complete control over her development. In the course of her training, she acquired the faculties of clairaudience, clairvoyance, and channeling. The results are recorded here in her own words. For twelve months, she believed she was developing her psychic perceptions as a trance medium. It was only later that she came to realize how during that period of intense training she was being prepared by her spirit teachers for a ritual of initiation that, when successfully completed, resulted in a perfect state of oneness with the highest spiritual principle.

The successful completion of the alchemical initiation ritual had practical as well as spiritual consequences. When you realize on a very deep level that mind and body are one, it becomes possible to cure the ills of the body with the mind. The ways in which Jenny healed herself of medical problems are described in the text. Jenny would say these cures were of small importance compared to the spiritual wisdom she acquired. I think they have value in indicating the practical benefits of spiritual enlightenment.

a dedicated magician

Jennys interest in Western magic began before I even met her. It was her study of my writings on magic that caused us to get to know each other. We corresponded, found we had common interests, got together, and eventually married. Jenny moved from Maine to Nova Scotia and obtained her Canadian citizenship. I have been able to help her in some of her esoteric work in the years since we came together, but the impulse to undertake that work did not come from me. It arose from her own deep fascination with magic and spirituality.

For five years prior to even beginning the year of training described in these pages, Jenny made an intense study of all the major currents of Western esotericism. Her study was not confined to books. She practiced what she learned on a daily basis. Some of the disciplines she mastered include modern witchcraft, Nordic mythology, ritual magic in the Golden Dawn tradition, tarot, Kabbalah, astrology, and Enochian magic.