Table of Contents
Epigraph v
Dedication vii
Part 1 Towers and Topology: The Tower of Babel Moment, the Fall of Man, and the Revelation of an Agenda 3
Introduction: The Disconcerting Images and Agendas of Alchemy 5
A Alchemo-chimerical Man, Alchemo-Vegetable Man, Alchemosexual Man: Definitions and Preliminary Observations 7
B "Alchemosexuality" as a Metaphysical First Principle 11
C The Term "Alchemosexuality" and the Constellation of Concepts Embraced in it 13
D The Final Alchemo-Eschatology 15
1 The "Tower of Babel Moment of History": The Primordial Unity and High Knowledge of Man, and How it was Dealt With 19
A The Biblical Version of the Tower of Babel Moment
1 The Tower of Babel Story Itself 20
2 And the Fall 21
B The Mesopotamian Version: Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 22
C The Mayan Popol Vuh
1 The Original Differentiation 25
2 The Primordial Masculine-Androgyny of Man, Mankind's Original High Knowledge, and the Fall as Fragmentation 27
D The Platonic Version 29
E The Vedic View of the Topological Metaphor and the Fall of Man
1 The Tree of Life in the Vedas 32
2 The Rig Vedas and the Origin of Sacrifice: A Metaphor Literally Practiced 34
3 The Trees of Life and Knowledge in Yahwism 39
F The Catalogue of Concepts Associated with the Tower of Babel Moment 41
2 The "Topological Metaphor" of the Medium and Its Revolutionary Inversion: The "First Event," the Four-Staged Descent of Man, and the Three Great Yahwisms 47
A The Metaphor and the First Event, or Primordial Differentiation
1 The Metaphor and Some of Its Cultural Expressions 48
a In Hinduism0
1 The Triune Vishnu0 49
2 The Bhagavad Gita: the Knower and the Field 52
b In Egypt
1 An Egyptologist Examines the Akhenaton Monotheist Revolution 54
2 An Esotericist Examines the Traditional Egyptian Cosmology 54
c In Mayan Culture 57
d In Neoplatonic Tradition 59
e The High Esoteric Tradition of the Metaphor: The Hermetica and the Image of Androgyny
1 God, Space, and Kosmos 60
2 Androgyny in the Hermetica 63
f Summary of the Metaphor as Examined, and Its Methodological Implications 64
B The Descent of Man
1 The Universe as the Body of God: Makanthropos, Entanglement, and the Bhagavad Gita 65
2 Man as Microcosm 66
3 Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Man 66
C The Esoteric Tradition of the Primordial Unity and Its Symbol in Androgynous Man 66
1 The Primordial "Androgyny" and the Primary Differentiation 67
2 Its Implications 69
3 The Inverted Implications: The Three Great Yahwisms and the Struggle Against the Prisca Theologia
a The Inversion of the Topological Metaphor to a Technique of Social Engineering and Construction Via Conflict 70
b Monotheism and the Resulting Social Dualism: The Convert-Enemy Paradigm of Social Interaction 73
c Nihilism as the Distinguishing Characteristic of Yahwism 76
d The Binary Logic of Yahwism Versus the Triadic Logic of the Metaphor and the Alchemical Eschatological Necessity
3 The Alchemical Agenda of the Apocalypse: Conclusions to Part One 83
Part 2 The New Frankensteins: The Alchemical Ascent to the Animal and the Vegetable: The Transgenic Transformation of Man 87
4 Old Homunculi and New Frankensteins: Genetics, Chimeras, and the Creation of "Alchemanimal" Man 89
A A Brief Overview of The Hermetic Basis of Modern Physics 89
1 Hermeticism in Copernicus and Kepler 90
2 In Newton 91
3 In Leibniz
a Leibniz's Characteristica Universalis and the Quest for a Universal Formal Language 94
B The Alchemical Basis of Modern Genetic Engineering
1 The Promethean Alchemists Ambition: The Creation of Life in the Homunculus 95
a The Dream of reanimation and Virtual Immortality 95
b The Androgyne at the End of the Age: The Alchemical Apocalypse and Final Transformation of Matter 97
c Paracelsus 99
2 Paracelsus on the "Techniques" of Engineering the Homunculus 101
C Conclusions thus Far 102
D Chimeras: Alchemanimal Man 103
5 Frankenfoods for the "Alchemo-vegetable" Frankenstein: the Seedless Seeds of the Androgyne's Food 113
A The Alchemical Background: the Rockefellers and Francis Bacon 114
B Esoteric Eugenics, Banksters, Seedless Seeds, and Alchemovegetable Man
1 A Babylonian Theme Revisited: Too Many People(?) 118
2 The Vipers of Venice Reiterate the Theme: Carrying Capacity 119
3 The Banksters Adopt the Babylonian Theme 119
4 The Rockefellers, the "Food Weapon," and the Alchemical Seedless Seeds
a A "World War, and the "Peace Studies Group" 121
b An Esoteric Connection? 122
c The "Food Weapon" and Other Techniques of Alchemical Social Engineering 122
d Argentina: The Alchemical Laboratory for the Seedless Seeds of Alchemy
1 The Historical Background: The Beginning: The Rockefellers, Nazis, and Perón 124
2 The Rockefellers and Argentina 125
C Genetically Modified Crops and The Patent Weapon: Patented Plants, Pigs, and, Maybe People?
1 Secret Meetings and "Substantial Equivalence" 127
6 The Transhumanist Techno-androgyny and the Alchemomineral Man 135
A DARPA's GRINs: A Brief Review of the Background of Transhumanist Technologies
1 The Keys to Creation 136
a A Form of Magical Reversal of the Tower of Babel Moment 137
b Man the Microcosm becomes Man the Macrocosm 138
c Downloading and Uploading Memories, and Direct Modification of Consciousness and Behavior 138
d The Group Consciousness? Or Roddenberry's "Borg"? 140
2 DARPA's Quest for the Transhumanist Supersoldier 141
a Longevity 142
b DARPA's and the Defense Science Office's Mission Briefs 143
c Back to Longevity 143
B The Scenarios of the Transhumanist Apocalypse Theater
1 The Three Scenarios 145
2 The Assumptions of the Scenarios of the Transhumanist Apocalypse Theater 145
C The Possibilities and Dangers of a Breakaway Civilization: "Enhanced" vs. "Normal" Humans 147
7 Recapitulation: Conclusions Thus Far 153
Part 3 The Androgynous God of Alchemy and the Alchemosexual Ascent 157
8 "Aquinas," Alchemosexuality and the Androgynous God: Transmutation, Transubstantiation, and Transitions 159
A Aquinas' Theology-Stopping Vision 160
B The Alchemosexual Vision of the Aurora Consurgens and Its Implications
1 Attributions and Authenticity of the Aurora Consurgens 162
2 The Style of the Aurora Consurgens, and a Problem 163
3 The Seventh Parable and the Alchemosexual Androgyny of God and Man 165
a The Twofold Movement 171
b The Implications 172
C Transubstantiation and the Topological Metaphor 173
An Introductory Interlude: Frankenstein's Alchemical Fiction: Shelley Unbound and The Picture of Oscar Wilde, An Introduction to Chapter 9 177
9 Monsters, Pictures, and Pits: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Dante Alighieri and the Tower of Babel Moment
A Monsters and Myths 179
B The Monster within the Man 186
C Alchemy and Frankenstein's Meaning 193
D Shelley's Epipsychidion, Or, The Soul-less Creature 199
E The Picture of Oscar Wilde 202
F Autobiography of an Alchemist 204
G Dante's Pit and Climb out of Hell 213
10 The Esoteric Androgyny: Secret Societies and the Hidden Tradition of Alchemosexual Man 221
A Alchemosexuality in Masonic Initiation
1 The First Degree: Entered Apprentice 221
2 The Second Degree: Fellow Craft and the Gradual Revelation of the Primordial Alchemosexuality 224
3 The Master Mason and the Full Revelation of the Primordial Alchemosexuality in the Context of Geometry and the Topological Metaphor 227
B The Rosicrucians 230
C Joachlm of Fiore, the Hidden Androgynous God, and the Antinomian Kingdom of the Spirit: The Bridge to Alchemical Messianic Expectation 235
11 The Androgynous Apocalypse: Hermaphroditism, Uranians, Shamans, and Geneticists 243
A The Nineteenth Century Explosion of Hermaphroditism 246
1 "Gonadism" 248
2 Androgyny: Pathology? or Third Sex?
a Embryonic Androgyny 249
B The Uranianian-Darwinian Guess
1 Edward Carpenter, Uranianism, and the Topological Metaphor 251
2 Erasmus Darwin: "The Temple of Nature," and the Evolutionary Algorithms of Differentiation 258
C The Behavioir Genetics Confirmation, or Falsification? 262
D Shamans, Drugs, DNA, and Androgyny 265
E Objections: Religion and Yahwism Again 270
12 Epilogue is Prologue: Microcosm and Medium: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle in Physics 279
