An Ancient and Modern Alchemical Way. "The creative forces radiate from all points of the sky towards the earth and determine all earthly things." Roger Bacon (1214-1294).
The old concept of alchemy responds since the dawn of time to deep motivations of the human being. Carl Jung considered alchemy to be a proto-psychology or a "yoga" of the West which aimed to help beings progress on their path of individuation.
A modern form of alchemy was given by the Austrian philosopher, Rudolf Steiner at the beginning of the 20th century. For him the meditation of the 7 planetary forces and their correspondence with the 7 metals would be capable of arousing inspiring thought forms in the soul. These thoughts would be, so to speak, reflections of a cosmic and harmonious music such as for example the 7 primordial sounds or the 7 colors of the rainbow.
For thirty years I have been studying Rudolf Steiner's concepts on planetary forces. In the winter of 2009, I retired to meditate on each of the seven minerals/metals corresponding to the seven planets. I used Goethe's phenomenological method. The forms that I received inwardly were the basis of my artistic interpretation.