The 12 Gates of Ripley: Putrefaction and the Alchemical Death
In the 15th century, the English alchemist George Ripley articulated a vision of the alchemical process so profound and "Highly Systematic" that it remains the definitive record of the Chemical Death : his Compound of Alchymy . Within the fifth gate— Putrefaction —Ripley establishes the fundamental Syntax of Decay ( Putrefactio )—the ability of the purified spirit to anchor the absolute light of the Divine Mind through the systematic "Dissolution" of the spirit within the Alchemical Grave . This represents the state of Nigredo (the blackness) where the individual ego is systematically neutralized to allow for the absolute Regeneration of the Soul . To understand the fifth gate is to confront the law of Geometric Reciprocity . Putrefaction teaches that the universe is a tiered architecture of light and shadow, currently in a state of "Atmospheric Friction" due to our attachment to the "noisy" mists of material necessity. He Argued that the ...