Episode 12: The Alchemy of Beatitude

January 28, 2021 01:16:00
Episode 12: The Alchemy of Beatitude
Latter-day Contemplation
Episode 12: The Alchemy of Beatitude

Jan 28 2021 | 01:16:00

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Riley Risto

Show Notes

Christopher and Riley have guest Morgan Aldous back on the podcast this week to explore correspondences between the alchemist’s ascent of the Mountain of the Adepts through seven stages of alchemical transformation and our own ascension of the eight rungs of the ladder of the Beatitudes to personal transformation as taught by Christ in His Sermon on the Mount. The correspondences they find between the widespread idea of the eight beatitudes as rungs on a ladder, ultimately leading us upward to the presence of God and the peace found therein, point the way to personal transformation and peace, and peaceful community with our fellow man in a Zion society.

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