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everything. Control is my speciality. If I can control myself, I slowly, and you start working it with the four elements—earth, think I will make real progress and find myself again." And he fire, air and water. This alchemic process takes a long time and it said, "This is complicated stuff." results in crystals which are so pure and white that the effect is We talked for a long time. And it turned out that he, too, wasa — dazzling. Really special. And that is the soul of the wine. So fully qualified homoeopath. And not only that: he was also an there they are: the invisible spirit and soul. And actually, it is alchemist. He told me, "Those things you are talking about can these invisible things which control the visible. never be achieved by homoeopathy." He was also a PhD in This sounded very familiar to me. It seemed obvious. The chemistry—and a very brilliant one, for that matter. He had been invisible controls the visible. That is what happened when, as an a director of nuclear plants. A very keen man. And he said, "As engineer, I automated processes. In the early days, these far as my knowledge of chemistry goes, it is not sufficient. I processes used pneumatic technology, compressed air. You do think alchemy can help you. That's what you need.” not see the air, though it is pushing and moving things and Willem: Alchemy. He knew about that, too. opening valves—the invisible controlling the visible. Later, we Alfons: I said, "You know about that?" I thought my life had got the now widely used electronic systems. Again, you do not changed by hitting on the knowledge about possession. And here see the electrons; you see the workings... was someone with mediaeval talk about alchemy. But I listened Willem: You perceive it is there, but you do not see it. intently. He said, "Yes, I'm a doctor of chemistry and an Alfons: If you put the plug in the socket, you do not see the alchemist, too. I have practised it for many years and have seen _— power. Try to convince a child that there's something there. You many nice things happen." may try as long as you can, but it sees Willem: And as director of a nothing. It has to put something in the nuclear plant, he could not be a nitwit. outlet to get a little shock. And not Alfons: No. Later I learned that readily seeing the invisible doesn't alchemists from all over the world " nH mean the control is not there. At the meet once in a while. There were ten In Dutch, alchemy Is time I told myself, "Now I have or twelve, all PhDs. They were alscheikunde, Jan told me, something to go by. This is my doctors in physics or something else. A " profession. Controlling things, Some had two or three doctorates. which means the art of pneumatically, electronically; They weren't just anybody. separating all things". telemetering used to be my job." And I Willem: And practising alchemy felt good about it. If I could get this on the side. invisible thing into me to control the Alfons: Yes. On the side. Jan had visible, the physical, let us say, then I stopped his involvement in alchemy could do nice things. I could find because of its esoteric side. He said, myself again, get control again, get "Let us talk about it."| And it was not just "let us talk about it". hold of my life, restart. And as an engineer I knew the formulas, He stayed with me for almost five years. It was a long talk. the cybernetic correlations, the correlation techniques. In 1973, Sometimes it was three or four in the morning when we stopped our family business was already building process computers. We talking. used our own computers, so I was pretty good at things on that Willem: He lived in your house? level. Now I thought if I could put control into myself, that would Alfons: Well, we had a little shack in the garden and that's be a different story. where he lived and had his laboratory. So we lived separately on Willem: That would be different indeed. the same property. He told me a lot about the philosophy behind Alfons: I knew I would be able to get back to myself and start alchemy, particularly something fundamental to my present work functioning more and more optimally. We talked a lot about with the VEN28 preparations. He said, "In all material matters we alchemy, Jan and I. He made preparations, I tried them on myself deal with spirit, soul and body. Let me give you an example: a and did not really get any better. I'm not saying that alchemy is glass of wine. We only see the liquid, the wine. It is the body not effective. For some it does well, for others not. So it lacks which only came into being through fermentation of the grapes. systematic results. Yet in the wine there are two subtle bodies which we do not see at Willem: You can't really rely on it. all: spirit and soul. Everybody who can distill can get the spirit Alfons: No, you can not trust it. And when you try to talk out. If you distill the alcohol out of the wine, you separate the spirit about it, you meet with resistance, people thinking, "Those from the body." alchemists are magic sorcerers." Anyway, it brought me to the Willem: That's why we call alcohol "spirits". crucial understanding that the invisible controls the visible— Alfons: In German it is Weingeist, spirit of the wine. In Dutch, something I knew from my profession. The question was, "How "alchemy" is alscheikunde, Jan told me, which means "the art of can I transpose and take this invisible information into me so that separating all things". The first thing you do in alchemy is it might control me?" To make a long story short, I found the separate all things: spirit, soul and body. The body you can see answer after many trials and errors. Trying this, trying that, I readily, but you do not see the invisible things which determine the discovered how it works. And when I say "I discovered", I mean quality. You do not see the alcohol in the wine, which is the spirit. it is not new, it is not an invention, not even a finding. It is right Neither do you see the soul which, too, contributes to the wine's there. It is a matter of picking it up. In order to pick something quality. up, you have to be ready to pick it up. You must be prepared and Willem: So if the alcohol is the spirit, what is the soul? think about it, assimilate it, boost yourself up to the level of "I Alfons: He gave an example. He showed that you may begin —_ want to find it, I have to find it". working on it only after the alcohol is separated from the liquid. . . . The soul still is in the body. How do you get the soul out? It's a Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... very complicated, refined procedure. You heat the wine very Continued on page 78 In Dutch, "alchemy" is alscheikunde, Jan told me, which means "the art of 22 = NEXUS separating all things". Continued in the next issue of NEXUS... 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