Transmutation is the changing of a substance into energy. Sublimation is the process of transforming a substance directly from a solid to a gas.
Transmutation and sublimation are internal alchemical processes which, as part of a devotional and dedicated spiritual practice, serve to transform and elevate.
“Sublimation is part of the royal art where the true gold is made. [ ] It is not a voluntary and forcible channeling of instinct into a spurious field of application, but an alchymical transformation for which fire and prima materia are needed. Sublimatio is a great mystery.”
-Carl Jung
The substance being transformed and sublimated is the sexual substance and sexual energy. This process is an ancient science that has been practiced in all religious and mystical traditions and generally guarded with the utmost secrecy so that this key not be misused.
“The semen is transmuted into Christic energies. This energy is the wine of light; this wine of light converts us into living Buddhas. The two canals Ida and Pingala resound with the musical note of the Chinese gong, or the musical note FA.
The spinal medulla with its two nervous cords is the Brahmanic cord. The spinal medulla is the rod of Brahma, Aaron’s rod, the rod of the patriarchs, the rod of Moses, the scepter of the divine kings, and the bamboo cane of seven reed-knots of the yogis in India.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Zodiacal Course
In Taoist cosmology and medicine the Kidneys are the root of all the energies in the body, and have both a Yin and Yang, Water and Fire aspect. The Kidneys are the source of the jing, the raw sexual-spiritual fluid. This fluid travels up the spinal cord to form the brain, which is considered a passive organ in Taoist anatomy, functioning only as the repository of the naturally transmuted sexual substance.
Loss of the sexual energy, the jing, will deplete the resources of the mind and body, creating a disconnect and disharmony.
In any esoteric spiritual or religious there are breathing exercises, mantras and practices to transmute the sexual energy. Many of these practices are still found in yogic, Taoist, and Buddhist traditions as exercises for general health or longevity. Some of these practices in the Christian tradition are devotional such as singing and prayer, which also transmutes the sexual energy.
The strongest force that can transmute these energies is love. The sexual energy is like a Sun, it can never be suppressed or covered up without causing great damage. Sexuality must be combined with love in perfect harmony.
The Saint Hildegard of Bingen composed beautiful and sacred hymns which would bring the singer into a state of blissful devotion to God, with the loving force of the transmuted energy.
Sexual substance and energy can travel down and outward, thereby perpetuating the continued existence in a normal and materialistic relationship with the world. Or the sexual substance and energy can be transmuted and sublimated upward and inward, with the force of love, of willpower, of mystical devotion, to create an internal transformation.
Samael Aun Weor unveiled the mysteries of transmutation, and the universal sacredness of sexuality in all religious teachings.