Solve et Coagula: Nicodemus visits Jesus... and meets The Alchemist.

Before we begin, a brief context: I've always had a strong aversion to the traditional Bible — to me, it was a grand, poorly told story, out of context with reality. I never had much interest in delving into its texts, preferring the study of the Letters of Christ and Gnostic texts, in my eagerness to access some kind of truth about our existence.

The last place I could accept that a great truth might be hidden would be there.

But this answer, which I now bring to you, was only accessible after I was "born again" — since that version of myself that needed to die was full of prejudice and arrogance, rejecting everything that didn't please its theories, only scratching the surface of challenging content, never truly reaching its depths.

This rebirth happened alongside the greatest Alchemist who ever lived, whom I call Sananda — with all due respect and consideration to my beloved Trismegistus, who, incidentally, was also with me on this journey, and who will play a very important role here in revealing the truth, very certain and true as he himself would say. 🧙‍♂️

So, imagine how surprising it was when, on a beautiful Sunday morning, I had an epiphany about Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus. I ran to get the religious book to read the complete text, and I understood that it doesn't matter if the answer is in the Catholic Bible, in an emerald stone, or in the pages of a novel, "just as all things came from the One, so all things are unique, by adaptation." We just need eyes to see (and the burning desire to perceive)...

If you are unfamiliar with this text or believe you know it, I invite you to immerse yourself in this new vision that has been revealed to me.

The Dialogue Between Nicodemus and Jesus — The Key 🔑

“Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can it possibly return to its mother's womb and be born a second time?”

This text is very famous and much discussed, especially in doctrines that consider reincarnation. I myself, having studied Kardecist Spiritism for years, learned to misinterpret "being born again" as physical reincarnation, and it was precisely this phrase that came to my consciousness that Sunday morning and made me understand what I myself had experienced, and what He was teaching.

After much study — and compulsory practice — of alchemical processes, it became clear to me that Jesus was talking about alchemy, which does not concern physical death, but the transmutation of states of consciousness, which can — and why not say should — occur even while we are in the material world.

To better explain how this is possible, let's compare what Jesus says with the teachings of Trismegistus, as enigmatic as His, in his famous Emerald Tablet.

"Truly, truly I say to you" 📜

In this text, as in others In several passages, Jesus always begins his responses to Nicodemus with the phrase "Truly, truly, I say to you."

Interestingly, the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus begins with the following statement: "It is true, certain and most true."

This parallel is fundamental: both texts begin with an invocation of absolute truth.

By connecting these two sources, we see that Jesus is functioning as a master alchemist. Could this be a way of validating that what will be said next is an "Absolute Truth", far beyond what is known as true by man? I venture to say yes, and that this is a code of the Alchemists. ✨

Water and Spirit: The Alchemical Language of the Renaissance 🕊️

Jesus continues his explanation: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’”

In alchemical language, there is what was called the "death of the King."

The King represents the sovereign Ego, the rigid identity, the fixed structure, the consciousness that controls and dominates. It is basically the limited "self," pride, control, excessive rationalism, the crystallized self-image — that is, the old state of consciousness that needs to die.

Also in alchemy, water is equivalent to the process of dissolution or solutio, which within the Nigredo phase is one of the most profound and transformative alchemical acts — perhaps the most painful and, at the same time, the most necessary for any true spiritual work to begin.

Water symbolizes this emotional dissolution, the dilution of the "dense" so that rebirth can begin through the purification of feelings, transmuting those that are negative and heavy, and accessing love and true divine nature.

Without dissolution, there is no rebirth.

The spirit, in turn, represents the result of separation; in classical alchemy, it corresponds to the process called Sublimatio. which literally means to elevate, ascend, spiritualize matter. The subtle part that emerges when density is transmuted, after the second alchemical phase (Albedo) is complete.

Thus, Jesus does not speak of returning to the maternal womb; he speaks of dying to the old self and letting the spirit emerge, a process that can be repeated many times throughout life.

“The wind blows where it wills” — The Nature of the Spirit-Born 🌀

Jesus continues: “The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Let us return to the Emerald Tablet, where it is said: “Your Father is the Sun, your Mother is the Moon, the wind carried you in its womb, and the Earth is your nurse.”

I also like Paulo Coelho's allegory to explain this part, where in his famous book "The Alchemist," the main character, at the height of his journey, receives the challenge of "transforming himself into wind," and we have the following passage: "The wind came close to the boy and touched his face. It had heard his conversation with the desert, because the winds always know everything." "They traveled the world without a place to be born and without a place to die."

The boy's mission in the book, to become wind, was almost a rite of passage to officially become an Alchemist — even if he wasn't aware that's what he was becoming. And, as Jesus explains, the one who is reborn of the Spirit, that is, the one who fulfills their Personal Legend, in Paulo Coelho's language, or who fulfills the Great Work, as Hermes Trismegistus would say, is the one who manages to achieve this transformation — "to go free from the need for control, ready to go wherever your Soul sends you, without any concern for the past or the future, living only in the present."

The Obligatory Cycle of All Evolution 🦋

"No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven."

Towards the end of his explanation to Nicodemus, Jesus delivers this statement, which seems to have been taken verbatim from the Tablets written by Hermes, which teaches: “It ascends from earth to heaven and descends again to earth and receives the power of things above and below.”

And here is another key to the process of death and rebirth that he teaches: there is no ascension without descending into the depths.

To reach the "Kingdom of Heaven," that is, the state of mind where absolute harmony reigns, it is necessary to traverse the shadow, pass through Nigredo, and experience one's egoic death, making the complete separation — albedo — in order to integrate the superior force with the dominion of the inferior.

But why does the "old King" need to die, after all? Because he prevents the emergence of the Higher Self. The old King is a tyrant: he governs through the repetition of patterns, through defense, through fear, through the crystallized identity. The death of the king dethrones the rigid ego, dissolves the old consciousness, opens space for the spirit, purifies the psychic matter, and delivers the soul to the process of transmutation.

It is a necessary sacrifice — not physical, but psychological and spiritual.

This is a cycle that will repeat itself as many times as necessary, whenever it is time to advance to the next phase.

No one can ascend if they do not descend from the heights of... Arrogance, the belief that one knows everything. Theories alone do not generate real growth. Only those who descend from intellect and experience practical application can return to the "heavens" and even ascend higher with each experience.

Access to the Kingdom of Heaven 🧘

Jesus confesses that he himself went through this process, completing his previous statement: “No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.”

I have learned from Him, in his letters, that: the metaphorical heaven, as used here, is not a geographical place, but a state of consciousness — an abode of the "Higher Self" present in any space-time and dimension, which becomes accessible when we live in spontaneous joy, enthusiasm, and happiness without any conditioning factor. When the process of transmutation (death and rebirth) is completed, a point is reached where one is no longer susceptible to emotional fluctuations, and only superhuman, unconditional, and undisturbed joy is experienced in every situation (this being the true paradise).

Jesus, in his statement, is revealing that he was only able to accomplish so many inexplicable and marvelous feats because he himself had already been reborn into true reality: he had let the ego die, dissipated emotional impurities, and integrated his consciousness with the Creative Source — that is, he was in heaven the entire time, but those who interpreted this "heaven" as a physical location could not understand how this was possible.

Jesus Delivers the Great Work ☀️

"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up."

Here I dare say that the choice of his explanation could not be more Alchemical than this — the serpent being the same symbol that appears in the hermetic caduceus, making the upward movement, which also symbolizes the ascent of the primal energy that we all possess in our astral bodies, and which many know as the rise of Kundalini.

When this energy is released and emerges at the top of the vital centers (chakras), through the cycle of transmutation, the being reaches the state that Jesus called "Entering the Kingdom of Heaven."

Hermes declares when this happens: "The work of the Sun is complete."

The work, in short, is: to transmute the dense into the subtle, to elevate the vital force, to integrate the polarities.

Jesus, like every alchemist, codifies this same message in his teachings.

Solve et Coagula — Undo and Recompose: The Dynamics of Transformation 💎

The alchemical maxim "Solve et Coagula" summarizes the process: dissolving what is old to coagulate the new into a superior form.

In conclusion, we can rewrite Jesus' words as follows:

"Whoever does not pass through Solutio (death of the old self) and Sublimatio (elevation of consciousness) cannot enter the Kingdom — the state of enlightened consciousness."

Or, “Without the dissolution of the old form and without the ascension of the soul, there is no transmutation.”

This is the core of the Great Work.

Egoic death tears apart the old “self” to the point of making us unrecognizable. But I have learned that with each rebirth, in each “ascent and descent” of this cycle, we return purer, with more mastery over the shadows and clarity about the truth — and with longer access to the “Kingdom of Heaven”, until we acquire the ability to remain there, even while walking here, as the Master did. This is the true “Philosopher’s Stone”.

And now, as I always say when I share my studies and experiences, this is my vision. Do not believe anything I have said here.

Try to think your own thoughts about it, and if possible, undergo your own inner transmutation. Only then will you know the truth. And you will know that you know. ✨

👽 WRITTEN BY: Cássia Sena 🛸 AUTHOR'S LINKS: SPACESHIPS | UNIVERSE