From Water to Wine: The True Alchemy Behind the First Miracle of Christ.

“Grapes have the capacity to produce more alcohol than any other plant and, for this reason, are considered alchemically as the plant with the highest vital force. An ancient alchemical saying states that ‘all plants aspire to be grapes’. Pure grape alcohol amplifies the vital force of the mercurial extract, being the alcohol recommended for use by alchemists”. Book: The Philosopher's Stone, by Dennis William Hauk.

It is with this excerpt from one of my favorite books on Basic Alchemy that I share my most recent biblical epiphany with you, dear readers. In December, I had already brought you here one of what, for me, was one of the greatest and most important insights about our evolutionary process (and why not, our mission while incarnated on this planet), contained in the biblical passage that narrates the conversation between Sananda (Jesus, the Christ) and the pharisee Nicodemus, where I saw clearly as water the great Alchemist that the beloved Master always was — and who was right in front of our faces all along.

This time, my epiphany happened while reading this very initial passage from the book by Hauk, an English alchemist. This brief explanation about the alchemists' preference for grape alcohol, an alcohol of high vital force, immediately reminded me of Jesus' first miracle, in which He transformed water into wine… (if you haven't read the previous article, I invite you to go there so you don't miss the concept of water and its importance in alchemy).

So here I present to you the result of my research, reflections, and inspirations, with the sole objective, as always: to reveal the truth, so that we can make our own personal transmutation towards the elevation of consciousness. (And I'll say it again, I was enchanted by Christic magic and its symbolism, much more interesting than the very concept of "miracle").

✨ Alchemical Mercury: The Guiding Thread of Life.

To begin, I need to explain that, in classical alchemy, Mercury is not just a metal or a planet. He is the principle of life in motion, the breath that animates, the means that connects spirit and matter, the circulating vital force that carries information, consciousness, and the possibility of transformation.

Work at the mercurial level does not forcibly create something new — it restores the flow. And that is exactly what Jesus does at the Wedding at Cana: he does not create life from nothing, but activates what was already latent by performing the transmutation of water.

🍇 Why Grapes? The Plant with the Highest Vital Force.

Here is a secret that few know: “grapes have the capacity to produce more alcohol than any other plant and, for this reason, are considered alchemically as the plant with the highest vital force” (Grape alcohol…wine).

"All plants aspire to be grapes". Alchemically, this means: all matter aspires to become conscious, alive, and spiritualized.

Pure grape alcohol is not just a chemical solvent — it is distilled life. In spagyrics (the alchemy of plants), alcohol extracts, elevates, purifies, and transports the subtle principle of the plant. When alcohol is "spiritualized" through circulation (volatilizing and condensing), this perfectly describes the ebb and flow between chaos and order, ascent and descent, tension and relaxation—the same process that happens within us during inner transmutation when we are seeking growth… the famous spiritual evolution.

🌊 Water in Alchemy: Potential Not Yet Activated.

Now we arrive at a crucial point for understanding the miracle.

In alchemy, water represents:

🔹 Raw potential

🔹 Unintegrated emotion

🔹 Unconscious

🔹 Life not yet awakened

Water is necessary, but not sufficient for transformation. It carries everything, but fixes nothing. It is pure emotion, bodily memory, unintegrated psychic life, undifferentiated potential. It is the state of someone who feels a lot, thinks a lot, but has not yet embodied consciousness.

🍷 The First Miracle: Water → Wine.

When Jesus transforms water into wine, he is not performing a magic trick. He is performing a perfect alchemical act, on the mercurial-Christic level.

Here is a profound revelation: hermetically speaking, Mercury is the messenger and Christ is the mediator — both are bridges.

Christ is not sulfur (pure fire), nor salt (fixed matter). Christ is redeeming Mercury: the one who crosses, connects, and transforms. And this is where the story gets much more interesting, when we understand the concepts of these two main elements of the miracle.

The Miracle Step by Step: The Inner Alchemical Work.

Let's dissect the miracle as if it were an alchemical formula — because that's exactly what it is.

1️⃣ The Wedding Feast — The Call to Integration

The setting where everything takes place is not random: a wedding.

In alchemy, marriage is a very important symbolic act; it represents the Coniunctio — or the union of opposites that occurs within our consciousness (in our inner being), unifying:

◽ Spirit + Matter

◽ Conscious + Unconscious

◽ Masculine + Feminine Energy

☀️ Sun (consciousness, direction) + 🌙 Moon (emotion, receptivity)

The Being that is already ready to unify internal parts. Something new wants to be born. It is the moment when the soul feels: "There is more than what I am experiencing".

When this marriage occurs, the Alchemical Androgyne is born: a state of being whole, centered, capable of acting without fragmentation—here there are no more oscillations or control of the ego.

2️⃣ The Mother's Warning — Mary as a Subtle Principle

Here, Mary is not just the biological mother giving an order to her son. In alchemical-Christian symbolism, she represents:

◽ The Soul (Anima)

◽ Receptive Wisdom (Sophia)

◽ The lunar principle that perceives lack before the mind acts

◽ She is the one who notices that the wine has run out.

This is crucial:

👉 The ego doesn't perceive when life loses its flavor

👉 The soul perceives

When Mary says, "They have no more wine", this symbolizes the intimate perception of exhaustion, the sensitivity that recognizes when vital energy has been depleted and makes the silent call for transmutation.

Jesus replies, "My hour has not yet come".

That is to say: consciousness knows that all transmutation requires maturation — it is not impulsive, but Mary does not argue. She tells the servants, "Do whatever He tells you".

This means that when the soul recognizes the lack, it submits to the direction of the Logos, without trying to control the process.

👉 Here begins the alchemical marriage: soul perceives → spirit leads.

3️⃣ "The Wine is Gone" — The Existential Crisis

This is the crucial moment. The wine is gone.

Alchemically:

◽ Old pleasures no longer nourish.

◽ Old identities no longer sustain.

◽ Quick stimuli (control, external validation, etc.) lose their effect.

◽ This is conscious Nigredo. The soul perceives: "Things can't go on like this".

4️⃣ Water — The Initial State of Being

Water represents the raw material of transmutation:

Raw emotions, bodily memory, unintegrated psychic life, undifferentiated potential.

The water is there. Nothing is lacking. But there is not yet mature joy.

5️⃣ The Six Stone Jars — Number and Matter

Jesus then specifically asks them to fill six jars, which are made of stone and used for ritual purification. But why six?

The number 6, in alchemy and biblical tradition, represents:

◽ Incomplete work

◽ The world of form before perfection

◽ Human effort before the rest of 7

◽ We can translate this as:

◽ Man before full integration

◽ Consciousness before Rubedo (The end of the Great Work, or personal Alchemy)

◽ Functional life, but still without fullness

Therefore, it is not 5 (instability) nor 7 (completed work), but 6 — the exact moment of possible transmutation.

“Stone”, alchemically, is Salt, or something fixed (the body, the structure, the limit), dense memory, that which resists but sustains. These are rigid, ancient vessels, made for external ritual purification.

In other words: the transformation doesn't happen outside the body or outside matter — it happens within what seemed too heavy to change. (Note that we'll soon have an article just to translate the truth about that passage where Sananda says that Peter will be his "Stone"... that explanation alone is enough to show that the church talk is quite distorted).

Here it's understood that Jesus doesn't create new vessels. He uses the ones that already exist. This shows that the process occurs in ordinary life, at work, in boredom, in the family. It's not outside the world — it's within it.

6️⃣ "Fill the Jars with Water" — Total Acceptance of Matter

The jars are filled to the brim, and this is fundamental when we understand that the waters represent our emotions.

Alchemically:

◽ Do not reject emotion

◽ Do not skip a phase

◽ Do not spiritualize any feeling by denying matter

👉 The water needs to be complete, everything must be integrated and accepted internally in order to be transformed.

7️⃣ The Invisible Transformation — Internal Fermentation

The biblical text doesn't describe the exact moment of transformation. We can understand that this small gap between the events teaches that transmutation is not visible to the ego, but that it happens in silence, at the right time, and without spectacle. It is the moment when the old self dies and a new vital force is born and transformed. You experience this when you don't react, but also don't surrender to situations that are pressuring you to change, like fire acting on embers or lead that will turn to gold — it acts at the correct internal time.

8️⃣ The Wine — Embodied Consciousness

Here we understand that wine represents:

◽ Integrated life

◽ Conscious joy

◽ Pleasure without guilt

◽ Presence with depth

It's not euphoria, much less escapism. It's the serene joy of being alive and fully present in the here and now.

Therefore, the master of ceremonies says: "You have saved the best wine until now".

This reveals an alchemical law: true joy comes after integration, not before.

9️⃣ Christ as Mercurial Agent

Jesus is not the wine. He is the principle of transmutation.

He acts as Mercury, mediator, catalyst.

He does not force — he manifests the transformation naturally.

🔟 The Final Result — A Transmuted Being

After the miracle is completed, the party continues, no one enters into chaos, there is no rupture.

This is a sign of correct work. In true alchemy, life goes on, but on another level.

Wine and Rubedo: The Color Born from Life.

In alchemy, Rubedo is called "The redness phase", which marks the completion of the integration of opposites, the moment when the spirit definitively incarnates in matter — the Being begins to live in total and absolute flow with the Creational Source.

There is no more fleeting ecstasy, but pure and eternal living life.

In esoteric Christianity, wine is equivalent to blood, blood is equivalent to life, and life is equivalent to the incarnate spirit.

Rubedo is this: the spirit that accepts living in the body without wanting to escape matter.

From Water to Wine = From Albedo to Rubedo.

Now, a brief connection between each alchemical phase and the transmutation process that the Master performed:

💧 Water — Albedo:

◽ Purified emotion

◽ Clarity

◽ Open sensitivity

◽ But still passive

🔥 Hidden Fire — Citrinitas:

◽ Invisible fermentation

◽ Internal heat

◽ Active consciousness

🍷 Wine — Rubedo:

◽ Integrated life

◽ Embodied joy

◽ Presence in the body

◽ Pleasure without guilt

🌟 The Miracle as a Sign of the Completed Work.

The biblical text says: "This was the first sign".

And it is no coincidence that he performed a complete transmutation, from the beginning to the end of each process, which happened within each of us when we made the decision to move towards our personal evolution: moving from a state of scarcity of life to true abundance.

The Final Integration: Bringing All the Elements Together.

Recapitulating the complete formula:

◽ Mary (Soul) perceives the loss of meaning.

◽ Jesus (Logos/Mercury) leads the transmutation.

◽ Six jars (incomplete work) indicate that there is still human work to be done.

◽ Stone (body/memory) is the vessel of change.

◽ Water → wine is emotion elevated to living consciousness.

👉 The miracle does not create something new from nothing.

👉 It reveals the hidden potential in what was already there.

🧙‍♀️ Final Considerations.

And now, as I always say when I share my studies and experiences, don't believe anything I've said here. This is a completely personal reflection based on what I have studied, applied, and naturally perceived in meditations.

Always strive to think your own thoughts and, if possible, undergo your own inner transmutation. Only then will you know the truth. And you will know that you know.

🔍 And I leave you with a final reflection: is this whole story just another metaphor, told with lots of symbolism so that only the initiated truly understand what happened there, or did Sananda really perform this transformation of water into wine?

💌 And if you, like me, have always wondered: "of all the things Jesus could have done, what is the point or importance of producing wine at a random party?", I hope this text has brought more clarity and, why not, curiosity, to reflect on everything else that has been told to date about His story.

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