This is Part One of “32nd Degree Revolutionary Alchemist” by General Divine Minister Sinque-El Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, El Rukn tribe.
Alchemy has been described as the science of transmutating base metals into material gold. The roots of alchemy, however, reach farther back into antiquity and imply the need for a deeper understanding. It was considered the master science of the Egyptians of ancient Kemet. It was ancient name for the land of Egypt, and both words, alchemy and chemistry, are a perfect reminder of the priority of Egypt’s scientific knowledge. Despite the fact that many considered it superficially as a science of changing base metals, they failed to realize that alchemy, on a deeper level, involves the transmutation of one’s mental state into a spiritual gold. Thus, true and personal alchemy is a revolutionary science, for it is a science of revolutionaries in the deepest sense of the word.
The revolutionary mind is goal-oriented and involves personal refinement and transformation. Being psychologically enslaved and ignorant of the powers that we possess as rational beings, we’ve been coerced into accepting impoverishment and degeneration of our minds, bodies and spirits for the greater part of our lives. The revolutionary recognizes that regeneration begins in the mind and holds his craft for the goldening of self and others. This can at first be a painful process, as it involves healing from painful memories and purification from the social ills the majority of us have been programmed into accepting. Throughout life, we’ve accepted ideas that have enslaved us in one way or another. With all our mistakes and imperfections, however, we have within us the elements necessary to nurture the seeds of free thinking and overstanding of purpose. As revolutionaries, we have these seeds within us all. Alchemy is not the process of making something from nothing. It is the process of increasing and improving that which already exists.
In the 21st century the refinement and multiplying of the revolutionary mind in the prisons and streets pose a living threat in the invaluable fervor mounting to overthrow the crown of government power, a power which knows it will inevitably be toppled, paradoxically, by the very social forces it has struggled so hard to create. Counterintelligence officials resort to physical, psychological and chemical drug warfare to destroy opposition and perpetuate exploitation. Organizers in prisons are separated from the general population out of fears of potential, which can foment due to an ever evolving mental uprising. There are but few ways in which the government apparatus fights to repress and degenerate us. It sticks us in a rut and molds us mentally from birth in the hands of social conformity. Those in power who govern and exploit us harbor an inherent fear that the masses will arm ourselves with revolutionary ideology and change our minds. Instead of letting your mind control over you, resolve within yourself to have control over your mind.
All things revolutionary begin with a conscious awareness of our situation. We must have an image of something in our minds before it can be created. This psychological law explains things like thought is created and energy follows thought. Alchemy, as a personal revolutionary science, has the power of manifesting the potential the people socially can possess, from the cell to the society that the cell represents. In a social context, the alchemical process can be referred to as building the new society in the shell of the old. In a world where the majority of us are driven to feeling worthless, our foundation as a force of change must include overstanding our purpose in life. Being that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, extreme measures need to be undertaken to bring balance, as the ancient Egyptians called it, into our lives and the lives of our people; to transform ourselves as individuals and to effectively revolutionize our social conditions. We need to be motivated with the overstanding that revolution implies radical change. A revolutionary spirituality implies the need for us to spiritualize the material aspects of our lives and to materialize the spiritual elements within us as we advance. Thank you. This concludes “32nd Degree Revolutionary Alchemist.”
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
