Circulation of the Light

The Circulation of Light is an operation of alchemy in which the light of consciousness (or life force) is progressively purified and concentrated through three symbolic cauldrons within the body. The goal is to create a Body of Light allowing us to function on a more evolved plane of existence.

The first of these inner cauldrons is the Lower Tan Tien, which is situated in the abdomen between the pelvis and navel. Sexual, vital, and spiritual essences are gathered and blended, energizing the first three chackras. Once this solar channel of yang energy is energized, it is brought up the primary or governor channel along the back or dorsal of the spine.

The Middle Tan Tien cauldron is between the solar plexus and diaphragm and its energies are associated with the heart, lungs, and throat. This is where the soul finds expression, activating the heart and throat chakras.

The Upper Tan Tien is known as the Crystal Palace. This “precious” cauldron at the center of the brain is also called the Sacred Square Inch, the Heavenly Heart, or the Cavity of Spirit. It is where the higher self or spirit from Above dwells, activating of the third eye or brow and crown chakras.

The Upper Tan Tien is associated with the center of the brain where the pineal gland is located. When this gland is activated, it is said to become illuminated like thousands of shining crystals, able to receive light (as energy and knowledge) from the universe that descends to the heart center, where it mixes with the ascending “Red Drop” to attain an enlightened body and mind.

All this activity is referred to as the Sacred Marriage, a kind of cosmic sex act in the head. The phallic-shaped pineal gland releases a pure white liquid light that impregnates the nearby bi-lobed pituitary gland, which then releases hormones in the blood that inaugurate a Spiritual awakening in the body.

This final stage is not accomplished in just a single round of operations but must continue until all impurities have been eliminated, and the light is in its most concentrated form. Thus, the purified inner light is returned from the Upper Tan Tien to the Lower Tan Tien down the lunar channel of yin energy or secondary Functional Channel along inside of the spine.

The energy is then once again guided by thought and imagination inward to the center of the body, where it is progressively refined and transmuted through the three cauldrons.

The Circulation of the Light may be repeated daily for months or even years, until enough of the “light” collects to crystallize in the cauldron with-in the brain. According to Chinese alchemists, the subtle matter distilled through this process congeals into a Golden Pill, which is the adept’s passage to perfect health and even immortality.

Western alchemists would call the product of these repeated distillations the “Mother of the Stone.”

But the goal is the same in both systems: to create a Body of Light allowing us to function on a more evolved plane of existence than in the ordinary physical body.

Edited from the Oracle Cards website.