Forbidden Alchemy - The Hidden Scroll of Transmutation - John to Jesus

From Lead to Gold, From John to Jesus

🜍 THE SCROLL OF TRANSMUTATION

“From the Voice in the Wilderness to the Word Made Flesh”

1. The Logos Enters Through the Witness

John 1:1–2, 6–8 (KJV)

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

The Light that John witnesses is the same Logos that will clothe itself in form.

The witness and the Word are like soul and flame — one must burn away for the other to rise.

2. The Voice Is the Logos Itself

Isaiah 40:3 → John 1:23 (KJV)

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

Prepare ye the way of the LORD...”

“I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

He does not say he has a voice. He is the voice.

The Logos has already entered — crying not from above, but from within.

3. Jesus Speaks with John’s Voice

Matthew 3:2 vs. Matthew 4:17 (KJV)

John: “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Jesus: “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

The same utterance, the same vibration.

The Word echoes — but the voice has vanished. One has become the other.

4. The Greatest Born of Woman

Matthew 11:11 / Luke 7:28 (KJV)

“Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist...

Yet he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

John is the final gate of incarnation — the last veil of flesh.

He who steps through John becomes the new Adam — the solar body.

5. He Must Increase, I Must Decrease

John 3:30 (KJV)

“He must increase, but I must decrease.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

This is transmutation — the lesser self consumed in the Fire of the Logos.

Not a handing off. A merging. A becoming.

6. The Baptism: The Alchemical Marriage

Matthew 3:14–15 (KJV)

“John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee…

And Jesus answering said: Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

John baptizes the body — Jesus emerges as the Spirit.

This is not a ritual of two, but of one transfiguring itself through water and spirit.

7. The Descent of the Dove: Two Made One

Matthew 3:16–17 (KJV)

“Jesus, when he was baptized, went up… and lo, the heavens were opened…

and the Spirit of God descending like a dove…

and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son...”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

The Dove is the Crown descending on the brow of the initiate.

The Voice from heaven declares: The Alchemical Child has been born.

8. John Disappears — Jesus Begins

Mark 6:27 → Mark 1:14–15 (KJV)

“And he beheaded John in the prison…”

“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

John’s beheading is symbolic of ego-death, Saturn falling.

As soon as the head of the prophet falls, the Christ emerges — golden and whole.

9. The Beloved Disciple Is... Himself?

John 21:20 (KJV)

“Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper…”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

The Logos, having risen, reflects on itself in the mirror of love.

The disciple whom Jesus loved is his own inner knowing — the gnosis born of purification.

10. "Are You the One?" – The Mirror Between

Matthew 11:3 (KJV)

“Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?”

🜂 Hermetic Reflection:

Spoken by John to Jesus — but truly, spoken by Self to Self.

The Spirit asks the Flesh: “Are you the Anointed?”