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Author of The Internal Dragon: The Art of Self Mastery
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Retired U.S. Army Paratrooper
Masters Degree in Business - Colorado State University
Initiate at Blue Flame Healing Arts and Occult Sciences Mystery School
Studied at Rosicrucian Order AMORC
Sun - Taurus
Moon - Pisces
Ascendant - Aquarius
True Node - Libra
Initials: JJ
Alias:
Katharsis-Pyr (Κάθαρσις-Πῦρ)
Purifying Fire - the inner flame that burns away impurity, vice, lust, ego, and forgetfulness.
Fire that Cleanses the Soul — a refining fire — like gold in the crucible
The Flame of Initiation — symbolizing the first phase of Mystery School training, in which the seeker undergoes inner trials and purification before ascending to gnosis or illumination
In Platonism and Orphic Mysteries, katharsis referred to the soul’s purification from bodily desires, passions, and ignorance.
For Pythagoreans, it was a central discipline — the refinement of the soul through music, silence, asceticism, and sexual restraint.
In Aristotelian poetics, katharsis was the emotional purging experienced by the audience during tragedy — a mirror of internal cleansing.
Divine Fire — pyr symbolized spiritual light, intelligence, and transmutation.
Associated with Hephaestus (the sacred forge), Hestia (virgin flame), and Apollo (solar fire of illumination).
Also linked to suffering that refines — the fire of trial and willpower.
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“The fire of the alchemists is not simply a physical fire, but the spiritual fire that purifies and transmutes the soul, bringing it closer to divine realization.”
- Manly P Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
"The fire becomes weak and even extinguished when the alchemist ejaculates the semen."
- Samuel Aun Weor, Treatise of Sexual Alchemy
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