Great Work

The “Great Work”, as it is often cited by practitioners of the subtle arts, can be described as the grand movement of intentional self-transformation which defines the movement from the Age of the Kali Yuga to a more Golden Age, and which plays out as the alchemical processes of the self.

In essence, all alchemies of personal transformation are a part of the Great Work.  What distinguishes it in this context is that those who consider themselves magicians and alchemists approach this from the context of their art, which is the intentional act of self-transformation in the context of the Ages.

What distinguishes this from a more mundane interpretation of work is idea that the Great Work is a larger enterprise, one that spans across many lives and lifetimes, and which speaks not simply to the acquisition of material goods or other mundane concerns but to the transformation of the consciousness of the people and the planet at large.

Yet faces and body change over time.  The implements of our conscious intention and the ways they express themselves through our stories are part of the cycles that make up the stars – tree of life.

The thing to understand here is always the same – that the Great Work is greater than the forms we wear, greater than the shallow interpretations of our costumes and cultures, and more settled into the true vastness which is our soul’s mission in the incarnate plane.

What this means is that it occurs in a monocarnate and transcarnate way, on the level of our soul’s mission through the mortal experience and the characters and conditions which we encounter during that time.