During this year you explore your body and its possibilities as the first alchemical ATANOR. As a tool in the practice of Alchemy, you will work to refine your sensitivity by developing the knowledge of your inner senses. To reorder and bring us gradually to our own basic and purest frequency, you will come in contact with the Nature Elements and that part of your personality connected to them. In this exploration you will use patterns, magical geometries and personal ritual exercises.

You will also reorder and contact your male and female aspects, giving the right space and value to each of them. You will learn to develop your alchemical laboratory inside and outside of yourself in order to produce substances from which to make your first “potions”. You will also begin to use both dreams and nutrition as an alchemical way.

To enhance your work on alchemy, substances both internal and external as well as magical tools energetically prepared to your personal frequency will be used. Psychic patterns and Selfic structures will also be employed to help prepare you to be an alchemist. Very special energetic locations such as the circuits/spirals in the Sacred Woods and the Temples of Humankind as well as other powerful tools and dynamics will be used in your exploration.

Specific topics will be developed that will allow you to expand the awareness of your potential and characteristics. These will also supply knowledge to deepen the practice within certain sectors of alchemy.

Over time you will be able to evaluate your predisposition to aspects you feel passionate about. These you will be able to develop in collaboration with your teachers and the group to which you are working with.

Some examples of research fields you may develop are:

• learn to manage sensitivity at an advanced level
• move in the astral world and the world of dreams
• develop intuition

You will dedicate yourself to learn how to read signs that as an alchemic audience can indicate the future. You’ll also learn to move perceptions backward and forward in time and move the events themselves. The use of dreams and art in alchemy will also be explored.

You learn how to use “ time” as a substance and as a territory to travel back and forth.  The use of the “time element”, elements of nature and substances produced by yourselves will be explored. With the help of tools acquired in previous years, you will learn how to utilize the sound in Magic and the Forces of Nature to create useful Entities which we call Chimeras. This aids the possibilities for the alchemist to extend into the world of “subtle energies”.

You will also explore social alchemy. In this area, the people with whom you interact are the most powerful elements that can effect the evolution within yourself and others.

Over the three years of the this path you will be given indications regarding the care of your body as an alchemical laboratory as well as the optimal lifestyle for an alchemist in accord with the principles of the Damanhurian School.

Additionally there will be tools that you can use at home to be in touch with your tutor. These will help you to continue your refinement and put acquired knowledge into practice – between one lesson and the next.

Use of dreams and art in alchemy will also be explored.