What is the hermetic seal? It is a phase used in medicine, it is a phrase used in engineering, in chemistry, it is used in preserving food: you have a hermetically sealed jar.

The origin of this term comes from alchemy, it comes from the word Hermes, the Latin word for Hermeticus. Hermes, who is associated with Thoth and the Ibis god of Egypt, is where we get the phrase hermetically sealed.

According to alchemical tradition Hermes invented the process of making the glass tube air tight using a secret seal, and without a hermetic seal in alchemy, nothing occurs.

We must emphasize a third time: without the hermetic seal, nothing in alchemy could possibly occur.

Sexual energy is circulating through us always and particularly you feel that energy very well and pronounced in the moment of the sexual act. Sexual energy is like a serpentine energy within us moving everywhere, and we become beguiled by it, a type of bliss. At this moment we are not talking about the orgasm; we are simply talking about the enjoyment of sexual connection. However, with orgasm comes a very deceitful, it costs our whole life and our soul . Therefore, in the symbol of Adam and Eve, the kicking out of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden occurs. Within man and woman are Adam and Eve, and the Eve within becomes beguiled by the heat of the serpentine energy (sexual energy flowing in the blood).

Instead, we need to learn how to work with a gentle heat. The heat caused by sexual excitation causes a transformation of energy to occur. This is called sexual transmutation. The transmuted energy moves through the subtle energy channels. Orgasm only pushes the energy out of the body, and the subtle energy channels remain dark and empty.

The very secret to Alchemy is to maintain chastity while sexually connected. What do we mean by chastity? We have to define that very carefully. Chastity means first of all no emission of energy occurs neither for the man neither for the woman. We say this very clearly because there is a lot of wrong doctrines out there that try twist this in a very subtle and bad way.

No orgasm, no ejaculation, neither from the man and neither from the woman. You simply have to stop before that occurs. That is the base rule. If you do not stop before that occurs, you emit the energy then you do not have the energy for it to be refined. You cannot make wine of intoxication if you do not have the water, it is that simple.

More than that chastity means that you are in a relationship that is committed, not a fling, not based on spiritual ambition but based upon love and sympathy for your partner. It is based on purity of heart and mind, a continual refinement and elimination of lust. This is easier said than done, but it is the goal.

When we engage in this activity, obviously, some sexual excitation is necessary. The sexual organs need to become appropriate and prepared for sexual union. That is that sexual heat is different than lust. We must check and guard our mind and not to engage in lust. It is difficult because the sexual energy and our lust are entangled together like two knotted balls of energy, so this is not a simple thing.

We must keep refining. It is not that one day you just know how to do this perfectly. However, so long as you follow the base rule of maintaining the energy, not emitting the energy, you progress.

We are attached to the sensation of orgasm. We must realise that if we renounce that, then that energy that is continually active, now finds itself another place for it to go, and it goes up those energy channels. The physical aspect of the energy gets re-absorbed physically but the vital essence, the superior subtle aspect of that energy goes up. We call this the seminal vapours. It is just like steam rising.

Now the more you try to transmute the more your ego rejects it. This dynamic psychological pressure occurs and your subconscious works to satisfy itself, it wants to relive those sensations, it is very attached to it. Those desires are actually subconscious, unconscious, infra-conscious willpower. Willpower that is trapped inside our desire to experience orgasm, so when we begin this practice, we are fighting our own self.

Little by little we are liberating ourselves from willpower trapped in desire. All those creative energies collect in the superior worlds, the superior aspects of our self.