Friday 2 September 2016

Of Understanding "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

It’s not a book about treasure.  It’s a treasure.

It’s a book that awakens.

It’s a university to learn the language that has no words, that in which all things in universe communicate, that through which the Soul of the world speaks to you.

Touch the Soul of this book, then you, the lead,  evolve into gold.

Your search for treasure is long,  as long as you are desert.

Listen to your heart to listen to your soul that is always one with The Soul of the World.

Know your destiny.  Live it out.  You never die.  It’s the message from this book that is by a MAN to men.

You depend on your parents.  You understand them if you are one with them. You become a parent one day.  You depend on the air that you breathe.  Can’t you understand it if you're one with it? Can’t you become it? The creator Paulo Coelho asks.  There is no wonder how the boy turns himself into the wind.

The book is not a search for treasure, though it appears so.  It’s your search for yourself, your dream, your destiny, your freedom, your heart, your soul and the Soul of the World, each is a great treasure and last one, the source of all treasures.  Paulo Coelho's pen pours out his deep understanding of all these.

Is the treasure in or out?  “Search in and out and find the treasure in both.” The creator smiles.
The treasure the boy finds at last is in the ruined church, not in the established one.  The boy digs out not the treasure but the spirituality that has been buried deep in the present established religions in the World. The boy digs alone, not in collective worship and finds his true meaning of religiousness.

“The Alchemist" says, true alchemist is one who has realised, like the boy, he is a part of nature and all that is out is also within him – “I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe.” (p.140) Man is lead, God is Gold.  When the alchemist realises, he is part of God, his soul is a part of the Soul of the World, the lead turns into gold- the true meaning of alchemy.

The Alchemist – a Book for All Ages.

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