Alchemy is a sacred process that requires something more than just interest and talent. It requires religious reverence, the willingness to sacrifice everything for an inner vision and enough strength to achieve transformation. It takes the skill and value of presenting yourself fully to the world without disappearing into the world. Not everyone is invited, and among those invited, many do not respond. Of those who respond, not everyone gets it. However, there is an alchemist for every generation. We all knew Rosalia had changed. It was all things we had not yet believed. Lux He explains that it is the alchemy of our time.
Rosalia doesn’t have time to hate Lucifer, his ex-wife, or his critics. She’s too busy talking with Leonard Cohen, whom she hopes will heal the legacy of the registered name, and with David Bowie, whose dolphins jump out of the River Spree to swim. Lux. Oh, you are saints, but I only respond to those who can transform the world with eyes of love and fire. Similar to Hildegard de Bingen who wrote “I am the burning life of God’s essence; I am the lama above the beauty of the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, moon and stars.” Saint Olga of Kiev, who mourned her husband and then avenged him with a bloody wedding, gave birth to the first great East Slavic state from his blood. “All the lights of the sky reflect on my skin,” Rosalía sings From Madruga. “I carry a thousand languages of fire/Todas in my poetry.”
Juliana of Norwich is the mysterious one who holds in the palm of her hand a small thing, no larger than a bird, which symbolizes all of creation. Rosalía speaks with her own voice when she says: “Yo quepo en el mundo / Y el mundo fit en mí / Yo ocupo el mundo / Y el mundo keeps me busy.” Angel Lux is the younger sister of Ziggy Stardust, a messenger sent to bring hope to Earth before the end of the world and who was tempted by power and fame, before dying of success. In the end, they return to the stars where they belong, but death is not the final bell or the final chapter of the process. To be light, you must first let go of your ego. Ego sum nothing, ego sum lux mundi. I am nothing, I am light.
Simon Critchley writes in his recently seminal article Sixto Piso that mysticism is an ecstatic experience that arises only from a deep connection with the world, a transformation that takes you from sin to salvation, from anxiety to comfort, from misery to fullness. “Let everything happen to you,” Rilke wrote in his book Letters to a young poet, “Beauty and horror.” Rosalía doesn’t have time to hate Nadia because she’s busy living and trying to cross the world to become beautiful. It is a mirror and catalyst of this sacred process, confronted with the automatic machine that expresses it, engraves it, and repeats it with sinister relentlessness. AI does not have the power to transform the world; I just need to limit it. Transforming human experience into a body of material statistically suitable for commercial exploitation. Rosalia can fall in love with you, she can inspire you, she can poison you, she can anger you, but she is inside the world and has the power to change it. I just want to know who is the traitor who decided to delete a clip from the most beautiful song on the album. She says: “Soy un prado hecho de morphina. / When you want, I am caminaras.”
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