Blood of Space
Second Edition
by David Chaim Smith
(Volume 7 of the Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy series)
Blood of Space, the final volume of the Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy series, provides an overview of the ultimate goals of path as well as useful technical instruction for formal practice. The text is a poetic accounting of the all-pervasive essence of reality called the “blood of space” which is engaged directly by vision. It is not what we see that is important, but how we see. The practitioner develops an affinity with this sublime essentiality as its blood becomes our blood, its flesh becomes our flesh, and its structurelessness becomes the structures in which we live. The goal is (literally) seeing this realisation through, as the division between perceiving and what is perceived evaporates.
This second edition of Blood of Space offers an invitation into the inner life of the mystical path through a maze of intertwining Kabbalistic metaphors. The main theme is the expanse of open luminosity that fills and surrounds all things, running through our minds, bodies, and the greater universe around us. Once this sublime essentiality is recognised we can immerse deeply and surrender within it and all of reality can be reborn.
About the Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy series
The Psycho-Aetheric Alchemy series presents innovative new works utilising esoteric symbol systems established in the Lightning Flash of Alef books, published between 2017 and 2023. Although the series is published as a set of numbered volumes, the books are non-sequential and do not have to be read in any particular order. Each volume functions as a stand-alone work.
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Table of Contents
Come and See
The Blood of Space
The Subliming Bath
Blood of Space Meditation
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50 illustrations by David Chaim Smith
Hardcover Edition
108 pages. Linen hardcover with dust jacket, perfect-bound.
ISBN: 979-8-9920121-9-4
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Press, reviews, endorsements
Interview with David Chaim Smith in The Occult Library - read it here
Interview with David Chaim Smith on the Arcanvm podcast - watch on YouTube here
Interview with David Chaim Smith on the Glitch Bottle podcast - watch on YouTube here
Interview with David Chaim Smith on the This Is Darkness podcast - watch on YouTube here
Interview with David Chaim Smith in Arthur Mag - read it here
Interview with David Chaim Smith on the Thelema Now! podcast - listen here
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About the Author
David Chaim Smith is an artist, author, and practitioner of contemplative mysticism. He was born in 1964 in New York and worked as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990, he became immersed in various esoteric mystical traditions, and over the next seven years he studied the Golden Dawn system and worked within several Lodges. In 1997 he set aside both this structured approach and all activities with his visual art to take residence in a gnostic Hermitage in the American midwest. In his studies there he found new methodologies, most notably those for approaching a non-dual perspective via a Gnostic-tantra praxis.
David returned to New York in 1998 and immersed himself in Chassidic mysticism and traditional Hebrew Kabbalah. This he embraced through the devotional approach of Breslov, and it was here he made a profound inner connection through the meditative praxis of ‘Hitbodedut.’ In 1999 David encountered The Fountain of Wisdom, a text that has survived as a 13th century manuscript in the Vatican Library. He worked with the text for many years, drawing from his experiences as an ecstatic visionary artist. In 2004 he made a breakthrough in interpretation with the development of esoteric cartography (spiritual or occult map-making), and within a few years had reached a degree of fluency that allowed him to transfer their syntax and visual vocabulary to works of art. Since this return to visual art, David has been prolific in his practice and his work as a writer and artist whose creative engine is fuelled by a devotional approach to ecstatic visionary mysticism, a unique dimension of David’s work stems from aspects of ideational contemplation considered as a mystical path.
David currently lives in the suburbs of New York City with his wife, Rachel.
