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through the air and the salt; the third work will occur through the fire and the light.
When we know how to introduce the fixed, white Stone, the heavenly Light, as the
dry Fire of the Philosophers, then we also know how to unite the white, fixed Queen
with the red King.
That is why our Elixir is now being cooked in our dry Fire, until it becomes the
completed red Lapis. Nevertheless, a continuous ignition of the dry fire, through the
moist mercurial-Fire is necessary, through which the dry fire (our Sun-Son) must be
nourished like through the blood of our heavenly pelican.
Even though our Sulphur and Salt were born again and resurrected through the
impregnation of the Life-Spirit, they were not exalted in their powers, because the
Spirit only associated with them, although at this point, did not permanently unite
with them.
This unification occurs now through the coagulation and fixation of our mercurial
Water and Sulphurs (or metallic GoldSeeds) through the natural cooking in the eternal
living Fire of the Philosophers. This Fire radiates and circulates through a spiritual
Vapour ceaselessly upon our materia. It is warm, dry and moist; more spiritual than
material. It warms our materia and cooks it gently through consistent radiations. It
maintains, moistens, nourishes and multiplies it in strength and virtue.
This moist, steaming Fire (our Azoth) is in its nature like the materia of the Stone; it is
taken of the purest substance of the same, and prepared through the art of the
Alchemist.
This is the true Balneum of the Philosophers, however its preparation is a secret. It is
the greatest Secretum of the hermetic art, only God can reveal it.
The cooking, which now follows, of all four Elements, must be brought forth one after
the other in their order through the external fire, in seven gradations of cooking.
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The first degree of cooking is governed by Mercury, because at this point, the materia
is being made receptive and is brought to putrefaction through frequent steepings of
our red Mercurii, namely, our fixed, natural Sulphur is again being resolved into his
Materiam Primam Spermaticum or into a vitriolic Guhr.
The radical dissolution shows itself first through a yellow colour, which soon turns to
deep blue, once the materia again settles on the bottom.
Following that, the materia again becomes deep black and becomes a Ravenshead,
that means, a subtile muddy Earth, with which the reign of Saturn begins again. That
is the second degree of the cooking.
.
Here the materia is called the philosophical Lead. It is considerably more exquisite
than common Gold, because it is the materia prima for the tincture as both principles
(Sol and Luna) are being united therein. Since the putrefaction is the main gradation
of Alchemy, the tincture could not be prepared without the intimate unification of the
male and female seeds.
As soon as the materia on the bottom of the glass solidifies and dries again and takes
on the ice-grey colour, then Jupiter has conquered Saturn and has taken over the reign,
in the third degree of cooking.
This is followed by seven cleansings or steepings, whereby the Spiritus volatilis is
added seven times to the materia. When this occurs, the seven colours of the rainbow
circulate (the so-called peacock's tail, cauda pavonis) up and down in the glass, but
considerably faster and stronger, than it did in the second work. This is a sign, that
Venus has begun its reign in the Kingdom of the Air, whereby the fourth degree of
cooking has now been reached.
This Peacock's tail should only appear during the transition from black to white
colour. Should the Peacock's tail appear later, or should the black colour show up
again, this is then a certain sign that something was incorrectly done insofar as the
work was concerned and therefore, it was a failure. The same is true when a colour
(such as the redness) appears before its time. The blackness should not show itself
again at a later date, because once the raven is drowned, he should never return; yet
the Dove should return often. That is what the Philosophers say.
Considerably more magnificent than in the second work, appears here the green
colour, when it comes into view of the Alchemists in this last work, they say full of
joy: "O blessed Green, without you, there would be no hope, of obtaining the
Philosophers Stone!"
Finally, after a long and patient cooking, in the fifth degree of the cooking, the
dazzling white colour shows up again. It announces the unification of Sol and Luna,
which again form one body, the twofold, heavenly-made Mercurius duplicatus, our
white Elixir of the second order.
This dazzling Whiteness is the second or the true Whitening of the Laton, the white
Swan of the Alchemists, which swim in the vitreous ocean, the exquisite Albedo, the
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Head of the Lamb, our born-again Moon, the Sign of Fixation and the wonderful
Marriage of the Sun and the Moon.
The fleeting Spirits became solid and this newly-risen, spiritual Body will be
considered beautiful, white and immortal and it carries more than 100 different names
in alchemistical Writings.
Now, the point in time has come, where the books can be burned.
This high White, our fixed Luna, which looks like a subtile Diamond-Dust in the Sun,
is now ten times stronger in power and virtue than it was after the first whitening. The
white Stone could be multiplied to such a degree, that finally, the white stone would
become like a white oil, which would glow at night like the moon. Due to its magic
attributes, the Philosophers call this the Elixir spiritum.
"O! above the mercy of Jesus Christ towards us ungrateful and life's
unworthy, we who do not want to acknowledge God's gift and grace.
O! about my ingratitude, when I, O my Creator, through my pen and
true, sincere and fatherly proposal, cause, that this our Queen would
come into the hands of an unfaithful."
-(Fridericus Gualdus, Philosophia Hermetica)
Nicholas Flamel said:
"When you have reached the White, then you have cast down the
raging bulls who, out of the nostrils, spew fire and flames. Now, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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through the air and the salt; the third work will occur through the fire and the light.
When we know how to introduce the fixed, white Stone, the heavenly Light, as the
dry Fire of the Philosophers, then we also know how to unite the white, fixed Queen
with the red King.
That is why our Elixir is now being cooked in our dry Fire, until it becomes the
completed red Lapis. Nevertheless, a continuous ignition of the dry fire, through the
moist mercurial-Fire is necessary, through which the dry fire (our Sun-Son) must be
nourished like through the blood of our heavenly pelican.
Even though our Sulphur and Salt were born again and resurrected through the
impregnation of the Life-Spirit, they were not exalted in their powers, because the
Spirit only associated with them, although at this point, did not permanently unite
with them.
This unification occurs now through the coagulation and fixation of our mercurial
Water and Sulphurs (or metallic GoldSeeds) through the natural cooking in the eternal
living Fire of the Philosophers. This Fire radiates and circulates through a spiritual
Vapour ceaselessly upon our materia. It is warm, dry and moist; more spiritual than
material. It warms our materia and cooks it gently through consistent radiations. It
maintains, moistens, nourishes and multiplies it in strength and virtue.
This moist, steaming Fire (our Azoth) is in its nature like the materia of the Stone; it is
taken of the purest substance of the same, and prepared through the art of the
Alchemist.
This is the true Balneum of the Philosophers, however its preparation is a secret. It is
the greatest Secretum of the hermetic art, only God can reveal it.
The cooking, which now follows, of all four Elements, must be brought forth one after
the other in their order through the external fire, in seven gradations of cooking.
Alchemy Unveiled Page 71
The first degree of cooking is governed by Mercury, because at this point, the materia
is being made receptive and is brought to putrefaction through frequent steepings of
our red Mercurii, namely, our fixed, natural Sulphur is again being resolved into his
Materiam Primam Spermaticum or into a vitriolic Guhr.
The radical dissolution shows itself first through a yellow colour, which soon turns to
deep blue, once the materia again settles on the bottom.
Following that, the materia again becomes deep black and becomes a Ravenshead,
that means, a subtile muddy Earth, with which the reign of Saturn begins again. That
is the second degree of the cooking.
.
Here the materia is called the philosophical Lead. It is considerably more exquisite
than common Gold, because it is the materia prima for the tincture as both principles
(Sol and Luna) are being united therein. Since the putrefaction is the main gradation
of Alchemy, the tincture could not be prepared without the intimate unification of the
male and female seeds.
As soon as the materia on the bottom of the glass solidifies and dries again and takes
on the ice-grey colour, then Jupiter has conquered Saturn and has taken over the reign,
in the third degree of cooking.
This is followed by seven cleansings or steepings, whereby the Spiritus volatilis is
added seven times to the materia. When this occurs, the seven colours of the rainbow
circulate (the so-called peacock's tail, cauda pavonis) up and down in the glass, but
considerably faster and stronger, than it did in the second work. This is a sign, that
Venus has begun its reign in the Kingdom of the Air, whereby the fourth degree of
cooking has now been reached.
This Peacock's tail should only appear during the transition from black to white
colour. Should the Peacock's tail appear later, or should the black colour show up
again, this is then a certain sign that something was incorrectly done insofar as the
work was concerned and therefore, it was a failure. The same is true when a colour
(such as the redness) appears before its time. The blackness should not show itself
again at a later date, because once the raven is drowned, he should never return; yet
the Dove should return often. That is what the Philosophers say.
Considerably more magnificent than in the second work, appears here the green
colour, when it comes into view of the Alchemists in this last work, they say full of
joy: "O blessed Green, without you, there would be no hope, of obtaining the
Philosophers Stone!"
Finally, after a long and patient cooking, in the fifth degree of the cooking, the
dazzling white colour shows up again. It announces the unification of Sol and Luna,
which again form one body, the twofold, heavenly-made Mercurius duplicatus, our
white Elixir of the second order.
This dazzling Whiteness is the second or the true Whitening of the Laton, the white
Swan of the Alchemists, which swim in the vitreous ocean, the exquisite Albedo, the
A Collection of Sacred Magick | The Esoteric Library | www.sacred-magick.com
Alchemy Unveiled Page 72
Head of the Lamb, our born-again Moon, the Sign of Fixation and the wonderful
Marriage of the Sun and the Moon.
The fleeting Spirits became solid and this newly-risen, spiritual Body will be
considered beautiful, white and immortal and it carries more than 100 different names
in alchemistical Writings.
Now, the point in time has come, where the books can be burned.
This high White, our fixed Luna, which looks like a subtile Diamond-Dust in the Sun,
is now ten times stronger in power and virtue than it was after the first whitening. The
white Stone could be multiplied to such a degree, that finally, the white stone would
become like a white oil, which would glow at night like the moon. Due to its magic
attributes, the Philosophers call this the Elixir spiritum.
"O! above the mercy of Jesus Christ towards us ungrateful and life's
unworthy, we who do not want to acknowledge God's gift and grace.
O! about my ingratitude, when I, O my Creator, through my pen and
true, sincere and fatherly proposal, cause, that this our Queen would
come into the hands of an unfaithful."
-(Fridericus Gualdus, Philosophia Hermetica)
Nicholas Flamel said:
"When you have reached the White, then you have cast down the
raging bulls who, out of the nostrils, spew fire and flames. Now, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]