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by Christian Rozencrux on Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:37pm ·
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When Lucifer and the trinity began to war with each other, those who did not take sides, worthy, noble angels, had to descend to earth to that stone which is forever incorruptible.I do not know whether God forgave them or damned them in the end:if it was his due he took them back.Since that time the stone has been in the care of those whom God appointed to it and to whom he sent his angel.This, Sir is how matters stand regarding the Grail.
LAPSIT EXILLIS
“The candidate must renounce his personality in order to devote himself to a higher moral apostate.”
The king IS Shepherd and pastor at the same time.Sometimes he dispatches some brilliant ambassodor to his vassel in power, his factotum, one who has the felicity of being subject to death.
O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.
D.to 3rd M.
“Out your Own Sweet Vale, Alicia Vanisheth Vanity Shepards of Arcadia `Twixt Deity and Man thou Shepherdeth the Way”
…open your mind please very important–what do you think christkings activities consist of?do you want to play part?possibly predestined??greatwork is connecting–gold at end of rainbow!finding holy of holies if we havnt already~making money to fund our work and building places of safety!!aswell spiritual transformation maxmus for myself and others!!
History is a gallery where we see very few originals and many copies.
When originals no longer exsist, the last copy is the original
Interests:
accomplishing above matters!!finding the queen{Thou are the most vivid image of the true sun, amongst the myriads of stars that are before God, thou shinest forth Gloriously in Heaven by thy virginal purity}{She is the forethought of ALL, Her light is like his light.This was the first thought, his image.Together this now was the source of the ALL.It is the unbegotten virginal power which is source.}date for wedding of lamb?having fun exploring world and making connections!knowing i have made connection and experiencing bliss when i see the eye and soul of another change at that moment~accomplishing mission and going back home!if you are interested in these interests well u know~~dont be shy speak up!!!””Peter 1:2-6 Behold, I lay in Sion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious:and he that believth on him shall not be confounded.
“According to tradition Merovingian monarchs were occult adepts, intiates in arcane sciences, practitioners in esoteric arts~worthy rivals of Merlin, their fabulous nearcontemporary.They were often called the sorcery kings or thamaturge kings.By virtue of some miraculous property in their blood, they could allegedly heal by the layin on of hands; They were said to be capable of clairvoyant or telepathic communications with beasts and with the natural world around them, and to wear powerful magical necklaces.They were said to possess an arcane spell that protected them and granted them phenomenal longevity~which history, incidentally, does not seem to confirm.”WO~RLD
Favorite Music:
twiceIS its all about you dear!!you hear what you should~~music has much to say about us~~bliss on the best rock””
“~Upon that storied marble cast thine eye.The scene commands a moralising sigh.E`en in Arcadia`s bless`d plains, Amidst the laughing nymphs and sportive swains, See festival Joy subside, with melting Grace, And pity visit the half smiling face; Where now the dance, the lute, the nuptial feast, The passion throbing in the lovers breast, Lifes emblem here, in youth, and vernal bloom, But reason`s finger pointing at the tomb!~
“Beneaththismarbleshaft, black as coal rises the fountaine offortune.Hewho drinks of it will suffer dire misery.For this spring was brought forth by the sorcerer Vergil, who laid his curse upon it.
Favorite TV Shows:
something with good content–discovery-history–learning–i like to laugh~One morn water for washing was brought forth to Manu, and when Lie had washed himself a fish remained in his hands, it adresed word to him~protect me and I shall save thee!From what wilt thy save me?From thy deluge that will sweep all creatures away!how shall I protect thee?While I am small I run great dangers, fish swallow fish~keep me first in vase~when I get big, dig a basin, when I grow more throw me in ocean~then Manu when i grow large the deluge will happen~you will build a vessel worship me~when waters rise I will come to you and you will fasten a cable to my horn, and it came to pass, The fish said fasten the vessel to a tree so the water descendin will not carry you away from this mont, Manu descended with waters on this mont of north, deluge had carried away all creatures and Manu remained alone:Strange are the word of this friend, great traveler of the unknown:They reached me separately, nevertheless they form a whole for him who knowsthat the colors of the rainbow give a white unity, or4artist, who, underhis brush, can, from6 hues, make night spurt out:This friend, how does one present him?His name remains a mystery, but his number is that of a famous seal.How does one describe him?Maybe like the pilot of the imperishable ark~Odivine raceof the celestial fish, recieve with a respectful heart in immortal life among the mortals waters of the divine ones.Friend, remake your heartwith the eternal flood of the wisdom
Favorite Movies:
what the bleep do we know down the rabbitt hole~~davinci code~~national treasure~23~powder-edward scissor hands~forrest gump~armageddon~lots of good movies have meaning when you see what i see!wisdom gives treasures.It is a resavoir of nourishment, soft like thy honey of thy savior of thy saints, Eat with hunger:you hold thy fish in your hands.Cursingprofanersintheirashes, those whofollow theirways, I leave the abyss makin gesturehorror, Knowin secret of seal of Solomon, an that I visited hidden houses of this queen.Take heed, dear friend.Do not add or remove one iota; think and think again.”The base lead of my writing contains the purest gold.Returning to the white hill, the sky has opened its flood gates.There seemed to be a presence nearby, its feet in the water like him who comes to recieve the mark of baptism.I turn again towards the east.Facing me I see rings unrollin without end, the enormous SERPENT ROUGE cited in the parchments.Salty and bitter, the enormous unchained beast became, at the feet of this white mountain, red in color.My emotions were rising”DELIVER ME FROM THE MIRE!”I said and awoke immediatly.My dream is over.I have ommitted from tellin you in effect this was a dream I had this Ja.17, feast day of St. SULPICE.Afterwards, my trouble persisting, I wanted after some reflection to tell you a fairy tale by PERRAULT.Here then dear reader, in the pages that follow are the result of a dream that cradled me in the world of the strange and unknown.To him who, PASSES BY, DO GOOD!
Favorite Books:
cg jung your the man–wow there are so many!!Tracy Twyman Merovingian Mythos~~IN AWE OFFULKY~~you must come into my library~~aswell
“Believe in my experience, you will find more in the woods than in books.The trees and rocks will teach you what no master can.”Today, in the shadows their lurkthe eminences grises, who form the backbone of all political states or religious entities.Without them the star performers that actually make all the headlines{popes, kings, or presidents}would simply not exsist.Here and there we find them, intiates of high degree, entrusted with secret missions by the grandmasters of the occult orders that rule the planet.Our treasure, that of PS, is the secret of the black rock.Revered since remote antiquity by those who believed in its immense power, it was confused with the devil, LABOUISSE~ROCHEFORTE wrote:The angel of the basterd race, In a tone at once dry&crazed, keeps constant guard over this immense income…only intiated could understand treasure was not gold, but the considerable energy that the MASTER of the genie~he who knows the secret~has at ones disposal~For{PS}the ARCH placed on the surface of the waters seemed like the sign of PEACE&WISDOM amid the torment.This was the sign of alliance, the guardian of the very essence of the great tradition.Its shape was the representation of the hebrew letter{cheth}, the engine of life, #8, it was last line of defense, while sum of its 3 sides was 22&its center…
Favorite Quotations:
3 guides the ARCH towards the STAR~I REMEMBER
THAT BORN UNDER THE LILIES
WITH GODS HELP
I GROW UNDER THE ROSE
She…brought forth a child,the flesh which was white as snow,and red as a rose;the hair of whose head was white as wool,and long;whose eyes were beautiful.When he opened them,he illuminated all the house,like the sun;the whole house abounded with light.
“I Hermes the Prince,After so much injury done to the human race,Through Divine council and the help of the arts made wholesome medicine flow here.Drink from me who can:wash in me who likes:trouble me who dares.Drink,every and ALL,and LIVE.
“”Art can never be understood, but can only be seen as a form of magic, the most profound and mysterious of all human activities”
The true Intiate is he who knows that the most powerful secret is a secret without content, because no enemy will be able to make himconfess it,no rival devotee will be able to take itaway from him.
Only Christ has the keys to Death Rev.1:18
Rev.19:12 Name written He only knew New name is key word~~
We must very humbly recognise that we oscillate between 2 heresies,scientific and religious,and that we are still very far from orthodox science,exact humanism and perfect gnosis,all of which procure the knowledge of the orderly relations between God and Man,between spirit and matter.
About Me:
ARCH was the orgin of our foundation of the PS & in our own times represents its pinnacle.It is composed of 13 memebers.The ROSE+CROIX meets in the roun temple of the ROC~NOIR,which according to legend,was formerly a temple of MITHRAS.It has a shape of semicircle…13 seats of stone…seats engraved:AB URBE CONDITA ON THE GROUND GOLDEN SUN..bearing#2434,It seems to be recent engraved by a HAUTPOUL end of 17th century.Former entry is obstructed over a distance…but a drillin has opened up entry to south.In our own time the ARCH extends over a large part of WORLD.It is from this summit that the heads of state will come to search for PEACE~MEROVINGIAN~TEMPLAR~ ROSE CROSS~CONTACT ME AND YOU WILL KNOW LOTS~AND DONT FORGET TO TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES MAYBE THEY SHOULD LOOK ME UP!
ET IN ARCADIA EGO
ps. 17:10
FOR HE DID NOT BREAK THRU THE HEAVENS AND DID NOT MAKE THE MYSTERY MANIFEST,BUT CAME DOWN TO EARTH SECRETLY,LIKE RAIN UPON THE FLEECE{ps. 71:6;judges6:37},BECAUSE THE INCARNATION WAS SECRETAND UNKNOWN,AND HIS COMING INTO THE WORLD ORDERWASHIDDEN

36-37 jung

42-51 jung

jung mysterium coinjunctionis

400-409 Jung aion or mysterium coinjuntionis

The Piercing of the Eye FINAL COPY[1]

Fragment of Mysterium Coniunctio)

The central point A, the origin and goal, the “Ocean or great sea,” is also called a circulus exiguus very small circle, and a mediator making peace between the enemies or elements, that they may love one another in a meet embrace”. This little inner circle corresponds to the Mercurial Fountain in the Rosarium, which i have described in my “Psychology of the transference”. The text call it “the more spiritual perfect , and nobler mercurius,” the true arcane substance, a “spirits”, and goes on:

For the spirit alone penetrates all things, even the most solid bedies. Thus the catholicity of religion., or of the true Church, consist not in a visible and bodily gathering together of men, but in the invisible, spiritual concord and harmony of those who believe devoutly and truly in the one Jesus Christ. Whoever attaches himself to a particular church outside this King of Kings, who alone is the shephered of the true spiritual church, is a sectarian, a schismatic, and a heretic. For the Kingdom of God cometh not with observation, but is within us, as our Saviour himself says in the seventeen chapter of St. Luke. That the Ecclesia spiritualis is meant is clear from the text: “But you will ask, whre then are those true Christians, who are free from all sectarian contagion?”. They are the “neither in Samaria, but are scattered everywhere through the world, “in Turkey, in Persia, Italy, Gaul, Germant, Poland, Bohemia, Morovia, England, America, and even in the farthest India.” The author continues: “God is spirit and the truth. After these examinations and avowals I leave it to each man to judge who is of the true Church, and who not.”

From this remarkable excursus we learn, first of all that the “centre” unities the four and the seven into one. The unifying agent is the spirit Mercurius, and this singular spirit then causes the author to confess himself a member of the Ecclesia spiritualis, for the spirit is God. This religious background is already apparent in the choice of the term “Pelican” for the circular process, since this bird is a well-known allegory of Christ. The idea of Mercurio is a peacemaker, the mediator between the warrings elements and producer of unity, probably goes back to Ephesians 2: 1 3 ff.:

But now in Christ Jesus you once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of two, so making peace and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, thereby bringing the hostility to an end. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; for through him we both have access in one spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built upon the fundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you are also built inti it for a dwelling place of God in the spirit. [RSV]

In elucidating the alchemical parallel we should note that the author of the scholia to the “Tractatus aureus Hermetis” prefaces his account of the union of apposites with the following remark:

Finally, there will appear in the work that ardently desired blue or cerulean colour, which does not darken or dull the eyes of the beholder by healing power of its brilliance, as when we see the splendour of the outward sun. Rather does in sharpen and strengthen them, nor does he [Mercurius] slay a man with his glance like the basilisk, but by the shedding of his own blood he calls back those who are near to death, and restores to them unimpaired their former life, like the pelican.

Mercurius is conceived as “spiritual blood,” on the analogy of the blood of Christ. In Ephesians those who are separated ”are brought near in the blood of Christ.” He makes the two one and has broken down the dividing wall “ in his flesh.” Caro (flesh) is a synonym for the prima materia and hence for Mercurius. The “one” is a “new man.” He reconciles the two”in one body,”an idea which is figuratively represented in alchemy as the two-headed hermaohrodite. The two have one spirit, in alchemy they have one soul. Further the lapis is frecuently compared to Christ as the lapis angularis (cornerstone). As we know , the temple built upon the fundation of the saint inspired in the Shephered of Hermas a vision of the great building into which human beings, streaming from the four quarters, inserted themself as living stones, melting into it “without seam.” The Church is built upon the rock that gave Peter his name (Matthew 16:18).

In addition, we learn from the scholia that the circle and the Hermetic vessel are one and the same, with the ressult that the mandala, which we find so often in the drawings of our patients, corresponds to the vessel of transformation. Consequently, the ussual quaternary structure of the mandala would coincide with the alchemists quaternario of opposites. Lastly, there is the interesting statement that an Ecclesia spiritualis above all creeds and owing allegiance solely to Christ, the Anthropos, is the real aim of the alchemists´ endeavours. Whereas teh treatise of Hermes is, comparatively speaking, very old, and in place of the Christian Anthropos mytery contains a peculiar paraphase of it, or rather, its antique parallel, the scholia cannot be dated earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century. The author seems to have been a Paraceltist ohysician. Mercurius corresponds to the Holy Ghost as well as to the Anthropos; he is as Gerhard Dorn says, “the true hermaphroditic Adam and Microcosm”:

Our Mercurius is therefore that same [Microcosm], who contains within him the perfections, virtues, and powers of Sol [in the dual sence of sun and gold], and who goes through the streets [vicios] and houses all the planets, and in his regenerations has obtained the power of Above and Bellow, wherefore he is to be likened to their marriage, as is evident from the white and the red that are conjoined in him. The sages have affirmed in their wisdom that all creatures are to be brought to one united substance.

Accordingly Mercurius, in the crude form of the prima materia, is in very Truth the Original Man disseminated through the physical world, and in his sublimated form he is that reconstituted totality. Altogether, he is very like the redeemer of the Basilidiands, who mounts upward through the planetary spheres, conquering them or robbing them of their power. The remark that he contains the powers pf Sol reminds us of the above-mentioned passage in Abu´l-Qasim, where Hermes says that he unites the sun and the planets and causes them to be within him as a crown. This may be the origin of the designation of the lapis as the “crown of victory”. The “power of Above and Bellow”refers to that ancient authority the “Tabula smaragdina,” which is of Alexandrian origin. Beside this, our text contains allusions to the Song of Songs: “through the streets and houses of the planets” recalls Songs 3:2: “I will… go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth.” The “White and Red” of Mercurius refers to 5:10: “My beloved is white and ruddy.” He is likened to the “matrimonium” or coniunctio; that is to say ha is this marriage on account of his androgynous form.

CHRIST, A SYMBOL OF THE SELF”
(Fragment of Mysterium Coniunctio)

The dechristianization of our world, the Luciferian development of science and Technology, and the frightfull material and moral destruction left behind By the second World War have been compared more than once with the eschatological events foretold in the New Testament. These, as we know, are concerned with the coming of the Antichrist: “This is a Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.”, “Every spirits that dissolveth Jesus… is Antichrist…of whom you have heard that he cometh. “ The Apocalypse is full of expectations of terribles things that will take place at the end of time, before the marriage of the Lamb. This shows plainly that the anima christiana has a sure knowledge not only of the existence of an adversary but also of his future usurpation of power.

Why- my reader will ask –do I discourse here upon Christ abd his adversary, the Antichrist? Our discourse necessarily brings us to Christ, because he is the still living myth of our culture. He is our culture hero, who regardless of his historical existence, embodies the myth of the divine Primordial Man, the mystic Adam. It is he who occupies the centre of the Christian mandala, who is the Lord of the Tetramorph, i.e., the four symbols of the evanngelists, which are like the four columns of his great throne. He is in us and we in him. His Kingdom is the pearl of great price, the treasure buried in the field, the grain of mustard seed which will become a great tree, and the heavenly city. As Christ is in us, so also is his heavenly kingdom.

These few. Familiar reference should be sufficient to make the psycologhical position of the Christ symbol quite clear. Christ exemplifies the archetype of the self. He represent a totality of a divine or heavenly kind, a glorified man, a Son of God sinemacula peccati, unspotted by sin. As Adam secundus he corresponds to the first Adam before the fall, when the latter was still a pure image of God, of which Tertullian (d.222) says: “And This therefore is to be considerer as the image of God in man, that the human spirits has the same motions and sences as God has, Thought not in the same way as God has them. “Origen (185-254) is very much more explicit. The imago Dei imprinted on the soul, not on the body, is an image, “for my soul is not directly the image of God, but is made after the likeness of the former image.

THE PARADOXA”

1.THE ARCANE SUBTANCE AND THE POINT.

The tremendous role which the opposites and their union play in alchemy helps us to understand why the alchemists were so fond of paradoxes. In order to attain this union, they tried not only to visualize the opposites together but to express them in the same breath. Characteristically, the paradoxes cluster most thickly round the arcane substance, which was belived to contain the opposites in uncombined form as the prima materia, and amalgamate them as the lapis Philosophorum. Thus the lapis is called on the one hand base, cheap, immature, volatile, and on the other hand precious, perfect, and solid; or the prima materia is base and noble, or precious and parvi momenti (of little moment). The materia is visible to all eyes, the whole world sees it, touches it, and yet no one knows it. “This stone therefore is no stone,” says the Turba, “that thing is cheap and costly, dark, hidden, and known to everyone, having one name and many names.” The stone is “thousand-named” like the gods of the mystery religions, the arcane subtance is “One and All” . In the treatise of Komarios, where “the philosopher Komarios teaches the Philosophy to Cleopatra,” it is said: “He showed with his hand the unity of the whole.” Pelagios asks: “Why speak ye of the manifold matter? The subtance of the natural things is one, and of one nature that which conquers all.”

Further paradoxes: “I am black of the white and the red of the white and the yellow of the red”; or “The principle of the art is the raven, who flies without wings in the blackness of night and in the brightness of day.” The stone is “cold and moist in its manifest part, and in its hidden parts is hot and dry.” “In lead is the dead life,” or “Burn in water and wash in fire.” The “Allegoriae sapientum” speak of two figures, one of which is “white and lacking a shadow, the other red and lacking the redness.” A quotation from “Socrates” runs: “Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.” The opus is said to be “a running without running, moving without motion.” “Make mercury with mercury.” The philosophical tree has its root in the air (this is probably a reference to the tree of Sefiroth). That paradox and ambivalence are the keynotes of the whole work is shown by The Chymical Wedding. Over the main portal of the castle two words are written: “Congratulor, Condoleo.”

The paradoxical qualities of Mercurius have already been discused in a separate study. As Mercurius is the principal name for the arcane substance, he deserves mention here as the paradox par excellence. What is said of him is obviously true of the lapis, which is merely another synonym for the “thousand-named” arcane substance. As the “Tractatus aureus de Lapide” says: “Our matter has as many names as there are things in the world.” The arcane substance is also synonymous with the Monad and the Son of Man mentioned in Hippolytus:

Monoïmos… Thinks that there is some such Man os whom the poet speak os Oceanus, when he says: Oceanus, origin of gods and origin of men. Putting this into others words, he says that the Man is all, the sourse of the universe, unbegotten, incorruptible, everlasting; and that there is a Son of the aforesaid Man, who is begotten and capable of suffering, and whose birth is outside time, neither willed nor predetermined… This Man is a single Monad, uncompounded and invisible, yet compounded and divisible; loving and at peace with all things yet warring with all things and at war with itself in all things; unlike and like itself, as it were a musical harmony containing all things; … Showing forth all hings and giving birth to all things. It is its own mother, its own father, the two immortal names. The emblem of the whole man, says Monoïmos, is the jot or tittle. This one tittle is the uncompounded, simple, unmixed Monad, having its composition from nothing whatsoever, yet composed of many forms of many parts. That single, undivided jot is the many-faced, thousand-eyed and thousand-named jot of the iota. This is the emblem of that perfect and invisible Man…The Son of the Man is the one iota, the one jot following from on high, full and filling all things, containing in himself everything that is in the Man, the Father of the Son of the Man.

The alchemists seem to have visualized their lapis or prima materia in a similar manner. At any rate they were able to cap the paradoxes of Monoïmos. Thus they said of Mercurius: “This spirit is generates from the substances of the sea and calls himself moist, dry, and fiery,” in close agreement with the invocation to Hermes in the magic papyrus entitled “The Secret Inscription,” where Hermes is addressed as a “damp-fiery-cold spirit”.

The mystery of smallest written sign, the point, is also known to alchemy. The point is the symbol of a mysterious creative centre in nature. The author of the “Novum lumen” admonishes his reader:

But you dear reader, you will have above all to consider the point in nature… and you need nothing else, but take care lest you seek that point in the vulgar metals, where it is not. For these metals, the common gold more especially, are dead. But our metals are alive, they have a spirit, and they are the ones you must take. For know that fire is the life of the metals.

The point is identical with the prima materia of the metals, which is a “fatty water” (aqua pinguis), the latter being a product of the moist and the hot.

Johon Dee (1527-1607) speculates as follow: “It is not unreasonable to suppose, that by the four straight lines which run in opposite directions from a single, individual point, the mystery of the four elements is indicated.” According to him, the quaternity consists of four straight lines meeting in a right angle. “Things and beings have their first origin in the point and the monad.” The centre of nature is “the point originated by God,” the “sun-point” in the egg. This, a commentary on the Turba says, is the “germ of the egg in the yolk.” Out of this little point, says Dorn in his “Physica Genesis,” the wisdom of God made with the creative Word the “huge machine” of the world. The consilium coniugii” remarks that the point is the chick (pullus). Mylius adds that this is the bird of Hermes, or the spirit Mercurius. The same author places the soul in the “midpoint of the heart” together with the spirit, which he compares with the angel who was “infused with the soul at this point” (i.e., in the womb). Paracelsus says that the “anima iliastri” dwells in the fire in the heart. It is “incapable of suffering” whereas the “anima cagastris” is capable of suffering and is located in the water of the perocardium. Just as earth corresponds to the triangle and water to the line, so fire corresponds to the point. Democritus stresses that fire consists of fiery globules.” Light, too, has this point is on the one hand the world´s centre, “the salt-point in the midst of the great fabric of the whole world,” as Khunrath calls it (salt = Sapientia). Yet it is “not only the bond but also the destroyer of all destructible things.” Hence this “world-egg is the ancient Saturn, the … most secret lead of the sages,” and the “ambisexual Philosophic Man of the Philosophers, the Catholick Androgyne of the Sophists,” the Rebis, etc. The most perfect form is round, because it is modelled on the point. The sun is round and so is fire, since it is composed of the “fiery globules” of Democritus. God fashioned the sphere of light round himself. “God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circunference is nowhere.” The point symbolizes light and fire, also the Godhead in so far as light is an “image of God”or an “exemplar of the Deity.” This spherical light modelled on the point is also the shining or illuminating body” that dwells in the heart of man. The light of nature is the “radical moisture” (humidum radicale) which as “balsam,” works from the heart, like the sun in the macrocosm and, we must conclude, like God in the “supracelestial world.” Thus does Steeb describe the “second God” in man. The same author derives the gold from the dew or supracelestial balsam sinking into the earth. Here he is probably referring to the older formulations of Maier, where the sun generates the gold in the earth. Hence the gold, as Maier says, obtains a “simplicity” approaching that of the circle (symbol of eternity) and the invisible point. The gold has a circular form.” This is the line which runs back upon itself, like the smake that with its head bites its own tail, wherein that supreme and eternal painter and potter, God, may rightly be discerned.” The gold is a “twice-bisected circle,” i.e., one divided into four quadrants and therefore a quaternity, a division made by nature “that contraries may be bound together by contraries.” It can therefore, he says, be compared to the “sacred city,” Jerusalem (cf. Revelation 21:1 off). It is “a golden castle engirt with a triple wall,” “a visible image of eternity.” Though gold be mute so far as sound or voice is concerned, yet by virtue of it essence it proclaims and everywhere bears witness to God.” And just a God is “one in essence,” so the gold is “one homogeneous substance.” For Dorn the unity of God, the “unarius,” is the “centre of the ternarius,” the latter corresponding to the circle drawn round the centre. The point as the centre of the quaternario of the elements is the place where Mercurius “digest and perfects.”
THE PARADOXA”

1.THE ARCANE SUBTANCE AND THE POINT.

The tremendous role which the opposites and their union play in alchemy helps us to understand why the alchemists were so fond of paradoxes. In order to attain this union, they tried not only to visualize the opposites together but to express them in the same breath. Characteristically, the paradoxes cluster most thickly round the arcane substance, which was belived to contain the opposites in uncombined form as the prima materia, and amalgamate them as the lapis Philosophorum. Thus the lapis is called on the one hand base, cheap, immature, volatile, and on the other hand precious, perfect, and solid; or the prima materia is base and noble, or precious and parvi momenti (of little moment). The materia is visible to all eyes, the whole world sees it, touches it, and yet no one knows it. “This stone therefore is no stone,” says the Turba, “that thing is cheap and costly, dark, hidden, and known to everyone, having one name and many names.” The stone is “thousand-named” like the gods of the mystery religions, the arcane subtance is “One and All” . In the treatise of Komarios, where “the philosopher Komarios teaches the Philosophy to Cleopatra,” it is said: “He showed with his hand the unity of the whole.” Pelagios asks: “Why speak ye of the manifold matter? The subtance of the natural things is one, and of one nature that which conquers all.”

Further paradoxes: “I am black of the white and the red of the white and the yellow of the red”; or “The principle of the art is the raven, who flies without wings in the blackness of night and in the brightness of day.” The stone is “cold and moist in its manifest part, and in its hidden parts is hot and dry.” “In lead is the dead life,” or “Burn in water and wash in fire.” The “Allegoriae sapientum” speak of two figures, one of which is “white and lacking a shadow, the other red and lacking the redness.” A quotation from “Socrates” runs: “Seek the coldness of the moon and ye shall find the heat of the sun.” The opus is said to be “a running without running, moving without motion.” “Make mercury with mercury.” The philosophical tree has its root in the air (this is probably a reference to the tree of Sefiroth). That paradox and ambivalence are the keynotes of the whole work is shown by The Chymical Wedding. Over the main portal of the castle two words are written: “Congratulor, Condoleo.”

The paradoxical qualities of Mercurius have already been discused in a separate study. As Mercurius is the principal name for the arcane substance, he deserves mention here as the paradox par excellence. What is said of him is obviously true of the lapis, which is merely another synonym for the “thousand-named” arcane substance. As the “Tractatus aureus de Lapide” says: “Our matter has as many names as there are things in the world.” The arcane substance is also synonymous with the Monad and the Son of Man mentioned in Hippolytus:

Monoïmos… Thinks that there is some such Man os whom the poet speak os Oceanus, when he says: Oceanus, origin of gods and origin of men. Putting this into others words, he says that the Man is all, the sourse of the universe, unbegotten, incorruptible, everlasting; and that there is a Son of the aforesaid Man, who is begotten and capable of suffering, and whose birth is outside time, neither willed nor predetermined… This Man is a single Monad, uncompounded and invisible, yet compounded and divisible; loving and at peace with all things yet warring with all things and at war with itself in all things; unlike and like itself, as it were a musical harmony containing all things; … Showing forth all hings and giving birth to all things. It is its own mother, its own father, the two immortal names. The emblem of the whole man, says Monoïmos, is the jot or tittle. This one tittle is the uncompounded, simple, unmixed Monad, having its composition from nothing whatsoever, yet composed of many forms of many parts. That single, undivided jot is the many-faced, thousand-eyed and thousand-named jot of the iota. This is the emblem of that perfect and invisible Man…The Son of the Man is the one iota, the one jot following from on high, full and filling all things, containing in himself everything that is in the Man, the Father of the Son of the Man.

The alchemists seem to have visualized their lapis or prima materia in a similar manner. At any rate they were able to cap the paradoxes of Monoïmos. Thus they said of Mercurius: “This spirit is generates from the substances of the sea and calls himself moist, dry, and fiery,” in close agreement with the invocation to Hermes in the magic papyrus entitled “The Secret Inscription,” where Hermes is addressed as a “damp-fiery-cold spirit”.

The mystery of smallest written sign, the point, is also known to alchemy. The point is the symbol of a mysterious creative centre in nature. The author of the “Novum lumen” admonishes his reader:

But you dear reader, you will have above all to consider the point in nature… and you need nothing else, but take care lest you seek that point in the vulgar metals, where it is not. For these metals, the common gold more especially, are dead. But our metals are alive, they have a spirit, and they are the ones you must take. For know that fire is the life of the metals.

The point is identical with the prima materia of the metals, which is a “fatty water” (aqua pinguis), the latter being a product of the moist and the hot.

Johon Dee (1527-1607) speculates as follow: “It is not unreasonable to suppose, that by the four straight lines which run in opposite directions from a single, individual point, the mystery of the four elements is indicated.” According to him, the quaternity consists of four straight lines meeting in a right angle. “Things and beings have their first origin in the point and the monad.” The centre of nature is “the point originated by God,” the “sun-point” in the egg. This, a commentary on the Turba says, is the “germ of the egg in the yolk.” Out of this little point, says Dorn in his “Physica Genesis,” the wisdom of God made with the creative Word the “huge machine” of the world. The consilium coniugii” remarks that the point is the chick (pullus). Mylius adds that this is the bird of Hermes, or the spirit Mercurius. The same author places the soul in the “midpoint of the heart” together with the spirit, which he compares with the angel who was “infused with the soul at this point” (i.e., in the womb). Paracelsus says that the “anima iliastri” dwells in the fire in the heart. It is “incapable of suffering” whereas the “anima cagastris” is capable of suffering and is located in the water of the perocardium. Just as earth corresponds to the triangle and water to the line, so fire corresponds to the point. Democritus stresses that fire consists of fiery globules.” Light, too, has this point is on the one hand the world´s centre, “the salt-point in the midst of the great fabric of the whole world,” as Khunrath calls it (salt = Sapientia). Yet it is “not only the bond but also the destroyer of all destructible things.” Hence this “world-egg is the ancient Saturn, the … most secret lead of the sages,” and the “ambisexual Philosophic Man of the Philosophers, the Catholick Androgyne of the Sophists,” the Rebis, etc. The most perfect form is round, because it is modelled on the point. The sun is round and so is fire, since it is composed of the “fiery globules” of Democritus. God fashioned the sphere of light round himself. “God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circunference is nowhere.” The point symbolizes light and fire, also the Godhead in so far as light is an “image of God”or an “exemplar of the Deity.” This spherical light modelled on the point is also the shining or illuminating body” that dwells in the heart of man. The light of nature is the “radical moisture” (humidum radicale) which as “balsam,” works from the heart, like the sun in the macrocosm and, we must conclude, like God in the “supracelestial world.” Thus does Steeb describe the “second God” in man. The same author derives the gold from the dew or supracelestial balsam sinking into the earth. Here he is probably referring to the older formulations of Maier, where the sun generates the gold in the earth. Hence the gold, as Maier says, obtains a “simplicity” approaching that of the circle (symbol of eternity) and the invisible point. The gold has a circular form.” This is the line which runs back upon itself, like the smake that with its head bites its own tail, wherein that supreme and eternal painter and potter, God, may rightly be discerned.” The gold is a “twice-bisected circle,” i.e., one divided into four quadrants and therefore a quaternity, a division made by nature “that contraries may be bound together by contraries.” It can therefore, he says, be compared to the “sacred city,” Jerusalem (cf. Revelation 21:1 off). It is “a golden castle engirt with a triple wall,” “a visible image of eternity.” Though gold be mute so far as sound or voice is concerned, yet by virtue of it essence it proclaims and everywhere bears witness to God.” And just a God is “one in essence,” so the gold is “one homogeneous substance.” For Dorn the unity of God, the “unarius,” is the “centre of the ternarius,” the latter corresponding to the circle drawn round the centre. The point as the centre of the quaternario of the elements is the place where Mercurius “digest and perfects.”

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What does carrying the stone signify? The telephone? The water? The game?