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"Many names are given to it; nevertheless, it is nothing else but the one and true Matter, and this is by reason of the development of its nature. The envious have described it by the names of all bodies, as, for instance, a coin, lead, copper, etc., according to the variety of its colours." "If the ore be often deadened in its coction, it becomes all the more excellent, and if the body have a soul after the manner of man."That water is also called poison; it is the principle of life, because it is a soul, and extracted from many things. "When you see a black substance floating in the water, you may know that the body has been dissolvedHence it is compared to an egg, because in an egg, too, the chicken is developed out of three things. "Extract the shadow thereof from the splendour." Thus Hermogenes says that we are to take the hidden spirit, and not to despise it, because it shares its great power with its brother. The secret of our Art is the union of man and woman: the husband receives the tinging spirit from his wife. The union of husband and wife coagulates the female principle; and if the whole be transmuted into red, we have the treasure of the world, of which Synon says: "If the water be changed into the body, the body is changed, first into earth, then into dust and ashes, and you have what you want."Accordingly, we need exertion, and exercise is beneficial to us, seeing that milk is for infants, but that strong men require stronger food. When it is burnt to ashes, it must be well sprinkled and saturated with its blood, until it becomes like burnt blood. Hermes remarks that both substances rejoice in being united to each other. God, however, has hidden it from the world and he who would accomplish our work should first lay the right foundation, or his building must come to nought.When the male and the female principle have been together for a space of forty nights, there is an emission of moist warm seed; and to the same God has liberally given much blood to heat it. This seed develops into an embryo which is supported with a little milk over a moderate fire, and grows stronger day by day. The smoke well coagulated with its feces becomes quick white; roast then the white ore that it may bring forth itself. When the blackness vanishes, the spirit is restored; for the spirit does not die, but rather quickens body and soul. Turn a deaf ear to those who say that the substance of our Stone is the powder of the Basilisk. Our substance is a body containing the spirit which makes glass malleable, and turns crystals into carbuncles. One drop of our Elixir, as large as a drop of rain, will suffice to tinge and transmute a body a thousand times as large as itself. I was so seriously interfered with by the persons with whom I lived that I was almost on the point of giving up the whole thing in despair. At length I communicated my discovery to a friend, who faithfully executed my instructions, and brought the work to a successful issue. For which Blessed Gift may God be praised, world without end. if men have all the four Elements, he [Hermes] said that their fumes might be compleated, and complexioned, and coagulated, and retained in one day, untill they doe fullfill the consequence (i.e. attain the end).And the Philosophers have named it by many and all names, and received or gathered from the Hillocks it is a clear white Body, and these are the medicine of this Art, part is procured and part is found upon the Hillocks; and know Aros that the wise men have not called it the Fields of Wisdom, or of Scholia, unless because Scholia will not be compleated but by it; and in the Scholia there are nothing but wonderfull things. For there also enters into them the four Stones, and its true regimen is as I have said. And that is first Scoyare, Ade, and Zethet; Mary briefly soundeth forth Strange things like Thunder round the Earth. She with two Gumms makes the Bottome stay What else would fly away. Three things if you three hours attend Are chained together in the End. Mary the Light of dew, and Art has got In three hours to tye the Knot. Pluto's daughter, it is she Who bindeth Loves confederacy Joyned with three seeds she does aspire To be exalted in the Fire. And the Science is in all Bodys, but the Stoicks, by reason of the shortness of their lives, and the Length of the Work, have concealed this; and they found out these tinging Elements, and they increased them, and all the Philosophers teach them, except the Vessel of Hermes, because it is divine, and of the Wisdom of the Lord hidden from Nations: and they who are ignorant of it, know not the Regimen of Truth, because of their Ignorance of the Vessel of Hermes.He giveth continual healthThe reason is because this is hidden which makes the medicine penetrable, friendly and conjoinable with all, and it will augment the effect thereof beyond measure, so that in the world there is not a more secret thing. Gold, Silver and precious stones He giveth fortitude, long life, beauty And Purity. He expelleth Anger, Sorrow, Poverty and diseases But we, to the intent we may avoid the slanders of the envious, will declare it, because we have not delivered our science and knowledge by the continuance of speech, but we have sprinkled it in diverse little chapters and to this intent, because if it should have been delivered in continuance of speech, the improbate as well as the honest would unworthily have usurped itGeber in his Summary in the sixteenth chapter of natural principles says thus, for we must note that after the Stone shall be purified and perfectly cleansed from everything corrupting it, and after it shall be fermented, you shall not need any more to change your vessel, nor to open it, but only to pray that God may preserve it from breaking, and for this cause the Philosopher said, that in one vessel the whole magistery is effected. When we shall be coupled in equity of state in a mansion which is not made otherwise but with light fire, having with itself great heat in which we shall be emptied, and we shall be as a woman that wants the fruit of her increase, and Sol and myself when we shall be conjoined we shall be emptied in the belly of the house being shut, I will by flattery take thy soul from thee, if thou take away my beauty and comely shape, we shall rejoice and shall be exalted by the rejoicing of the spirit when we shall ascend the order of the aged, then the light of thy light shall be poured into my light, and of thee and me there is a commixtion made of wine and sweet water, and I forbid my melting after thou shalt have put on blackness with my colour, which is like ink after my solution and coagulation. When we shall enter into the house of love, my body shall be coagulated and I shall be in my emptiness I am the true green and Golden Lion without cares, In me all the secrets of the Philosophers are hidden.The former wise philosophers have bethought themselves of the means of policies belonging unto it, until by little and little it be made abiding the fire, therefore it does not cease to be graduated upon the fight of the fire, and it is fed of it, so that when any fixion is fixed to it, wonderful and strange mutations happen because when it is changed it changes, and his blackness appears and his sound and his brightness, therefore when it is tincted, it is tincted and it tincteth; when it is dissolved, it is dissolved and it dissolveth, and it whiteneth in the sight of the eye and it maketh red in succession, and it is a water gathering together, and it is milk and strong urine and mollifying oil and the father of all miracles, and it is a mist and a cloud and fugitive servant, and occidental Mercury, which hath preferred himself before Gold and hath overcome it. It is an hidden stone and buried in a deep fountain And cast in the ways and covered with dirt or dung This one Stone hath all names Whereupon Morienus, that godly man,says: This Stone is a Stone and no Stone It is a bird and no bird It is Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, And Luna Now silver, now gold and now an element Now water, now wine, now blood Now virgin's milk,now spume of the sea or vinegar Now Sal Gemme, now common salt Now auripigmentum Now the purged sea purified with Sulphur And thus they figure it because they would not reveal it to the Ignorant Nor conceal it from those that be wise And that the Copper which is handled be not distributed to fools This only Luna is called by all names And these are the orders of the operations of this Stone by the help of which this thing which we seek is engendered and is brought into actual essence.Whereupon the Philosopher says that the earth is Cerated, Imbibed, and by the temperate decoction of the Sun, that is of the heat, it is dried with the water and the whole matter is turned into earth. Whereupon Morienus says, this is the pure and full force if it be turned into earth. "The Sons of Alchemy and others trusting to all their Dissolutions, Sublimations, Conjunctions, Separations, Congelations, Preparations, Contritions and other deceits, vaunt themselves saying that there is no other Gold but theirs, no other water but theirs, which is also called most sharp vinegar, no other Dissolution and Congelation but theirs, which is made with a soft fire, no other putrefaction but theirs." Perfect Solution is the beginning of the regimen, but that the body may wax thin like unto a spirit, then it is meet to dissolve them and the regimen of bodies, as I have said before, is dissolvedThe first key is the extraction of moistures and fatness, of which these are the signs, that is to say, superabundant blackness which being consumed, the soul is now in the water.Unless the soul shall come forth from the body and shall ascend upward into heaven, you shall profit nothing in this art. If my beloved parents shall taste of life and shall be fed with mere milk and shall be made drunk with my white, and shall lie in my bed, they shall beget the Son of Luna which shall excell all his predecessors, and if my beloved shall carry him from the red tomb of rock and shall taste of the fountain of his mother, and shall be coupled with my red wine and shall be made drunk with me, and shall couple with me freely in his bed, and in my love his sperm shall enter into my cell, I shall conceive and be pregnant and at my time will bring forth a most mighty Son ruling and reigning over all kings and princes of the earth, crowned with a golden crown of victory, of the most high God who lives and reigns world without end. The seventh regimen is of Luna, that is, to dry to make red, to make hot and to fix by the space of 25 days and so you have the finishing of the work. The colour of the soul is red. White will be red. Whiteness is our redness. Likewise, this our Stone is fire and created of fire, and turned into fire, and the soul of it stays in the fire.The Riddle of Hermes Concerning the Red Tincture: I am crowned, and decked with a precious crown and adorned with princely garments, for that I cause joy to enter into bodies. I could not drink of the souls of animals and of plants, but I come with the heat of the fire to expell the virtue and iniquity of them from me. I am dwelling upon the face of the mineral and I give to my servants of my extremities, and my name is called by great names and he that studies in me cares not for any thing, but he is not satisfied with me. I carry ships through the sea and I build great cities and towers, seek not in me my greatness, therefore you wise men I tell you that unless you kill me your undertaking shall not be perfect and the degree of your wisdom increases Therefore, when I shall be with my white pure moist and clean wife, I add to the beauty of her face, to her goodness and virtue, for she is obedient unto me. Therefore, when I shall be joined unto her, there is nothing more excellent and better in the world, for she shall be impregnated and shall grow and she shall be as I am in substance and colour, because by this magistery the seed is multiplied, for of me, my like is born, and when one grain of corn is sown in the ground, it springs and is multiplied, grinded and seared, and is made into bread, of which the whole world lives. I illuminate the air with my light and make the earth hot with my heat. I take away the darkness of the night with my power, and I cause the days to remain and I illuminate all things with my light that are to be illuminated, and those things in which there is neither greatness nor brightness, all which surely are of my work when I am endued with my garments, and they which seek me do make peace between me and my wife. Geber also says that the red Elixir cures all cronical infirmities of which the Physicians have despaired, and it makes a man become young as an eagle and to live five hundred years and more, as some Philosophers have done, which have used it three times a week to the quantity of a mustard seed. the blood to be putrefied, nor phlegm to have dominion, nor choler to be adust, nor melancholiness to be abundant, yea rather it multiplies the blood beyond measure A secret not to be valued at any price a most precious and incomparable treasure which God grant to be hidden in their minds that possess it lest it be made known to the foolish and ignorant Amen let every living man say Finis In Lubeck the 24th day of the month of October in the year of our Lord 1588 After my passion and manifold torments I am again risen, Being purified and cleansed from all spots. shitfuckers! |
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The death of the world, drowned in blood and tears.the cruel flaws, forlornness and alienation of existence, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date: | Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, the pangs and slavery of the physical world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Death does not automatically bring about liberation from bondage into the sorrowful condition of earthly life. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place: | (ex. My house) ?it bloweth where it listeth?. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RSVP: | (ex. yourname@yahoo.com)Hermes in his secrets: Sol is his father and Luna his mother. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner.The blame for the world?s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"to pierce through the veil of what is only apparently real and get to what is really real." Meditation on the nature of reality leads one down strange pathways. Nothing is as it seems. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." |
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"Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||