History Of The Rose-Croix Sedir - Ordo Svmmvm Bonvm

command on all that is known as God, and will assoira itself in the Temple of God, being
given for God; but Jesus Our-Lord will kill it out of the breath of his mouth and will destroy it
by its advent. Because there will be really a pseudo-prophet and what we have just said is
the explanation of the symbol of the stone rolling only of the mountain, as several other
symbols which one finds in the Apocalypse ". Follows a long quotation of the Apocalypse,
relative with And Fludd concludes: " That the world can be drawn from its sleep by the
Brothers of the Rosicrucian brotherhood, which is only able to prepare it with the advent of
the Lion " (2) Valentine Andreae developed these ideas in many passages. It is in
Menippus (46) that it let show through most clearly its projects of universal reform,
d"amelioration of the letters, arts and sciences, the religion and the policy. One finds there a
table precise and penetrating virtues and defects of the men, in all the classes of the
company. (1) Cf Louis Fig tree: Alchemy and Alchemists, Paris (Hatchet), 1860. (2)
Tractatus theologo-philosophicus, delivers III, CH 8.
CHAPTER XII ALCHEMY
We already said that, for the Rosicrucian brotherhood, material alchemy - search of the
stone transmutatoire - is only one secondary work, a parergon, and that the philosopher's
stone rosicrucian - Ergon - is spiritual. The texts rosicrucians repeat unceasingly that the
single thing necessary to the world, in particular that the only means of succeeding in
alchemy, is to give up itself with God and to take care of the Cross of Christ (1). But from
there one would not need inférer only the technical indications which contain these texts are a
practical sans.valor. In one of the first chapters of this book (2) we gave a short analysis of
the chymic Weddings of Christian Rosencreutz, From the alchemical point of view, this work
touches with the two ways, while insisting especially on the wet process. Here a comment
given on the chymic Weddings, as of 1617, by the Luxembourg alchemist Radtichs
Brotoffer: 1. - " First day (Distillation), - II seemed me (metonymy, the effect for the cause)
in a dark tower (boiler), to be connected with a great number of men (impurities); we were
piled up the ones on the others and we made mutually our position more painful. At the
end of some time of this torment, one heard marvellous trumpets; the roof of the tower rose
(still); at once crowd started to climb, hustling itself and trampling the ones the others,
Parvenus in top, an old man with white beard (container) ordered to us to keep silent
ourselves, etc. " Idem (Correction of sulphur). - Hardly had it says that that the old woman
ordered from the servants to descend seven times the cord (aqua vehens) in the tower and
to withdraw those which could cling to it. Many could not seize it because of the heaviness
of their chains (adherent impurities); some even had the torn off hands (defect of mercury or
the spirit). The old woman took the names of all those which had come out, and it felt sorry
for those which had remained (deposit attached to the bottom of the mud). II - " the second
day of the Weddings describes the properties of the stone to the first operation and the
second. The high mountain is Ia first solution; crowd, it is guttae duplicis mercurii; the ground
is the bottom of the mud. At the third day. the city represents the mud of glass; the virgin,
double mercury; his/her brother, sulphur; the old woman is the ground coagulated " To have
the matter is not enough; it is necessary to know to separate the pure one from the impure
one; the assistance of God is necessary for that, because one should take only the blood of
the red lion, and that gluten of the white eagle, as well as known as Théophraste. In these
two operations to lie the greatest mystery of the world. It is especially the gluten which is
difficult to find; it is different thing only one salt; but this salt is not of any utility if one made
leave his spirit. This vital spirit is the root of all art. It is of him that speak the Weddings,
seventh day (carry-standards). III - " Then it is necessary to observe the right weights of red
and white, so that the solution of the body and the coagulation of the spirit take place in
harmony; that the male and the female are well proportioned and the water of resolution not
too strong, so that sperm is not embedded; the pregnation can then be achieved. It is what
Théophraste calls unitas per dualitatem in trinitate. IV - " Here starts the putrefaction, where
appears the black color like proof of the accuracy of the preceding operations. It is the white