THE ALCHEMISTS ALCHEMY AND. A now Thyself DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER, the PHILosoPHICAL PUBLISHING Co., ALLENTOWN, PA.

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1 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS Givg the Secret the Philosopher's Sne, the Elixir Youth, nd the Universl Solvent. Also showg tht the TRUE Alchem ts did not seek Trnsmute bse metls gold, but sought the Highest Inion or the Devel opment the Spirul Nture Mn A now Thyself DR. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER, Author The Rosicrucins; their Techgs, Dive Alchemy, Philosophy Fire, Ancient Mystic Orientl Msonry, etc, the PHILosoPHICAL PUBLISHING Co., ALLENTOWN, PA. 1907

2 *//~62%2. Librry Congress Ctlogg Publiction Dt Clymer, R. Swburne (Reuben Swburne), 1878 Alchemy nd lchemts. Reprt. Origlly publhed: Allenwn, P.: Philosophicl Pub.Co., Alchemy. I. Tle. QC26.C '.1' ISBN X AACR2 Reprted from the edion 1907, Allenwn, P. Trim size hs been ltered. Origl trim.: 4% x 6%. Text re unltered. Interntionl Stndrd Book Numbers: Complete set: X Volume II: MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

3 67)).2% C& /??». /-/ # N/ To ll DEDICATION those who re truly terested the Higher Science nd the Serch for the Philosopher's Sne nd the Elixir Life; those who hve helped me form Complete Philosophy nd espe cilly one whout whose help these Works would not be possible.

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5 PREFACE. In the volume now before the reder, the origl prefce Remrks upon Alchemy nd the Al chemts given. As stted the first volume the present work, the book ws sued the yer 1857, by E. A. H. It ws volume some 300 pges lrge prt. I consider one the best works ever sued on the Philosopher s Sne, The Elixir Youth, nd Universl Solvent. In the present work, much mteril hs been sought from nerly every known uthor or Alchemt ny repute. Some the quottions re from works which could not be bought t the present time, others which com mnd ny price tht the owner my sk for them. The present work should, therefore, be lmost vluble every true seeker fter Truth. The work conts t lest four times the mtter tht the work by E. A. H. conted, nd

6 6 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. hoped tht ll reders will be plesed the wy prepred, for while ll the origl mtter con ted the present work, wht dded done such wy s mke one hrmonious whole, nd the dded quottions nd new mtter do not terrupt the origl work. Ethn Allen Hchcock ws son Judge Smuel Hchcock, Vermont, nd the grndson the cele brted Ethn Allen, whom you will remember, t the begng the Wr the Revolution, demnded the surrender Fort Ticonderog, In the nme the Gret Jehovh nd the Contentl Congress! Generl Hchcock ws born 1798, grduted t West Pot 1817, served wh h regiment the Southern Sttes, where, before he ws twenty-one, he becme noted for h metphysicl ides nd knowl edge the Plnic philosophy. He becme com mndnt the cdets t West Pot, Next, he served wh dtction the Florid nd Mexicn wrs. After the ltter, he trveled for two yers Europe, student, nd returned, sgulrly fted communicte osophers, whose wrgs he hd become the possessor more thn one thousnd volumes nd pmphlets. He then becme the Generl commndg our troops Cliforni, where he contued from the mysticl ides the Hermetic phil , durg which time he frustrted t tempts designed seprte our newly cquired terri ry on the Pcific slope from the Union. In consequence th ptriotic conduct he ws soon volved n unplesntness wh the Secretry Wr, Jefferson Dv, which led h resigntion After th event he mde h home St. Lou, devoted himself solely the cquion knowledge, nd the wrg nd publhg h philosophicl specultions. I pss over these now, soon return

7 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 7 them, order stte, tht when the signs the rebellion begn tke form, fter the election Mr. Lcoln, he wielded the blest pen the West, pub lhg h rticles the St. Lou Republicn, per sudg the Stte Msouri nd the other border Sttes stnd by the flg. In ccordnce wh h noble prciples, he ws one the first the retired ficers volunteer h services the Union. I shll not detil the fcts tht led their trdy cceptnce by the government; but, on the tenth Februry, 1862, he ws commsioned Mjor Generl, nd ssigned duty t the wr deprtment, where he rendered vluble services. He soon cquired the entire confidence Mr. Stnn, the sgcious Secre try Wr, nd higher plce, the love Mr. Lcoln. Generl Hchcock's first publiction on wht he used cll The Problem Life ws Remrks on Alchemy, publhed 1857, showg tht the Philosopher's Sne ws symbol. H second book, publhed 1858, ws entled Swedenborg, Hermetic Philosopher, which he proves tht tht remrkble mn who quoted no works other uthors, ws mster ll the wrgs the Alchemts; nd tht h method, s fr s he hd ny, ws built out Spoz. Next followed, 1860, two volumes, Chrt the Spir, beg n ttempt stte the primive view Chrtiny. He terprets the Gospels so s present their dive truths s the Spir Chrt, which dwells ll men who re the true sons God. The spir virtue, the spir conscience, the spir the soul commung wh the Infe, nd obedient H will. He mkes cler h reders, tht mong the Jews t the dvent Chrt there ws secret

8 8 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. society clled the Essenes, whose ethicl prciples nd religious observnces were essentilly the sme s those tught the New Testment love God, love virtue, love mn. Th sect ten spoken the Gospels, there clled the brethren. He mkes pper probble tht the Gospels were the secret books th society, nd he susted h terprettion them by the wrgs the lerned Philo the Jew, Alexndri, who ws born twenty yers before Jesus, nd lived n extreme ge; nd by Origen, one the most lerned the Chrtin Fthers. I shll recommend th book ll reders by quotg the words n ement clergymn, who sys : A sweeter morl tmosphere we never brethed thn pervdes every prgrph these two volumes. There no hrshness, there no lernce, there no dogmtm, no ssumption superior wdom. Its chry perfect, for there no ir chrbleness bout ; the good will n honest, believg nd gentle md. We cn scrcely thk theologin who might not wh pr s t the feet th brve soldier nd lten s he tlks religion. Next, 1863, he publhed The Red Book App, firy sry. It, wh other firy sries, re terpreted. In one my lern how terpret the deepest mystics, nd the most imgtive poets. In 1865, he publhed Remrks on the Sonnets Shkespere, which hs proven key for the under stndg tht most wonderful work, the puzzle the scholrs nd commentrs for nerly three cen turies, now mde s cler s they re beutiful nd W1Se. *See The Rosicrucins; Philosophy Fire. their Techgs, nd

9 ALCHEMY AD THE ALCHEMIST.S. 9 The sme yer he publhed the poem Spenser, Coll Clouts Come Home Age, expled, which he hppily pplies the sight nd the lerng exhibed the previous volumes. And lst, 1866, he publhed Notes on the V Nouv Dnte. He proves these three works were wrten the Hermetic ve, nd by understndg tht science we t once see tht Betrice ws not mere womn, but Dnte celestil vion Hevenly Wdom personified. Now my work. Our uthor hs proved tht Mn ws the subject Alchemy, nd tht the object the Art ws the perfection, or t lest, the improvement mn. The slvtion mn, h trnsformtion from evil good, or h pssge from stte nture stte grce, ws symbolized under the figure the trnsmuttion metls. The Alchemts ll symbolized under words, gold, silver, led; slt, sulphur, mercury; sol, lun, we, etc. The vrious opions the wrers on the questions God, nture, nd mn, ll developed from one centrl pot, which Mn, the imge God. Now if these sym bolic works hd found no echo the humn hert, they would hve perhed; but, the fct they hve been preserved through ll pst ges, wkeng much terest now the mds those who study them when first publhed, which proves they hve struck ve imperhble truth. The Alchemts were the reformers the drk ges, when the spir religion ws buried under forms nd ceremonies; when superstion ws tught for truth nd the hierrchy ws rmed wh civil power nd used suppress ll tellectul freedom. In tht midnight morl nd tellectul drkness, ws light from Heven; but the truth ws treted their books the elixir life, the universl medi s s, s

10 10 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. ce, the philosopher s sne, only undersod by the ed. The wrgs these peculir thkers, these spirully-mded free men, were necessrily wrten symbols, secure them from the perse cutions the hierrchy the quion. Mny the wrers were monks. The truth, when fds lodgment the humn hert, predomnt. The still smll voice ws their secret. They were the genuely religious men their time. Their wrgs prove tht they were students Pl nd Artle; lso mthemtics nd stronomy. It ws they who were preprg the world for the dcoveries chem try, medice, nd the lws the nturl world, which hve been stedily cresg up th time.* The true student should ber md tht the wy the true Knowledge, true Inion, the fdg the Philosopher's Sne nd the Elixir Youth, open -dy s never before. There Secret School which these thgs re thoroughly tught. Not the Mysteries themselves, for these cn never be tught, but the wy them tught clerly nd prcticlly. It not n esy work, nor the work dy, but the work true Physicl, Mentl nd Spirul trg. There lso school Ceremonil Inion, which the Inion, the sme s once given the Pyrmids, fully nd thoroughly tught. The Ancient Mysteries re s cler s dy, nd wh the Archives th school re found the Secrets Re ligions themselves. Wh these few remrks, I deem sfe let the reder red nd consider wht before him. R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. *Gen. N. B. Buford, The Rosicrucin Brother hood.

11 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 11 BREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. It my seem superfluous the uthor the follow g remrks dclim the purpose revivg the study Alchemy, or the method techg dopted by the Alchemts. Alchemicl works stnd relted morl nd tellectul geogrphy, somewht s the skelens the Surin tribe re relted geology. They re skelens thought pst ges. It chiefly from th pot view tht the wrer the followg pges subms h opions upon Alchemy the public. He convced tht the chrcter the Alchemts, nd the object their study, hve been lmost universlly mconceived; nd s mtter fct, though the pst, he thks sufficient importnce tke step the right direction for developg the true nture the studies tht extrordry clss thkers. The opion hs become lmost universl, tht Alchemy ws pretended science by which gold nd silver were be mde by the trnsmuttion the bser metls these substnces, the gent the trnsmuttion beg clled the Philosopher s Sne. Those who pressed th Art re supposed hve been eher imposters, or under delusion creted by imposters nd mountebnks. Th opion hs found s wy works on Science. It hs been stereotyped biogrphicl dictionries nd encyclopedis, lrge nd smll; nd, generl, llusions Alchemy nd the Alchemts, hries, romnces, nd novels, re but one chrcter, nd imply tht the pro fessors the Art eher deluders or deluded, were guilty frud or the victims my be hopeless tsk nnounce different persusion wh the expecttion supersedg th deeply-rooted prejudice; but the uthor thks duty declre the opion hs derived from It he.

12 12 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEEMISTS. creful redg mny lchemicl volumes, nd the work before the reder he hs tken for h thes the proposion tht Mn ws the subject Alchemy; nd tht the object the Art ws the perfection, or t lest the improvement, Mn. The slvtion mn h trnsformtion from evil good, or h pssge from stte nture stte grce ws symbolized under the figure the trnsmuttion metls. Under th pot view, the works the Alchemts my be regrded s tretes upon religious eduction, though they my now only serve show pst opions upon th im portnt subject. The wrgs the Alchemts re ll symbolicl; nd under the words gold, silver, led; slt, sulphur, mercury; sol, lun, we, nd thousnd other words nd expressions, fely vried, my be found the opions the severl wrers upon the gret question God, nture, nd mn, ll brought or developed from one centrl pot, which Mn, the Imge God. The uthor wre the ltude terpret tion which ll symbolicl wrgs re exposed, nd tht possible for n undcipled imgtion mke from such wrgs lmost nythg nythg, nd deed mke lmost nythg nothg. He needs no schoolg on th subject, but feels himself, on the contrry, posion justify h wrng the reders ll symbolicl works, tht they cnnot be o cutious nd gurded gst supplyg from their own imgtions, terprettions such works. They should hold themselves bsolutely upon the im movble foundtion nture nd truth (or nture, s truth) whereby lone they cn sve themselves from mpprehensions nd from the dnger beg crried entirely wy from rely mere drems

13 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 13 nd fictions. But wh the proper gurds, supplied by sound theory nd knowledge nture, ex tremely terestg, nd the uthor thks structive, terpret by-gone forms thought, even lchemicl volumes, which que possible tht mny precious jewels my be found, though the Philosopher's Sne my be msed. It would be useless lbor enter here upon defense symbolic wrg, when nothg more cert thn tht men genius ll ges, seemgly by constrt nture, hve fllen Tht the Scred Scriptures re full must confessed by ll who re not condion red lerl truth the hry Robson Crusoe nd Gulliver's trvels; not tht the uthor would stute com pron between these works nd the scred wrgs. He only mens, by reference the Reveltion, the sry the mn Uz, the beutiful prbles the New Testment, etc., show tht techgs by wy similude, prble, fble, llegory; or, one word, by symbolm, old wrg self. While th form techg ppers nturlly hve been dopted by men genius, from the erliest time, s preservtion seems due correspondg workg the humn md, which ll symbolm ddressed. pl tht, symbolic work fds no echo the humn hert, must perh; while, for th very reson, where such works hve been pre served through mny ges, ffords fir presump tion tht their uthors hve struck ve im perhble truth. Th species wrg lso the most nocent the world; for the reson tht, while s lerl sense very frequently no sense ll, nd therefore, not posively hrmless, s hidden sense, tended by s uthors, must eqully hrmless; for the sense It be s s if t if, s be if. s

14 14 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. tended does not ext nture, no counterprt dcoverble, nd nothg permnent cn come from ; while, if n echo redily found, the symbolm must be true; nd ll truth vluble. In the cse the Alchemts, who promed heps riches, dmted tht multudes men were deluded by the mere lerl redg their works; or rther, by their own bsorbg desire for riches. Some men were sid, by the Alchemts, hve hd the gold fever, which hd drkened their senses. Men wholly bent on worldly tresures were rther the dupes their own pssions thn deceived by the wrgs Alchemts, more especilly sce their wrgs re full cutions gst th very munderstndg. The riches they promed were the riches the wdom nd knowledge God nd h grce. (Rom. xi:33; Ephes. ii:7.) The Alchemts were Reformers their time, obliged deed work secret, but nevertheless mkg their impression upon the public. They lived, for the most prt, n ge when n open expression their opions would hve brought them con flict wh the superstion the time, by which they would hve been exposed the stke; where, deed, mny them perhed, not hvg been sufficiently gurded their lnguge. They were religious men when the spir religion ws buried forms nd ceremonies, nd when the priesthood hd rmed self wh civil power put down ll opposion, nd suppress ll freedom, tel lectul, civil, morl, nd religious. In tht midnight morl nd tellectul drkness, light from heven, s seemed, ws treted, books for the ed, s the Elixir Life, the Wter # Life, the Universl Medice, nd the Philosopher's tone.

15 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 15 The volumes which th thought the time ws enshred were wrten symbolic form, hide the subject from the crowd, not condion pr by nd screen the uthors from persecution. They re now mesurbly forgotten, nd, the occsion for them hvg pssed wy, will never revived nd studied on their own ccount; but they yet ext for us nd for future times mrvelous relics, where my be found bundnt evidences tht there were gints those dys, though they mde but ltle show the world, livg, they did retirement, upon the still smll voice, where ly chiefly their so-much tlked- secret. In redg their works, wh knowledge the hricl posion the wrers, we re strongly re mded the query Sir Thoms Browne. Who knows, sys th qut wrer, whether better men hve not been forgotten thn stnd recorded the book time, who nevertheless my regtered the book God! hve exmed gret mny lchemicl works, time life nd under circumstnces when the, I s s be be imgtion, ever deceived me, hs yielded s plumge, nd feel entirely ble, m certly willg, see thgs they re. therefore sy, fter much study nd delibertion, tht the works the genue Alchemts excludg those ignornt imrs nd mchievous imposrs re essentilly religious; nd tht the best externl sstnce for their terprettion my found study the Holy Scriptures, nd chiefly the New Testment, tht light which ws, before the light, beg by no mens, nd no ccount, overlooked. There were no doubt n bundnce imposrs who plyed upon the creduly nd supidy the public, but the genue Alchemts were religious men, if I on s be s I I t

16 16 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEIEMISTS. who pssed their time legimte pursus, erng, like St. Pul, n honest substence, nd religious contempltions; studyg how relize themselves the union the Dive nd humn nture, mnifested mn by n enlightened submsion God s will; nd they thought out nd publhed, fter mnner their own, method ttg or enterg upon th stte, s the only rest the soul. The followg ltle poem dmirbly shdows the life the Adepts sought rech: There n le Full, s they sy, good thgs; fru nd trees And plesnt verdure: very msterpiece Of nture's; where the men immortlly Live, followg ll delights nd plesures. There Is not, nor ever hth been, Wter's cold Or Summer's het, the seson still the sme,- Our grcious Sprg, where ll, e'en those worst used By fortune, re content. Erth willgly Pours out her blessg: the words the nd me Are not known 'mongst them: ll common, free From p nd jelous grudgg. Reson rules, Not fntsy: every one knows well Wht he would sk others; every one Wht commnd; thus every one hth tht Which he doth sk; wht commnded, does. Th lnd hth the nme Fortunte: And, s they tell, governed by Queen Well spoken nd dcreet, nd therewhl So beutiful, tht, wh one sgle bem Of her gret beuty, ll the country round Is rendered shg. When she sees rrive (As there re mny so exceedg curious *The Isle mn; or mn becomes himself, under due dciple, the Isle.

17 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 17 They hve no fer dnger 'fore their eyes) Those who come sueg her, nd spire After the hppess which she ech Doth prome her cy, she doth mke The strngers come gether; nd forthwh, Ere she consenteth ret them there, Sends for cert seson ll sleep. When they hve slept so much s there need, Then wke they them g, nd summon them In her presence. There vils them not Excuse or cution; speech however blnd, Or importuny cries. Ech bers Tht on h forehed wrten vibly, Where he hth been dremg. They whose drems Hve been birds nd hounds, re stright dmsed; And t her royl mndte led wy, To dwell thenceforth wh such bests s these. He who hth dremed sconces broken, wr, And turmoil, nd sedion, glory won, And highest fets chieved, like gue, An exile from her court; whilst one whose brow ple, nd ded, nd whered, showg cre Of pelf nd riches, she no less denies To h queen nd mtress. None, brief, Reserves she the dremers her le, Sve him, tht, when wkened he returns, Betryeth kens tht her rre beuty H drems hve been. So gret delight hth she In beg nd seemg beutiful, Such dremer right welcome her le. All th held fble; but who first Mde nd reced hth, th fble shdowed truth. Is be, *Heriot by Cry. de Borderie (sixteenth century), trnslted

18 18 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. The Philosophers, sys Flmmel, hve gr den, where the sun, s well morng s eveng, rems wh most sweet dew, whout cesg, wh which motened; whose erth brgs forth trees nd fru (used figurtive sense), which re trnsplnted thher, where they receive nourhment from the plesnt medows. And th done dily. And there they re corroborted nd quickened, wh out ever fdg; nd th more one yer thn thousnd where the cold ffects them. Let n ide the le, or grden, glem upon the soul s n ttble object, nd the experience tht ide will expl much the lerture the pst ges; especilly such poems s the Romunt the Rose, trnslted by Chucer. It my fford ht explntion those Love Tles, nd buse which style wrg brought out Cervntes; nd, deed, the lrge clss poems, s well s tles (ex cludg the bse imtions, the counterfe co), known s the Love-Lerture the Middle Ages, will fd their terprettion tht ide, cludg the Sonnets nd the Triumphs Petrrch, nd even the Div Commedi self. If yern for such life ws folly, nd judged comptible wh the prcticl demnds upon mn livg under the so-clled curse lbor, ws t lest n nocent folly, wh which the world hs never been overburdened; nd the few who found, or thought they found, their rest tht Eden, my be prdoned by those who glory wht they cll more enlightened ge. Even seek hd chrm which smoothed the hrdest externl fte, s undoubtedly supported mny while sufferg the flmes lighted *Th grden the mn where Truth ever pre vils prospery nd dversy.

19 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 19 by the Inquion. But (s I hve elsewhere sid) such Life like n Art, which must be sought, if sought t ll, for self, nd not for s rewrds. Admsion the grdens the Hesperides ccorded only those whose drems re exclusively upon the beuty the presidg queen; for nd the reder my ponder on th prciple the success conted the drem self, nd developed from ; just s every desire conts n essence s own; which works self mnifesttion, whether be good or whether be evil: s quly, however, not be estimted by wht ccomplhes outwrdly, but by wht de poss, tht use the lnguge Alchemy, by the slt leves the Soul where origtes. proper dd, tht my origl design pre prg these Remrks ws simply express mere opion, nd support by few ctions from works on Alchemy, nd Ithought smll pmphlet would nswer the purpose. hve unexpectedly exceeded the size pmphlet, nd fd necessry go press book-form, though did not spire wre book. Although my ppernce must more forml thn Itended, desire sy tht nothg origl, comg from myself, need be looked for th work. Whtever terest the work my hve will be due the clss men hve wrten bout, who hve furnhed me mterils, nd especilly wh ex trcts from their own wrgs, which hve used freely support simple opion their lbors nd studies. Th opion, m very sure, will hve some novelty the present genertion, nd, well founded, must hve some terest; though my commnd self prciplly specultive men who delight study, but ltle regrded our prcticl ge. But It s, I I I I I if I s be

20 20 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. neher stem power nor telegrphs, wh ll their dmted wonders, themselves the product the humn md, cn ever destroy mn the tendency serch the rcn h own sublime nd ll but fe nture, whose hert, s we red the Holy Scriptures, God hth set the world. E. A. H. St. Lou, Msouri, Jnury, 1857.

21 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 21 CHAPTER I. Sce my curiosy ws wkened on th subject, I hve gthered considerble number works on Alchemy nd Hermetic Philosophy, nd I confess I hve red them wh the best ttention my power, nd wh contully cresg terest. If clled upon justify th sort redg, I might refer the declrns Schellg. After th Germn philosopher hd exhusted ll sorts recognized tretes upon philosophy, he confessed tht he found more fullness nd gret hert-lnguge Jcob Behmen (Boehme), thn ll them put gether: nd Jcob Behmen (Boehme) ws n Alchemt, though very fr from mong the best them. 2. No Alchemt supports h views by ppels uthory. He would hve every doctre tested by the possibily nture, nd repudes the prc tice testg nture by uthory. settles no questions hs sid. He cknowledges The Alchemt by n ipse dix, or the mster no mster but one; unless, the spir 1 Cor. xv.:27, 28, he would hve ll thgs brought the stndrd truth; but truth must be submted God, who All All the one

22 22 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. Mster. 3. We hve endevored, s the reder will plese notice, pot out chiefly the bse, or troduction Alchemy; nd hve not been dposed sy much the end thus fr, which, esy see, must be de veloped the experience those who put themselves condion for blessgs. If ny mn would relize the goodness, he must become good; or if would enjoy the dvntges truth, he must be true. There no mystery th, nd yet, th good Al chemy, so fr s goes. Mn begs th work by purifyg nture, nd he tkes th lower self out purify himself? everythg which personl. He does not wnt tht which he hs gthered gether hnd he the desire How shll destroy; experience, purge he for nd experience hs been built fculty nd trnsmuted power, nd he now needs ll these powers tht he hs been gtherg durg the climb tht lies below him, nd gthered; he wnts but shll will not do tke them purified sted he purify them? destroy ll tht he hs tke these powers on wh him, It would need foul. so How then much less

23 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 23 ptience kill some these qulies tht he hs; he feels s if he could strike t them nd sly them, nd so be rid them. But not thus tht he cn enter the Temple; for he must tke there s h scrifice tht hs be fered on the very threshold the Temple, everythg tht he hs gthered h pst, tht he hs turned power nd fculty; he must not go thher empty-hnded, he must tke wh him ll tht he hs gthered h lower life. So tht he dres not destroy; he must perform the hrder work purifiction; he must keep the essence ll the qulies, while he strikes wy from them every thg tht personl. All the lessons tht he hs lernt virtue nd vice, ll these re the ex periences tht the pilgrimge behd him he hs gthered; he must tke the essence every quly wh him, for these re the results ll h climbg; but he must tke them s pure gold the ltr, nd no dross must be mgled wh the gold. Let us tke one or two these qulies order see clerly wht purifiction mens; for if we understnd s one or two qulies, then t our leure we cn work out for the rest, nd the lesson

24 24 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. ll-importnt s how the purifiction be worked. Let us tke first mighty force which every humn beg, which he develops the low stges h growth, which he crries on wh him s he evolves, nd which now h work purify. Let us tke the quly tht s lowest stge we know s nger, s wrth, s tht tremendous power tht the mn de velops, by which he fights h wy through the world, by which he struggles, nd by which he ten times overcomes ll opposion: tht tremendous energy the Soul rushg out through the lower nture nd brekg mn s wy for him through difficulties the erlier stges h growth ere yet he hs lerned guide nd control ; n undcipled energy, destructive becuse undcipled; tremendous force, vluble becuse force, lthough destructive s workgs s we see the lower world. The mn ere yet he hs entered the Outer Court hs some wht chnged tht energy the Soul; he hs chnged virtue, very rel virtue, nd he hs hd th virtue long s h possession the outside world; then went by the nmes (when hd reched the

25 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 25 stge virtue) noble digntion, pssion gst justice, htred ll tht ws wrong, nd tht ws bse, nd tht ws vile, nd tht ws cruel, nd did good service the outer world under these mny forms destructive energy. For th mn, ere yet he cme the Outer Court, hd been workg for the world, nd hd been prcticg th virtue; nd when he sw the cruelty tht ws done upon the wek h pssion broke forth gst justice ws wrought by gst prcticed h virtue,, nd when n tyrnt then he rose up digntion; he hd lerned, purify from much s he the dross; for the nger tht he hd h erlier life ws nger for himself he ws wrthful when he ws jured, he struck bck when some one struck t him; but he hd long go conquered tht mere brute wrth the lower nture which gurds self by destructive energy gst nd hte wh hte. trnsform tht energy fied wrong, nd pys bck evil wh evil He hd lerned some extent nger him; he hd puri gret extent from the personl element, nd he hd lerned be ngry less becuse he himself ws jured, thn becuse some one else ws wronged; he

26 26 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. hd lerned be dignnt less becuse he suffered, thn becuse some one else ws put p; nd when he sw some cruel creture trmplg on helpless one, he sprng forwrd rescue tht helpless creture nd struck t the wrong-doer nd cst him one side; tht wy he hd used the higher nger conquer the lower, tht wy he hd used the nobler pssion sly the more niml pssion h lower life, nd he hd lerned these lives tht now lie fr behd him, get rid so fr the grosser qulies the pssion; he hd lerned be no longer ngry for him self, but ngry only for those whom he desired help. For he ws mn, remember, who hd long recognized service s duty, nd one h wys service ws by strikg down oppressors nd by cstg side those who were flictg sufferg; th nger h blzed up hotly gst ll forms wrong, nd he worked for the weker, nd perchnce did hero s work the world. The spirnt hs now lern tht those who do the wrong re lso h brothers, nd tht they suffer more their wrong-dog thn do their fellow-men by the jury tht they my flict; he hs lern

27 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 27 tht th noble digntion h, nd th pssion h gst the wrong, nd th fire tht blzed forth consume tyrnny tht uched not himself, tht tht not the chrctertic the Soul tht strivg onwrds wrds the Dive; for the Dive Life loves ll the children tht sends the world, no mtter wht my be their posion, nor how low the grde their evolution. For the Love the Dive tht emnted ll hs nothg outside Itself. The Life tht Dive the core everythg tht exts, nd there God present the hert the evil-doer s well s the hert the st. Th must be recog nized, no mtter how thick rc the veils tht hide, for there the eyes the Spir re be opened, nd there no veil between therefore th noble digntion purged everythg tht nd the Self be other men; purified until nger, nd chnged n energy tht leves nothg outside s helpful rnge; until th gret energy the Soul be comes n energy tht help the tyrnt brces wh s s bsolutely pure, tht goes out well s lim the one who the slve nd tht em trmplg s well s the one who trmpled; for the Sviours men

28 28 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. choose not whom They will serve their service service tht knows no limtions, nd they tht re the servnts ll hte none wh the Universe. Tht which once ws nger hs become by purific tion, protection for the wek, impersonl opposion strong evil-dog, perfect justice ll. 4. It contended tht the rel doctre the Alchemts lies wh the field humn nture. They fd their prciples the common life mn, nd cknowledge tht mny honest men good con sciences nd ffections do secretly enjoy th light God. The chief peculiry bout up some mn, reltg, tht tkes the most universlly experienced stcts every-dy duties, such s mny homest men prctice unconsciously, nd erect them doctre life, nd fds snctions the rely the stcts nd experiences, whout buildg upon ny mere pssion whtever. 5. It mysteries which there dmted, however, tht there re references no the wrgs wh spek t the Alchemts, bout length. Some the wrers, for exmple, sy tht true philosopher, In the Outer Court, Annie Besnt. no

29 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 29 who knows, hs ever nmed, they cll the first mtter,-s hs As th first mtter, let or if us will ever nme, wht th ws not see wht A. E. nme! We sy nd we will fd some light on th im portnt subject. In h Azoth we fd: All ntures, however there but one substnce powers which sst the First Mtter; diversified, hve common orig; the universe; the ltent ny species re the cpcies impossible meliorte or improve species except by hvg recourse fontl substnce nd source, whence ll multipliction, ll genertion, ll energy recourse species cn th srehouse be development proceed. the By Universl Potency every meliorted nd developed. ment proceeds under the providence nd cert pot, beyond which the highest pot nd pch cn be Art the Hermetic Adepts pply the nme Develop Nture up crried by Art, th evolutionry Alchemy. No recognized Ine nd no telligent dciple who hs followed tempted the footsteps confe the scope conversion metls. Mster hs ever t Alchemy Prcelsus defes the mere s rtificil genertion or production, wht kd soever, nd

30 30 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. cludes the eduction the potencies plnts, nimls nd men, s much s the ugmenttion Sol. Referrg the trnsmuttion metls, Alexnder Sen testifies tht there re further nd higher secrets. And Sendivogius, h herir, sttes tht the Philosophers propounded them selves tht they would mke tril the possibily Nture the merl kgdom; which, beg d covered, they sw tht there were numerble other rcn, which, s Dive secrets, they wrote sprgly. It lso th sense tht we must understnd the explic formtion Thoms Vughn, lredy ced, who ssures us tht Chemi nrrow nme which ought not be pplied the science, s the ltter ncient nd fe. 5. When I sy tht Mn the subject upon which the Alchemts employ themselves, I do not men sy tht the phenomenl Mn wht they cll first mtter. Th word, I presume, expresses conception which cnnot be put descriptive lnguge whout compromg some extent the feelgs we wh which the Supreme Beg should ever be contem plted, nd I m, therefore, dposed thk, on th

31 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCELEMISTS. 31 ccount, s well s for some other resons, tht, whether there or not Hermetic Philosophy by nme still the world, the Art, or whtever my be clled, will lwys rem mong men. Perhps the nswer the question, Tell me thy Nme? (Gen. xxxii:28, 29) will lwys reduce silence him who receives, question which lies hert. Sys Dr. though th my rem forever the one P. B. t Soul; the Soul World : the botm Rndolph, the Rosicrucin, every humn h All humn powers nd fculties re ltent, until time, circumstnces, nd dciple brgs them out. All humn begs re creted like so fr forth s the germl powers re concerned. All men nturlly love sweet sounds, nd, if cpble th tste be cultivted musicl pprecion, t if strumentl execution. The seeds lie perdu, or the property ltent, Soul; n erly dy, re not vocl or ll unfoldg every humn beg; they re Soul-soil they re imbedded, nd from tht soil they must eventully put forth the shoot, the shrub, the tree, the brnch, lef, blossom, nd flly the fru. Every fculty, strictly humn,

32 32 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. belongs, nd prt, every member the speeies; nd tht th fct beg dmted, though ny given one or more my be mnifested most power fully by some, nd not t ll by others ll them re one dy be developed, clled out, unfolded, ll, pl ference; ny, n bsolute certty. The power see whout eyes, demonstrted by scores nd hundreds clirvoynts, not gift peculir cert mn or womn, or cert order people. It power tht cn be hd for the tryg, s ny good Mgnett will ffirm nd prove. 6. Although sid tht the pure hert shll see God, there sense, no doubt, which true no mn cn see God nd live. There no one our senses more dpted metphoricl use thn tht sight; nd, ssuredly, when men see the life thgs, they do not use the outwrd sense. Two the gretest poets the world hs ever known, who sw most clerly the nture thgs, were bld. (They were Clirvoynt.) 7. There my be very good resons justify the Hdoos never pronouncg udibly their Mystic word Aum nd the sme reson expls why they

33 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 33 hve no imge nd py no worship directly Brhm, though they hve ltrs Brhm, Siv, nd Vhnu, nd multude other divies. We do ourselves wrong, not them, when we fil recognize the reverence implied th. 8. The Hermetic Philosophers clim perfect hr mony wh ech other; but th hrmony confed few prciples vl importnce their doctre. Their philosophy reltes lmost wholly cert prctice; possibly complete ppliction the notion duty, s expled theoreticlly by Knt, wrg h celebrted ctegoricl impertive, or podictic commnd (or lw Conscience); n unresong, though not unresonble, obedience n experienced imperious sense duty, levg the result God; nd th we re dposed Wy. cll the 9. Now the End must be the fru th obedience. The mn, by stedy preservtion the wrd uny, beg prepred like for ll outwrd events, my flly be the subject some specil experience (clled Scripture mnifesttion, Rom. iii:21) by which sel confirmtion set upon wht t first

34 34 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. ws cert dive trust the ultimte blessg rectude. I suppose volve knowledge the Uny God, wh sense prticiption ; for, God beg perfect truth nd perfect love, follows, wh some ppernce mthemticl certty, tht if mn cn enter life truth nd love, he relly enters the life God, nd must feel, con versely, tht the life God hs entered him. The lesser mgnet becomes perfectly djusted, nd rests the greter mgnet. 11. In th stte, men who my never hve herd Alchemy for life truth nd goodness depends upon God nd not upon books hve wrten volumes wh the tle The Life God the Soul Mn. 12. Th my be the union the humn nd dive so much sted upon by both philosophers nd dives nd be self the sel Slvtion. Allusions th stte re everywhere met scred lerture; s n exmple, we tke the followg from the Rev. John Norr, wrg bout 1690: These supposls, sye he, beg premed, first, tht tht Truth which perfective necessry Truth; then, secondly, tht th necessry Truth the

35 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 35 sme wh the Dive Ides; then, thirdly, tht the Dive Nous, or Eternl Wdom, trsiclly wh or pre-essentil the Md; then, fourthly, tht we see nd understnd ll thgs (tht we properly un derstnd) him, nd tht He tht enlightens us; nd tht, lstly, though he enlightens ll fund mentlly nd potentilly, yet th illumtion not reduced ct, nd mde effectul, but by the ter vention some condion on our prts, which duly consult nd pply ourselves Him: from these premes, I sy, necessrily nd evidently follows, tht the right nd only method quiry fter the Truth which perfective, consult the Dive Nous, or Eternl Wdom. For th the region Truth, nd here re hid ll the Tresures Wdom nd Knowledge. Th tht gret nd universl Orcle lodged every mn's brest, where the ncient Urim nd Thummim ws n expressive type nd symbol. Th reson; th conscience; th truth; th tht Light wh, so drkly tlked by some who hve, by *It would be gret vlue for every true Mson look the meng these two words. There gret Wdom them.

36 36 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. their wkwrd, unwrd, nd unskilled wy repre sentg, the world. dcreded one But the thg the noblest theories self, rightly undersod, true; nd if ny mn shll yet cll Qukerm or Enthusism, tht I shll only mke th reply such Qukerm John's Gospel nd return; th, I sy, s mkes t good prt St. Auguste's works. present, But St. tht Dive Orcle which we ll my nd must consult, if we would enrich our mds wh Truth, tht Truth which understndg. And th we. And th method the method perfective the beg truly no other thn wht dved us by the Dive Nous, the substntil wdom God (Prov. viii:34): Blessed hereth me, wtchg dily the posts t the mn tht my gtes, wg t my doors; nd g, sys the sme sub stntil wdom (ch. ix:4): Whoso simple (honest), let him turn I m the light hher; nd g (John viii:12): the world; he tht follows me (or, s the word more properly signifies, he tht consorts or keeps compny wh me) wlketh not Th, therefore, drkness. the vi telligentie, the wy nd method true knowledge, pply ourselves

37 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCELEMIST.S. 37 the Dive Nous, the eternl wdom God, which Dr. Norr hd just expressed by the word conscience. 13. Th good Alchemy, whout the nme. The ppliction only requires tht shll be complete, thorough, nd entire, for s prctice requires the whole mn. 14. When I turned th pssge, I did not per ceive t first tht Dr. Norr hd spoken the con science" s the Wy, -nswerg the view I hve been endevorg present. 15. The Rev. Dr. Norr, true, red srm round h ers by h tendency Plnm nd Qukerm, though he thought good St. Johnm. Some one ok the ps wre book ridicule h views the Idel nd telligible world, nd he ws clled, s usul such cses, Mystic. Men who live prciplly the sensuous world cn never for give those who tke the ht from the meltg piece ice, nd thk possible tht *In the Secret Occult Schools we hve wht known s the Beutiful Philosophy Inion which gives complete structions nd the Lw. Those truly terested should tke up the Life Tr g nd obt sme.

38 38 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. The cloud-cpped wers, the gorgeous plces, The solemn temples, the gret globe self, Ye, ll which her, shll dsolve And leve not rck behd, nd then, by devout contempltion, rech conviction tht, notwhstndg the perhble nture ll out wrd extences, there n vible, imperhble rely, prepred from the foundtion the world, for those who properly prepre themselves for ; nd tht th the only rel rely extence. Lern from wh thyself know whtsoever Heven nd on Erth, tht thou myst be mde we ll thgs. Thou seest not tht Heven nd the elements were once but one substnce, nd were seprted one from nother by Dive skill c complh the genertion thyself nd ll tht Didst thou know th the rest could not escpe thee, else rt thou devoid genertion such ll cpcy. seprtion Ag, necessry s I. every hve lredy ld thee must thou mke before settg still the study the true philosophy. Never wilt thou extrct the one thg which thou desirest out mny which re round thee till from thyself trcted tht one thg which I hve proclimed be the ex thee.

39 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 39 For such the will God, tht the devout should perform the devout work which they desire, nd the perfect ccomplh nother on which they hve been bent. To men bd will shll there be no hrvest other thn they hve sown; furthermore, on ccount their mlice, their good seed shll very ten b chnged cockle. Perform then the work which thou seekest such mnner tht, so fr s my be thy power thou myst escpe like mfortune. Th now the true, essentil mystery or regenertion, or the Spirul life. Th scope nd upshot, Mgic. nd ever ws, the only But, for your further struction, rumte th h other mysticl speech. Rouse up now, therefore, my Soul, nd body lso; re now, follow the flight your Spir. Let up tht high mount over gst us, from whose pncle I which Pythgors spoke us go will show you tht two-fold rod cloud nd drkness. Our eyes re opened, now sheth forth the Sun Holess nd Justice, guided by which we cnnot possibly turn side from the wy the eyes truth. Turn first the right pth, lest they behold vny before they dtguh wdom. See you not tht

40 4.0 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCBEMISTS. splendid nd impregnble wer? There the philosophicl love from whose fount floweth livg wter, nd he who once drks shll never more thirst fter vny. From tht plesnt nd delightful plce there pl pth tht more delightful yet, where the Dive Sophi trries, from whose fount lep wters fr more blessed thn the first, nd which they who give n enemy, he forthwh forced grnt them pece. Most those who go there direct their course still higher, but not ll cn ccomplh their desire. There nother plce which mortls my scrcely tt, unless they re received by the Dive Numen the plne Immortly, nd be fore they re troduced, they re constred put f the world, beg weighted by the grments perhble life. In those who tt there no longer ny fer deth, much rther do they from dy dy welcome wh more fvor becuse they judge tht whtsoever nture worthy their embrce. Whtsoever doth progress beyond these three plnes vnhes from the eye men. If so be tht be grnted us go beyond the second nd the third plces, let us scend higher. So, beyond the first

41 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 41 chrystlle rch, ye behold second silver, beyond which there third dmnt, but the fourth flls not wh sense till the third be pssed under. Th the golden region undyg felicy, void cre nd filled wholly wh perpetul joy. 15. But return the Philosophers themselves: lthough they len upon the conscience s the Wy, or s the bse the work, they rely chiefly upon Love s workg the gretest wonders, tht trns formtion the subject the object loved. We my occsionlly meet wh detched pssges where specil opions re expressed whout systemtic purpose, which, nevertheless, my esily be djusted the more elbortely stted doctre under figures nd llegories. One these I fd these words: I fd the nture Dive Love be perfect uny nd simplicy. There nothg more one, un divided, simple, pure, unmixed, nd uncompounded, thn Love, You will sk, how th cn be proved? Very well; for th Love God himself (1 John iv:8). Now there nothg more essentil God thn Uny *Mgicl Wrgs, Thoms Vughn

42 42 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. nd Simplicy; nothg more contrry the Dive Nture thn duly, divion, or composion. Be sides, th Love which gives uny nd hrmony ll thgs. There no uny Heven, nor on Erth, but wht derived from Love, nd must cknowledge Him for s uthor. And do you thk tht Love cn wnt tht uny which gives ll others? No, certly not; rther conclude, tht tht which mkes ll thgs one, which hrmonizeth nd grees the most different nd dcordnt ntures, must needs be uny self. In the second plce, I fd Love be the most perfect nd bsolute liberty. Nothg cn move Love, but Love; nothg uch Love, but Love; nor nothg constr Love, but Love. It free from ll thgs; self only gives lws self, nd those lws re the lws Liberty; for nothg cts more freely thn Love, becuse lwys cts from self, nd moved by self; by which prerogtives Love shows self llied the Dive Nture, ye, be God himself. Thirdly, Love ll strength nd power. Mke diligent serch through Heven nd Erth, nd you will fd nothg so powerful s Love. Wht

43 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 43 stronger thn Hell nd Deth? Yet Love the tri umphnt conqueror both. thn the wrth God? dsolves nd chnges Wht more formidble Yet Love overcomes self. In cn whstnd the previlg strength the strength, nd word, nothg Mount Zion, which cn never In the fourth plce: Love trnsformg nture. The gret effect turn ll thgs s own nture, which ness, sweetness nd perfection. Th Love: be moved. trnsmutg nd Love ll good tht Dive power which turns wter we; sorrow nd n guh exultg nd triumphnt joy; nd curses blessgs. desert, Where trnsmutes meets wh prde brren nd helthy delights; ye, chngeth evil good, nd llimperfection per fection. generted fection. It It resres the nme wrten upon tht hth. tht which s primry beuty, fllen nd de excellence, nd per the Dive Sne, the Whe Sne wh In word,, which no God himself, whose essentil property lte ll thgs wh himself; the Scripture phrse) or reconcile one knows but the Dive Nture, (if you will hve ll thgs he ssimi him

44 44 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. self, whether they be Heven or Erth; nd ll by mens th Dive Elixir, whose trnsformtion power nd efficiency nothg cn whstnd. Sys Dr. P. B. Rndolph, Eul : No wicked person cn truly love nd rem wicked. redemptive, slvry Dive Prciple! gency Th the nd lchemicl power the True-hertedness the Corrective the gret humn world nd humn Soul. Whout we re ships on the srmy deep, wh wild rush ngry wters threteng submerge us t ny stnt! Wh, hvens nd secure nchorge! bls nd blessedness; whout we re life-boted fir, Wh, mery we re our lot; for the telegrphic System wherewh God engirdles the worlds! From Him goes; Him returns, brgg up from the deeps the poor forlorn ones fds there nd strgg them like beds hng round the neck the effble nd viewless Lord fe nd superltive glory! In reder redg such pssges, wrten by Alchemts, Alchemicl books redily thks lnguge employed upon from Sturn (or Antimony, etc.,), the cert Mercury extrcted which sown

45 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 45 cert philosophicl gold, nd my conclude, tht, while the first whdrws the subject from the entnglements merely worldly life, the second the Dive Love engrfted upon which bds the soul eternlly God. While th love exts s n ffection my be wht clled our Lun, nd the Whe stte the Sne; for the Sne Mn. The course nture seems be relied upon s sufficient crry the sub ject th ffection more or less dtct con sciousness the Uny ll thgs, which, becomg n tellectul conviction, my be clled Sol, or the Red Stte the Sne. 16. All the wrers spek three prcipl colors the Sne, Blck, Whe, nd Red. If the whe nd red sttes be supposed hted t bove, the Blck stte cert humily, which Pontnus clls philosophicl contrion; not necessrily supposg ctul guilt, but rther sense tht pury the presence which ngels re sid veil their fces s unworthy look upon. It my be found very ccurtely Fir,St. described Goethe s Confessions

46 46 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 17. As n tellectul result, there seems nothg more sted upon Alchemicl books thn the Uny; yet ll Alchemts st lso upon Try. In the Microcosm my be considered s imged by the Body, Soul, nd Spir. It my somewht illus trte the subject, so fr s mn represents, refer the common lnguge by which mn sys, Body; nd g, I hve Soul; pressions the Imy stnd for the Uny I hve which double ex the other two; but the expression ought be, I m Body, nd I m Soul; nd, lstly, I m Spir. 18. Some reders g first grded s the wrers might possibly led their such notions God s (effect); nd flly s my be Self-extence; then Active (cuse), nd then expressed by spek God s conceive these three, God re Pssive or s One; for while cuse implies necessrily n effect, n effect no less implies cuse; while both cuse nd effect imply necessry extence. Regrdg the extence the Universe nd con cerng the Crer, Timios, time Pl, hs th sy: Let philosopher us the sk, sys he, through wht cuse the Crer hs estblhed ex

47 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEuBMISTS. 47 tence nd th universe. He ws good, nd good ness no ill-will engendered wrd ny beg wht ever. Beg whout th dposion, he wills tht every beg whtever shll become the highest de gree like himself. Any dividul who shll receive th from telligent men s the supreme orig extence nd the world, will receive the most correct theory. For the Dey hvg willed tht every one shll be good, s fr s their power, nd nothg evil, he ok whtever ws vible nd not repose, but movg violently nd dorderly, brought from dorder order, regrdg th condion s bso lutely superior the other. It never ws lwful, nd not, do nythg whtever except wht the very highest degree worthy nd honorble. Hvg considered the subject, he found tht the thgs tht were nturlly vible nothg tht destute md ever superior beg tht completely endowed wh md; nd besides, tht impossible for md be present, seprte from Soul. Hence pursunce th resong, plcg the md Soul, nd the Soul body, he mde the Universe, thus brgg

48 48. ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEEMISTS. perfection work which should be s nture the most beutiful nd the best. So, therefore, we my justly wh resonbleness spek th cosmic world s livg beg ensouled nd endowed wh md, tht very truth hs s extence through the fore thought the Divy. Th hvg been ccomplhed, he remrks, cumbent upon us expl these thgs one fter nother regrd how the Crer estblhed form nd mnner similr nimte begs. We re not thk, therefore, tht would be fter the idel those tht ext s complete, for nothg like n complete formtion cn possibly be beutiful. We my consider s cludg the vrious nimls, both s one nd s kds, s prts the whole. For comprehends self ll livg thgs possessg md, like mnner s th cosmic world conts us nd the other cretures tht we behold. For the Dey purposg tht should be like the most beutiful nd entirely perfect mentl essences, formed one livg beg perceptible sight, hvg side self ll the nimte begs whtever kd which

49 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 49 re k nturlly. 19. A good del sid cert (which mny my thk mens very uncert) middle substnce, which be tken, sy some the wrers. Th expression implies Try, for there cn middle whout extremes; no extremes whout nother. be no nd so, g, there cn be whout middle, nd no one extreme Th illustrted Pl's Sttes mn, under the words modertion, excess, nd de ficiency, where modertion treted s the regultg, self-blncg permnent the ever-vrible ex tremes. It my be regrded s the scientific view the celebrted poetic medi, etc., where lone found wht modern wrer hs very hppily clled the nimted repose nture. 20. Whtever be the mode wrers ll dicte some doctre on no ccount sometimes spek th suffered, three seprble prciples, nd sy tht eher one conceived s the bse the Hermetic the Try, yet veil the Uny. or They co-extg the three my be the other two, which then, * Timius, trnsltion by Alexnder Wilder, M.D.

50 50 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. reltively only, re regrded s Superficil, s, the notion Fther implies tht Son; but the ide the Son no less poss tht the Fther; while the two presuppose nture common both. 21. In somewht similr mnner, n essence sup poses extence, while extence supposes essence. One not whout the other, sys Swedenborg; whence, though the lnguge my seem unusul t first, might be sid tht God the essence Nture, while Nture the extence God; nd yet both re seprble uny. 22. And here, if should be sked wht the nture God, the nswer might be, nture self; for nture not the nture nythg but God, whose essence nevertheless vible, while h ex tence lgether nd bsolutely undenible. 23. In somewht similr mnner, every subject nture my be regrded s twold pot view; s s prciples (substntilly) nd s mnifesttion (phenomlly). Th Wter, Air, Light, etc., re vrible, fluctutg thgs, phenom lly considered; but the science hydrosttics, pneumtics, nd optics, drwn from these subjects,

51 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 51 express the unchngeble lws ccordg which the phenomen tkes plce; yet the permnent nd the trnsient re seprble ll them; nd if the whole nture be considered s one subject, my be conceived, tht, from th view, s permnent s lws, s science; but vrible, phenomenlly, the senses: but the two re seprble, nd the ex pressions, one nture, one science, nd one mnifest tion, we fd Try. 24. In the view expressed by Swedenborg my be seen somethg similr, for he sys tht there Try ll thgs, which he clls end, cuse nd effect; syg tht the effect by Von Helmont n out-birth) mnifesttion (clled the end, s extg the Ide God, the Uny nd Cuse ll. Ech these ides correltive, nd supposes the other two; hence would seem deny eher the Uny tion which my or be be philosopher cn rech; though my be compelled undergo the Try, impossible for mn right concep the most importnt ide s ttment he complete revolution ordrily received eductionl notions usully lid upon the sensuous orgnm, whout penetrtg,

52 52 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. deed, ny gret depth. 25. In th view, every dcovery science for science dcovery, nd not n vention n entrnce knowledge God s essence by mens which mn enters upon the control nture; for ntu.e subjected mn s control only by knowl edge s unchngeble prciples or Lws, by mens which (nd h submsion the lws) nture becomes obedient the rt mn; which neverthe less subordte nture, contrry which, rt cn ccomplh nothg. 26. Th the sense Lord Bcom, Sir Frnc nd not the Frir, -where he sys: Mn, s mter nd terpreter Nture, does nd under stnds s much s h observtions on the order Nture, eher wh regrd thgs or the md, perm him; nd neher knows nor cpble more. 27. One the Alchemicl volumes defes Art s Nture workg through mn; nd we red Shkes pere: Perd. I hve herd sid There n rt, which, their piedness, shres

53 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 53 Wh gret cretg Nture. Polixeness. Sy, there be; Yet nture mde better by no men, But nture mkes tht men: so, o'er tht rt, Which, you sy, dds nture, n rt Tht nture mkes. You see, sweet mid we mrry A gentler scion the wildest sck; And mke conceive brk bser kd By bud nobler rce. Th n rt Which does mend nture, chnge rther; but The rt self nture. 28. We repet, tht notion the Uny, some sense, importnt wh the Alchemts, number whom endevor dicte method rrivg t knowledge. It wht they cll the fixtion Sne; for no mn cn tt seems, wh them, the prciple the mtter uny the himself while drwn oppose directions by prciples out hrmony wh ech other. No mn cn serve two msters. But reder must see tht the process prciple th knowledge the self-negtion, or self-denil, volved, yet such wy tht the subject the new light enters higher knowl edge. 29. If now, Love be previlg cuse brgg bout th uny mn, both wh himself nd wh

54 54 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. God, nd one cnnot be whout the other; nd if th be the philosophic gold we red books Hermetic Philosophy; nd if th Love cnnot tke root except conscience purged ll super fluies, nd yet somethg common, or possible, ll men; nd if th purgtion not genue except res the subject s proper, order preservtion nd not nture destruction the subject, then, we my ctch the specific glimpse wht my be clled theory for the explntion Alchemic books, nd my form some remote opion the so ernestly sought Philosopher's Sne, before which ll contrdictions life dpper. 30. Here re the wters Zemzum; th the Gret Elixir, nd th Universl Medice: yet the student th Dive Science, s the wrers cll, re now universlly regrded s hvg devoted their lives the perhble tresures the world. Tht they hve brought th reputtion upon themselves, by their mysticl nd symbolicl lnguge, very cer t; yet, however much they might hve been m tken, there seems no reson now, th enlightened ge, why some ttempt should not be mde show

55 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 55 them s they were, pursu the one thg needful, be wht my. So much hs been thought Love s the wy nd the key, tht the Eleusin Inion or Mysteries, they hd the Invoction Love: TO LOVE. I cll, gret Love, the source sweet delight, Holy nd pure, chrmg the sight; Drtg, nd wged, impetuous, fierce desire, Wh Gods nd mortls plyg, wnderg fire: Agile nd twold, keeper the keys Of Heven nd Erth, the Air, nd spredg ses; Of ll tht Ceres fertile relms conts, By which th ll prent Goddess life susts, Or dml Trtrys doomed keep, Widely extended, or the soundg deep; For thee ll Nture's vrious relms obey, Who rulest lone, wh universl swy, Come, blessed power, regrd these mystic fires And fr vert unlwful md desires. The followg development the Nture the Divy Love extrcted from the dmirble Com mentry Proclus on the First Alcibides Pl, s illustrtive the Orphic dogms respectg th God. Love neher be plced the first nor mong the lst begs. Not the first, becuse the object Love superior Love; not yet mong the lst, becuse the lover prticiptes Love. It reque,

56 56 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. therefore, tht Love should be estblhed between the object Love nd the Lover, nd tht should be posterior the beutiful, endued wh Love. but prior every nture Where, then, does first subst? How does extend self through the Universe, nd wh wht monds does lep forth? There re three hypostses mong the telligible nd Occult Gods; nd the first, deed, chrcterized by the good, understndg sidg tht plce where, the good self, nd re ccordg the (Chl den) Orcle, the pternl mond bides; but the second chrcterized by wdom, where the first telligence flourhes; nd the third by the beutiful, where, s Timeus sys, the most beutiful telligibles bides. g these telligible But there re three monds ccord cuses, substg uniformly ccordg cuse telligibles, but first unfoldg themselves light the Ineffble Order the Gods, (i.e., the summ tht order which clled telligible, nd t the sme time tellectul,) Fh, Truth, nd Love. I men And fh, deed, estblhes ll thgs good; but truth unfolds ll the knowledge begs; nd lstly, Love converts ll thgs, nd

57 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 57 congregtes them the nture the beutiful. Th trid thence proceeds through ll the orders the Gods, nd imprts ll thgs by s light union wh the telligible self. It lso unfolds self differently different orders, every where combg s powers wh the peculiries the Gods. And mong some substs effbly, comprehensibly, nd wh trnscendent union; but mong others, s the cuse connectg nd bdg; nd mong others, s endued wh perfective nd formg power. Here g, substs tellectully nd pternlly; there, mnnner entirely motive, vivific nd effective; here, s governg nd ssimiltg; there, liber. ted nd undefiled mnner; nd elsewhere, ccordg. multiplied nd divided mode. Love, therefore, supernlly descends from telligibles mundne concerns cllg ll thgs upwrds Dive Beuty. Truth, lso, proceeds through ll thgs, illumtg ll thgs wh knowledge. And lstly, fh proceeds through the Universe, estblhg ll thgs wh trnscendent union good. Hence the (Chlden) Orcles ssert, tht ll thgs re governed by nd bide these. And, on th ccount, they order

58 58 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. Theurgts conjo themselves divy through th Trid. Intelligibles themselves, deed, do not require the mry medium, on ccount their effble union. But where there union nd sepr tion begs, there lso Love bides. For the bder nd concilir ntures posterior nd prior self; by the converter subsequent prior, nd the elevtg nd perfectg cuse imperfect cuses. The (Chlden) Orcles, therefore, spek Love s bdg, nd residg ll thgs; nd hence, if connects ll thgs, lso copultes us wh the governments demons. But Diotim clls Love gret demon, becuse everywhere fills up the medium between desirg nd desirble ntures. And, deed, tht which the object Love vdictes self the first order; but tht which loves the third order from the beloved object. Lstly, Love usurps middle sution between ech congregtg nd collectg gether tht which desires nd tht which desired, nd fillg subordte from superior ntures. But mong the telligible nd occult Gods, unes telligible tellect the first nd secret beuty, by cert life better thn telligence.

59 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 59 Hence (Orpheus) the theologt the Greeks clls th Love bld; for he sys telligible tellect: In h brest feedg eyeless, rpid Love. But ntures posterior telligibles, imprts by illumtion n dsoluble bond ll thgs per fected by self: for bond cert union, but ccompnied by much seprtion. On th ccount the (Chlden) Orcles re ccusmed cll the fire th Love copulr: for proceedg from telligible tellect, bds ll followg ntures wh ech other, nd wh self. Hence conjos ll the Gods wh telligible beuty, nd demons wh Gods; but conjos us wh both Gods nd demons. In the Gods, deed, hs primry substence; demons sec ondry one; nd prtil souls substnce through cert third procession from prciples. Ag, the Gods substs bove essence: for every genus Gods super-essentil. But demons substs ccordg essence: nd souls ccordg Il lumtion. And th triple order ppers similr the triple power tellect. For one tellect substs s imprticipble, beg exempt from ll prtil gener; but nother s prticipted which lso the

60 60 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. souls the Gods prticipte s better nture; nd nother from th generted souls, nd which deed, their perfection. Prcelsus, the gretest ll Alchemts, tells tht: We should know who nd wht God cn lern works,, us but we know God only by becomg we. The God will become mnifest dom, nd God will him. trcted But be if us through W most plesed we become like become like God we must become t God, who nd the power tht ttrcts God will be humny, nd love God. kdled the universl fount us our herts by Love. n love for humny will The Love ll; rdent love for be cused by Thus the God the Mcrocosm nd the God the Microcosm ct upon ech other, nd both re one, for there only one God nd one Lw nd one Nture, through which Wdom becomes mnifest. There n erthly sun, which het, nd ll who re ble the cuse ll see my see the sun; nd those who re bld nd cnnot see him my feel h het. There ll Wdom, Mysticl Hymns n eternl Sun, which the source nd those whose Spirul senses hve Orpheus, Thoms Tylor.

61 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 61 wkened life will see tht Sun, nd be conscious H extence; but those who hve not tted Spirul Consciousness my yet feel H power by n $nner fculty which clled Intuion. Animl reson ctive the niml soul, nd ngelic wdom the Spirul Soul. The former sees by the light Nture, which produced by reflection the rys the Dive Light ctg Nture; but the light the spir not product Nture, but the supreme cuse ll which Nture becomes mnifest. Nture does not produce sge; she merely furnhes nturl form for the sge. Nture not perfect, but produces cripples nd deses, bnormlies nd mon strosies, the bld nd the lme; but tht which comes from God perfect. It germ which plnted the Soul mn nd mn the grdner nd cultivr (the Alchemt), whose busess surround wh the elements necessry for s growth, so tht when the erthly tberncle broken, the spir, ttrcted by H love, H eternl home, my return, hvg grown knowledge, beg clothed pury nd illumted by wdom. Spir psses the body, nd out, like

62 62 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. breth ir pssg through the strgs n Aeolin hrp. If we succeed bdg here, we will crete source undyg Hrmony, nd crete n Immortl beg. But bd spir we must be ble bd thought. Mn mterilized thought; he wht he thks. To chnge h nture from the mortl the Immortl stte he must chnge h mode thk g; he must cese hold fst h thoughts tht which illusory nd perhg, nd hold on tht which eternl. The vible universe thought the eternl md thrown objectivy by s will, nd crystllized mtter by s powers. Look t the everlstg strs, look t the destructible mount-peks. They re the thoughts the Uni versl md, nd they will rem s long s the thoughts tht md do not chnge. If we could hold on thought, we would be ble crete. But who but the enlightened cn hold on thought? Are not the illusions the senses contully destroy g tht which we ttempt crete? Men do not thk wht they choose but tht which comes their mds. If they could control the ction their mds, they would be ble control their own ntures

63 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 63 nd the nture by which their forms re sur rounded. Thought the Bs Life. Thought clothed the m ttrcts self, s Mgnet (by tht lw ffy clled the nturl world grvtion, the Spirul, love) elements tht correspond self. These ms, drwn gether, form the molecule, n ggregtion which builds the cell; the cells group g round the mentl imge, till lo! the form mterilized, nd sttue flesh nd blood, throbbg wh life, ppers. The Thker' hs sculptured the sttue fter h own imge nd likeness, gl vnized life, nd h own work the rtt stnds reveled. Th the Temple which neher hmmer, nor x, nor ny ol iron ws herd durg s buildg. Tht which nimtes nd governs the body, bso lutely, thought. In order then keep the physicl frme helthy, the thought currents reflected upon the molecules composg must be pure; free from d cord nd dese. The Universl Md, before referred s the true *Hrtmnn, Prcelsus.

64 64 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. nd only source Life, pure nd perfect, endurg nd beutiful, the prciple prciples, the Truth truths, the Lw lws, the Life lives, nd he who hs wkened the Consciousness beg hr mony wh th prciple, one wh th Md, merged th Eternl Source possesses the Philosopher s Sne the true Elixir Life. Such one the highest sense the term n Alchemt, knowg how trnsmute the bser metls the niml nture pure nture Spir. In th we hve the secret the Philosopher s Sne, but not such n esy mtter become the Al chemt. Trg necessry, nd the fount from which we drk, ll our cts, must be from the Fount Love. God Love, s ll Life, nd I doubt much whether the selfh mn cn ccomplh nythg, for the very reson tht selfhness kills ll the good tht mn, nd sours the very life mn. God Love, nd only Love cn we fd eher God or Life: God s nture pure love, He cnnot help but love, And if thou wilt be God, thou must do nught but love. * V.

65 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 65 There no nme tht would express our God, Yet Love H nme my be, So gret Love. Love flood nd glow; if thou feel wh It quenches God s wrth nd burns wy ll s. The nture Holess pure love, therefore, oh Chrtin mn, The purer thou cnst love, the holier rt thou. Hope ceses nd fh becometh sight, Spekg wh ngue not, nd ll We build pssg wh s time; But love lone rems so let us prctice Love. All beuty comes from love; even God s own fce doth owe s loveless love or else could not she nor show s grce. The mesure hppess mesured thee by love; The fuller thou löve, the hppier thou lt prove. Tht which thou lovest, mn, tht will be thy birth. Love God, thou wilt be God; love erth, thou wilt be erth. Love s like un mgnet drws me up God; And wht greter still, drws God down erth. Love the quickest thg, unided nd lone; Instnter cn be before the Eternl throne. 31. I would be thought strenuous settg forth wht I cll the wy the Philosopher s Sne, nd yet there not wntg vriety themodes dopted for crryg the student comprehension the Mysteries bout which the wrers employ themselves. 32. Eyreneus Phillethes sometimes clled Cosmo pol, for he wrote under both nmes, one plce, * Perls Wdom, Conrd Fuhrer.

66 ALCEIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. seems pot very plly the two processes, nlys nd synthes, both which hve one end, To seek the Uny through Sol, my be employ the tellect upon the ide the Uny, but nlys termte the prts; wheres study upon Mer cury, here used for nture t lrge, work syntheti clly, nd, by combg the prts, rech n ide the Uny. The two led theoreticlly the sme thg, begng s were from oppose extremes; for the nlys ny one thg, completely mde, must termte the prts; while the prts, upon syntheticl reconstruction, must reproduce the Uny. One the two wys dicted by Eyreneus spoken s Herculen lbor, which must be the second, the reconstruction the uny by recombtion the prts; which, respect nture, undoubtedly Herculen, not sy n impossible undertkg. The more hopeful method by medtion under the prep rtions poted out so ernestly by Bsil Vlente. 33. Some the wrers tell us put one the Bodies the Alembic, tht, for th wht ment, -tke the Soul the thought or study, nd pply the fire ( tellect) until comes over

67 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST8. 67 spir. Then puttg th by for use, put the other Body, which be subjected similr tril until comes over lso; fter which the two my be uned, beg found essentilly or substntilly the sme. novices. Such experiments re not tended for 34. Others pot out some sort ffy between the Spir nd the Soul, nd then undertke show similr ffy between the Soul nd the Body, nd thus crry the md (?) recognion, some wy, mutul nd seprble terdependence ll upon ll. But th ll done figures nd symbols, beg work medtion. 35. Th my seem very strnge mode delg wh metphysicl questions, but no one will ever know nythg the import the books Hermetic Phil osophy who shuts h md, vulgr opion tht the Alchemts were Gold. t nd persts pursu the 36. Whoever exmes the Six Keys, publhed the end the Hermetic Triumph (n excellent work, by the wy), my dcover tht the third key the explntion the Uny; but, course, the

68 68 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. usul veiled lnguge. who reds for musement, An every-dy reder, or one would not gther sgle ide from the perusl these Six Keys; but student germne the mtter, fter repeted perusls, connection wh other books tretg the sme subject, my t lest dcover enough per ceive the generl object the uthor, nd cnnot fil conclude tht, whtever he ws wrg bout, ws not gold. 37. Mn not born knowledge the Uny; h first cqutnce wh Nture through the Mny. But knowledge the mny one, the crowng end dciple. The knowledge the first number (tht Uny), sys Socrtes, the Seventh Book Republic, one nd, by seprtg the contempltion 38. The Alchemts were knowledge th ws the opion dives, the the the thgs tht exlt the md, from sensuous thgs, leds tht which. the opion tht the One cnnot be directly tught; nd Pl, s mny modern the highest lerng nd genius; those who hold th opion lose sight their own prciples

69 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 69 when they ttempt directly tech. They resort, therefore, numbers, figures, nd llegories. 39. The Uny sid be effble, nd cn only be dicted by shdows nd similudes; while yet true knowledge short, the knowledge ll one needs, becuse, God, who All All. Such pssges s refer ought not be considered lone, but should be red connection wh entire works on the subject, which one prt my throw light upon every other. Alchemic books re every where filled wh enigms hrd be undersod. (like St. Pul s eptles); but wh ptience nd p pliction student will meet wh gret del, entire stfction. Almost every posion found these works or expressed enigmticlly. if not opion W ness wht Bsil sys the Unicorn's-horn, where the Uny dicted, nd wh freedom from evil, beg, the doctre s nture cpble s. Th doctre esily stted, but not so esily con ceived. Let us look t cerng the Uny wht Eliphs Levi hs Spirs: Accordg sy con the Kbblts (Alchemts), God cretes eternlly the

70 70 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. gret Adm, the Universl nd perfect mn, who con ts sgle spir ll Spirs nd ll Souls. In telligences, therefore, live two lives t once, one generl, which common them ll, nd the other specil nd dividul. Solidry nd reversibily mong spirs depend, therefore, on their livg relly one nother, ll beg illumed by the rdince the one, ll fflicted by the drkness the one. The different degrees pury mong spirs corresponds their mers nd their efforts respond grce. They re from grde grde by voluntry renuncion the egotic ttrctions the lower grdes. The gret Adm represented by the tree Life, which extends bove nd below the erth by roots nd brnches; the trunk Humny t lrge, the vrious rces re the brnches, nd the numerble di viduls re the leves. Ech lef hs s own form, s specil life, nd s shre the sp, but lives by mens the brnch lone, s the life the brnch self depends on the trunk. The wicked re the dry leves nd ded brk the tree. They fll, decy, nd re trnsformed mnure, which returns the tree through the roots,

71 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 71 The Kbblts (Alchemts) further compre the wicked, or reprobte, the excrement the gret body humny. These excretions lso serve s mnure the erth, which brgs forth frus nourh the body; thus deth reverts lwys life, nd evil self serves for the renewl nd nourhment good. Deth th wy hs no extence, nd mn never deprts from the Universl life. Those who we cll ded still survive us, nd we subst them; they re on the erth becuse we re here, nd we re heven becuse they re locted there. The more we live others, the less we need fer die. Our life, fter deth, prolonged on erth those we Love, nd we drw on heven give them trnquily nd pece. The communion spirs heven wh erth, nd on erth wh heven, c complhed nturlly, whout dturbnce nd wh out prodigies; universl telligence like the sun's light, which flls t once on ll the plnets, while the plnets turn reflect illumte one nother the night. The sts suffer nd il us, nd their perfect betude will not be tted till the whole

72 72 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. humny shll be blessed, for they re prt tht divible humny which heven hs rdint nd smilg fce, on erth ilg nd sufferg body, while hell, which for sges but purgry, hs fettered nd burng feet. We re ll members one body, nd the mn who endevors supplnt nd destroy nother mn like the right hnd seekg cut f the left through jelousy. He who kills nother slys himself, he who stels from nother defruds himself, he who wounds nother mims himself, for others ext us nd we them. The rich wery themselves, detest ech other, nd turn dgust from life, their welth self rtures nd burdens them, becuse there re poor wnt bred. The weress the rich the dtress the poor, who suffer their persons. God exerces H justice by the medium Nture nd H mercy by the medtion H elect. If you thrust your hnd the fire, Nture will burn you whout py, but chrble mn cn dress nd soothe the burn. Lw flexible, but Chry unlimed. Lw dmns, but Chry prdons. The gulf self will never d

73 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 73 gorge s prey, but rope cn be let down him who hs llowed himself fll there. 40. Von Helmont, tech tht more cn be c complhed by followg nture thn by ttemptg force nture follow us, grvely tells sry two ships beg built, upon one which the plnk ws lid wh the p ends, s they grew the tree, wrds the bow; while upon the other they were niled whout regrd th prciple; nd he tells us tht the first ws by fr the best siler. 41. Von Helmont s reders my remember h re mrkble sry mn who hd nose supplied from the rm nother mn, who submted n opertion for considertion. The nose nswered very well for time, nd ppered que nturl; but one dy, suddenly, Strsburg, the nose fell f; nd ws soon fter scerted tht the origl owner the nose hd died cocident wh the loss! Von Helmont ment tech tht doctres origtg time perh wh their sources. Th ws ll he tended by tht strnge sry. 42. Th mode techg my be stigmtized s trivil nd ridiculous; but whoever denounces ought

74 74 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEDEMISTS. t lest understnd Philosophy, but the truth tht, hid the student not be reserve. so fr s nture clothed the object philosophy or t. ll, set out under figures, symbols, nd enigms. ppel the source found there my be neglected, 43. Norn, refers the fifth chpter, or t Hermetic It nothg veil; obliges nd wht cn lest held h Ordll, the seven virtues for mendg the fults mn (the sne) s follows: the virtues beg the four crdl virtues, prudence, tempernce, forti tude, justice; nd the three theologicl Fh, Hope nd Chry. Moreover helpeth Alchemy To know Seven wters effectully; Which copied wh mny mn; While they common, seek them you cn; Desire not th Book show thgs ll, For th book but n Ordll. By those Wters men weene md All fults mend metllic kd. be be * * * * * * s virtues, For they suppose wh confidence unfeigned, Tht ll virtues reque them be conted; Some mollify Metls hrd wrought, And some hrden Metls tht be st, etc.

75 ALCEDEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS' It must be dmted tht books Alchemy hd no chrm for the so-clled generl reder, who re quired picril scenes for the fncy, or occsions for sentiment; but s for thkg tht ws o much tsk, nd must be hd t second hnd. Th sort wrg ws never tended for ordry reders the ge when they were wrten; but now, s the ge hs gone by, surely terestg lern how men thought communicted wh ech other ll over Europe, by mens conventionl lnguge, forced extence nd use, prt, no doubt, by the perse cution which ll free thought ws exposed. The lnguge ws clled by those who used Lgu mgic, Lgu Angelorum, nd sometimes Lgu ipsius Ternrii Sncti, the use which the wrers dm tht ll who ttempted were not eqully suc cessful. One smll work hs th significnt tle: Zoroster s Cve; or, the Philosophers Intellectul Echo one nother from their Cells. Th Compendium the Work opens bruptly, thus: for Dry wter from the Philosopher's clouds! Look, nd be sure hve, for the key

76 76 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. ccessibles nd those locks tht would otherwe keep thee out. It middle nture between Fixed nd Not Fixed, nd prtkes Sulphur Azre. It rw, coolg, feme Fire, nd expects s impregntion from Mscule, Solr Sulphur. 45. The terprettion th, ccordg the view we tke Alchemy, science (or pure hert), look for hve, for the key, etc. simply th: A pure con, It nd be sure middle nture between Soul nd Body (clled the Sun nd Moon), nd prtkes hevenly spir. It receive) life from God (nd the birth Uny). expects (or will Love nd 46. Th ltle work sys: Our wter (the Anti monil Vegr essence, Artephius) nd the cuse efficient whole Body, nd medice. the Erth As (i. wshes, e., mn). Wter; It s lustrl, Two thgs or the clry wshes ; tges, 47. The reder cn hrdly fil wrers enjo upon ll who seek the Truth hert, nd expg works tges Air. the. see tht these pure preprtion for n entrnce high

77 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 77 experiences. They tell us the ltter not possible whout the former; s if ctg upon the prciple tht everythg the universe hs s proper cuse efficient, whout which the effect cnnot follow. The simplicy the doctre ought not be n objection pendently.. There re mysteries enough de Eliphs Levi tells us tht: The mn who en slved by h pssions wy be t; hence signifies or Ined; he must lter he person cnnot worldly prejudices cn be or he no will never t n Adept, for the word who hs tted by will nd by work. The mn who loves h own opions nd fers prt wh them, who suspects new truths, who unprepred doubt everythg rther thn dm nythg on chnce, should close th book; for him useless nd dngerous; he will fil understnd, nd meng, quietude. will trouble him, while If will be if you hold by nythg thn by reson, truth, nd justice; cert nd vcilltg, eher lrm you, or he still greter source if good should dive s d the world more your will or evil; the nked truth mke you blush; be if if un logic you

78 78 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. re hurt when ccepted errors re ssiled; condemn th work stright wy; do not red ; let cese ext for you; but t the sme time do not cry down s dngerous. The secrets which records will be undersod by n elect few, nd will be held bck by those who understnd them. Shew light the birds the night-time, nd you hide their light; the light which blds them, nd for them more drk thn the drkness. I shll, therefore, spek clerly nd mke known everythg, wh the firm conviction tht Ines lone, those who deserve ion, will red ll nd understnd prt. To tt the snctum regnum, other words, the knowledge nd power the Mgi, there re four dpensble condions n telligence, illumted by study, n trepidy which nothg cn check, Will which nothg cn brek, nd dcretion which nothg cn corrupt nd nothg xicte. To know, dre, will, keep silence such re the four words the Mgus, scribed upon the four symbolic forms the Sphx. bed fter four mnners, by one nother. These four words cn be com nd expled four times

79 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 79 The Mgus truly wht the Hebrew Kbllts cll the Microprosopus, tht world. knowledge works prciple The first self, science; so the Gret Work., the crer ll Mgicl sciences one s own cretion first conts the others, the ltle beg the nd ll the The term, however, re quires explntion. Supreme reson beg the sole vrible nd consequently imperhble prciple wht we term deth beg chnge hence the telligence which cleves closely th prciple nd, mnner, identifies self therewh, does hereby mke self unchngeble, To cleve vribly tht necessry nd, reson, s will result, immortl. be tt dependence undersod ll those forces which by their ftl nd evble movement produce the lterntives how suffer, secrets which plce desires forber, nd us life nd deth. beyond rech the flesh, nd the fer mn who seeks nd fds To know die such re the first ffliction, the nnihiltion. glorious deth, hs fh To immortly nd universl humny, believes wh him nd for him, rg ltrs nd sttutes h memory ken eternl life.

80 80 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. Mn becomes kg the brutes only by subdug or tmg them; otherwe he will be their victim or slve. Brutes re the types our pssions; they re stctive forces nture. The world field bttle where liberty struggles wh erti by the opposion ctive force. Physicl lws re mill snes; if you cnnot be the miller you must be the gr. You re clled be kg the ir, wter, erth, nd fire; but reign over these four nimls symbolm, necessry conquer nd ench them. He who spires be sge nd know the gret enigm nture must be the heir nd despoiler the sphx; h the humn hed order possess speech, h the egle's wgs order scle the heights, h the bull's flnks order furrow the depths, h the lion's tlons mke wy on the right nd the left, before nd behd. You, therefore, who seek ion ( become n Alchemt), re you lerned s Fust? Are you sensible s Job! No, not so? But you my be come equl both if you will. Hve you overcome the vortices vgue thoughs? Are you whout decion or cpriciousness? Do you consent

81 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST8. 81 plesure only when you will, nd do you wh for only when you should? No, not so? Not vribly t lest, but my become so if you choose. The sphx hs not only mn s hed, hs womn s brests; do you know how rest feme chrms? No, not so? And you lugh outright replyg, vuntg your morl wekness for the glorifiction your physicl nd vl force. Be so; I llow you render th homge the ss Sterne or Apuleius. The ss hs s mers, I gree; ws consecrted Pripus s ws the got the god Mendes. But tke for wht worth, nd decide whether ss or mn shll be mster. He lone cn possess truly the plesure Love who hs conquered the love plesure. To be ble nd forber be twice ble. Womn enchs you by your desires. Mster your desires nd you will ench her. The gretest jury tht cn be flicted on mn cll him cowrd. Now, wht cowrdly person? One who neglects h morl digny order obey bldly the stcts nture. As fct, the presence dnger nturl be frid nd seek flight; why, then, shmeful? Becuse honor hs erected lw

82 82 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. tht we must prefer our duty our cltions or fers. Wht honor from th pot view? It universl presentience immortly nd ppreci tion the mens which cn led. The lst trophy which mn cn w from deth triumph over the ppete for life, not by desire, but by more exlted hope, which conted fh, for ll tht noble nd honest, by the undivided consent the world. To lern self-conquest life, nd the usteries prde freedom! follow the strem To yield, therefore, lern sicm were no v the forces collective life, nd nture be the slve secondry cuses. To rest nd subdue nture mke one's self personl nd imperhble life; deth. brek free from the vicsudes life nd Every mn who renounce truth nd justice immortly bides men ws the end dcipled h pupils denil; cndidtes prepred h soul. To fd ll ncient ions. by die rther thn most truly livg, for or silence nd ll kds form such Pythgors self Egypt were tried by the four elements; nd we know the self-flicted usteries fkirs nd brhmns Indi for ttg the

83 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 83 kgdom free will nd dive dependence. mcertions sceticm All re borrowed from the ions ncient mysteries; they hve cesed be cuse those qulified for ion, no longer fdg irs, nd the leders conscience becomg the lpse time s unstructed s the vulgr, the bld hve grown wery followg the bld, nd no one hs cred pss through ordels the end which ws now only doubt nd dpir; for the Pth light ws lost. To succeed performg somethg, we must know wht proposed do, or t lest must hve fh some one who does know. But shll I stke my life on venture, or follow someone t chnce who himself knows not where he gog? We must not set out rshly long the pth the Trnscendent Sciences, but, once strted, we must rech the end puse byss. or fll; perh. recoil To doubt become fool; cst one's self n You, therefore, who re undertkg the study th book, if you persevere wh the close nd understnd mdmn., will mke you eher monrch or Do wht you will wh the volume, you will

84 84 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. be unble despe or forget will be religion; your light; if if we, the rule re wicked, for you. If strong, your rm; will lcerte your brest like be your wdom. you re pure, if holy, your But n fernl rch; ponird; if will rnkle you will your memory like remorse; will people your im gtion wh chimers, nd will drive you through folly dpir. You will endevor lugh t, will only gnsh your teeth; th book will be the file nd the fble which the serpent tried stroyed ll h teeth. be, but de 48. There re mny signs lchemicl volumes Secret Society, which possibly the lnguge used ws conventionlly determed. Members the Msonic frterny might hve found the secret lnguge the Alchemts convenient mode pub lhg, or rther circultg mong the ed, doctres which they hd tken n oth not spek directly, or mke known except brother. 49. It que cert tht books mysterious lnguge were wrten by members the Rosicrucin

85 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 85 Society," who, we thk would be esy show, hd greed spek nd wre ech other before the uned s sylphs, firies, elfs, gnomes, nd sl mnders. The smll volume under the tle the Comte de Gbl, ppers hve been wrten by Rosicrucin, nd exhibs somethg the mnner by which the members tht frterny pproched strngers, nd sounded them upon the subject be comg members. The work ws well known s dy, nd hs mde some tlk recently; but not the work n Alchemt. Whtever my be the fct wh regrd some the books, s excrescences, hvg some ppernce belongg the clss Hermetic works, but whout vlue, there cn be no doubt the ntiquy the subject, or the enigmticl mode tretg. Th would still under the nme 51. It be Smrgde Tble, true, even dmted tht the works Hermes re ll suppostious. cn never be scerted who wrote the or when ws wrten; but, for ll *See The Rosicrucins; Their Techgs. Also the works Dr. Rndolph, nd Freemn Dowd. P. B. B.

86 86 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS'. prcticl purposes, such questions re no im portnce; becuse the pot lwys, not s the uthorship, but s the truth the doctres pub lhed. Concerng the Doctre Hermes, Eliphs Levi tells us tht: There re two Hermetic opertions, the one Spirul, the other mteril, nd these re mutully dependent. For the rest, ll Hermetic science conted the Doctre Hermes, which sid hve been origlly scribed upon n emerld tblet. Its first rticles hve been expounded, nd those follow which re concerned wh the oper tion the gret work: Thou shlt seprte the erth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently, wh gret dustry. It res from erth heven, nd g descends erth, nd receives the power thgs bove nd thgs below. By th mens shlt thou obt the glory the whole world, nd ll drk ness shll deprt from thee. It the strong power every power, for will overcome ll tht subtle nd penetrte ll tht solid. Thus ws the world creted. To seprte the subtle from the gross, the first opertion, which wholly terior, set

87 ALOHEMY AND THE ALCELEMISTS. 87 the Soul free from prejudice nd ll vice, which ccomplhed by the use the Philosophicl slt, tht sy, wdom; mercury, tht personl skill nd ppliction; flly, sulphur, representg vl energy nd fire will. By these re we enbled chnge spirul gold thgs which re ll lest precious, even the refuse the erth. In th sense we must terpret the prbles the choir phil osophers, Bernrd Trevn, Bsil Vlente, Mry, the Egyptin, nd other prophets Alchemy; but their works, s the Gret Work, we must droly seprte the subtle from the gross, the mysticl from the posive, llegory from theory. If we would red them wh pr nd understndg, we must tke them first ll s llegoricl their entirety, nd then descend from llegories relies by the wy the correspondences or nlogies dicted the one dogm: Tht which bove proportionl tht which below, nd reciproclly. The word rt when reversed, or red fter the mnner scred nd primive chrcters from right left, gives three ils which express the different grdes the Gret Work. T signifies trid, theory, nd trvil; R,

88 88 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. reliztion; A, dpttion. * * * * * In th plce we my dicte for the reserches our reders n dmirble trete ttributed Hermes Trmegtus, entled Merv Mundi. It found only cert edions Hermes, nd conts, beneth llegories full prundy nd poetry, the doctre di vidul self-cretion, or the cretive lw consequent on the ccordnce between two forces, which re termed fixed nd voltile by Alchemts, nd re necessy nd liberty the bsolute order. The diversy the forms which bound nture expled, th trete, by the diversy spirs, nd monstrosies by the divergence efforts; s redg nd ssimil tion re dpensible for ll Adepts who would fthom the mysteries nture nd devote themselves seriously the serch fter the Gret Work. When the msters Alchemy sy tht short time nd ltle money re needed ccomplh the works science, bove ll when they ffirm tht one vessel lone needed, when they spek the gret nd unique thnor, which ll cn use, which redy ech mn s hnd, which ll possess whout know g, they llude philosophicl nd morl Alchemy.

89 ALCEDEMY AND THE ALCEDEMISTS. 89 As fct, strong nd determed Will cn rrive short time t bsolute dependence, nd we re ll possession the chemicl strument, the gret nd sole thnor which nswers for the seprtion the subtle from the gross nd the fixed from the vol tile. Th strument, complete s the world nd prece s mthemtics, represented by the sges under the emblem the pentgrm or the five-poted str, which the bsolute sign humn telli gence. 52. Questions science cnnot be determed upon testimony, except for the unscientific, who must re ceive upon trust wht they re cpble verifyg by n ppel wht my be clled scientific prciples. 53. In mtters hry, where testimony fcts importnt, otherwe. In th cse, the vercy nd competency judgment the hrin must be estblhed, or the fcts recorded my be looked upon s whout uthory nd comprtively unimportnt. 54. But no question dependent upon outwrd testi mony for solution essentilly importnt for the ner well-beg mn, which, by Dive Providence,

90 90 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. or, we ought sy, Dive Justice, rests upon que other grounds, mkg possible, s the Alchemts sy, for the poor be employed mkg the Philosopher's Sne; tht livg my proby. pot be Whoever, the most humble mn honest nd enjoy the blessgs conscious filure on th dqulified for pssg n dverse judgment upon the results climed for the work one testify, the spir s experience, the fru s ll well-dog; the text, John vii:17: ny mn will do H will, he shll know tre, whether be God or whether the wrers I If the doc spek myself. Whoever will rightly terpret th text, nd bide by nd wht does or, will fd the Perl signify whether sne, the Mgrte Love, the Rose Smrgde Tble, or Scripture by the perl 55. It the be gret price; clled Chucer s Testment Romunt, the one perl, the the one thg needful, figured my surpre mny ws n Alchemt, yet he one by mny sod Alchemy the wrers. gret price. be ld tht Chucer climed nd quoted The truth, s he under the sense tht Robert Boyle did

91 - *** *** ". ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 91 fter him, nd pproved ; but he sw the errors flse or mled Alchemts, nd wrote the Cnon s Tle brg them their senses; but the Tle self nevertheless n lchemicl work; s tht Ot Tchenius, lredy referred, wrten for the sme purpose. Simplicy or plness, sys A. E. We, hs been sid by Hermetic wrer be the sel truth, nd if were needful defe the whole scope trnscendentl wdom the plness nd sim plicy one undorned phse, we should sy, the lnguge Sendivogius, tht mke tht which occult mnifest. It thus the eduction powers nd the elbortion or ltencies. The def ion covers ll nd cludes ll, from the prbolic mystifiction Prcelsus concerng tht merl wter by which gold cn be mde grow, nd the imbibions nd dtilltions Alchemy, even those high ltudes mystic ction by which the lost memory the soul's nterior sttes cn be recovered. Now s we hve ffirmed, there doctre Development which not merely dcernible, but present beyond ll possi

92 92 ALOEIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. bily mconception mysticl lerture. The trnscendentl theology Chrtendom dels wholly wh the evolution mn s Spirul Potencies the direction perfect life Chrt. But the physicl perfection Humny forgotten or ignored there. Side by side, however, wh trn scendentl theology, there flourhed the Hermetic school science the West, nomlly derivg s rcn from the theurgic philosophicl trdions the Greco-Alexndrin period. The dciples th College present themselves before us under two spects s Mgi nd Alchemts. They both operted the region Phenomen, nd the mgicins repre sent the connectg lk between trnscendentl evo lutionry Mysticm nd wht my be clled the physicl Mysticm the trnsmutry process. The theurgic wdom which they were herirs gve them ech cse n illumtion which trnscended their msion. The evokers spirs spired Deific union; mny Alchemts, while they exploed the cpcies metls, dremed the Soul s evolution. Some these forgot their physicl purpose, nd surrendered their serch fter welth for the purely

93 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 93 Spirul reserch, led on by the resources their termology nd the suggestions their pround symbolm, which possessed, s we shll see, dul field ppliction mn nd the merl world. Th ppliction ws not rbrry, nd ws not forced. There pry nd prllel between ll mysticl processes, becuse ll re evolutionry. The trnscendentl illumtion the illumted Chrtin Mystic the ppliction the evolutionry lw the Soul mn. The physicl Mysticm the Alchemts pplied the sme prciple the metllic kgdom, while the mgicin ws concerned wh the cretion n environment which cted s species forcg-house for externl eduction the trnscendentl fculties the ner mn. But the experimentl foundtion hd lso philo sophicl bs the gret Dogms Hermes. It ws virtue th Centrl nologicl theorem Her metic science which we shll g hve occsion refer tht the process ll Mystic ction ws identicl nture nd prciple, but pplied wh due regrd forml difference. The seven sttes the Sne Alchemy re timtely relted the

94 94 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. seven stges the cstle the terior mn. Both re llied the Mysteries tht sy, the sequence hierrchic pgentry by which, the penetrli the so-clled pgn temples, the elect those ges were duced the methods the Supreme Illumtion. God lone knoweth fter wht prece mnner the Mysteries were connected wh tht Holy Assembly, the extence which we shll hve oc csion ffirm, but we do know, nd re convced beyond the possibily decion, tht they pro duced royl sue the le Mysticm, nd tht even the light nd joy Chrt, where, s children the trnscendentl, we ourselves believe tht we cn experience ll joy, nd be enlightened wh ll light, there neher pece, nor joy, nor chry perfect Spirul seeg, surpss tht which ws experienced by such vessels election s Plotus. 56. The poems Jen de Meung re ll lchemicl, cludg the Remonstrnce Nture gst Wnderg Alchemts; which ws not wrten gst Alchemy, but gst errg Alchemts, designed brg them bck Nture nd Truth.

95 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 95 The Romn de l Rose, begun by Willim de Lorr, ws completed by Jen de Meung, nd self complete specimen Hermetic Philosophy, the Rose beg symbol Philosophic gold. The edion th Romnce, publhed t Amsterdm 1735,, fct, 57. As collection mere question th subject thn Alchemicl Trcts. undoubtedly n unexplored mss lerture, there generlly imged. There extence, which proceeded from men pst ges, especilly ner the period tion, which, gret del if upon the nture could be light upon the hry mn; but secret wrg thought more the Reform dciphered, would throw the time nd enter th field fully would require both ptience nd genius. To exme th subject properly, would be necessry look mny works on Mgic, Astrology, nd Chiro mncy, for there were men who wrote on these sciences who were not themselves duped, however much they might hve mled others. Th hs ten been sug gested; but no one, so fr s we know, hs recently undertken explore these wrgs, except from idle curiosy.

96 96 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCELEMIST.S. 58. In the Diry Elis Ashmole my be seen repeted entries, tht he ttended the Fest the Astrologers, whout the smllest notice their proceedgs. It extremely improbble tht n sso cion, cludg such men s Ashmole, were deluded by strologicl nonsense, though que possible tht under strologicl figures the ws the time might hve found freedom denied them public. 59. I my be ld tht, the sme Diry, Ashmole tells us h curg some dtemper by hngg three spiders round h neck. Th my or my not hve lerl significnce. Ashmole ws willg be clssed mong Alchemts, nd publhed two collec tions lchemicl works, besides wrg work on Alchemy himself; which, however, does not rnk very high. 60. It remrkble tht the best works on Alchemy re short, nd most them nonymous. Notwh stndg the uny doctre mong them, the mode tretment so diversified tht impossible clssify them. A few hold somethg like regulr order their tretes; others purposely vert every thg, commencg wh the end or the middle the

97 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 97 work. Some spek first work, others second, cllg the first, etc.; so tht the books t first sight re perfectly chotic, nd one knows not wht mke them. If I hd fllen wh them erly life, I should probbly hve desped them; but meetg wh them t mture ge, fter I hd been sufficiently schooled the difficulties wht commonly clled Philosophy, I ws que redy believe tht so much lbor could hrdly hve been undertken whout respectble purpose, by men who mnifestly looked for no erthly rewrd. Durg the lst two yers, I hve done ltle else thn red these works, nd, though I would not recommend ny one follow my exmple, I do not regret the time employed upon th study, even though I hve not yet come defe con clusion beyond wht I hve chosen cll the wy, bout which I m very sure I m not mtken. The End pots t some sense the Uny which I thk very few men rech, except words; for wht, deed, the rel sense volved the first rticle Creed? Undoubtedly lies out the common obser vtion mn, nd cn only be obted by dci ple unknown ordry techers. On th pot I

98 98 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. hve no desire dogmtize, nd m willg leve the subject where I found subject cnnot nd if I be hve sid other dposion,, under the rose. The pproched wh o much grvy, I 61. In redg books word tht my seem most cheerfully retrct ten fd such expressions Alchemy s imply ny. the reder will these here lies the whole secret; or, th the whole work; or, th wht ll you need; nd the like; but, upon comprg sid wh wht covered. s one plce sid s exhibg the whole work nother, no likeness will Th res from the fct, such, tht the work ctented or tht whoever gets connected clew or wht circulr, nd ll s (seprble) ny one be d climed con prts, the prts my be sid hve found the whole. Hence, one wrer my sy tht the whole secret lies extrctg the Philosophic mercury, lthough th begng but prcticl the work. Another sts tht the whole secret lies the vible vible. mkg the vible vible, nd Another my sy tht the secret lies dsolution nd cogultion, which refers the two extremes the work (sid, nevertheless, be one

99 - - - * * * * > * >- - - ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 99 work), dsolution beg considered the unprong the mercury, while cogultion or fixtion refers the dsoluble union. Other wrers pot the wnion lone s contg the whole secret. Another tells us: The first step then let Love rule supreme; leve no room the soul for hte. To do th recognize the utily nd beuty ll extence. Love your enemies, sys the supreme Alchemt the Sviour nd we soon lern know tht our gretest enemies re the crnl pssions nd desires wh us. A mn s worst foes re those h own household. But not difficult love these when we relize their pst utily tht they hve been the mens our evolutionry dvnce ment nd our scent from nimly, for through senstion they gve us experience. But now we hve lerned the lesson, we hve ssimilted ll tht the pssions their lower spect cn tech us; wht then re we do wh them? Are we cst out or destroy n old servnt, merely becuse h pprent usefulness ended? To do so will prove ftl mtke, though th would be much less difficult tsk thn wht required us, for fr esier destroy pssion

100 100 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCELEMIST.S. thn purify or trnsmute ; yet such trnsmut tion the evolutionry function the higher self, who comes not judge, but sve. As we dvnce every fculty must be uplifted nd tred serve us on higher level mnifesttion, for the oppose pole every vice virtue which tht vice my be trnsmuted. Remember th. Tke coveusness, the cruel, grspg pssion, which pre-emently the vice th competive ge. When completely possesses mn there no depth selfhness or degrdtion which he my not descend. He my stnd unmoved, steeped luxury, while ll round him re mery nd wnt; my duce him corner one the necessies life, so tht thousnds the poor will suffer for lck food nd fuel, l Ber, nd ll for somethg which he hs lredy superfluy, nd which rely cn g him nothg. But when the Light the Higher Self nd the Love the Soul turned on th low spect, ll chnges stntly, s our pot view chnged. No longer do the mteril thgs the world seem desirble. The nrrow self, which hs seemed so seprte from our fellow men, enlrges nd

101 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 101 cludes them lso, for we relize tht they re but n extension ourselves. Though, s old, we still long hve nd hold, the thgs we covet now re Spirul tresures, nd we desire them not only for our dividul selves, but for our lrger selves, which clude our brother pilgrims lso. As we expnd teriorly, nd redeem nd re generte ech vice nd pssion, we my wke fd tht we hve mde wonderful dvnce conscious mess; tht we hve red our ttchment from the heterogeneous the homogeneous; from the differen ted Stn the Uny God. 62. Our Art, sys one, compound two prciples, one which the Slt, nd nother which the Sulphur Nture doth bound, (the reder my consider tht the uthor referrg the Sol nd fun Artephius nd others,) which re not yet perfect, nor lgether imperfect, nd by consequence, therefore, my be exlted by our Art, which cnnot be effected upon tht which lredy perfect; nd then by common mercury, extrct, not SO11. * The Altr the Wilderness, Ethelbert John

102 102 ALOHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST8. the pondus (i. e. celestil virtue out cury the substnce 63. The compound the compound. the subject), but the mn, nd the common mer the conscience, (or, nture conscientiously ccepted,) by mens brought under the fluence Love which the subject mn for God, nd the Love be Dive Love; for the God for mn, one thg. Th celestil virtue, the uthor goes on sy, beg fermented, begets the common mercury n fsprg more noble thn self, which our true Hermphrode (th expression we under stnd s referrg nture s double chrcter, s the mster-mtress the Twentieth Sonnet Shkespere), which will congel self. Three kds nother, re grden most beutiful flowers, sys be sought, nd my be found the the We: dmsk-colored Violets (love), the milk-whe Lily (pury), nd the Immortl Amrnthus (Immortly). Not fr from the foun t, t the entrnce, fresh violets do first slute thee, which, beg wtered by strems from the gret golden river, put on the most delicte color the drk spphire; the sun will give thee signs. Thou must not

103 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 103 sever such precious flowers from their root until thou mkest the Sne; for the fresh ones cropped f hve more juice nd tcture; nd then pick them crefully wh gentle nd dcreet hnd; if ftes frown not, they will esily follow, nd, one flower beg plucked, the other golden one will not be wntg. Let the Lily nd the Amrnth succeed wh greter cre nd lbor. work. Th ws considered synops the whole While tretg the Violets (Love), the Lily (Pury), nd the Amrnthus (Immortly), s Alchemicl problems, let us look t the Cnons Jen d Espgnet, the Hermetic Arcnum: I. Wh the golden portl Of the grden the We, Wtchg by the seven spryed fount The Hesperin Drgon lies. Like the ever-burng Brnches In the drem Holy Seer; Like the types Asi's churches, Those glorious jest pper. Three times the mgic wters Must the Wged Drgon dr, Then h scles shll burst sunder And h Hert be reft tw. Forth shll flow n emntion, Forth shll sprg shpe Dive, And if Sol nd Cynthi id thee, Shll the chrmed Key be the.

104 104 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. II. In the solemn groves Wdom, Where blck pes their shdows flg Ner the hunted cell Hermes, Three Lovely flowerlets Sprg: The Violet, dmsk tted, In scents ll flowers bove; The milk whe vestl Lily, And the purple flower Love. Red Sol sign shll give thee Where the spphire violets glem, Wtered by the rills tht wnder From the viewless golden strem; One Violet shlt thou gther, But h bewre, bewre! The Lily nd the Amrnth Demnd thy chiefest cre. III. Wh the lke crystl, Rosete s Sol's first ry, Wh eyes dimond lustre, A thousnd fhes ply. A net wh tht wter, A net wh web gold, It cst where ir-bells glter One shg fh shll hold. IV. Amid the oldest mounts, Whose ps re next the Sun, The everlstg rivers Through glowg rivers run; Those mounts re silver, Those chnnels re gold, And thence the countless tresures Of the Kgs Erth re rolled. But fr, fr must he wnder

105 ALOEDEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 105 O'er relms nd ses unknown Who seek the Ancient Mounts Where shes the Wondrous Sne.

106 106 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. CHAPTER II. There re mny detched descriptions the work potg more especilly the Uny, pssg over or uchg but slightly upon the mens or the Wy. Here one entled: A DESCRIPTION OF THE STONE. Thou Dphne (Lun) fly from Phoebus (Sol) bright, Yet shll they both be one, And if you understnd th right, You hve our hidden sne. For Dphne, she fir nd whe; But Voltile she; Phoebus, fixed God might, And red s blood he. Dphne Wter Nymph, And hth moture sre, Which Phoebus doth consume wh het, And dries her very sore. They beg dried one, Of crystl flood must drk, Till they be brought Whe Sne; Which ws wh virg s milk, So long until they flow s wx, And no fume you cn see; Then hve you ll you need sk: Pre God, nd thnkful be. 2. The flowg like wx the plibily the subject, becomes s ltle child. Mtt. xviii:3. Here nother smple, entled:

107 ALCEDEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTs. 107 ENIGMA PHILOSOPHICUM. There no light (truth) but wht lives the Sun (mn); There no Sun but wht twice begot, Nture nd Art the prents first begun; By Nture t ws, but Nture perfects not. Art then wht Nture left hnd doth tke, And out one twold work doth mke. A twold work doth mke; but such work As doth dm divion, none t ll, (See here where the secret most doth lurk,) Unless be mthemticl. It must be two; yet mke one nd one, And you do tke the wy mke none. Lo here the Primer Secret th Art: Condemn not, but understnd right; Who fileth tt th foremost prt, Shll never know Art s force nor Nture s might, Nor yet hve power one nd one so mixed, To mke by one fixed, one unfixed fixed. 3. The bove pots the End the work, nd sys nothg directly the mens ttg ; but, for s purpose, one the most complete descrip tions be found nywhere. Here still nother, entled: THOMAS ROBINSON'S DE LAPIDE PHILOSOPHORUM. The Hevens, the Erth, nd ll tht them Were six dys perfected from byss: From one sprung four; from four second one; The lst grt (mn); the first the corner sne. Whout the first, the lst my not hd; Yet the first, the lst o, o bd, When from the Erth the Hevens re seprted (Gen. 1), be,

108 108 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEIEMISTS. Were not the Hevens wh Erth first cohobted? And when the Hevens, nd Erth, nd All were not, Were only Hevens crete, nd Erth forgot? No: Hevens nd Erth sprung ll from one t first: Then who cn sy, Hevens or Erth worst? Is not the Erth the mother them ll? And wht the Hevens, but Erth's essentil? Although they hve Heven no Erthly residence, Yet the Erth doth rest their Hevenly fluence. Were not the Erth, wht were the other three? (Referrg the so-clled four elements.) Were not the Hevens, wht on Erth could be? Thus s they cme, so shll they pss gether; But un mn not known from whence, or whher (John iii:8). And for the time Erth s Heven purifyg, Six thousnd yers they live, nd hve their dyg: Then ll shll rest eternl nd Dive, And by the beuty the Godhed she (1 Cor. xv:24). I swer there no other truth but th Of tht gret Sne; which mny seek nd ms. 4. The six thousnd yers not be undersod s defe period. A sublime fh nd trust culcted. 5. The Mrrow Alchemy, though the versific tion rther the doggerel order, conts mny useful directions, which I will give the followg s specimen: Consider well the dnger, nd be sure Tht better t sfety thn fer To live, nd so you shll yourself ure To secrecy, tht none from you my her, Eher bostg wy wht you cn do, Nor yet for price procure the secret true. The dnger here referred ws tht persecution

109 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEEMISTS. 109 for opion s ske, gurd gst which secrecy recommended. Of drk nd eke compny bewre, The one besots, the other eke llures: Secrets he cnnot be, drk tht dre Too lrgely; Tempernce best ssures: Th the Br tht doth commnd the ngue, Whout which cn not be bridled long. All these thgs ordered right, next I dve Thee not expect wh over-greedy md The event, but md the syg the we, By ptience long, the efid you sure will fd; He tht hopes short time receive H hrvest, doth himself fe deceive. Some cnnot let their glss (themselves) stnd quiet long, But they move, or turn, or jog, or shke; Thereby they do Nture s work much wrong, Which forced her own Pth forske. And follow these fond Artts foolh md; Which whoso violtes, my rep the wd. Comm thyself, nd work, God bove; Intret h grce, nd help, nd from ll s And vice thee keep, which God s lws do reprove; Wh him lone see tht thou do beg, Th the wy sure success tt, Else myst thou il, but lwys il v. And if thou hp so blessed for be, As th rre Jewel tt, which mny Do ms, few fd, be sure thy degree Tht God thou honor; neher do ny Wrong the lest, for so God thou wilt Obnoxious be under heous guilt. The poor relieve, the sick from dnger free; In npk bury not th tlent gret; Chrble works pursue; so shlt thou see

110 110 ALCEDEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. God s blessg on thee restg, nd on thy set, Whilst thou wh mortls hste; yet O resolve Wh God t lest live; th t resolve: For th ll the blessgs th life The gretest nd the highest price; Is, Nor given but such, whose strife improve ; such who (truly we) Do not dot on tht which fdg And neglect the everlstg bls. Now shll Ibriefly, plly, nd deed, The rel workgs our Sne dclose, Wh ll s colors, nd s dys: my rede Whoso observes, shll fd truly shows More thn by ny mn hth been reveled, And yet there s somethg here lies conceled. The Fire thy compound (thyself) shll no sooner feel, But lgether like led will flow; The tender Body, which the soul steel Is, doth such mighty efficcy show, Tht Sol whened, nd devoured; On both Medi s broth must then poured. Th our Se, which Two fhes swim, (the ever recurrg two,) Yet neher Fh hth scle bone; The Se ever round, yet hth no brim, The Se nd Fhes eke re ll, but (or only) one (Try uny); These we digest until broth they mke, (experience life,) Tht ll my the Uny prtke. Attend thou forty dys; then shll pper Blck the blckest, like well-burnt col (clled Scripture repentnce); or When th thou seest, thou shlt not need fer, But Whe lst shll show whout control; t be

111 ALOBIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 111 And so un the sprklg Red you come, Hvg t first blckness pssed the doom. (Chrt, the creed, we see, first descends, nd then res glory.) Thus Blckness the gte by which we enter To Light Prde; th the wy; The Bodies here reduced re, their centre; A dml night brgs forth glorious dy, Let th thy study be, th Blck t tt, Or else ll other signs shll be v. The color first Argent, for the Sun In the womb Lun must descend, ( He descended Hell. ) And both un their Mtter First must run, By Mercury lone, which doth mend Nture s kd, the Sun nd Moon Are both eclipsed th wter soon. (The Fire, Mercury, wter, nd fire signify one thg, under different condions.) The Fire still workg the only cuse Of ll th ltertion which doth Apper; by mens th the Wter drwn Wter Life from Sun nd Lun both: Th wter hides spir gret might, The proper seed Sol nd Lun bright. (Thus the work circulr, nd ends where be gs.) 6. We will follow th no frther, for here, s other extrcts, the object not ttempt complete exhibion the Gret Work, but show tht the Alchemts were students mn; nd justify the ht by Dr. Kopp, tht, if be llowed consider mn, s microcosm, the terprettion the wrgs

112 112 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. the Alchemts will be esy; for th h judgment upon the very extrcts ced by the French wrer, nd copied by the Englh Reviewer, show how bsurdly the Alchemts gold. went work mke To prove tht mn ws the subject the Philoso phers or Alchemts, we need but turn one the Msters, Benedict Figulus, who, h A Golden nd Blessed Csket Nture's Mrvels, one the Alchemic text-books, tells us: Other Philosophy cn never tech us Know Thyself, nor the foundtion Nturl Reveltion, which some hethen philosophers, prticulrly Pythgors, hd progressed so fr tht they wh reson might be preferred mny pressed Chr tins -dy. He especilly, from the strs nd the cretures th erth, lernt more bout Nture thn our rrognt, bostg philosophers, who, t botm, understndg nothg themselves, would f tech others. But th our Hermetic Philosophy, which com pres the true Astronomy, Alchemy, nd Mgic, s lso Cbl, etc., n extremely ncient, true,

113 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 113 Nturl Science, derived from Adm, who, both before nd fter the Fll, hd full knowledge ll thgs, nd hnded down from fther son through the ptrirchs nd der friends God. After the Flood the generl understndg nd knowledge th true nturl philosophy becme wekened force nd scttered frgments ll directions; hence rose subdividg the whole prts nd one hs become n Astronomer, nother Mgicin, third Cblt, fourth n Alchemt, nd especilly did fterwrds flourh Egypt. For stnce, the smh, Abrhm Tublk, pst mster ll kds brss nd iron work, nd lso n excellent Astrologer nd Arhmeticin, brought these rts wh him from Egypt the Lnd Cnn. And the gret skill, wdom, nd knowledge the bove rts tted by the Egyptins ws by them lso communicted other ntions. The Chldens, Hebrews, Persins, Egyptins, hve lso lwys possessed nd cultivted th knowl edge, gether wh Theology nd structions Dive thgs. Thus, Moses ws so formed by ll good rts the schools the Egyptins tht he be

114 114 ALCHEMY AND TEE ALCEEMIST.S. cme perfect Wdom, nd therefore ws not v chosen God be the leder the people Isrel. Thus lso Dniel, from h youth up, lernt nd imbibed th rt the Schools the Chldens, s h Prophecies, nd h skill ll kds terpre ttions before Kg Nebuchdnezzr nd Kg Bel shzzr, clerly nd wonderfully testify. Such Philosophers nd Mgi were lso the Three We Men from the Est, who sought Chrt Jesus from the Rg the Sun, nd found him mnger t Bethlehem. But subsequent the orig th Dive Mgic nd nturl true Philosophy, nmely, twenty-seven yers fter the Flood bout the yer 1680, A. M. mong the Chldens, Persins, nd fterwrds Egypt, hvg herd the sme, their noblest nd sgest men proceeded Chlde nd Egypt, order tht they might lern such wdom their Schools. But they did not relh the techg God s word from the Holy Bible nd the Lw Moses, nd, de pendg upon their reson nd understndg, whed be cleverer nd wer thn God Himself, s the

115 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 115 wont Lucifer nd h dciples; for lwys hppens tht where God builds Church, the devil sets h chpel up beside ; s lso recorded the New Testment, for when Chrt, the gretest Spgyric Philosopher nd Hevenly Sower, sowed H good seed, the Enemy immedely threw h tres nd weeds upon, which, ls, hppens th dy. There fore hve they fllen wy from the foundtion nd essence ll Nturl Mysteries nd hidden Arts, nd hve sought wdom nd deceptive Str the senseless, stupid, erroneous Stn (mterilm), wh which they hve obscured nd diluted the truth. For their own pride nd presumption hve hdered, be fooled, nd plunged them error. For, fter hvg lernt ltle from the Chldens nd Egyp tins, they becme so puffed up nd proud, dependg more thn ws meet on their own understndg, tht they begn crice thgs wh mny flse nd v ventions, nd ok upon themselves them flse philosophy, concocted subtle brs, under the fluence which flse philosophy scribe their own tht evil str; not only got the upper hnd mong the Greeks, but spred from them the Lts,

116 116 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. who, not less thn the former, lso whed shew their own understndg immedely they hd c quired ltle knowledge, whence, sted im provg, cresg, or dorng, they hve only mde thgs worse. Now, by these th so-clled Philosophy hs been dsemted through entire Europe. Almost ll Acdemies nd High Schools tech Moses nd the Prophets, even not only Germny, but When nyone dvnces ught grounded theirs, he the Word lughed t, but, the neglect Chrt Himself, lmost ll other ntions. the true Philosophy, God, but which contrry not only condemned, mocked, nd clled n eccentric, heresirch s hs hppened cert pseudo-leves or old proverb rems true: deceived. Stn ceptions wh which he me t heretic, nd the hnds even persecuted. The The world whes be clever juggler, usg mny de leds stry ll Chrtendom, shewg the wy the eternl night h drk lntern, which they tke light. be hell wh true guidg But, generous Msters nd Friends, if we would

117 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 117 follow fter the true Nturl Philosophy, founded on the Light Nture; if we would cquire the sme s our Spgyric Philosophy, true Astronomy, nd Mgic, where nd under whom shll we study th? Shll we seek the techers nd pressors the Uni versies? Verily, we shll not fd there, for they re the true enemies, mockers, nd persecurs our Philosophy, nd ll s dherents. Art hs no hters but the ignornt. They would rther rem wh the husks nd chff, which the wd strews hher nd thher, thn wh the good nourhg gr, rye, nd whet from the gret sre-house or tresury the Eternl God nd Bountiful Lord, which he gives, nd ves us prtke. Where then, I sk, shll we seek, nd wht School? Der Msters nd Friends, we neher cn, nor should, nor must look for elsewhere thn the Strs; there the school from which everythg lerned. Now, there re two bodies mn, one formed from the elements, nd the other from the strs. Through deth the elementry body, wh s spir, brought re consumed the grve, nd the Etherel body nd spir their firmment. But the spir

118 118 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. the Imge goes him whose imge. Thus ech one dies tht which he, nd buried the sme. Thus, lso, does deth divide from ech other the three spirs mn he who lives mn. Therefore, the we the wdom given him by God; lives the imge the Lord, the sme rulg over h plnetry nd elementry body. But, brethren, mn should wlk, g the lw nd, for the rest, s Nture, regrds h erthly body, ccord s the Will did the old hethen Sges; God nd the Holy Spir, nd not set the morl body wh s wdom bove the Immortl Imge (s lmost ll the world now does, wh s fncied, spurious wdom). Neher should he reject the Eternl Imge for the niml body h fncied wdom, wherefore the Lord Jesus hs not sid v H Gospel concerng the tx penny: Render un Cesr the thgs tht re Cesr's, nd un God the thgs tht re God s. Wht did He men convey by tht? Why th, tht the body, ccordg Cesr, nd shll be subject the nturl life, belongs him s s erthly hed upon erth. But the soul belongs the sme shll be given g God, nd God, nd shll mke

119 ALCBIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 119 nswer for s work. Tht.H Imge ccordg, he shll return the Spirul life, s Him Hevenly Lord, from whom body nd soul ech sep rtely come. Therefore, ccordg the Will he shll wlk h H lws God, tht he my return God H Imge, nd the eternl fiery breth entrusted him, s were, shll be...hevy lden. life given un Abrhm s bosom, nd not be cst out from before H Fce eternlly outermost drkness on ccount godless, devilh life nd converstion. Such ws Chrt s meng nd object. Now cordg the Imge nd should wh reson he who lives c the Lord, overcomes the strs, be considered we mn, lthough by bld nd senseless world he my be held s fool. & But thgs belongs not but philosiphe further concerng these th plce mortl philosophy, the Eternl, Immortl wdom, which we hve lluded, which hs Chrt Jesus concerng whom we hve the voice syg: Her ye him; so s s Founder, the Esther, lso H own voice clls us (Mtthew xi): Come un Me ll ye who re..lern from Me, for. I m meek nd

120 120 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. lowly hert, etc. From Him must we derive the Hevenly nd Eternl Philosophy order tht we my come up the Kgdom Heven I m, nd will rem my grve, the fervent dciple nd follower the Nturl nd Mortl, nd the Super nturl Hevenly Instruction, hvg tlly re puded the flse, hethen wdom which proceeds not from the true light nd groundwork Nture, sce besides Chrt nd H Wdom there the world only vny vnies. tention explorg Nture. But return our Generous Msters nd Friends, th cnnot be done by stg t the fireside nor by pourg over philosophicl mes. would explore Nture our Philosophy, No, if we nd tt the desired successful results, we must tred the books Nture wh our feet. Wrgs re exmed by mens letters, but Nture by gog from lnd lnd. In th wy one fds occsionlly pious nd fhful Nicodemuses, Nturlts, Philosophers, Ex plorers Nture, nd Lovers our Spgyric Phil osophy (I spek not now the knvh, vgbond, flse Alchemts, on whose ccount I would not move step). From such s these, ddion one's own

121 ALCEIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 121 observtions, one cn ten obt much useful knowledge. Hence ech fresh country new lef the Book Nture. Th Our Codex Nture sufficiently lrge nd mple, the leves which must be turned over wh our feet, nd exmed wh the spir understndg, nd, lthough we be clled vgbonds nd lnd loupers by the big wigged docrs nd syrup boilers, tht mtters nothg me. The dciple should not fre better thn h mster, nd the sme thg hs hppened Theophrstus, our der Precepr nd Monrch Arts, lso Alex. von Suchten, Phoedro, nd others. Therefore, on my journeys I regrd but ltle wht mde by men s hnds, though others thk much God lone, these I, but the works regrd, dmire, nd seek plore. To fd out their three prciples, the pure from the impure, nd thereby, nd glory God, body nd soul, ex seprte the pre benef myself nd my neighbors my highest endevor. For ll creted thgs re livg letters nd books cn my be be deciphered the orig red wht mn everyone commend. mn, which which lso Before ll thgs, let himself the Nosce Ttipsum, tht

122 122 ALOEIEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTs. he my know himself, s Artle sid Alexnder the Gret: Know Thyself nd thou shlt possess ll 5 thgs; nd Morienus: those who do themselves hold ll thgs re need no other id. * * * * * * Therefore, lso m I content wh these three books, from which I my lern very wdom. The first the gret, full-meng Book Nture, wrten not wh k or stylus, but by the fger God, where, lyg open before our eyes, re scribed nd regtered Heven, Erth, nd ll cretures there, through the scred impress the Three One which volume clled Mcrocosmus. The second the Smll Book, which wh ll s leves nd pieces tken from the lrger work, nd th Mn himself, for whose ske ll tht God hs ever creted there; the sme lso clled Micro cosmus. And mn lone the strument Nturl Light, fulfill nd shew by rts nd wdom wht God hs ordered the firmment. Also He hs further ordered tht mn hve twold mgnet viz., one composed three elements (h body), nd hence lso he ttrcts them himself nother the

123 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 123 strs, by which he ttrcts from the strs the Micro cosmic tense. Therefore, the Reson mn hs Mgnet which ttrcts self the md nd thoughts the Strs. res the true believers, From these, I sy, yet nother Mgi, nd Cblts, nd th third Mgnet hidden the Imge God, mn's Soul. The sme penetrtes, through fh, Him from whom cme, nd seeks eternl Wdom from the Holy Ghost, promed by Chrt must be well remembered mn, the Eternl nd the Nturl, tht One subject. It tht there re two souls, deth, the other rests deth. two lives. Thus lso there re two souls, the Eternl nd the Nturl, the Nturl soul (strl) body gether form one mn but two bodies. the strry body, nd the strry the fleshy one, nd these two There re lso two hevens mn, Lun Cerebrum, the Cgstrin heven. the one But the hert mn the true Ilistic, Necrocosmic heven. Yes, the hert Immortl beg, out mn self the true heven which the Soul hs never yet come, which New Olympus nd Heven Chrt Jesus hs chosen for dwellg ll true believers. The

124 124 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. third Book the Holy Bible, the Holy Wr the Old nd New Testment, which expls us the two precedg Books. The Dive Chronicles, spired by the Holy Ghost, shew how the Gret World ws creted for the Smll World (Mn), who the gret world fed, nourhed, nd preserved by God the Fther. The sme, fter the Fll, ws by God s Son delivered from everlstg punhment; who lso hs been born g through wter nd the Spir, fed wh the Hevenly Mnn nd Immortl Food the New Creture, nd guided by the Holy Ghost the Knowledge ll Truth. But return our occult Hermetic Philosophy: Beloved Msters nd Friends, we, wh others, hve compl not ltle tht, lthough numerble devilh philosophers hve wrten bout the Universl Medice nd the Philosopher s Sne, yet both Hethens nd Chrtins hve left us true wrgs, which godless Ccosophts nd pseudo-sophts hve, for the most prt, eher wholly kept bck or ltered. We hve further compl those who mutilte nd flsify the works true seekers fter Nturl Wdom nd Art, for I hve clerly dcovered defects,

125 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 125 ltertions, nd foreign mtter the Triumphl Chriot Fr. Bsilius, nd lso the wrgs A. von Suchten nd Theophrstus. More especilly, der Friends, hve we compl the devilh cunng wy which the works Theophrstus hve hher been suppressed, only few which (nd those be reckoned the very worst) hvg ppered prt. For lthough they hve been collected gether from ll countries which Theophrstus hs lived nd trveled the books he hs wrten Astronomy, Philosophy, Chemtry, Cbl, nd Theology, num berg some thousnd volumes yet the sme hs only been done from vrice get riches. The bove from th gret work hs been given thus fully for the reson tht fully proves tht the sub ject the Alchemts ws Mn nd furthermore, the foregog gives the Key the whole mystery, so tht he who reds my understnd. In explntion much the bove, Prcelsus tells us tht: Mn s soul mde up the sme elements s the strs; but s the wdom the Supreme guides the motions the strs, so the reson mn rules the fluences which rotte nd circulte

126 126 ALOHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. h soul. The essence mn s siderel body, which he ttrcts from the strs, substntil nture; still, we consider s beg somethg spirul on ccount the etherely s substnce, nd on c count the gret dimensions s vible body. The essence mn s siderel body re timtely re lted the siderel essences the strs, nd the former ttrcts the power the ltter; but mn the Mster over h own soul, nd he cn perm those t trctions tke plce n irregulr mnner, or he my control h pssions nd repulse fluences which he does not desire. There n ttrctive power the soul mn, which ttrcts physicl, mentl, nd morl deses from the Chos. The plnetry fluences extend through ll Nture, nd mn ttrcts poonous quli ties from the moon, from the strs nd from other thgs; but the moon, nd the strs, nd other thgs lso ttrct evil fluences from mn, nd dtribute them g by their rys, becuse Nture n undi vided whole, whose prts re timtely connected. Three spirs, uned one, live nd ct mn; three worlds, uned one, throw their rys upon

127 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 127 him; but ll three re only the reflection, imge, or echo one primordil cretion. The first the essence the elements; the second the soul the strs; nd the third the spir the life. The lower stcts mn re cused by the life the elements, but there only one life, nd the life tht cuses the stcts mn conted ll elements the strs s well s vegetble nd niml forms. The ctivy the life essence modified vegetble, niml, nd humn forms; becomes the life the erth, nd the life the erth rded bck the strs. Strs ttrct nd repulse ech other; they hve their sympthies nd ntipthies; nd these livg nti pthies nd sympthies, ttrctions nd repulsions, could not ext if no vehicle life exted between them. 7. The wrngs Espgnet re worthy ll con sidertion: Whosoever dposed seek the Phil osopher's Sne, let him resolve mke long journey, for necessry tht he see both the Indies, i. e., he must exme nd understnd the *Hrtmnn, Prcelsus.

128 128 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. extreme boundries Nture, s defed nd ter mted by ctive nd pssive; spir nd mtter; soul nd body; Sol nd Lun; Dphne nd Phoebus; Heven nd Erth; the doves Din; the two Fhes, whout scle or bone, the se whout brim; nd must dcover the medg prciple by which ll contrries re reconciled; do which he must understnd the nture the fixed nd the voltile, order s Espgnet proceeds, tht from thence he my brg the most precious gems nd the purest gold. Whoever ffirmeth tht the Philosopher s Grnd Secret bove the strength nture nd rt bld; becuse he knows not the Sun nd Moon. Metls (meng mn), we must confess, cnnot be perfected by the stct nd lbor Nture only (1 Cor. ii:14); yet we my ffirm tht the perfectg virtue hid their prundy, nd mnifesteth self by the help the Art. In th work Nture stndeth need the id Art; nd both doth perfect the whole. Let those who re desirous knowledge Chemtry (meng Alchemy), nd hve hher

129 ALCHEMY AD THE ALCHEMISTs. 129 followed imposters nd mountebnks, sound retret, spre time nd cost, nd give their mds work truly philosophicl, lest the Phrygins be we o lte, nd t length be compelled cry out wh the prophet, Strngers hve eten up my strength. (Hose vii:9.) In the Philosopher's work, more il nd time thn cost expended; for he tht hth convenient mtter need be t ltle expense: besides, those tht hunt fter gret sre money, nd plce their chief end welth, trust more their riches thn their own Art. Let, therefore, the o credulous freshmn be wre those pilferg pickpockets tht ly w for gold; they demnd bright usherg Sol, becuse they wlk drkness. As those tht sil between Scyll nd Chrybd re dnger on both sides, un no less hzrd re they subject who, pursug the prey the golden fleece, re crried between the uncert rocks the Philosopher s Sulphur nd Mercury. The more cute, by their constnt redg grve nd credible uthors, nd by the irrdint Sun, hve tted un the knowledge Sulphur, but re t stnd the

130 130 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. entrnce the Philosopher's Mercury;" for wrers hve twted wh so mny wdlgs nd menders, nd volved wh so mny equivocl nmes, tht my be sooner met wh by the force the seeker s ftellect, thn be found by reson il. 8. The Sun here spoken the sme Sun tht illumted the two precious jewels t the botm the well the Romunt the Rose, for tht poem perfect specimen Hermetic Philosophy, mtken s commonly for love-tle. Wht Espgnet clls *The reson why so mny re t stnd upon the Philosopher s Mercury becuse mens mny thgs, s mn, the conscience, spir, s lso nture nd the spir nture; the universl, the men, middle; the equilibrium, etc. It hs multude nmes. It sometimes used for Life, s one thg ll, nd, though self vible, yet the most pprent ll thgs; but tkes s ppernce from tht through which seen. Hence ppers s mn mn, but s dog dog, etc. One wrer speks under the nme mgnesi, nd sys: It such convertibily, To every proportion, nd every degree, As crystl s subject found; For everythg tht upon the ground, Which tht ye will crystl set under, Such color hth crystl; therefore Cese wonder.

131 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 131 the seeker s tellect the sme thg he hs just clled the irrdint sun. Nture proceedeth thus mkg nd perfectg her works (Espgnet still before me), tht from n chote genertion my brg thg by diverse mens, s were by degrees, the ultimte term perfection. She therefore tteth her end by ltle nd ltle, nd not by leps, confg nd cludg her work between two extremes, dtct nd severed s by spces. The prctice Philosophy, which the pe Nture, ought not decle from the wy nd exmple Nture s workg nd direction, fd out s hppy Sne; for whosoever whout the bounds Nture eher error, or nerest one. The whole progress the Philosopher s work nothg but solution nd congeltion (dherten mn first, nd then encourge nd fortify him, but ccordg the lws h own nture, nd whout violence), the solution the body, nd the congel tion the spir; nevertheless, there but one opertion both; the fixed nd the voltile re per fectly mixed nd uned the spir, which cnnot be done unless the fixed body be first mde soluble nd

132 132 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCEEMISTS. voltile. By reduction the voltile body fixed permnent body, nd voltile nture doth t lst chnge fixed one, s the fixed nture hd before pssed voltile one. Now, so long s the ntures were confused the spir, tht mixed spir keeps middle nture between body nd spir, fixed nd voltile. The genertion the Sne mde fter the pttern the cretion the world; for neces sry tht hve s chos nd first mtter, where the confused elements do fluctute, until they be seprted by the Fiery Spir. They beg seprted, the light elements re crried upwrds, nd the hevy ones downwrds. The Light rg, the Drkness retrets; the wters re gthered one, nd the dry lnd (or reson) ppers. At length the two gret lumries re, nd merl virtues, vegetble nd niml, re produced the Philosopher's Erth (tht, mn). The Elixir's perfection consteth union nd dsoluble mtrimony Humidum ( Phoebus nd Dphne), the strict Siccum so nd tht they my not be seprted, but the siccum my flow, wh

133 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. 133 moderte het the humidum, bidg every pressure the Fire. (Jmes i:12.) A Three-heded Drgon keeps the Golden Fleece. The First Hed proceedeth from the Wters; the Second, from the Erth; the Third, from the Air. necessry tht these Three Heds do end One most Potent, which shll devour ll the other Drgons; then wy lid open for thee the Golden Fleece. (Body, Soul, nd Spir, crude stte, re the three It Drgons; these must be uned one potent most potent, which must devour ll the rest.) Frewell, diligent reder. In redg these thgs, vocte the Spir Eternl Light; spek ltle, medte much, nd judge right. 9. Th good dvice, whether the Truth be sought one direction or nother. 10. As the union Sol nd Lun so much sted on by these wrers, we will dduce nother exmple from n Alchemt considerble uthory, or rther dtction; for we must not for get tht mere uthory but ltle importnce wh th clss students, wh whom the Truth lone the sovereign uthory.

134 134 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST.S. Now, tht you my void flse processes, nd hve sure foundtion build upon, s prticulrs, so s mke them prble, nd fil neher the begng, contution, or end your Work, I shll ly down the followg Philosophic very, for Rule, viz: You must une Sol nd Lun (here re the two fhes Mede's broth, Phoebus nd Dphne, Siccum nd Humidum, tellect nd the ffections,) so firmly nd bsolutely, tht they my be for ever seprble. (The reder, surely, need not be ld tht th not work the hnds.) If you know not how do th, you know nothg truly our Art. Understnd th thg rightly, nd ly hold wh diligence, so will the veil Ignornce be tken from your eyes; for ll processes which centre not th very re v nd flse. Now, tht you my hve no cuse compl the brevy the fore-declred Philosophic very, her further wht the Ancients nd gret men th Art sy: You must so jo or mix gold nd silver (Sol nd Lun g) tht they my not, by ny possible mens whtever, be seprted.

135 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 135 Wht thk you, if I should so perfectly these two Bodies, wht The Sercher fter Truth must judge. une would th Union come? But truly I tell thee, th uned Sol nd Lun, if perfectly effected, cn never be seprted; no, neher by Aqu fort, nor by ny other tril whtever. And when they re thus uned, very gret nd prble prticulr: for here Lun, by the virtue nd power Sol, tlly fixed, grduted, nd mde ponderous. Th the prticulr which the Ancients, lerned th Art, bid you understnd; tht you my be ble proceed on the conclusion the gret Word. * * * * * * And here the true Filius Hermet my see, tht the doctre the true Philosophers differs much from the jugglg processes the deceivers, for tht our prticulrs hve their fsprg from the Root the true universl subject. And the gretest Truths, tht the conjunc tion nd union the Bodies Sol nd Lun the rel begng our true medice, elixir, or tcture, Among the vulgr processes there nothg but

136 136 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. flsehood nd dece, where the Lun never fixed, but wntg ponderosy, nd blck; hvg been only wshed, nd fixed (s they cll ) wh Slt, nd grduted wh the Sulphurs Mrs nd Venus, nd mke ponderous wh Sturn. O foolhness! O bldness md! Cn com mon Slt be the Sop (nother nme for the wter Hollndus, the vegr Artephius, etc.) the Philosophers? Cn common Sturn, or s virtum, ever become our ponderous Ruby Str, our Red Fixed Egle, our Red Fixed Sulphur Sol, or our Fixed Slmnder, ever livg the Fire? He tht hth once truly obted the right ug mentum, ssured tht he hs met wh the fllible very, wh n corruptible Tcture, ye, wh n fe Tresure; other Instrucr. nd needs the help no Th Augmentum the prticulr nd universl wy, be kept the prundy Philosophic Silence; nd when dcoursed, be done only prbles, riddles, nd similudes, nd s were t dtnce, tht prne nd vile persons my be kept from the knowledge there. (Th wrer hs not

137 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 137 then, violtion openly.) h own rule, ld us nythg The possessor th Tresure hs no occsion run kgs, prces, lords, nobles, or gret men; they who do so hve none the Secret, but desire try conclusions t other men's chrges. The true possessor seeks not fter such friendship, or erthly glories; he content wh h modicum, or ltle, nd hs enough, even the whole world, h Philosophic egg," which he cn crry bout wh him wherever he goes. 11. If the reder cn dcover the two Bodies so constntly referred by these wrers, he will mke gret step wrds understndg their theory. But he must not imge he knows them by ny mere nmes whtever, for these vry defely under constntly previlg ide. In the Sopht Pl the ide my be sought, perhps successfully, the dcussion upon the words enty nd nonenty, the student crefully noticg how enty mde d *The Philosopher's Egg course h Hed; but h hed must be the Hevens, Swedenborg's sense, or he sees nothg truly.

138 138 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. pper, nd how nonenty brought mong thgs tht re, the difficulty understndg eher beg very fully illustrted nd sted on. 12. It my lso gretly sst red Crtylus some hlf dozen times, under the ide tht sym bolicl dcussion upon the nture thgs under the form n quiry bout nmes. thg, nme? tht founder God. 13. The question volved (somethgs) cn two, constutes, th subject, be wht the conceived Try Try w, s Wht th very thg? Uny. The nme Uny, wht sense two one, which, wh the It ble step wrds stfction, when the student pressed wh the notion tht the Truth, whtever consider im be, irrevocble nd irreversible; nd tht our busess or fluence dcover, if possible; not ny mnner, contrry chnge, s nture, but ccommodte ourselves Perhps we cn fd the Key processes by givg creful ttention. ll Alchemicl the techgs Eliphs Levi concerng wht Mgic Agent, or the Mysteries he clls the Gret the Astrl Light.

139 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 139 Th will lso help expl much the gret secret power the Rosicrucins (Mgnetts) if crefully red nd studied. There exts Force nture which fr more powerful thn stem, by mens which sgle mn, who cn mster nd knows how direct, might throw the world confusion nd trnsform s force. stnce It voltile ccordg diffused through fy; heven nd erth, for s degree termed by Hermes Trmegtus When produces rdince the sub eher fixed polriztion. It or ws the Grnd Telesm. clled Light. It tht substnce which ws creted by God before ll else when He sid: Let there be light. stnce nd motion fluid nd by which In fe spce, comes strl light while fluid. In medir. t perpetul vibrtion. It one nd the sme time; put ctivy orgnized begs mn The will ether or the strs which sub The herent force clled mgnetm. etherized light; be mgnetizes, becomes mgnetic light forms the strl body, or or plstic telligent begs cts directly on th light, nd, by mens there, upon ll nture,

140 140 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST8, which mde subject the modifictions telli gence. Th force ws known the ncients; con sts Universl Agent hvg equilibrium for s supreme lw, while s direction depends immedely on the Gret Arcnum Trnscendent Mgic. By the direction th gent we cn chnge the very order the sesons, produce the night the phe nomen dy, correspond stntneously from one end the erth the other, dcern, like Apollonius, wht tkg plce t the Antipodes, hel or hurt t dtnce, nd endow humn speech wh uni versl reverbertion nd success. Th gent, which brely mnifests under the uncertties the rt Mesmer nd h followers, precely wht the medievl Adepts clled the first mtter the mgnus opus. The Gnostics represented s the burng body the Holy Ghost, nd th ws which dored the Secret Res the Sbbth or the Temple under the Symbolic figure Bphomet, or the Andro gyne Got Mendes. Th ncient nd ll-penetrtg fluid, th ry detched from the sun's splendor, nd fixed by the weight the tmosphere nd by the power centrl

141 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEEMISTS. 141 ttrction, th body the Holy Ghost, which we cll the Astrl Light nd the Universl Agent, th Electro-Mgnetic Ether, th Vl nd lumous cloric, represented on ncient monuments by the girdle Is, which twes love-knot round two poles, by the bull-heded serpent, by the serpent wh the hed got or dog, the ncient theogonies, nd by the serpent devourg s own til, emblem prudence nd Sturn. It the wged Drgon Mede, the double serpent the Cduceus, nd the tempter Genes; but lso the brzen snke Moses, encirclg the Tu, tht lgm; the Hyle til which forms the legs Lstly, the devil, the genertive the Gnostics, nd the double the solr cock Abrxos. exoteric dogmtm, nd relly the bld force which souls must conquer, order for if detch themselves from the chs erth; their Will does not free them from s ftl ttrction, they will be bsorbed the current by the sme power which first produced them, nd will return the centrl nd eternl fire. (Th the snkes fctg men.) The Gret Mgic Agent the legend reveled by four kds

142 142 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCELEMISTS. phenomen, nd hs been subjected the uncert mnipultion prne science under four nmes cloric, light, electricy, mgnetm. These four im ponderble fluids re, therefore, the diverse mni festtions one nd the sme force, which tht substnce creted, s lredy declred, by God, before ll else, when He sid, Let there be Light! nd there ws light. Everythg which exts hs been evolved from (Here, nd the Key preserves Alchemy.) The Gret Mgic Agent the life-prciple for the dy-str nd reproduces ll forms. which the sun the fourth emntion the third form, only the reflection nd mteril shdow the sun Truth which illumtes the tellectul world, which self borrowed from the Absolute. world th light turn but glem The sun the Dive the fe, spirul, nd uncreted light;, so spek, verbled sophicl world, nd becomes the focus truth; then vible light the sun the Philo souls nd corported nd chnged the third world, the centrl sun sprks. suns, which the fixed strs re the immortl

143 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCEDEMISTS. 143 The Astrl Light, beg the strument life, nturlly collects t livg centres; cleves the kernel plnets s the Hert mn (nd by the hert we understnd, mgic, the gret sympthetic), but identifies self wh the dividul life the extence which nimtes. Thus terrestril s connections wh the erth, nd exclusively humn s connection wh mn. wh th light nd contully We re, fct, sturted project mke room for more; by th projection the personl tmosphere Swedenborg creted. nd polriztion The settlement light bout centre produces livg beg; ttrcts ll the mtter necessry perfect nd preserve spir, s, but not the immortl the Indin hierophnts, nd every school Goethic mgic, hve imged. It by no mens the body the proplsts, s ws supposed by the Theurgts the Alexndrin sect; the first physicl mnifesttion the Dive Breth. God cretes eternlly, nd mn, the imge the Dey, modifies nd pprently multiplies the reproduction h species.

144 144 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. The Astrl Light or terrestril fluid sturted wh imges or reflections ll kds, which cn be evoked by our souls nd submted s Diphne, s the Kbblts cll ; th the modus operndi ll vions. Wht we cll imgtion simply the herent fculty the soul ssimilte the imges nd reflections conted the livg light which the Gret Mgnetic Agent. The Astrl Light preserves the imges ll tht hs tken plce the pst, the reflections worlds gone by, nd nlogicl fore shdowg worlds come. It by mens th light tht stticl vionries plce themselves com muniction wh ll the worlds, s so frequently oc curred Emnuel Swedenborg, who ws, neverthe less, not perfectly lucid, sce he could not dtguh between direct rys nd reflections. Clirvoynts merely evoke the imges plces the Astrl Light; they do not ctully trvel those plces, nd they cn see nothg but wht exts th light, which ltent, nd, ctg on the nerves, enbles somnmbu lts perceive by mens the nerves only nd whout the help rdg light. The Book Consciences, which, ccordg the

145 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 145 Chrtin doctre, will be opened on the Lst Dy, nothg more thn the Astrl Light, which re preserved the impressions every Logos, tht, every ction nd every form. (Truly some be delighted us see th open before our vion.) will not There re no solry cts nd there re no secret cts; ll tht we truly will, tht deeds, wrten light tht the forms, ll tht we confirm by our the Astrl Light. It th those no longer on erth re evoked, nd by s mens re ccomplhed the con tested but verble mysteries necromncy. When summoned by n illumed reson, these forms re hrmoniously mnifested; summoned by folly, they pper dorderly nd monstrous. The Gret Mgic Agent, when subordted bld mechnm nd proceedg from centres u mticlly produced, mthemticlly sry lws. ftl subordte Will ccordg ded light which works given impulses On the contrry, the humn light the ignornt; mn. subject or neces only the telligence, the imgtion, nd dependent on the It compound gent, nturl nd dive, mteril nd spirul; ever ctive, ever rich

146 146 ALOBIEMY AND THE ALCELEMIST.S. seve, ever live wh rvhg drems nd luxurious imges; my be clled, cert sense, the Imgtion Nture, s we hve sid. Bld self, nd subordted every will, eher for good or evil, th circulus lwys renewg n unconquer ble life which cuses vertigo the imprudent, th Universl Seducer, conveys light, yet propgtes drkness; my be nmed s eqully Lucifer nd Lucifuge; serpent but lso nimbus; the nture Fire, but my belong eqully the r ments hell nd the cense-fergs dedicted Heven. To Mster, we must, like the pre-dested womn, set foot upon s hed. The Astrl Light (Mgnetic fluid) the Key ll domion, the secret ll powers, the Universl glss vions, the bond sympthies, the source Love, prophecy, nd glory, the strument mturgic rt nd divtion. To know how thu mster th gent so s pr by nd direct s currents n Alchemt ccomplh the mgnus opus ( become the highest order), world, nd the deposiry even The bsolute secret be Mster the power the God. th direction hs been pos

147 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 147 sessed by cert men, nd cn yet be recovered the Gret Mgic Arcnum; depends on n com municble xiom, nd on n strument which the gret nd unique Athnor the Hermetts the higher grde. All Mgic Science consts the knowledge th secret. To know nd dre mke use humn omnipotence; revel n outsider loose ; revel dciple bdicte fvor such dciple, who, from tht moment, hs the right life nd deth over h Inir, nd will certly kill him for fer dyg himself. (Th hs nothg common wh deeds defed s murder criml legltion; prcticl philosophy, the bs ordry lws, denies the fcts bewchment nd occult fluences.) The Gret Mgic Agent hs four properties dsolve, consolidte, quicken, nd moderte. These four properties, directed by the Will mn, cn modify ll phses Nture. In mkg use the term fluid connection wh th force, we employ received expression, but we re fr from determg tht the ltent light fluid; everythg, on the contrry, leds us prefer the system vibrtions,

148 148 ALCEEMY AND THE ALCHEMIST8. the explntion th phenomenl force. How ever th my be, the comg synthes chemtry will probbly led our physicts knowledge the Universl Agents, nd then wht will hder them from determg the strength, number nd direction s mgnets? A complete revolution science will follow, nd we shll return the Trnscendent Mgic the Chldens. 14. In the Snscr Bhgvt G, trnslted by Wilford, declred be the height wdom perceive ction ction, nd ction ction; which mens, if mens nythg, tht cuse (ctive) nd effect (pssive) re two modes the mnifest tion one thg. 15. In hrmony wh th view, Pl sys, the Philebus, tht cuses, tken universlly, nd effects, tken universlly, re one nd the sme; for, the nture thgs, every prticulr cuse somethg must self be the prticulr effect somethg; nd so, like mnner, every prticulr effect becomes cuse, or, more strictly spekg, the occsion or condion under which the uncused extence self cts wh self.

149 ALCHEMY AND THE ALCHEMISTS. 149 But there need, sys Pl, the Prenides, person nturlly clever dcover these thgs, nd person still more wonderful be ble expl them sufficiently cler mnner. 16. The Alchemts ll refer the student God, the uncused cuse ll thgs, who lone commnds, Let there be Light; nd they tell us tht the mere study books cnnot tt ; which, no doubt, one reson mong others for their mysticl mode wrg Slt, Sulphur, nd Mercury. They sy cn only be lerned by spirtion, or by the techg one who hs so lerned ; but yet should be stted, tht they consider the gift sound understndg God; nd he certly must, s ll men, be gifts the most bld, who denies tht h fculties re the Most High. (1 Cor. iv:7.)

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