Foreign Which has taxed the ingenuity of some very able Minds among them Mr Arthur Ed would wait I think we need in this case to say a little something about the author of the book we are going to consider Mr Waite was one of these outstanding writers of his time
In the otherwise neglected field of the esoteric Arts and Sciences his production in this area was prodigious and as author editor translator and preface writer he made available to English-speaking people many Rarities of early philosophy and European mysticism that might not yet be available to us we are most appreciative for his inspiration
In contributing to the translation of the Museum of American for example and we likewise deeply appreciate his industry making available the two large polio volumes on the alchemical writings of paracelsus we remember him also as the translator of the French transcendentalist elephant Levy we also know that Mr Waite
Was a Mystic and point in his own right and his book of poems of mystery and vision is an entirely commendable work we also know from his General literary style that he was a man of ability in these areas and from his research material that he was by Nature a good student
And with the available material in the library of the British museum at his disposal he has preserved for us a wonderful bibliography of authors texts and books that may otherwise remain comparatively unknown to the modern student down through the years I have gradually assembled the greater part of his original reference material
So that probably 80 percent of the books that he quotes particularly in the volume under consideration this evening we have in the original Editions these different activities also relate to another line of his thinking there’s a problem that English Mason and wrote considerably on Freemasonry including encyclopedic Works dealing
Especially with the British point of view on things Masonic he had very little Sympathy for the American point of view on almost any subject and was essentially first last from all the way along an English gentleman with a profound admiration for everything English well as most of his authors were not
English this should not have caused any great amount of consternation But in looking along and in following many of the difficult courses which he attempted to follow who do not always find that we can come in accord with his conclusions all through his writings we find a peculiar note that detracts from the seriousness which the subjects might justify
For example in his translations of the writings of the French transcendentalist elephant Levy who was actually a French priest by the name of Abe Louis constant wait does an excellent translation and then in the preface apologizes for the original author he explains definitely that he is not to
Be held responsible for the innumerable mistakes made by the good Abbey in his original texts this is a rather curious point of view we don’t know who’s on the defensive but it looks as though Mr Wade is very concerned over his reputation this was Love’s labor lost however as
The very field in which he was operating must inevitably have ruined his reputation outside of a small group of sympathetic friends the corporate image of Mr Wade therefore arises as an individual with a good scholarly mind and a powerful body of preconceptions uh his work on the Brotherhood of the
Rosie cross first appeared in 1924 and I secured my copy in the spring of 1925 when the book was still fresh from the Press reading it at that time I noticed in looking at over a few days ago I made a couple of notes on the
Title page a poor habit but I didn’t intend this book for resale the note that is pertinent to the situation is my finding in the first meeting of the book Mr Waite Reasons from conclusions are not taught them and this I think is generally his dilemma throughout nearly all of his
Writings he is so desperately for afraid that he will not be respectable is so desperately frightened lest his scholarship be questioned that he moves along in a state of caution that becomes to a degree at least a little ridiculous considering the nature of the subject matter of all his Publications I suppose this
Book which was one of his last might have caused him the greatest difficulty he undoubtedly had been Gathering notes and relative matters for a long time as his first written work appeared in 1887 therefore we have a considerable literary career not too long ago the original papers
Manuscripts and so forth are Mr Waite were offered an auction and brought a substantial sum I did not bid on them because most of the manuscripts had already appeared in book form but throughout his Works writings we find that caution leads him almost inevitably to a strong point of negation
In his effort to be sure that he is not supporting something that is not right he finally ends up by supporting nothing this is not unreasonable considering the obscuration of the field but it still leaves us with the mystery about which the book is built remaining unsolved
All he seems to be able to do with it is harvest the winds this and in itself is not of great importance the important thing is that he has preserved for us the necessary titles names and publication dates of practically every important text in the field this makes possible that others may
Follow after him and picking up the threads of his particular interests May uh unravel them further now as the book deals primarily with the subject of the rosicrucians I think we should try to orient ourselves a little bit in his thinking on the subject the burden of Mr waite’s feelings are
The burden is that the rosicrucian organization was a mystical Society completely and entirely esoteric that almost every Contender for a place in the membership of the society was either an optimist or a fraud that actually practically every book written in the last hundred years on the subject of Rosicrucianism is a monstrous absurdity
That all our authors except himself are highly prejudiced uh he is different he is just prejudiced against everybody this situation must cause us to review a little some of his special findings in an effort if possible to see what we can do with the material he offers us always remembering that his quotations
Are probably correct and his interpretations on them probably incorrect we have a wonderful opportunity in reading such material to preserve our own reference frame we can resist the temptation to drift along with our author we can pause and reflect and in this way perhaps attain considerable mental discipline out of a
Book which it read without criticism might prove whether disintegrating to a point of view for example early in his work he begins to shatter the conclusions and foundations that had been built during the 18th 19th and the first decade of the 20th century these conclusions pointed rather definitely to certain possible sources
For Rosicrucianism I concur with Mr Waite fully in his realization that this Society was not as a society an ancient institution that all efforts to give it a mythological Antiquity are essentially futile that even with the best possible research we are unable to trace it back earlier than the opening years of the
17th century we must however clearly differentiate between Rosicrucianism as a formal organization and Rosicrucianism as a possible Descent of mysticism which in its proper right goes back a very long time is therefore we wish to assume that the principles apparently concealed beneath the Enigma of the rosy cross
If we consider these principles as ancient we will be well Justified if however we consider the organization to be ancient we have absolutely no ground on which to stand and I also am inclined to agree with Mr Waite that we cannot permit psychic Revelation to fill this
Gap we cannot assume that someone in a trance is able to produce a valid history unless in that trance something is communicated by which reasonable investigation can be stimulated the idea of trying to fill these gaps with romance will not actually Advance any cause to any great degree in the
Study of the origin of the society most Scholars have assumed that the original documents or the rose secretion Society were published by a German theologian who was the religious and spiritual counselor of the Duke of Wittenberg one Johann Valentin Andrei uh Mr Waite dismisses this concept as being entirely incredible
Because it would require that the so-called chemical marriage of Christian rosencrites one of the earliest documents of the society was written when Andre was only 24 years old Mr Waite regards this as an absurdity he feels that a work of this pretension of this depth of this importance could
Only have been the production of either a very mature person or one of a group having considerable knowledge in common I read the chemical marriage of Christian rosencruits and this particular point of view that Mr Wade advances does not seem to be valid so far as I am able to understand
Uh Andre had available to him at that time an enormous quantity of alchemical and mystical literature he rose to a literary distinction at a time when there was a very large output of books dealing upon the general themes of his interest a bright young man taking this material could certainly
Have compiled the work which he produced well this work is not exceptionally profound it is not impossibly deep or incredibly wise it’s a real place in the literature of its time is determined almost entirely by its titles therefore as if the word Christian words Christian rosencruits have been left off
This particular volume would have been only another remnant of early modern resale literature in favor of the Andrei hypothesis there are certain other points that we might mention one of these is the relationship between Andre and bacon and here Mr Waite really has a bad time it is obvious from the beginning that
Our English author is no baconian he regards the entire baconian hypothesis as completely and entirely ridiculous here again I sympathize with him but I don’t agree with him the reason I don’t agree with him is that certain definite links have been established these are links Mr Waite ignores or else
Did not know that and in either case they they represent valid evidence that there might be more to this phase of the subject than he is willing to admit now the hypothesis that Lord bacon might have been the founder of the rosicrucian society is at the outset not particularly attractive
In the first place uh the bacon Shakespeare controversy has caused a powerful alignment of opinions and of course most of the scholarly opinion is on the side of Willie Shakespeare although I see that this is now being affected by the popular purse The Shakespearean museum at stratford-on-avon is now asking for 250
000 pounds to enlarge premises and facilities and make way for a larger tourist trade several uh individuals who might have something to do with finding the 250 000 pounds have journeyed over to Stratford and taken a look around they have come back and their General opinion is that the Stratford museum is
About the largest fraud of its size in the world that there is absolutely no evidence or proof in that museum that even one Relic is authentic and as to whether or not the building is the correct one this is also largely open to question and the general feeling is now
That the it is hardly even possible that the immortal God ever set thought in the Shakespeare house but not even certain that it was built at that time but no one seems to worry too much about it naturally we may expect a considerable Tempest in a teapot over this particular
Issue but in all probabilities practical considerations will prevail and the funds will be raised simply because whether the relics are any good or not people are perfectly willing to come and see them and pay moderately for the privilege of sitting in Willie’s chair now it happens that this chair has
Already been sold twice and taken out of the country and it’s still there so you can try to solve these Mysteries they’re almost they’re almost as difficult to explain as the miraculous multiplication of the bones of saints which have a tendency to show up and with one Saint I believe has already
Known to have had seven skulls this uh difficult situation seems also to apply to the Shakespeare dilemma we must also realize that young people have done rather well in their time young William Henry Island the boys 17 forged a complete Shakespearean play and the Immortals Samuel Johnson got down on
His knees and kissed the edge of the manuscript so youth does not necessarily deny precocity the situation then involving the baconian hypothesis is largely colored by other matters and we we’re not too sure the ground on which we stand actually there are many parallels between the so-called Adventures of our father
CRC the mysterious Christian rosenkroits of the chemical marriage and the somewhat better known Lord verulam these parallels were however Advanced for the wrong people they were Advanced by enthusiasts they were Advanced by persons wearing the wrong School tie and things of that nature and as a result were generally discredited
But whether they were Advanced by wise or foolish men the facts must stand on their own feet that there was a link between Andre and Lord bacon seems to be part of our basic mystery so I might mention a little episode that some of you may remember
But which others may not have come across in our writings back in 1926 7-8 when I was working on this large book which I did on symbolism word came to me that one of the oldest and most important Masonic lodges in England the mother kill winning Lodge of
Scotland had a very rare portrait of Lord bacon as an old man of course his lordship is supposed to have died 66. about this portrait was supposed to be a picture of him at much greater age the thought Intrigue may I am full of Youth and exuberance I wrote the mother
Kill winning Lodge through their secretary and asked if they had such a picture and if so they would be gracious enough to send me a copy of it uh they were gracious enough and uh shortly after the picture arrived the picture was out of an elderly bearded gentleman the long white beard
When they black skull cap and underneath and around the picture was the inscription Joanne Valentin Andrei I thought perhaps they’d sent me the wrong picture so I wrote back and asked them if this was the picture of bacon and they assured in he that it was
Might happen to know about is I’m not too sure but they seem to feel that they knew what they were sending me and such an illustrious body would not like to be passed off lightly another interesting point in relationship to this situation is found in the writings of John Burton
Who were published anonymously under the title of Democritus Junior the work which he did was called the anatomy of melancholy and this as the name sounds is a most nostalgic volume which today would be a good textbook for a certain specialists in abnormal psychology but the book was full of all kinds of
Interesting notes and moves and as one man who contributed so many books and manuscripts to the Folger library in Washington told me he said many of us believe that this was originally Lord’s bacon scrapbook but in any event it is accredited to a Mr Burton a very reverent gentleman of
The Church of England on one page of this book there is a reference to Christian rosencruits or the mysterious father CRC after this is the usual Mark indicating a footnote and below is the footnote Johan Valentin Andre comma Lord verulam period now this does not appear in all editions of the book however
But it does appear in certain earlier Editions the only work that we know that describes the tomb of Christian rosenkroice outside of the actual rosicrucian manifestos is a work on mathematical Magic by a Dr Wilkins who was a member of the society which later became the Royal Society of
England and which as Pratt points out was inspired by bacon Wilkin Wilkins in his book describes the tomb with the Emma burning lamp in the ceiling and calls it the tomb of our illustrious Brother Francis rosicross ghost Francis was Bacon’s first name and certainly Francis is not by any
Chance a form of Christian the manifesto says Christian rosenkrites Wilkins presumably with no typographical error in mind calls him Francis Rosy cross there are numerous little odds and ends like this which Mr Waits chooses to totally ignore and therefore I am not sure that he makes a strong case to prove that the
Rosicrucian Enigma had no place in the life of Lord bacon also if we remember the manifestos Christian rosenkroyce died over a hundred years before the mysterious opening of his tomb as this tomb was supposed to have been opened in the early years of the 17th century the mysterious founder had been
Dead quite a long while in the Dr Burton’s dear old book already referred to however there is the statement the founder of the rosy cross still living now this doesn’t quite fit in to the picture for he couldn’t be still living is the original text was correct
There seems to be no doubt in anyone’s mind who really thinks this Enigma through that a group of persons perhaps definitely agents of esoteric orders perhaps descendants through the Troubadours and the temple of ancient mystical associations did get together in the beginning of the 17th century and formed a fraternity of some kind
It has been said of Lord bacon that he rang the bell that brought the wits together and there seems to be something of this nature involved in our controversy there were only certain men of this time if they had any reputation in letters at all who can be intimately associated
With a project of this nature the actual texts of the society issued between 1614 and 1616 all of them outdated by their content even the chemical marriage is dated it is dated to a way of life to a point of view of this dating definitely coincides with the Protestant Reformation
These works could only have come into existence after the rise of Lutheranism we must therefore suspect that these books issued from some Protestant background uh it would be almost incredible that they could have issued from any other background in as much as the very manifestos themselves indicate that the founder of
The society brought back his knowledge and wisdom from the Arabs and from the Muslims which for most of Orthodox Europe would have been an unhappy background and not likely to cause confidence at that time we had to have some group of intellectual liberals also it is quite obvious from the text
To the work that they centered around the concept of a universal Reformation of mankind they sent it around the entire Theory of the passing of an old way of life that a new world was coming into existence a world of new values new human relationships and that the farmer and confession fraternity
Were hurling in a great world change this world change was naturally part of the period of of which we are concerned for actually the opening years of the 17th century differentiate the medieval period from the modern world of his discovery of the blood the rise of the philosophy of bacon and Rene
Descartes the emergence of the beginning of our scientific knowledge of astronomy the creation of the Royal Society or the exploration of all of the natural history of mankind these movements were all part of what was referred to then as the way of tomorrowness looking into the future of the gradual
Building of a great structure of World Knowledge founded upon the Firm Foundation of the inductive system of reason who would likely be able to spearhead such a movement only a person who had this look of tomorrowness who was himself in some way concerned with the transition between Aristotelian scholasticism and the rise
Of modern humanism it is said that our father CRC returning from his travels at Fez and Babcock in North Africa and the near East returned or retired to a monastery and there he began a compilation of the Encyclopedia of all knowledge it was his uh purpose to prepare a work
In which everything known to man’s might be made available to the scholars of this new age he may have worked very hard he might have been very industrious in his Endeavors but needless to say no such a work ever appeared under his name more was any work
Available at the time at which he was supposed to have functioned the only actual example of the type of work which he was devoted to was the inspirational Magna of Lord bacon this was as bacon himself declared to be an encyclopedia of all knowledge necessary useful or possible to man
That he worked and labored through his years to produce this work we know and we also know that the northern organum regarded as the first textbook of modern science was Lord Bacon’s Masterpiece and it was the first section of the instructor Magna so here we have a man living at the time
When the first manifestos were published none were published earlier doing the very work that the author of The Unknown book was said to be concerned with there were many other parallels also but we must find some explanation for the rise of a sudden point of view we don’t solve everything in this way
But I think we solve something I think we’ve become a little closer come a little closer uh to the necessary foundations of our subject Mr Waite trying to explore his aspect of the field makes a pretty thorough survey of the Alchemists and the alchemistical philosophers who flourished about the
Time of the beginnings of the rosicrucian controversy or shortly before that time he examines their elaborate symbolical Works their mystical feces and their strange and wonderful formulas in an effort to discover if possible a route for Rosicrucianism in this area naturally he fails for the simple reason that these necessary links are not
Available according to his point of view there is no evidence for example that the alchemistical philosophers ever used any of the essentially rosicrucian devices or symbols and there is no proof that the rosicrucians ever actually made use of the alchemical symbols in any outward or common sense
There’s only one possible way in which these groups can be linked there is every possibility that the Alchemists were actually concerned with the same end namely social regeneration that concerned the rosicrucian order but the Alchemists were very spectacular group they’re wonderful old books are filled with the most elaborate diagrams
And symbols the regularly issued texts of the rosicrucian society are either unillustrated or but slightly so they do not make use of these elaborate devices and Designs certainly not in the first Circle of the apologists and supposed authors of the works we may then have parallel motions motions which might
Bridge at times for if there were any rosicrucians to be discovered the best candidates are among the Alchemists also we realize that about the time that these manifestos of the rosy cross began to appear there was a considerable impulse toward the elaboration of alchemical writings most of the best tax most extravagantly
Illustrated volumes were issued within 10 or 15 years from the appearance of the rosicrucian manifestos there is a package here somewhere but the two groups seem to have at least a physical separation they do not intermingle in the common sense of the word although there are certain indications of possible sympathy between them
Arriving then at the beginning of the historical cycle of Rosicrucianism you look around to see if we can names or persons that might well be associated with this Society two names of well-known persons in the chemical and mystical literature of the period stand out one was the English
Physician Robert flood and the other the German chemist Michael Meyer both of these men wrote about Rosicrucianism uh Meyer in particular also wrote considerably about alchemy the Frankfurt publisher Theodore debride Illustrated many of the writings of both of these men and also many emblem books and other significant volumes which appeared about
The same time flood writes quite enthusiastically about the rosie cross gives a long and murdered discourse about the habits of the Brotherhood which actually says nothing and then at the end States clearly that he claims no membership this sort of eliminates him unless we wish to assume that he lied in print
The other possible candidate that we have Michael Meyer who was a nobleman and a counselor to his King does write also about the rosicrucians he discusses them and mentions them and describes their habitations in Germany but before he gets through he also proves conclusively that he knew nothing about them
The next important work comes out is also by Maya called the laws of the fraternity of the rosy cross here Maya really does quite an impressive job he writes a small book in which he gives all the rules laws and proper uh Credo of the society unfortunately however he once again says
Nothing for all he has done is taken the original material in the farmer and enlarged upon it he has made extensive definitions of the various rules briefly stated there but when we get through with the book he has really added nothing new so we summarize the situation as it
Stands in the 17th century three books appear the fame and confession of the Society of the rosy cross published in 1614 possibly available as early as 1612. uh somewhat sometime in manuscript It is believed they were circulated and a third works the chemical marriage of Christian rosenkrites which appeared two years later
Now in the famine confession our illustrious Brothers CRC is never referred to by anything except initials he is delivered to us as Christian rosencruits only in the chemical marriage now the question that must further be established is from a critical standpoint is the chemical marriage in any way an actual Manifesto of the
Society flood that equally well in writing on rosicrucian material at the same time and at the end can insists that he doesn’t know the order and has never met a member of it Maya did a splendid job and with the same negative conclusion so therefore as the fame and confession
Had been in circulation for two years are we really entitled to assume that the chemical marriage was an actual official production of the society or was it one of the many logia that appeared during the next five or ten years we like to assume for practical purposes that it probably was
Directly or indirectly and Manifesto and it can be traced to bacon you probably have every reason to assume that it was a genuine work whether we can trace the fame and confession to Bakers is not the problem but here again you can have a lot of sun it is assumed that the author
Of all of these works that is of the fame and confessions was a German and of course it is assumed that the author of the chemical marriage was a German while these Works may have been published in Germany the German author had some troubles when he got stuck for
A word which might be a little unusual in German he usually used an English word which might possibly imply that English was his mother tongue or it may have been put there on purpose to create this question in the mind of the realm anyway it is a valid question or in an
Emergency or in some strange abstraction of learning of language it might well be that we would fill in with some word more familiar to us but let us assumed for the moment that these three books were all genuine Productions we have to question the appendix of the
Pharmaceutis where this was to this was added a small word by mokolini an Italian author on the universal Reformation of mankind it was all of a theme but this work only appears in one edition of the fame and confession so here we are with three books looking for an author
These three books stand completely alone and every effort to tie them successfully to any other group of literature it seems to be a little better than useless weight comes to this conclusion that these three books stand alone and then he begins to ask himself whether these books stand or whether the whole
Group are lions fall together this is a question which I I don’t think we can fairly take I prefer the more moderate course of assuming that some person or persons with a real and definite purpose and perhaps speaking for a private Society devoted to esoteric mystical or even religio political activities did Issue
These manifestos the for one reason or another further transpired we were assured that these that would appear in many languages actually they did not the only time when they appeared in any other language was much later when they were translated who were not simultaneously issued in five tongues or anything of that nature
And the various announcements and pronouncements contained within the volumes uh seemingly never were fulfilled to sure how the situation was in the year of race 1616 uh we might have to compare it to some strange thing that might arise today where suddenly there would be thrown
Upon us a most solemn and uh apparently official document affirming the existence of some stranger secret government and inviting us all to join in this great movement for the Regeneration of mankind a small fragmentary Spirit movements of this kind have appeared at frequent intervals but they’ve never amounted to anything
So the excitement grew immediately men of to model this whether they were affiliated with anything or not were greatly moved by the dignity for the humanity the nobility of these manifestos and all were most anxious to join so that at that moment the society had its best press and there
Was a tremendous popular interest everybody began to look around and there’s a very interesting contemporary records dealing with his subject Alchemists began searching desperately because they believed these rosicrucian brothers or adepts probably had the secrets of the transmutation of metals the mystery of Eternal Youth and the
Medicine or the elixir of life so they they were searching for them a progressive political leaders were very anxious to be affiliated with this organization philosophers Scholars divides clergyman even priests Bishops who are doing everything they could to find out where these brothers were and they sure all got greater and
Greater but there wasn’t any address to address a letter to there wasn’t anyone who seemed to be able to give any information whatsoever letters sent to mysterious adepts were always returned unopened at the same time of course as well might be expected a whole group of charlatans masquerading under weird titles and
Looking important drifted through various communities were immediately identified as rosicrucians uh but again he’s evaporated without very much contribution to the public good one early description of such an Adept is contained in a delightful little book called The Complete history of an unknown man this is uh exactly what it
Was and when you got through with the history the man was still completely unknown the only thing about him that was demonstrable as any of any historical significance was that he was a sort of a Pied Piper for he went into one small German Town and whistled all
The rats out of the houses this was his only claim to those secretion identification uh the helplessness of trying to communicate with these brothers left only one alternative the world ad column now of course at that time newspapers were not really what they are today in fact in Juventus newspapers were still being
Written by hand one copy for each subscriber so this wasn’t very successful the only thing that appeared to be feasible was to publish small booklets oh 10 15 20 Pages some of them only eight pages in which some aspiring candidate would State his qualifications assure the Brotherhood that he would be
Their dedicated servant and please let him know where to reach them then these booklets were published in small numbers of 500 or a thousand and circulated throughout Europe in the hope that they would fall into the hands of one of the brothers and he in turn would communicate with the aspirant membership
Probably 50 or 100 of such Publications are already known and there are undoubtedly many more again however these were not effective because the writers of them most of them later wrote other works complaining that their first brochures were ignored so we had this little cycle of literature that only supports the fact
That in 1616 the adapts of the rosie cross was difficult to find as they are now and situations didn’t really better much but we should take or go along with some consecutive thought and try to feel out the situation a little further gradually another type of literature arose
As the rosicrucians decided not to speak for themselves are very interesting but not necessarily enlightening group of apologists appeared among the apologists being our friends Meyer and Sloan these apologists would write an elaborate Manifesto thesis document or perhaps even a fine large folio in small print
The substance of the book being that if the rosicrucians wish to remain unknown it was their right to do so and nobody had any reason to question it well the way through 250 pages of medieval Latin to learn this was itself rather disappointing these apologists however gradually developed imaginations which are not
Uncommon it is still a practice found among mystical writers not being able to learn anything else they began to decide for themselves what Rosicrucianism was and by six by 1650 we had a dozen or more fine texts on the subject no two of which agreed with each other and each
One of them for pounding to expound the original mystery of the fraternity I can agree with Mr Waite in the fact that you can read them all and gain nothing some of them are very interesting most of them are a bit desperate several of them are permeated with a general atmosphere of futility
But after a time we find another note coming in namely the Quest for the fast dollar and even as early as 1650 people were not completely without that little mercenary Twist of mind by the 50s and 60s a whole group of self-proclaimed rosicrucians were available to anyone who wished to sample
Their fare they wrote extensively one of them was John Hayden who did quite an elaborate series of Works in his holy guide describing the Temple’s palaces and shrines of the rosicrucian fraternity in England unfortunately he failed to give any locations and therefore we got to not too much comfort or consolation but he
Did write with great erudition in fact he had ideas that no one before him or since have ever fallen upon or really adequately quoted by the end of the 17th century by 1680 or 90 the situation reached a dead end it passed into a dignified limbo the original Society had never claimed
Any distinction by its action it had never come forth and revealed itself its early circle of apologists were gone the secondary Circle were already mingling there was a crucial interests again with a stream of alchemy and hermetic arts and these in turn were beginning to wane under the impact of the rise of
Experimental science Minds were now turning more to chemistry and Archeology and Antiquities and the development of various remedies based upon scientific knowledge so everything remained comparatively quiet until the beginning of the 18th century when we had quite a Revival of rosicrucian thinking this second cycle however begins to take on an entirely
Different color who now signed the subject becoming more and more involved in ritualism and ceremonialism the rise of rosicrucian’s secret societies these societies sprang up in many areas there is no evidence or proof that they had any foundations of the original order but at that time communication was
Poor the public mind was opened to almost any innovation and the general difficulties politically of the countries of Europe seem to cause people to take particular interest in something of a hopeful idealistic or mystical nature these secret societies did gather into themselves a number of interesting people some of them were
Other brilliant people but it cannot be said that the mainstream of the subject was in any way enriched in fact it perhaps was a little impoverished because now the old landmarks were pretty much obscured unless you had the time patience and wealth to investigate the original sources
This drifted along through most of the 18th century during this time also we began to find the rise of masonic fraternities both regular and irregular in various parts of Europe Freemasonry developed a kaleidoscope of degrees every inventive and ingenious individual had another Masonic right this situation continued to
Compound itself until there was really no Rhyme or Reason left in the gradually developing structure of Freemasonry standing near the end of the 18th century the great Congress of Williamsburg was brought together convened for the purpose of clarifying the Masonic situation among the delegates at this Congress by the way
Were two names also Associated sometimes with Rosicrucianism the count calyosto and the county Saint Germain these were delegates of the Congress of ilhamsbad as a result of that masonry cleaned house and relegated most of its doubtful degrees to the historical and archaeological Department and again Rosicrucianism uh waned and
Became more or less concerned or involved in certain specialized groups of masonic Scholars the 19th century didn’t doubt a great deal to this picture did however clarify the Masonic position in connection with the rosician order movements arose of masonic research and scholarships like the lodge of the quarter carbonati in London the larger
The Four Kings which was the great Masonic research Lodge which worked with old beliefs Legends rituals degrees and more or less became involved in the rosicrucian controversy through the its overlapping membership one of the members Dr Wynn Wescott was also the head of the societus Rosa crucianos in
Anglia which was a freemasonic auxiliary uh devoted to rosicrucian studies admission requiring that the candidate the Master Mason during the latter part of this Century the Great American Masonic scholar and the general the pike The Sovereign Grand commander of the ancient accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern jurisdiction received an
Invitation from Europe to found a masonic rosicution auxiliary in this country I have seen the correspondence in the house of Temple of Washington and that my memory does not fail me the letter was answered by General tyke’s son and in this letter the son points out
That his father is now in two Advanced years and two heavily burdened with other responsibilities to undertake the establishment of a masonic research body in uh of rosicrucian interest in the United States so that the Masonic end as far as this country is concerned ends more or less
In this way although one small Masonic research group The Society Rose to Cristiano in America was found and did flourish for a little while in the northern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite Beyond this point the reservation controversy more or less Fades out so far as Masonic alchemical political and illuminous problems are concerned
And in the late years of the 19th century and in the opening years of the 20th century Rosa christianism took on very largely the aspect of a Christian theosophy and as such did create and does maintain organizations in this country Dealing perhaps to a degree with rosicrucian problems but very largely concerned with mysticism or with the esoteric aspects of man’s life none of these organizations are able to use any of the original texts as a basic text for their own work however because no text of the original order dealing with
Any of its mystical practices or beliefs is known to exist now Mr Waite takes on another position here which perhaps is of some interest to us he now assumes that the entire Descent of the rosicrucian society was completely Secret that it is actually impossible to trace either its Doctrine
Or its Ritual from any exoteric organization that has appeared that there are certain throtters or brothers of the society that have as in the old Pythagorean School perpetuated their knowledge by selecting disciples to succeed them and that this small group has descended over a long period of time and that somewhere here and
There scattered about all legitimate rosicrucians at this point Mr Waite becomes extremely hedgy and takes on an atmosphere of almost uh anxious humility and leaves us with somewhat the impression that perhaps he might be one of them but as he doesn’t seem to have courage enough to say so perhaps he shouldn’t have
Brought it up in the first place because again his findings do not indicate any unusual possession of information in this area the wonderful and strange experiments that defy all human thinking are taking place constantly in the human body there is nothing more mysterious in the alchemical texts than the mystery of
Digestion and assimilation in man there is nothing more wonderful than how food is changed gradually within the stomach they do all of the subjective energies necessary for the maintenance of the body stomach is the greatest Alchemist we have ever consumed us through these processes in nature being natural reasonable and orderly
They seem to tell us that with nature everything is possible and just as there are laws by which digestion is possible so these laws operating in space can be understood and can be applied to other related or Pro practical purposes the very principle which makes it
Possible for man to live at all is the principle which when properly understood will enable man to live well thus man himself becomes and is an alchemist really whether he knows it or not but the bringing through of this knowledge into his awareness in a way that he can control it
So that by Art he can perfect nature enables him to perform the great work so Mrs Atwood tells us obviously that the great work is a simple fact and that this great work is the Perfection of the consciousness of man by means in which this Consciousness ultimately retain or regains its Universal completeness
And is reunited with its Divine source where it is the production of the heavenly moon the projection the production of the universal full principle which is the election of eternal life because it bestows in our family it is the transmutable based metals because it provides the means by
Which every material element of man’s compound nature is transformed into its spiritual equivalence and it is also the singer of the removing of the prayers from precious stones and the manufacturing of artificial zones where the precious stones and the artificial gems relate particularly for non-psychic Fields where these stories like the
Pearl of great price of a rose Diamond of the rosy cross I represent the sole attributes of man The Shining the berms for a rich existed in his own Nation just to surely answer as for some Grail or the Holy Grail the cup of the blood of the king is the human heart
Containing as it does the blood of the king or the blood of life so this Holy Grail is likewise the ancient symbol of the alchemical vessel in which the transmutation takes place therefore this transmit a transmutation is also a Holy Eucharist it is the mysterious transformation of
The blood and wine into the life and Body of Christ all these Legends and fables bearing upon these things have Arisen in the consciousness of man who has given me a wall of a mystery which he has consciously forgotten but lost within himself man is aware of That actually man himself is the pearls of the Hermetic mystery that all these books are therefore veiled accounts attempting to preserve down through the Corruptions of the world conditions the same as aesthetic captain that was taught in the sanctuaries of Greece and Egypt and India yet our new language has been developed
And devised Anonymous at what points out one of the interesting and important parallels namely with this new language that was developed by The Alchemist and was gradually taken over by the chemists is the language of a scientific salvation that in these fabulous and rituals it is no longer simple piety that accomplishes
The works that man is actually capable of a voluntary cooperation with nature in the advancement of all of the works of life you don’t have something that may seem a little difficult for us to comprehend but I believe the basically she’s right namely that the lurks of light possible
To man include not only the Improvement of his own nature that ultimately the Regeneration of his world that actually these words of man represent the power to use right not only to cleanse the body the soul and the spirit but to come all of nature to cleanse the air the Earth the silence
It is perfectly possible for man to charge the very energy fields of his Planet just as he is charged himself Development and Perfection of his own life make all things new again in the world around him and in this though fulfills the promise that from his own righteousness that shall come into heaven and a new Earth the plural chemical mystery of our prayer is a kind of chain reaction
And we are beginning to appreciate that such a thing might be conceivable when we begin to think in terms of nuclear physics we are now in the position where we realize the tremendous energy cursors uh can be used is not an incredible and unknown effects are from Not only living
Things but upon the very Fountains of Life the sources of the energies and the powers were put through our concerned and perhaps Mrs Atwood would have been very much impressed had she been able to live to realize that in the vision of the atom we have a proof of the release
Of infinite life-like power from one County on this incredibly small source we also know that the prison that we have now achieved is only a very partial decision and that in all probability there is enough energy in each atom to perfect or destroy an entire solar system all depending upon you
Abuse is moral Alchemy uses the power which arises in Man by means of which he becomes a gardener in the garden of the metals so I wish he becomes the faithful guardian of the tree of life upon which will the stars of all the mothers in the museum of medical
Also this is AdWords has come to the conclusion that this process must be a completely orderly and exact one but somewhere along the line in the destruction and decline of the Mysteries those aspects of alchemy which were truly scientific were relatively lost one of the German princes finally imprisoned an alchemist and set
Him to work to find the secrets of the transmutation of metals this Alchemist never succeeded but among the experiments which did succeed was the discovery of the fabulous that lived in China and as a result this particular king became a very rich and powerful man without the transmutation of metals and
The whole history of alchemy and chemistry has been a history of Cow products the search for the elixir of life has enriched our pharmacopeia has given us numerous devices and inventions has led to such discoveries of Illuminating Gas in terms of those kinds and they were things found along the way by men
Searching for something else but it is interesting that in their search along the way they found practical valuable and useful things that they discovered the operations of law and therefore that it might not be entirely fair to say the chemistry is the same sum of alchemy a mad mother
Actually all of these are chemical experiments were based upon certain convictions somewhere along the lines the correct course was lost somewhere in the course of man’s existence who began to look around him for a means of applying knowledge and in this muscle that would approach from the extra Raphael magnet of Lord bacon
We’re wishing the lordship points out that man in the course of time has learned to apply wisdom to almost everything except himself he has taken still and turned that the breeding better cattle are arranging more blown to the acre but he has forgotten in the course of us to change
His Spirit within himself to the Improvement of his own being this was the difference between Alchemy and chemistry essentially chemistry as we know it today is suppose devoted to experimenting with the elements of nature Alchemy of the elements of nature in man always man have had a tendency to look
Out from himself to another things and to take the energies which he possess us and direct them to the victory over other things however the very laws by that rich man hurts ultimately to conquer the world are the same layers by which man must finally learn to conquer himself
And Alchemy points out that if man first achieves the kingdom of heaven or the transmutation within himself then all other things will be added to him where he said of the power of the Red Lion which is the great power of the projection of metals that it will transform into Perfect World 100
000 times its own votes this undoubtedly refers to something we can say that Insight turned upon the unknown will transform a hundred thousand times its own mass of ignorance into truth The Virtue will transform many many times its own masks into common good in any event however
The problem was to apply a marriage of exact to choose toward the great problem and that is bad why is this so essentially necessary so I cannot we ultimately win by simply putting the world in order around man and then permitting man to enjoy this fruit of his own labor
He also is pretty obvious that all the changes that occur in the world most first arise within man therefore Moon cannotics perfect the experiment in nature until he has perfected it in himself he can continue his own disciplines struggle with nature he can continue this effort to overfill Nature by spiritual names foreign
Without Consciousness concerning ways means and ends without Vision the people perish and without having within his own nature the achievement of the magnum opus or the great works it is impossible for man to direct nature to control it or to turn it to the fulfillments of its own purpose Thus in some mysterious ways the great experiment must first be performed in them and then in the world these are the two great Laboratories the laboratory of the human soul and the laboratory of the cosmos whatever the rule is found actually and absolutely in one it will be applicable to the other
Has written that which is about is the same as that which is below that which is the Lesser is the same as that which is the greater for all things are bound together by the law of analogy in this cabin burn the search for the inward transmutation
Must be a search after a science as Sirens of the handling the directing the multiplying the expanding the extending and the transforming of light this light must come into man for this light must make reason possible to man the reason of Mind plus light lovely heart plus light straight even of body
Is physical resource plus right the mystical experience is dedication and devotion plus right with all repudiation of all these things to us and this light is the light is coming into the world and lighted every man who cometh into the world so the problem again is the Magnificent chemistry of light
Now it’s the problem is that the atlas were moving very closely for the Indian concept of yoga that they were sensing the same right principle that is also to be found in Mariana Buddhism uh the the world of the radiance of Truth the world of the Eternal right
The houses like to be made available The Alchemist said that it had to be extracted from Darkness and the light shines in darkness and the Darkness comprehended at Mass show the base substances seen in the alchemical research have to do with right-handed in darkness just as gold as hidden in the base
Metals of the Earth just as the right with the small plant takes from the ground comes from the last mother in which its roots are placed so everywhere in the darkness of Earth there was life and this light makes things grow and the vitality and life and nature
Must in some way be discovered and separated from Darkness it must be as in the opening chapters of Genesis which according to whom this is Atwood absolutely we capitulate the entire chemical process and that any chemist thoroughly understanding the first chapter of Genesis can actually transform those Metals into those
Physically as well as spiritually Is contained the summary of creation and this summary of creation is the key to the continuance of creation that in the world of metals to the creation is forever in the word of God creation is continuous uh creation is not something that started and then suddenly ceased and only the products went on
The very processes of Genesis are we who seated every instrument our existence so constantly creation was unfairly itself constantly white is descending Into Darkness and darkness in its fullness of terms is releasing light Again by The Mystery of the second birth so each person is searching for life
And how is it going to found it how is it going to make this exploration into the dark mystery of those matter life In addition to light itself what is the most common-based matter of our existences uh not now in terms of physical materials but in terms of that
Which we all have in common one answer is that we all have the base material of living living is something that happens to everything that is alive everything that has life right in it lives therefore living is in some way an unfolding of the Life Light principle so each person lives every day
Who lives according to his knowledge according to his Insight on the lack for us he lives well or badly according to his own instincts his selfishness of Nature and according to the mysterious impressors which Purge his psychic integration that there is this common matter of life
Or living and we may call it experience her experience is really nothing more than this Gathering up to the Treasures of the light and these are the treasures which thieves cannot break in and steal nor rest destroyed so each day whether we are aware of it or not we are experiencing something and
Every experience is an experiment in life everything that happens to us has a right meaning that this does not always mean but who know what that meaning is our own reservoirs our capacities are stored away these words of the lightest And the bacon refers to these also by the same general theme The Works of light now the works of light and nature result in growth and purification The Works of light in the experience of man the result in a form of knowledge a form of self-education continuously going on in nature
Everything that man does teaches him something and he unfortunately man does not always know what he is taught therefore he goes on experiencing much and learning comparatively little but nature preserves in the suddenly conscious nature of man that which he has learned and this becomes so to say a supply of crude oil
This is the supply of impregnated material for inexperience the goal of value is hidden within the darkness of ignorance and in the alchemical tradition a dragon with fashioned to symbolize this and in the Greek Legends this dragons wound itself around the tree of life and which have the mysterious Golden
Fleece and it was to discover this golden piece the Jason and the Argonauts made their great journey and this was part of a ritual of initiation into the Mysteries so remains Revolution his process of existence down through time has resulted in the gradual accumulation of a properly impregnated material
This material is in his memory it is in his subjective thinking it is in the background of everything that he is this impregnated material is the basis of his career his home his business it is the reason why he can pass an examination in school it is the reason
Why we can fill out an application grab when he wants a job all of this Burning continuously are right in darkness we just to the alchemical certainty that there is a continuous process going on in mind in which the works of light are achieving victory over the works of darkness
And yet the light and the Darkness are together and they are not clearly divisible as building points out somewhere the dawn or the break from the Aurora light must come and Mrs Atwood looks to the Hermetic mystery to try to understand these wonderful occurrences taking the alchemical thinking again you
Come to such problems naturally as faith understanding dedication discipline you find that in the Hermetic mystery there has to be some mysterious agents the active agents of the Stone they are the active agent of the stone is a kind of modern it is a catalyzing agent of some nature
And in alchemy Faith goes very much this part because something has to stir this compound this compound which lies in obscurity somewhere that Jason has to go far from search for the golden priest somewhere it was a man’s nature that must gradually arouse the convictions that there is a mistake and that this
Mystery can be solved in ancient times education included the clear statement of the simple facts but modern education no longer does include any information that there is a mistake or that it can be solved Actually strange names are given to familiar things not these familiar things are not in themselves simple for another themselves commonplace uh we we can say that it sounds much of a come down that some elaborate alchemical material should turn out to be safe but actually we have no way of knowing
The full dimension of faith it is probably stronger and greater and more mysterious than any physical chemical or element you have ever explored it is because certain words have lost their meanings have lost their profanity that we we do not recognize the value of valuable words
And one of the most valuable of these words in itself faith faith has some kind of a transmuting power in life Faith releases light into the soul even as doubt obscures light now an Alchemy also there is always the ancient master Alchemy constantly refers into some strange wandering addict
Some deeply Versed and secret one who possesses the knowledge in the paracelsian campus this is called Alaya sautista or Elias the office a kind of mysterious or Marvel wandering Alchemist Who Never Dies who possesses the elixir of Life who has made the great transmutation and goes around the world forever selecting
Dedicated and faithful disciples visiting them in our Laboratories and revealing to them the secrets of the Arts for their own merits deserve such revelation who is the mysterious the one master Alchemist Who Never Dies will go round and arms referring to those who are ready the secret of the storm
One way of looking upon Him is quite a simple way and heals the alchemical tradition itself he is the one who cannot die because he is a great conviction he is a great mystery lacking human consciousness but he appears only to those who are worthy He makes himself known to The Alchemist
Only when this Alchemist has prayerfully dedicated his labors to truth and to light then he appears and gives the key to the mystery and then vanishes again and is seen no more this represents Mrs Atwood’s thinking but we would almost turn today the archetypals psychological teacher luck within our own Consciousness and not
Also within the consciousness of universes from the root of every integration or organization that exists in nature is the mysterious fact of the immutable mathematical formula upon which that organization is based everything in the root of itself is instinctively a work of light everything has within its own nature the
Strange seal of its own identity Alliance to the artist is perhaps partly tradition partly the great story that has come down to us apparently it is also the subconscious future in ourselves the old one the full Consciousness that we have perhaps it is descended to us in our bloods in our
Heredity Perhaps it is the symbol of the infinite sequence of previous environments by which we have come to our present state experience and available only to us when we as ourselves perform the works of light So the struggle or the labor always concerns with this Anonymous assignment goes into considerable detail in relation to neocatonism clothing from protronus purpose and many of the other Mystics of North Africa and Athens relating to the roots of light in terms of the motion of Consciousness itself from ignorance to illuminations
Illumination being of course the final absorption into light a man’s growth as a nomadic experience deals with the seven steps of the ladder of alchemy and this matter the Escalade is in actuality the psalm of the seven steps of Bacon’s mysterious ladder of the Arts or ladder of wisdom
In this consciousness of sense in seven steps represented by the orbits of the planets which are in turn the alchemical symbols of the elements therefore the metals and the elements are arranged upon a ladder or the formal Links of the golden chain of homose which bound Earth to the Pinnacle of
Olympus service ladder of the wise represents the seven ascending levels of human consciousness by means of which man rises from ignorance to Universal insight all those across is theoretically quite understandable but the question however it remains how is it done how is it physically psychologically or spiritually possible to perform this works
This becomes of course the difference between theoretical Alchemy and practical Alchemy and it is the method of how this can be done and not the fact that it can be done which constitutes the esoteric tract within the Hermetic Sciences senses this and realizes it and tries in
The light of the study of many of these deep words to put together a fabulous a pattern not now to be used chemically although she believes that most Alchemists have thought that the fabulous for the Regeneration of man will also regenerate the metals so to discover this mystical Insight by
Means of which the human being can achieve the transmutation of his own Consciousness from Darkness into light or to free The Souls of the metals from their bodies in order that they may unite the fans the universal medicine now all the Alchemists have agreed upon more things namely that you cannot
Combine The Souls of metals follow these metals are in various conditions of their own development you cannot take the outward boundaries of animals and force these bodies together you cannot take common lead a mingle it where I am and produce anything more than the kind of Allah Groudon Islands
These two will not accept each other they will not become actual uh cells related they will only be bodies United and souls in stress Alchemy creates another symbol the the Hermetic Mercedes the mysterious symbol of the universal solvent Mercury is said to be the one element that will accept other elements into its
Own Souls therefore Mercury becomes in a mysterious way and the alchemical tradition the symbol of Christ because also it is the child of the son and man or The Offspring of Heaven and Earth but even in the case of these elements the Alchemists tell us definitely the
Crude I am and Cruz River cannot be United to produce the mystery but before these Arabs can be combined they must die out for Less the sea dies or Saint Paul who shall not live again therefore the mystery like the mystery of the early Christian convert is the
Mystery of the first man of them that sleep in death the whole story has to be a story of Resurrection it has to be a story of The Rolling away of the stone and of the empty of the empty Sepulcher it is the story of that which has risen
From its own mortality to become the Eternal proof and hope of immortality for All Creatures for the resurrection of Christ for the old Apostles is the proof of the resurrection of all that lives this in turn relating to the metals in the alchemical mystery here that the metals Must Die
They must be crucified there must descend into darkness will must pass into limbo which is the real thought or they are chemical vessels and here they must be cause to suffer as in a purgatorial which is a purging or cleansing and here in the due course of time they
Will ultimately be forgiven or restored by The Descent of Christ’s into limbo for the Salvation of Souls That these elements Must Die and the question is what are meant by those elements I think that the Buddhist would answer that very simply that these elements are the sensory perceptions and the mental focus Where are the elements that form the mysterious six-pointed star with the Sun or self or sat there in the center the mysterious Shield of David of the Jewish Kabbalah these representing them the psychic the integration centers of man representing the powers of the sensory perceptions we must die in order that their own
Secret Energy may be released again so that by only by man’s victory over the senses is the message or the power of the reality that is locked in these senses as in the basic matter of experience only in this way can it be released it will come to meditation to Zen to
Prosper any of the disciplines of neapolitanism or the ancient Greece where the death of the sensual perceptions is simply priorities meditation the absolute release of man in the pressure and the objective functions of his own composite Nations the man becoming still causes confusion to die in him and it is
The death of confusion that results in the rise of value For Whom the confusion of the testimony of the senses has been still then the wisdom that is not in these senses becomes compatible and can Mingle there’s from the senses and their functions are suspended the principle of
Consciousness upon which they all depend who realize in its Unity in other words the element the principles the energies of the sense of perception form the alchemically United as long as the senses themselves do not function so by a complete suspension of the personal the universal elements within us can come together
Prepare we continually disturb these elements by our own objective awareness they cannot come together this is that would feel that this is the burden of the part of the elisinian mystery ritual and certainly of neocatonism which is based around in the Arctic Rhapsody that these tell the story of a mystical
Suspension of error and delusion by means of which reality can we affirm itself from which the individual will find in principles these things which he cannot discover while he is addicted to the Shadows or appearances of things let us take a simple example of a point in verb mainly take religion
We will imagine that an individual is torn between religions and science while religion is in its crystallized integration within himself by religion in him is a series of specific beliefs why religion has to do with the consubstantiation of the host their religion has to do with the assumption is a virgin
Their religion has to do with the whole eternity of the three persons of the trinity where these factors are in Consciousness religion is working in its own way that it is not assumable than anything else we grew them over to science and we say the powerless man is dedicated to
Biology so that his Universe moves around the center of Axis or biological situation all is a physicist only as an astronomer and he is dedicated to any of the works of the light of science he is then not only involved but by his own limitations imposed upon his own areas he cannot
Even circumscribe the whole boundary of science he was only working with a little area a scientist thus engaged and preoccupied and a religionist thus engaged and preoccupied cannot meet they can have certain superficial friendly relationships perhaps but they have no identity nor conscious realization of each other
Where did either of these was able to completely disassociate his Consciousness from any aspect of his reaction his labor or reaction book and go to the substance of it with the religionist could separate the living from geologists if the scientists could separate science from The Sciences in other words performed is our chemical
Reduction to service then science would realize that the substance upon which it is both is inevitably immutable universal law and the religionists would discover that the substance upon was painful filled is inevitable and immutable universal law in their principles therefore these two canons the months they had become structures they cannot remember
This is why Alchemy says that you have to destroy a lot of forms of things you have to calcinate them you have to blame them or corrupt them or destroy them until nothing of the body remains but ashes then the Living spirit within these things can Unite
For in all life there is an identity of arthritis and this identity of True True Flight is the secret of compatibility and compatibility of the union or mingling and identification of these elements finally represents the amalgam from which the great Stone of the wise is projected far Alchemy
So first by the reduction of all things to their Essences they become susceptible of Union and out of the Union of these divided elements comes the sudden real experience of the unity of the archetype of life from which they descended the continual discovery of increasing unities we ascend from particulars to generals
The gradual disintegration of the external Natures of things and the re-establishment of their internals in this way the great alchemical transmutation takes place which can be put in terms of chemistry and will probably operate chemicals it can be put in terms of religion and will operate religiously or in terms of philosophy
That a man The Peculiar term of it is in the term of yearbook Consciousness searching for the whole Redemption of man lies in the reduction of the confusion or complexity of man to the absolute Stillness which is the death of the divided parts and then from the death of this these
Divided Parts a spirit Rises the spirit released from confusion who was released from difference from Discord and from the various vibratory patterns of elements suddenly is restored to its own right light nature so in the alchemical tradition again the purpose is forever to reduce the battery interference of things with the
Unfairment of the life within body the grand experiment is therefore to be obtained in Universal conscious re-identification with the infamous this means the final elimination of the gross in all things the transmutation of every base metal into principles the final firing away on our bodies Illusions beliefs Creeds sex divisions
Which exists primarily in the mental nature of man when these far away when these are overcomes when these are relaxed and released so that they no longer interfere then man gradually brings together the Essences of all things and in the real universities within the living alchemical retort of his own soul
Man achieves the great transmutation he becomes the other he becomes a yoga he attains the samadhi he becomes the environment of the entire discipline of antiquity which had for its essential purpose the production of the man of light the production of the Luminous and regime the blade complete competitive beings
Which was hidden from us by the confusion and complexity of our own Marvel existence so how can we approached in this way is the burden of little that would study and I think as we proceed with it we realize and we will realize more of a reader
With a tremendous amount of thought and the tremendous amount of insight that went into it we wonder if the strange story of how it was done a no Universe Works mysterious perhaps in her we had some strange alchemical transmutation by which in the early years of the 19th
Century she was able to produce this work in any event it is a digicide and imperfect volume and certainly one of the worthiest to appear in the interpretation of the Hermetic Arts well I think we’ve never let you get your personal home now
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