Consideraciones Alquímicas(1) Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. ''Estudia, medita, suda, trabaja, cuece...todo esto. Así se te abrirá un flujo salvador, que brota del Corazón de Hijo del Gran Mundo; existe un AGUA que el Hijo del Gran Mundo mismo nos da, y que mana de su cuerpo y de su corazón como una verdadera aqua vitae...'' ( Hyleal...Chaos, p.274) Mercurio en su condición alquímica es asociado al Draco-serpens ya que se fecunda a sí mismo. Unicus filius es el mismo filius philosophorum=La Piedra Opus=Officium divinum y Magisterium Artifex=Alquimista. Los Hijos de la Cabeza de Oro=Alquimistas. Según Ripley la Salamandra es mitad hembra y celebra =[coniunctio] o matrimonio. El Spiritus mercuriii vive en el árbol, y se representa como la misma serpiente original. Salamandra y Melusina. La serpiente es Mercurio, el que como sustancia fundamental(hypostática) se forma en el ''agua.'' ''La idea de la transformación y renovación por medio d...
Petrus Bonus Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. ''Let no impostor, greedy or wicked person, touch this Glorious Work with his unclean hands. Let the Honest man and him of a Wise Heart come hither, and him who is capable of exploring the most hidden causes of things.'' ( Petrus Bonus) ''In the first sense our Stone is the leaven of all other metals, and changes them into its own nature- a small piece of leaven leavening a whole lump. As leaven, though of the same nature with dough, cannot raise it until, from being dough, cannot raise it until, from being dough, it has received a new quality which it did not possess before, so our Stone cannot change metals until it is changed itself, and has added to it a certain virtue which it did not possess before. It cannot change, or color, unless it has first itself been changed and coloured. Ordinary leaven receives its fermenting power through the digestive of gentle and hidden heat. And so our Stone is rendered, capa...