Brief Explanation of the Secret Figures of the Rosicrucian's of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Víctor Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.
"In the war I fight being my Self against myself. Well, I war myself... Defend Me, God, from Me!
(Johann Valentin Andrea, 1617)
In previous lectures we have exposed some of the rich symbology between the Rosicrucian Order and Freemasonry.
It is worth mentioning this important work published in Altona, Germany = The Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert= (Secret Figures of the Rosicrucians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
It is an old treatise (40 engravings) of the philosophical and spiritual system of the Rosicrucians immersed in the spirit of Reformation and the millennial dream of theenigmatic Fraternal Order.
They are relevant ideas that emanate from traditional Gnostic, Neoplatonic and Hermetic = Hermetic-Qabalistic-alchemical sources, of singular transcendence and meaning allied to Kabbalistic and alchemical currents.
We can affirm that they represent foundational currents of Paracelsian influence and are considered essential figures of hermetic origin.
Consequently, elements of Sophia from the Brothers of the Golden Cross and Alchemical Rose can be observed in the images presented, directed by God from the Secret of the Secrets of the Heart.
The figures originally circulate in manuscripts and documents from "ancient manuscripts and secret papers", collected in the same figures that embody spiritual and totally hermetic external and internal processes.
'God hath put his Tabernacle in the Sun'
(Psalm: 18:5)
Mother Alchemy Sophia is a way of life that develops through the search for sacred vision and total surrender to the exercise of a purifying Gnosis of ascension of the being transmutable into Solar Gold.
Remember, at the end of the eighteenth century (1785-1788), appears in the Alchemical Rosicrucian literature a Rosicrucian Treatise of Hermetic-Paracelsian Tradition in 40 beautiful engravings edited in Altona, Germany-Denmark and entitled=Secret Figures of the Rosicrucians=Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert.
(Sixteenth and seventeenth century)
Its symbolism is nourished by the millenary wisdom of the thought of the master Bohme and Paracelsus (Altona, 1785)
An ancestral and traditional principle of spiritual alchemy is the well-known symbolic and iconographic representation of the substances of the Magnum Opus; represented the body of the Man/Woman and his spiritual environment.
Temple body and laboratory are an integral part of the 'imaginalis world' of the adept.
Now, of course, it is Sophia who embodies Mother Sophia, wisdom and key to the Mystery of absolute transcendence and exposure as a reflecting mirror of the cosmos.
In order to transcend and make herself recognizable, Sophia assumes the iconographic appearance of the woman who nourishes and gives life = (metallic transmutation).
But God also manifests Himself in Sophia in light, substance, and flesh.
However, alchemical Sophia turns out to be an active manifestation of the Celestial Dew or female watery substance and spiritual seed = 'water sulfur or divine water' of the Mother = Celestial and Terrestrial Eve and Mother of All Creatures in heaven and earth = (The Heavenly and Earthly Eve, Mother of all Creaturesin Heaven and on Earth).
Feminine aspect of divinity and 'energetic and spiritual irradiation', Adam's matrix of celestial nature for Master Blake.
Sophia=Wisdom of God.
Lunar Sophia surrounded by 12 stars as a representation of the solar aurora that dispels ignorance and nourishes the 'Son of Hermes' from her virginal milk = solar and celestial mercurial water from her breasts.
She is Mother begetter =Mater Materiae and path of Theo-Sophia.
During the 17th century (XVII) the airs of reform lead to the exhibition of spiritual renewal of a millenary tradition of new epoch. 'These millenarian expectations went hand in hand with an esoteric viewpoint that drew on a variety of sources including Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, the Hermetic tradition, Kabbalah and alchemy and was represented by the writings of such men as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Jacob Bóehme and Heinrich Khunrath.'.
(Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason, p.24)
Everything that emanates from Sophia comes from a single substance.
'There is only one Stone, only one way to operate, only one way to cook to reach white and red, and Everything is completed in one Vessel.'
(Avicenna)
One can begin to understand how in the image appears the Sun with twelve stars crowned by Solar Mercury and Mother of minerals and metals and their raw material. The Star of the Kings from the Orient=La Estrella de los Reyes de Oriente.
The Sun of Justice = The Sun of Justice.
Virgin Sophia=Virgin Sophia who distills virginal milk= (lac virginis), the Dew of May=Spiritus mundi.
On the upper left we read: God is eternally increate, infinite, supernatural, self-sustaining, existing celestial spirit who becomes in the course of nature and time a visible and mortal Man.
Below = Oculus Divinus per quem Deus vidit i creavit omnia = Divine Eye by which God sees and creates All. Everything has its end! and announces its beginning. Lumen Gratiae; Ergon sunt duo=Grace, Sympathy, Pleasure of the Light; =Therefore, there are two.
Oculus naturae-Right the Eye of Nature of Heaven by which nature visits and rules the whole earth = Heavenly Eve, The New Birth=Eve Celeste the New Birth.
Earth Eve and Old Birth=Earthly Eve=The Old Birth.
Oh! Man Oh! Man thinks how Nature is a great world, and becomes Man.
Tinctura Phisica and virginal milk and sweat of the Sun is Mother of 6 Children and is Pure Virgin.
O, Man, see how God, the Word hath become.
O! Man, look how God, the word becomes Man.
Innocent I received, Dammed is he, who doth not believe. =Innocent I recipe.
Condemned is those who do not believe.
Bottom: Tinctura Coelestis='The theory and practice of alchemy were strongly influenced for more than a thousand years by a belief in the existence of a potent transmuting agent, which ultimately came to be regarded as a universal medicine... Elixir vitae,... and the Red tincture'.
(John Read, Prelude to Chemistry an outline of Alchemy, p.12)
The Celestial Tincture= (Lat. Tinctura), is based on the theory of multiplication by means of the Philosopher's Stone or Tinctura, for the Master Paracelsus 'Soon after your Lili (tincture)shall have become heated in the Philosophic Egg...
' An adequate manifestation is expressed through harmonic analogy of the ovum philosophicum = philosophical egg that gives life in the womb to the homunculus, nourishing itself with the Divine female breasts = 'Breast Divinus'.
Below left side = ROSA CRUCIS VENITE = Rosa Cruz que Viene.
Videte Videte Videte = Míralo Míralo Míralo Míralo.
Whoever hath eyes to see, can see rightly=anyone who has eyes to see, can see it correctly. Seek the friendship of Archaeo, the confidant doorkeeper=Seek Archaeo's friendship=the hidden inner nature of a substance=Arkos=(Greek=secret), the trustworthy Porter=guardian of the Gate.
Above Sophia is crowned by 12 Stars shining the Sun of Justice in the Virgin Sophia.
He has the 'Fire of Aaron' and incarnates in his Divine Breast the high priestly Pectoral and Sacred Urim.
Possibly part of the complex structure of the 'ephod' 12 onyx stones for divination or consultation of the divine will or 'sacred luck'.
(Leviticus 8:8 and Exodus 28:30)
Pondus Naturae = weight, Natural influence.
Under the symbol of the Urim we find the symbol of Antimony.
From her Breast-Sophia emanate two streams of virginal milk that nourish the Homonculus = (sohn = virginal son) or son of Sophia the Son of Hermes.
'Elementus Aquae duplex est datur enim Aqua Communis Philosophorum'.
(J.J.Becher, Oedipus chymicus)
That Son of Hermes = Unicus Filius and filius Philosophorum is fertilized by the grace of the maternal waters (2 streams) of Sophia that nourish him as a cosmic embryo that begets itself; fertilizing in the sacral uterus.
Omnia ab Uno Omnia ad Unum.
The All in One.
One in the Whole = 'into bread'.
Fruit verbum Eternity resides One = The Fruit of the Eternal Word resides in the ONE.
'One is the ALL, through him the ALL, and with him the ALL: if the ALL did not contain ALL, the ALL would be nothing.'
(Codex Marcianus.,Ms. 2325, f.188b.)
Its and Antimony= (antimonium-Element:Sb (Latin:stibium)='universal alkahest'-turns out to be of an animal nature or indomitable and wild spirit='wild spirit', named after the master alchemist Basil Valentine, when he saw the monks who died when using the compound='anti-moine'. Antimoine Incarnate Time = antimony incarnates in Time.
According to Paracelsus as 'antimony refines gold likewise refines the body'.
We see on his right arm and on his left = Aaron's Breast and Ignis Divinus Naturae = Aaron's chest and Natural Divine Fire. Below the Son of Hermes appears a circle=Instrumentum Divinum. Fiat Natura=Light of Nature.
From Sophia's breasts come 4 streams = Water-Blood-White-Red.
From Instrumentum Divinum come 4 Elements = Fire-Air-Aqua and Earth and below 12 zodiacal circles. Below Fiat Natura the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother.
7 eagles 7 Lions 7 Crows and 7 spheres.
7 are the natural qualities, 7 qualities of things, 7 active agents, 7 planetary powers in which Wisdom builds its Philosophical Abode.
7 Planets, 4 Elements and 12 zodiacal symbols.
Videami ni Collegium Ad Spiritum Santus=Look at me at the College of the Holy Spirit. Under the Sun the circle of Chaos and 4 Elements.
Many of these shared traits are representative of an explicit worldview of symbols of life and death, three trees the Silver of the Philops, Mercury-Salt-Sulfur, the corrosive and the sulfur philosophorum together with Fire that comes out of the water and Celestial water with the AZOTH of 7 Points, represent the hard work of the Theoria Sophista and Practice towards the SILEX the Stone and Rebis='Double Thing'... Dominus providebit Exitus acta probabit.
'If the Principles with which one works are True and the operations are correct, the effect must be true, and no other is the True Secret of the Hermetic Philosophers.'
(Philatheses, Epistle of Ripley, p.VIII)
So Mote it Be!
Sophia Divina Alchemical Mother of La Rosa
(Brief and simple Explanation The Secret Figures of the Rosa Cruz, 1785)
Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes
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