HERMETIC PRINCIPLES OF ASCENSION = Scala Philosophorum

 

HERMETIC PRINCIPLES OF ASCENSION = Scala Philosophorum

Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

'And he had a dream: He saw a ladder that was resting on the ground, and its end touched the sky. Angels of God ascended and descended through it'.

(Genesis 28:12)

Certainly, it is the only Biblical mention of a staircase where the Hebrew term of sul-lam is used precisely, in clear reference to the vision that Jacob manages to contemplate in dreams when stopping on his pilgrimage from Beer-sheba to Haran.

Beautiful and significant is the vision of Bethel that manifests itself in an ancient sacred place.

Sacred and productive place, for many ancient peoples, that for many centuries before this important vision was known by the Canaanites, with the powerful name of Luz=Light.

(Genesis 28:19)

Significantly, the place where Abraham had camped some time ago.

(Genesis 28: 16-19; 35: 6)

THE LADDER of Hermes, in its two basic modalities, the spiral and the straight, is unified with the fundamental concept of Hierarchy or of the harmony between the Hierarchical Order of the Universe.

It is similar to the substantial and logical expression or representation of the fluid Manifestation of the Infinite Chain of Being.

Maimonides, the Jewish philosopher, = (Moses ben Maimon, 1113-1204 AD), alludes to the ladder as the worthy example of a firm and stable relationship, between man and Cosmos: 'He believed that the story of the ladder Jacob's was an attempt to explain the relationship between Man's existence on earth and the world of the celestial spheres'.1.

The Old Florid Masters and Builders left it embodied in the Sacred-Hermetic-Stone of their Gothic Cathedrals.

And, at the same time, the Old Wise Alchemists find in it, the expressive richness of all the deep symbology and valuable catalog of sublime attributes.

Ars Notoria and Secreta Secretorum of the Millennial Masters of the Golden Flower and Alchemical Stone.

Per Ignem ad Lucem = By Fire the Light.

Mysterious attributes that reaffirm and point out stages or staggered states of the same elaboration and transformation of the alchemical Opus.

After the fall of Man, an abyss opens up to the world of Darkness.

But there is an Old Way or Way of ascension that leads from Chaos to Light, through the alchemical scale of Jacob.

Power of Thoth-Hermes- Mercurial Precept of the Flowery Masters: Hen Kai Pan = One and All.

Fulcanelli in La Mystére des Cathédrales, visualizes the Lady of Notre-Dame de Paris.

She, between her legs, holds the Alchemical Ladder.

It becomes the famous Scala Philosophorum of the Central Portico.

Magnum Opus Alchimicum = Alchemy.

Principles each of its stages and astrological-alchemical and zodiacal correspondence in Man.

'Magnum Miraculum est Homo.'

First step-Saturnal.

Seventh Sun-alchemical solarization = Venerable Master and Kabbalistic YOD Principle of correspondence Solar-East-gavel-Square-Sun.

7 alchemical-astrological steps to reach the Master in ascension or gradation = Hermetic Ladder.

Hermetic Staircase that between steps refers to something deeper than its very structural and formal nature can contain.

'Hermes is the author of the Rituals of Initiation ... almost all Masonic symbols are Hermetic in character ...'2.

Already in 1677, in the famous Silent Book, in the Art of his first plate, a staircase appears among a circle of roses with two angels.

Divine spiritual beings who manage to call with their trumpets, sound to the Awakening of the initiate.3.

(Mutus Liber, La Rochelle, 1677)

In this valuable iron a character rests asleep delicately resting his head on the "Stone" = La Rochelle.

Symbolically his dream is protected between the knots of the rose bush.

"The World is united by Invisible Knots."

There is a spiritual alchemical principle that indicates that substances represent the Elements of the Body of Man and his experimental-spiritual world.

It is a process or procedure in the Body of Man.

The Alchemical Staircase is beautifully represented also in the philosophical tree, of the Splendor Solis.3.

Thoth-Hermes-Mercurio declares: Ad Fontes, Ex Fontibus = To the Sources from The Sources.

Thoth proclaims that Hermes is volatile and Mercurial = Sacred Sperm and Spiritual Liquor = AZOTH

(word formed by the First Letter of All Alphabets (A) and the last Letter of Latin, Greek and Hebrew Alphabets)

Flying water and water that does not wet your hands.

'Aqua cum Igne Tandem in Gratiam Redit'.

A deeply symbolic, hermetic and alchemical staircase adorns the fabulous and majestic work La Melancolía I by Alberto Durero.

'Just as the Creator, who is Three Persons in One, descends to us through the hierarchy of angels ... in the same way we must Rise to Him by the Same Way, as by the Scale of Jacob'.4.

Thus, allowing us to discover the symbols and artistic modes subtly hidden in the hermetic art of the brilliant and esoteric Master Dürer.5.

The Order of Freemasonry has the Platonic phrase inscribed in its heart; God always geometrizes.

The Man in his complex and Geometric Body Design follow the Cosmic and Architectural Pattern.

Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.