The Incarnate Rose on the Alchemical Stone Cross

 

The Incarnate Rose on the Alchemical Stone Cross 

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.. 

''... Gilgamesh, I am going to reveal to you a Hidden thing and I am going to tell you (a great secret of the gods)... At the bottom of the water there is a plant... and its thorns hurt the hands and prick like El ROSAL. If your hands get that plant, You will find New Life... He pulled out the plant, although it pecked his hand... (meanwhile a Serpent sniffed the FRAGRANCE and came out of the water and snatched the plant... When he retired, he shed his skin...''
(Sumerian text, Epic of Gilgamesh)

The Flowery Masters of geometric and alchemical stone were the millenary operative-speculative Masons, already firmly established, from times before that of Charlemagne—we carefully consider the historical moment—and coming from the wisdom deposited in monasteries, desks, and workshops, where the intellectual work of the high practical Euclidean geometry was carried out.

It is around the establishment of orders and monasteries and in their rigorous organization of study, work and construction that the Florid Art has its great flowering.

"The Freemasons were different. In the Middle Ages from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, in England, France and central Europe, there was a generalized sense that Freemasons were different from the rest of the people"
(Jasper Ridley, The Freemasons p.17)

The Sons of Hermes are first of Hermes and centuries later Hiram appears.

The Masters of Stone are grouped next to Temples, Cathedrals, abbeys and parishes, clinging to Tradition=Golden Chain rigidly=Monastic Rules and observing ancient patterns of construction and rigorous intellectual study.

The industriousness of the monk-builder is established through the spirit immersed in the Monastic Rule and within the scholarly framework of the monastic movement.

This is firmly established in the documentation of the ''Old Charges'' being an ethical-mythological code based on the geometry of the Square and the Ternary.

In the geometric alchemical stone, there is a great secret.

Jean Palou, Masonic researcher, refers to the stone in the following way:
"The rough stone remains one of the fundamental symbols of Freemasonry. In general, Masonic authors have transformed this symbol into a moral allegory, very often utilitarian.
They assimilate the new Mason, the apprentice, to a rough stone, which it will be necessary for him to work on himself and on himself by means of a constant, purely interior task... The rough stone (the apprentice) is an individuality... which must finally get rid of all its roughness (the carved stone) and be integrated into the global edifice that forms Freemasonry".

The stone is a hierophany because it reveals a sacred, hidden reality that transcends it.

She is the Ascension Path and Ladder of HERMES ORPHIC and PYTHAGOREAN.

It is HEKA Theurgic and the Wisdom of the Ancient Tradition to achieve ascend the Ladder of the Philosophers or Way of Hermes.

The ladder of Hermes, in its two basic modalities, the spiral and the straight, is unified with the fundamental concept of Hierarchy or 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:
"I believed that the story of Jacob's ladder was an attempt to explain the relationship between Man's existence on earth and the world of the celestial spheres."
(Guide to the Perplexed [xvii])

The Ancient Masters of Floridos and Builders, left it embodied among the Hermetic-Sacred Stone of their Gothic Cathedrals.

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

Ars Notoria y 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 stages of the very 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 Jacob's alchemical scale. 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 is the famous Scala Philosophorum of the central Portico.

Magnum Opus Alchimicum = Alchemy. Beginnings each of its stage steps 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 Solar-East-Mallet-Square-Sun correspondence.

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

Hermetic staircase that between steps alludes to something deeper that its own structural and formal nature may contain. ''Hermes is the author of the Initiation Rituals ... almost all Masonic symbols are Hermetic in character...".
(Manly. P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

It is the Royal Art = Ars Regio-Sacred Science of the Master.

All this in the referential framework of Euclidean high geometry:
''Hic incipiunt Constituciones Artis Gemetriae secundum Eucyldem = ''Here begins The Constitutions of Geometric Art according to Euclid''.
(Royal Poem)

It is a Tradition that is manifested through solid documentary references that frame this knowledge as coming from a historical source and from a Templar wisdom.

Tradition developed in Egypt and widely propagated through the well-known rigorous conceptual Pythagorean assimilation, of the Geometer Euclid=
(Beswicke-Roys Manuscript More XVI century, the ''Wisdom of Hermes-Pythagoras'' is already mentioned'')

It is the Tradition pursued and assimilated in the refined spiritual thought of the Master of the Flower and philosopher of the Elizabethan age, Dr. John Dee:
''The characteristic philosopher of the Elizabethan age was John Dee whose mathematical preface to the English translation of Euclid (1570) begins with an invocation to ' Divine Plato' and quotes Henry Cornelius Agrippa on the three worlds. Dee's preface is the work of Renaissance Neoplatonist organically connected with the Hermetic- Cabalist core of the movement, particularly as formulated by the most extreme of its exponents, Agrippa.''
(Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, London, 1979, p.88)

The Incarnate Rose on the Alchemical Stone Cross 

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.