''Darkness will appear upon the face of the deeps; Night, Saturn and Antimony of the Wise will appear. Blackness, and the Raven's Head of the Alchemists, and all the colours of the World will appear at the moment of conjuntion. The Rainbow, too, God's messenger, and the Peacok's Tail...Finally, after the ashen-colour, whiteness and yellowness have been passed through, you will see the Philosopher's Stone, our King and Lord of Lords, come forth from the inner-chamber and throne of his glassy sepulchre, onto this wordly stage, in his glorified body, that is, Regeneratedand Surpassingly Perfect, namely, a shining Carbuncle, most Temperate in its splendour, and whose most subtle and must purified parts, from the concordant peace of the mixture, are inseparably bound into ONE.''
(Heinrich Khunrat(1560-1605): Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom(1595,1609)
La forma que Khunrath presenta la descripción es visual y metafórica con cambios de colores alquímicos previos a la aparación de la Piedra Filosofal en vidrio y vaso hermético. (Gobin)
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 ...
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