The Lovely Rose
''And thus I conclude, since God in Heaven
Wills that Philosophersshal not say even
How any man may come upon the Stone,
I say, as for the best,...let it alone''.
(Geoffrey Chaucer(ca.1340s-1400), ''Canon's Yeoman Tale''{919-22}
''Though Art so much of Alchemy should learn
That he all metals could colors tint,...
He'll never attain to Nature's subtlety...
However 'tis well known that alchemy
Is a True Art, and one fiind
Great marvels in it he pratices
With Wisdom;...
(Roman de la Rose:The Romance of the Rose)
''And thou shalt see Iam Capocchio's shade,
Who metals falsified by Alchemy;
Thou must remember, if I well descry thee,
How I a skillful Ape of Nture was.''
( Dante Alighieri's, (c.a.1265-1321)Inferno: Canto 29)
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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