Adeptus Alchymicum(30)

Adeptus Alchymicum(30) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. ''The Rose is the Flower of the Philosophers' Tree.'' (Adeptus) For the master of the Flower Dr. Robert Fludd at the heart is the Tabernacle of God, and the elixir, an earthly and material substance that when naturally exalted by means of a supreme purification becomes a panacea and medicine. (Robert Fludd, Truth's Golden Harrow, p.123) Consequently, the elaboration of the elixir is extracted from rigorous and precise work - astrological - and exact in an artisanal and operative work with the rough stone of the Temple. Therefore, the "astrological moment" must be strictly taken into account and the sky and the cyclical and exact astrological constellation must be observed. Likewise, the Greeks know this as Kairos[αιρός] = precise and astrological moment in which things can have results. Recommendation: Seriously study astrology as it helps in alchemy to achieve the={Greek:sunebe[ουνέμπε]} that synchronous event of facts. "The Son of Man must ascend from Earth to Heaven and ascend on the Cross of the still... The Stone must be enclosed in a vessel like Christ in the Tomb." (Arnau de Vilanova, The Book of Light) In this way, in lapidary alchemy and in its oral transmission between "petalic metals" - their celestial influence and contraction - it is possible to manifest the "lower astronomy", which within the microcosm-Man comes to exert a powerful influence between important correspondences and analogies, and between practical and experimental functions. It is evident that alchemical symbolism is a resource for describing processes, whether internal or external. "If we declare our matter spiritual, it is Truth; if we declare it corporal, we do not lie. If we call it celestial, that is its true name. If we call it terrestrial, we speak properly." ( Zechariah: De la Philos. nat.des Mét; BPC II, 523) It is evident that there are 7 allegorical petals{scala lapides}, metallic and planetary principles={transmutatory phases or stages}, which are=Gold-Sun, Silver-Moon, Copper-Venus, Tin-Jupiter, Iron-Mars, Lead-Saturn and Mercury-Mercury. In this way, practical experience and constant observation of the tonalities of the sacred fire in the Athanor, indicate to us, on the basis of proven results, the particular stage in which we find ourselves in the Magnum Opus o (ars regia). "If the principles with which one works are true and the operations are correct, the effect must be certain, and no other is the True Secret of the Philosophers (Sons of Hermes)." (Philaletes, Epistle of Ripley(VIII) On the other hand, there is a general symbolism that manifests the essential properties of all of them as images of the same thing. However, in alchemy we can find in strong syncretism of millenary ideas and high theurgical of the Egyptian temples and Greek philosophy, Eastern doctrines=(Sumeria-Babylon and Persia), fused to the Alexandrian mysticism of the time. "One is All, through Him All; and with him the All: If the All did not contain the All, the All would be Nothing". (Codex Marcianus., Ms.2325, f.188 b.) The furnace for working the stone is One, the Vessel is One. The Way is unique and also the Work. We can affirm that there is no difference between what is eternally born, reintegration and ascension and the Philosophers' Stone. The being is reintegrated into its Source of Light with significant values of concrete and ontological growth, through Art the reintegration of the self can be achieved and thus united to an anagogical force with possibilities of elevation and metaphysical transcendence. "Wherever I apparently speak of our Science most clearly, I actually express myself in the darkest form... concealing the true meaning of my words..." (Geber) Adeptus Alchymicum(30) Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.