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particular Human Being, with which she is connected. Without that communication
she cannot make a connection with the Uppermost. This Spirit of the Human Being is,
therefore, the true focal point of the middle Nature, upon which everything is
dependant. Therefore, the first and foremost work of the Alchemists is the cleansing
and exaltation of the Spirit, which the Hermetics call Mercurius.
The modern Philosophers and Psychologists do not recognize over and above the
common conceptual thinking of a Human Being, a higher, transcendental ability of
the Spirit. That is, ever since Kant disputed the existence of the pure intuitive
intellect, yet Goethe made use of this in his poetic visions.
However in reality, Kant, with his one-sided conceptual intellectual comprehension,
unwillingly confirmed, the Truth of the Apostle Paul's words, when he said:
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned."
-(1 Corinth. 2, 14)
The Apostle explicitly assures that the believer did not receive the World-Spirit of the
common Human Being, but instead, he received the divine Spirit, which by itself
explores the Depth of Divinity.
According to the Words of the Apostle Paul, when a Human Being is not "spiritually
appraised," that means as long as a Human Being within himself has not directed his
Spirit upon the Higher (the Divine), that is why he will not be able to free his Soul
from the bondage of the lower and the demonic. Therefore, it is the first task of the
Alchemist to draw his Spirit out of the earthly and the worldly, to "extract" and to
"distil above the alembic,": that means to lift over and above all ratio into the
transcendental and into the Divine.
However, it is not of much use to have only the Spirit, the fleeting white, mercurial
Lily-Liquid ascend. It is more important when it comes to the Magnum Opus, that
both principles, the Spirit and the Soul, the white mercurial and the red sulfuric Lily-
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Liquid rise together simultaneously above the alembic. That is why it says: In the
kleine Bauern" (little Farmer):
"Govern the Bath with such Warmth, that both Natures ascend
simultaneously, otherwise, if there is only one, you will never enjoy,
nor partake in its scent of Balsam."
However, it is not so easy to lure the Red Lion out of his earthly prime-material den,
because it is the masterpiece of the whole hermetic art. The Red Lion is locked up in
the Inner of the Salt-Crystal, like in a prison, so that he is weak and incapable of
freeing himself through his own power. Therefore, a special key is required to open
the crystal prison of the bound Soul and to dissolve her earthly chains.
This key is the general-dissolvens of the Alchemists, the Universal Menstruum, the
secret Spirit of Vinegar (Spiritus aceti) of the Hermetics, also called AZOTH or
Alkahest.
First, we must bring the Light into our microcosmic chaos, which will divide the
chaos into two parts, one being active and one being passive (suffering), one volatile
and one fixed, an upper and a lower water, that is, in Heaven and Earth of the
Philosophers, the twofold matter (rebis) of the Alchemists. Paracelsus said: the Lion
must be changed into a white Eagle, through the help of Nature and the Artists work,
so that out of one becomes two. This separation of the Materia into two halves, was
accomplished by the Ancients, in a very slow and laborious manner, this was called
"The Aquilisation" (the preparation of the Eagle). Whereas Paracelsus taught the
straight and short way, the extractio sanguinem leonis et glutinum aquilae. Because,
through this short way, the whole work can be accomplished considerably faster than
through the long way of distillation, through which you can hardly accomplish the
preliminary work in one year. Lullius, Philalethes, Welling and also others taught the
short way, which alone is the "VIA REGIA" of the true Adepts.
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I. The Work of Dissolution.
The Preparation of the Azoth.
"Whosoever is in possession of this water is the master of this art, however, where
this mercurius is missing, there the whole art is lacking."
-(Axiomata, 1736)
The dissolving water, as aforementioned, is not given to Human Beings by Nature,
but instead this secret Spirit of Vinegar must be artfully prepared by Human Beings.
The Adepts keep total silence when it comes to the preparation, and when they talk
about it, the explanations are very vague. Joh. de Monte-Snyder says this about this
subject:
"Even though, for those who are experienced in this matter, I wrote
too clearly, more distinct, than any other Philosophus has ever written
or brought into the daylight; there is still a little bit, which I have kept
from them, namely, how to make out of an unmelted, brittle, mineral
Saturno such highly valuable mercurium, and how to bring this into a
red Spiritum. This can only be accomplished in one way and by one
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