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From "The Practical Kabbalah":
"The Tradition of those who preceded us on the Way of Wisdom, tells us that all things proceed from the Four Elements, and that these Four Elements are the foundation of all. They are Earth, Water, Air and Fire respectively.
The Alchemists knew how to draw two Principles from these Four Elements, male and female respectively, and a third – Neuter – Principle. These are Philosophical Sulfur, Philosophical Salt, and Philosophical Mercury.
Thus, by means of a simple and salutary Operation, the Masters tell us, the Four are reduced to three.
But Philosophical Sulfur, Mercury and Salt only constitute an intermediary aspect of the evolution of our Elements. From their production are born two Principles, superior to all the others. These are Wise Sulfur and Wise Mercury. Here are in reality our two supreme Arcana of the Art, and it is in their ultimate copulation that the Chrysopage will finally be born.
This Tetractys was well known to the students of Pythagoras the Wise and the Holy Saints of God, Who poured out the knowledge, nor were they ignorant of the use of His Holy Names.
Such that it comprises the whole of the key of our Alchemy.
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In Man, the Elements capable of beginning the Work are the Four Cardinal Virtues, namely: Power, Prudence, Temperance and Justice.
The Wise Man who has learned how to develop these Four Virtues in his Soul is assured, by their very presence, of seeing the development in their turn of the three Theological Virtues within him, namely: Faith, Hope and Charity.
So attentive and regular practice of the Cardinal Virtues generates and gives rise to the action of the three superior Virtues. In turn, when these, our three superior Principles, have become completely introduced within us, they hasten to awaken other Presences, those of the Powers of the supreme dyad: Intelligence and Wisdom.
"
So the question is how do we, as Earth grade Zelators, dealing with the four elements of Earth, accomplish alchemy as the above, while the alchemical stage of Earth is Blackening(Putrefaction/decay), through use of rituals and exercises, and how do we as Theoricus Air grade students do alchemy in the Yellowing stage?
Likewise, what does the Practicus Water grade student accomplish alchemy though the Whitening stage, and the Fire Philosophus grade student through the alchemy stage of Reddening? Most importantly, how is it done without failing any single alchemical stage?
"The Tradition of those who preceded us on the Way of Wisdom, tells us that all things proceed from the Four Elements, and that these Four Elements are the foundation of all. They are Earth, Water, Air and Fire respectively.
The Alchemists knew how to draw two Principles from these Four Elements, male and female respectively, and a third – Neuter – Principle. These are Philosophical Sulfur, Philosophical Salt, and Philosophical Mercury.
Thus, by means of a simple and salutary Operation, the Masters tell us, the Four are reduced to three.
But Philosophical Sulfur, Mercury and Salt only constitute an intermediary aspect of the evolution of our Elements. From their production are born two Principles, superior to all the others. These are Wise Sulfur and Wise Mercury. Here are in reality our two supreme Arcana of the Art, and it is in their ultimate copulation that the Chrysopage will finally be born.
This Tetractys was well known to the students of Pythagoras the Wise and the Holy Saints of God, Who poured out the knowledge, nor were they ignorant of the use of His Holy Names.
Such that it comprises the whole of the key of our Alchemy.
* **
In Man, the Elements capable of beginning the Work are the Four Cardinal Virtues, namely: Power, Prudence, Temperance and Justice.
The Wise Man who has learned how to develop these Four Virtues in his Soul is assured, by their very presence, of seeing the development in their turn of the three Theological Virtues within him, namely: Faith, Hope and Charity.
So attentive and regular practice of the Cardinal Virtues generates and gives rise to the action of the three superior Virtues. In turn, when these, our three superior Principles, have become completely introduced within us, they hasten to awaken other Presences, those of the Powers of the supreme dyad: Intelligence and Wisdom.
"
So the question is how do we, as Earth grade Zelators, dealing with the four elements of Earth, accomplish alchemy as the above, while the alchemical stage of Earth is Blackening(Putrefaction/decay), through use of rituals and exercises, and how do we as Theoricus Air grade students do alchemy in the Yellowing stage?
Likewise, what does the Practicus Water grade student accomplish alchemy though the Whitening stage, and the Fire Philosophus grade student through the alchemy stage of Reddening? Most importantly, how is it done without failing any single alchemical stage?
