Rosicrucian Library
Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
The 8th, 9th & 10th diagram.
The Hermetic Philosophy
I attract all those seeking God and the truth; those alone will find the art. I am the Magnet-Stone of divine love; attracting the Iron-hard men on the road to the truth.
I am the moisture which preserves
everything in nature and makes it live, I pass from the upper
to the lower planes; I am the heavenly dew and the fat of
the land; I am the fiery water and the watery fire; nothing
may live without me in time; I am close to all things yea;
in and through all things, nevertheless unknown. |
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This
moisture must be caught, lest it should change into vapour or
fume.
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The Prima Materia derives its existence from the Fiat, the Word of creation. And this Word comes from the Father who is the creator of all things, and the Spirit radiates from both: This is God's life giving air. Then, too, air brings to Iife everything within the elements. The fire warms all things, the water refreshes, delights and saturates all things: And the nitrous earth, Mother-like, nourishes and sustains all things; the air was born out of fire, and in turn makes the fire burn, that it may live, but air in the form of water is food for the fire, and the fire burns into this element: Water and dew of the ground, the greasy fat dew of the ground, the earth as keeper of nitrous salt nourishes it. For the womb of the earth is the sulphuric nitrous salt of nature, the one good thing God has created in this visible world.
The same Salt-Mother of the elements is the nitrous,
aluminous and spiritual gumosic water, 
earth or crystal, which has Nature in its womb, a Son of the Sun, and
a Daughter of the Moon. It is a Hermaphrodite, born out of the wind,
a phoenix living in fire, a pelican, reviving his dear young ones with
its blood; the young Icarus, drowned in the water, whose nurse is the
earth, whose Mother is the wind, whose Father is the fire, the water
her caretaker and drink, one stone and no stone, one water and no water,
nevertheless a stone of living power and a water of living might; a
sulphur, a mercury, a salt, hidden deep in nature, and which no fool
has ever known nor seen.
Deus vendit
sua dona pro labore.
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LIGHT
of THEOLOGY. |
THREE WORLDS INHABIT ONE WORLD. |
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What God was without What God was before the begining
in eternity. What God was in the begining. What God is in time. What God is after time. |
What man was before the begining in eternity.
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The small world, as the human
being.
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| AZOTH Nomen compositum ex primis & ultimis literis Linguae Hebraicae; Graecae & Latinae. |
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POCULUM PANSOPHIAE.
