The Splendour of the Sun

INTRODUCTORY

The detailed descriptions mentioned above will be found to be very suggestive. For as observed, The Splendor of the Sun original: "Splendor Solis" has both a Physical-Alchemical Refers to the literal attempt to create gold or medicines through chemical processes. and a Spiritual-Mystic Refers to the internal transformation of the practitioner’s soul using alchemical metaphors. meaning.

The Alchemical theory describes in veiled terms a Gold Process—possibly the very process of which Kiesewetter Karl Kiesewetter (1854–1895) was a prominent German historian of the occult and a theosophist. observes in his History of the Occult Sciences that it stretches through the history of Alchemy like a sea-serpent.

It may, for all that, be the true Process that has been transmitted by tradition; and the sea-serpent may be a living aquatic monster that has survived the Deluge and other cataclysms in some deep sea cave.

It is with the Philosopher’s Stone The ultimate alchemical goal: a substance capable of transmuting base metals into gold and granting eternal life. as it is with the sea-serpent: some say they have seen it, while the vast majority of mankind has not. However, the evidence of the few who have seen it outweighs the opinion of the many who have not.

A thing still exists, even if people know nothing about it. Like Argon or Neon These are noble gases that exist in the air but were only discovered by scientists in the late 1890s. The author uses them as an analogy for truths that are "universally present" but difficult to detect., it may be universal and remain universally unknown, yet, nevertheless, it exists.

What is unknown may be ignored, but although we know nothing about it, it is there nonetheless.

Whether we consider Alchemy as a science of Occult Chemistry The study of the "vital" or hidden forces within chemical elements, often associated with theosophy., or as a Kabbalistic Art of Spiritual Regeneration A method of using the principles of the Kabbalah—a Jewish mystical tradition—to achieve a spiritual rebirth or a higher state of consciousness.—