The Splendour of the Sun

INTRODUCTORY

The process The Splendor of the Sun original: "Splendor Solis" endeavours to communicate is equally remarkable and curious.

As a Spiritual-Mystic book, Splendor Solis stands not only for imparting knowledge of the "Splendour"—or the occult chemical, possibly radioactive and creative power of disassociated and spiritualised GOLD—it intends also the Mystic GOLD: the DIVINE SOUL, the God and Gold of TRUE HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY.

The SECRET of HERMETIC SCIENCE OR PHILOSOPHY A philosophical and esoteric tradition based on writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, focusing on the correspondence between the human soul and the universe. is as its name indicates: SOUL-KNOWLEDGE.

Hermetic Science does not relate to material things, but uses Alchemical symbols as a "blind" A term used in occult literature for a symbol or phrase that masks a deeper spiritual truth from the uninitiated. for SPIRITUAL REALITIES. It is an alchemy of the MIND and SOUL, a SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY.

Thus is JACOB BEHMEN Also known as Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), a German mystic and theologian who used alchemical metaphors to describe the relationship between God and man. an Adept of Hermetic Philosophy, but not an Adept in Physical Alchemy. In HIS Philosophy the Philosopher's Stone The legendary substance capable of transmuting base metals into gold; here used as a symbol for divine enlightenment. is a Symbol for Divine Illumination, and the Mastery, or Great Work original: "Magnum Opus"; the process of achieving the ultimate alchemical or spiritual goal., relates to the Regeneration of the Soul.

A study of the Works of Jacob Behmen, especially of the AURORA Latin for "The Dawn." Böhme's first major work, subtitled "The Root of Philosophy, Astrology and Theology."—the SUN—or SOUL—rise in the Mind, will give an idea of the Life of God in the Soul of Man.

One should, however attempt to understand the inner meaning of Behmen's phraseology, before reading any of his—